This is an IHeart podcast.

I'm so happy.

I think it's going to be a happy show.

We like that kind of show. We're proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors, high atop a pulsating downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Sunday night, June 29th, the Year of Our Lord, 2025. You know, it's been a long spring slash early summer. There's been a fair amount to complain about in college football.

And we do from time to time. But what else do we want to do, children? We want to make sure

that we shine a bright, white spotlight on things that are going good. And I think something that

had gone bad for a little while, maybe going good again. Maybe just maybe, do you pay attention to

recruiting anymore? And even if you don't care about recruiting in the weeds per se, have you

just noticed the general flavor, the general tone that recruiting has taken? Your answer may be no.

So I'm here to inform you,

recruiting may be back. Recruiting may be back. So I love what I'm hearing and seeing on that

front. We don't talk recruiting on the show a lot. So it's not like I'm breaking down everyone's

class per se, but I'm going to give you an early indicator that some of the changes that are being made in college football may be working and imagine this for a change, the way we want them to.

I want to also ask you a question on this show here tonight.

I want to ask you, as one of you asked me, is there even a team to beat in college football?

I don't know.

I'm going to leave the show with it.

I've got 10 games that I personally am most excited about.

See, I learned over the past week when I did my toughest places to play in college football

that even if you offer your opinion, it can be incorrect.

Notice, my opinion can be factually incorrect. So I can only

imagine Jesse and Bradley what the internet shall do with my list of games that I, myself, personally,

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