Power Auer: UAB hires Trent Dilfer + jeers to the CFP committee
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The Power 5:
1. Top 4 heading into championship weekend
2. UAB hires Trent Dilfer
3. West Virginia has an AD, Neal Brown is safe
4. Auburn hires Freeze, more coaching stuff later in the show
5. The transfer portal window officially opens 12/5
Happy Hour:
Nebraska hires Matt Rhule
Wisconsin hires Luke Fickell
Championship weekend!
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On the Rocks:
UAB hires Trent Dilfer?
UNLV, WMU, Tulsa, Texas State, Stanford & Cincinnati open
Last Call:
Nicole: Jeers for the in-season CFP rankings releases
Chris: Committee not ranking UTSA or Troy
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Power Hour, a weekly show hosted by me, Nicole Auerbach. |
| 0:18.5 | I am joined as always by the athletic senior writer, Chris Vanini. |
| 0:21.8 | Chris, happy championship week. |
| 0:24.9 | Championship week, coaching carousel week. A lot has changed since we lasted this podcast. |
| 0:30.8 | It feels like it's been 10 years. |
| 0:32.6 | It has. And like we're going to get into the coaching carousel and some of the changes. some of them are going in the happy hour. Some of them are going in the rocks. But quickly, I mean, this is interesting that so much has happened so fast, right? I mean, this has to be 99.9% related to the fact that the transfer portal windows are opening, right? That everything seems to be moving quickly. |
| 0:56.1 | Yes. |
| 0:56.7 | By the time you are listening, we're recording this Wednesday night. |
| 0:59.3 | By the time you're listening, there may have been two or three more coaching hires. |
| 1:02.3 | These things are going fast. |
| 1:04.1 | These things used to take months. |
| 1:05.5 | They're instead taking weeks or a week because, you know, first it was the winter dead period 10 years ago that |
| 1:14.8 | sped things up. Then it was the early signing period. Now you got transfer portal officially |
| 1:19.2 | technically opening for FBS players on December 5th. So you got to get that new head coach in |
| 1:23.5 | quick. So these things are going. These things are popping off fast and filling up fast. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, they really are. And we will get into those throughout the show. As a reminder, |
| 1:32.5 | you're probably subscribed to the Andy Staples show and friends feed. But if you're not, |
| 1:36.8 | please do because you're going to find insight and analysis from our pals, Max Olson, Sam Khan. |
| 1:43.4 | You're going to get Ari and Andy's antics and I'll be doing a |
| 1:47.0 | Pickspod with them this week as well as we pick championship weekend. But anyway, just stay tuned. |
| 1:53.0 | There's going to be a lot more shows as we get into Selection Sunday and beyond. But before we get |
| 1:59.5 | into all those shenanigans, I'm excited to bring you today's |
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