The college football playoff semifinals, Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Washington are in the Chick-fil-A-Peech Bowl and PlayStation Fiesta Bowl, Saturday, December 31st on ESPN.

Contracts, salary caps, why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

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business of sports with Andrew Brandt. Welcome back to another edition of the business of sports.

I got a friend. I always enjoy talking to any Apple. Any like me, we may be the only two people around that have jobs both that Sports

Illustrated and ESPN. We seem to be able to manage that, you and I. Welcome, Annie. Yeah,

we're like the sports Jamaicans. We have like five jobs, so. Yeah, we've got a lot of gigs.

I always say, people ask me, how do I have to balance so many gigs?

I say, well, I have a lot of jobs, so I don't have to have a real one.

But you do well at it.

You do well, and I'm definitely glad to be back.

You do, too.

I wanted to have you on now because this is early December, and the college football season just ended, and we head into the bowl games.

But I think the business of college football is really ramped up because I remember from my days even, as an agent, between Thanksgiving and New Year's, that's go time.

And that's where you sign them up.

And I thought we'd get some perspective from the family side and sort of what you guys go through and trying to get everything in order for the bowl game.

But right after the bowl game, it's pre-combine and its agents and its business.

And it just seems like a daunting task.

So I thought I'd have you on to sort of maybe talk through it

and maybe give some advice for so many families, advisors, friends, and of course players going through it.

So talk about what went on with you and Eli and your family a year ago at this time, with all the things you had to do.

Well, a year ago, this time, you know, we were, you know, Eli was getting ready to play in a fiesta bowl because we missed a college playoff last year.

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