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New Year's Day.

I want to wish everyone a happy 2026.

I'm your host Jared Smith filling in for Nick Casos today. Wish Nick and his family a happy new year. He will be back. I'm assuming tomorrow. I don't know that for sure. I'm assuming tomorrow. As the show rose on, we have a whole lot of fun for you. Yes, thank you very much. Tyler Morales, EP. Johnny on the spot. Nick will be back with you tomorrow. You never know these days. You never know these days with the holiday schedule and how everything gets thrown off. I don't even know what, frankly, I don't even know what day it is. This has been one of those weeks. And we were talking before the show, the whole crew is here today, Mike Brown, Dan Turner, Kenny Henderson. We were talking before the show, like this has become, because

of now the playoff has been elevated, right? A few years ago, it was the New Year's Day

bowl games, which were a big deal. But we didn't have the playoff. It was kind of a smaller

entity with just four teams. Now with the expanded playoff and the amount of bowl games, the opt-outs becoming fast and

furious and just trying to stay ahead of the news cycle.

This week, in fact, I would say the two weeks from when the playoff is announced in that

first set of games, like the first round games were like the 19th, 20th, up until now.

So that like two week, 10, 11 day stretch, I don't even know what day. I haven't slept. It's like this is just, you just plow through this two weeks. Today I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, right? We get through the three games today. We get through the NFL this weekend. I'm pretty much prepped for all the NFL games this weekend.

By now, I'll do another podcast tomorrow.

I'll do a Saturday morning show.

But then once we get to Saturday's games, it's like regular season ends.

College of all playoff goes from eight teams left to just four.

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