All right, so hey, we've reached that time of the calendar Stephen. I don't even know what day that's going to come out but I know it's

out of Tuesday it's usually a Stephen lasted Tuesday all day show I think this will be a

Stephen Lassen Friday but happy to have you back on the show, Senior Editor Athlaud Sports.

How's it going, Stephen?

Hey Mike, it's going great.

I think maybe you and I can kind of share the principle that we lose track of what day it is over the holidays or maybe I'm just the only one.

I know we're past the January 1st deadline, man over the holidays I don't even know what day it is sometimes it's just I figure out what day it is by what bowl game is on TV that I look at my schedule

But that's also the sad thing, right?

Like we've reached, there's only one game left of the season.

I don't know.

I mean, I guess we got the transfer portal

and coordinator stuff to keep us busy,

but hard to believe we're down to our final game of the season.

Yeah it's tough it's tough to believe the season has come and gone already but

I gotta get your thoughts I mean this is this is devastating Stephen I've in the history of this program we have never at a national championship game that did not involve at least

one SEC team and I was counting Texas so you better believe Stephen if Texas

won the national championship I would have honored it as an SEC champion.

I can't even cheat my way to saying they're in there, but man, thoughts on the

Epic Rose Bowl, Epic Sugar Bowl, and for the first time since I believe 2014 no SEC team made the championship game.

I think first of all I think if Texas did make the national championship and win it, I think the SEC definitely could claim it because technically it's 2024 by then and technically like they're part of the SEC in 2024.

I guess the only saving grace is I think if you're an SEC

fan and you're pretty disappointed there's no SEC team in the national championship is that the semifinals were awesome. We had two really

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