This is the athletic football show.

Welcome to Prospects to Prospects to Pros, the show that talks about the guys heading to the NFL, the guys who got drafted into the NFL, everything in between.

I'm Andy Staples. I'm here with the athletics draft guru, Dane Brueger, and we have to talk college football playoff because it's coming.

New Year's Eve, the Peach Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl are the semifinals. The winners will head to the national championship game, and we have a lot of draft eligible

prospects to watch on Saturday.

So, Dane, I think we should just get into it, and I kind of want to start in Atlanta, because

it's going through your mock draft.

There's something like eight potential first round picks in this game.

I might be shooting low.

Two of the guys, one from each team that you think NFL teams may draft in the first round,

aren't even playing because they're hurt.

You got Nolan Smith out for Georgia,

and you got Jackson, Nathan Jigba out for Ohio State.

But it is a bounty. And there are some matchups that are going to be fantastic to watch.

Where would you like to start? We talked about this on the last show where I said I thought

Keely Ringo versus Marvin Harrison Jr. would be my favorite matchup to watch.

You said C.J. Stroud against the dirty pocket that Georgia will create.

But who else are you really looking at in this game that you're thinking they can make some money?

They could lose some money here.

Well, I mean, let's just touch on those again because I think they are so important for evaluation purposes.

And again, I think we have to say that one game doesn't make or break a prospect, good or bad.

But we're all human, you know, subconsciously or consciously on a stage like this with everything at stake, if you're able to play at a very high level, that's going to mean something.

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