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This is the Athletic Football Show's prospects to pros.

This is the athletic football show's prospects to pros. Hello and welcome to prospects to pros.

I am your host, Nate Tice.

Today, we're going to be covering week one of the college football action who fired the first shots in the battle for QB3.

Who else stood out Labor Day weekend? Who we're going to keep an eye on for week two of college football? And actually, NFL perhaps, because this is pros, and the prospects of pros, and maybe some rookie award selections at the end of this episode. So to lead us to the prospect promised land, it's a man who looked like Christmas came early, especially when I was texting up throughout the last week. It's Dane Bruegler. How are you doing today, Dane? How are you doing after this, like, lovely weekend? Barbecue and college football, isn't that like your two favorite things probably? Yeah, that sums it up, yeah, with apologies to my kids. I mean, the first week, Labor Day weekend is so much fun for college football because it's five straight days of overreactions and things that, you know, we'll definitely regret saying a month from now.

And you know what?

But it's fun.

Let's live it up in the moment.

The Colorado discussion, we're going to get into that quite a bit.

But yeah, it was a ton of fun just, yeah, with food, football. I mean, it doesn't get any better than that. Yeah, I, I, I, I start measuring myself maybe if, actually a few years being into this, I, I've realized, okay, let's let it lose a little bit earlier in the season. Like, I always try to be guarded. So it's like, I don't want to be exposed in a couple of weeks, but it's like, whatever.

They're going to find you anyway.

So just let it rip.

Some bit of sad news, though, in really the scouting industry and the football industry is

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