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This is the athletic football show's Prospects to Pros.

Hello and welcome to Prospects for Pros.

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I am your host, Nate Tice.

It is Bulls season, the most wonderful time of the year. Those ESPN ads will always live in my brain for the rest of my life because I agreed with it back when I was young. This was the most wonderful time of the year. This time now, or this day and age, I have to worry about opt-outs, transfers. So it makes it a little bit more work than just go watch these good players all the time.

But to help me do that, to help me sift through some of the talent that has departed and some of the talent that's still there for some of these games is the beast himself, Dane Bruegler. How are you doing today, Dane? I'm good. I'm excited to get into some of these games, even though, yeah, you're right. They've lost some of its luster of what we thought bowl season used to be.

Even it doesn't seem like that long ago.

You know, it's just funny how things evolve the backlash from when Leonard Ford-Nett opted out.

And, you know, Christian McCaffrey, you know, it wasn't that long ago. And now it just becomes, you know, kind of expected that all these players are going to opt out. If a player plays, it's like, wait, he's going to be a third round pick and he's going to play. Oh, my goodness. You know, it's, it's funny how things have evolved over the years. But, uh, yeah. so we'll do our best to keep tabs on who's playing, who's not.

You know, be patient with us if we maybe get one wrong here or there.

But for the most part, I think we'll be pretty much covered.

I know.

There's a lot of websites and some track opt-outs, some track transfers,

some track who declares for the draft. And it's very, a lot of articles over the last 24 hours

I had to read through. It's like, might opt out. And then, okay, so I got to put an asterisk

next to that one. But what we're going to do today is we're going to go over the slate of

bowl games that's going to happen after Christmas. And just because that's a really packed full of bowl games and interesting bowl games. Well, interesting name title, baby, in some cases. But yeah, but interesting enough. And we're going to talk about these slated games. We're going to highlight a prospect or two guys that are playing, or as of right now, we think are playing. It's December 19th as we record this. So we will be going over each of these players. And to start, we're going to start with the bowl games on the day after Christmas, December 26th. We have three bowl games, the Quick Lane Bowl, Bowling Green versus at Minnesota, Bowling Green in Minnesota.

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