It's portal season, whether you like it or not.

Iowa Hawkeyes are entering the portal trying to find a new home, and Iowa City will be the new home for already a couple of guys and probably a few more to come.

We're going to discuss that.

The quarterfinal round of the playoff, parody in college football because of NIL and the portal, the rebuild that is Iowa special teams, and a whole lot more.

We're glad you're here in the new year.

Let's have a damn day.

Let's go. Welcome in to the Washington Walk on the podcast.

Kevin Ward, Grant Allen and myself bringing you another fabulous year of Hawkeye content in 2026.

It's been a while since we had Grant on the show.

We're going to catch up on the bowl game, what he thought about Iowa's victory over the Commodores.

A lot has happened in the football world since we all were together.

The playoff is now down to four.

We'll talk a little bit about that.

The portal is wide open.

Players are flooding in and out, and we're just excited to be here so um grand how was christmas man

it's good yeah a little a little bit of a break from the internet world uh for a while there

somewhat on purpose and somewhat also just scheduling uh it's difficult i don't know why we're doing podcasts on Thursdays now. A little surprising there.

I wasn't ready for that.

I haven't done a podcast on a Thursday in three years, but all of a sudden,

we're doing podcasts on Thursdays now and we're getting,

me and Kevin are surprised by that.

Apparently it's a huge deal.

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