Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau for a recap of the first round of the college football playoff.

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We're going to get through the four games, guys.

I just have a quick question if you had a similar experience to me.

This is still only the second year of this new format.

I found that the first round just kind of sneaks up on you.

It's just like a normal Friday workday,

and then all of a sudden, boom, it's Oklahoma, Alabama that night. I don't know.

Is it sneak up on you too, Ralph? It, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yes, to a certain degree,

yeah. I find myself not feeling like this sense of urgency and like, oh, I can't wait for the game

tonight until it's kind of there. Right. Like, like, I can't wait for the game tonight until it's kind of there.

Right.

Like, I think because we're so used to these big games being around holidays and time off.

And listen, I think the other part of it is I'm not at any of them.

Right.

Like in the past, there were so few playoff games or big bowl games that you kind of are

geared towards like well if there's a big one going on i'm at it or i'm at one of the other ones

like i'm watching it from there when you're home and you're not covering it like we work because

we have fine colleagues who covered the first round games that That also gives it a weird feel, Bruce.

I also thought I watched, you know, I woke up and watched, there was a bowl game on Friday

morning. It was not a or not, it was a bad bowl game, but Kennesaw State was playing Western Michigan

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