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The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

SEC East Crystal Ball, Kris Budden talks career, Lane's Tennessee year & ESPN crew

The OG Kickoff w/ Connor and Will

Connor O'Gara

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

Crystal Ball season continues with the SEC East. Who'll give Georgia its toughest game? Who will Vandy upset? Who will be No. 2 in the East? Is there much separation between 2-6 in the East? ESPN's Kris Budden joined the show to talk about her new(ish) ESPN crew, last year's thriller in The Swamp, how she got started, being at Tennessee during a wild era and much more. Connor and Will close with Bold and Brash: 2023 SEC upsets and Lad of the Week.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, what's going on? This is the Saturday down South podcast. I am kind of

0:09.1

wrong. Gara will I'm going to be honest with you? Tough day in our house. Tough

0:14.4

day. I did not sleep well is Lauren's first day back from maternity leave. Claire's

0:20.8

first day at daycare, which I talked about last week. And there's something

0:24.2

else that I'll get to with glad of the week that just kind of has me a little bit

0:28.0

down. But you know what? It's football. We have football this weekend. We are

0:35.6

officially in a game weekend. And for everybody that's like, oh, it shouldn't be

0:39.9

called week zero. I said before I'll say it again. Yes, it should. Because how

0:45.2

weird would it be if this were called week one. And then everybody else 90% of

0:49.6

college football teams were starting during week two. If you're like, why is opening

0:53.2

weekend week two? This is a dumber thing to have to explain. Then they have to

0:56.4

explain to the random person. What do you mean? You're watching week zero college

0:59.7

football. So just embrace week zero, understand the slate is it's a little

1:04.8

little teaser, little appetizer, nothing wrong with that. We can accept it. It's

1:08.7

football week. And that's a good thing. And that's enough to bring someone like

1:12.7

myself out of a little bit of a of a Monday phone. Yeah, no, I'm

1:16.8

under a present. I'm with you. It's like when people used to have zero

1:18.8

period in high school. It's like, hey, if you're an overachiever, if you want to

1:21.6

get out of here, really go for it. If you're north western, hey, it's the

1:25.1

high point of your season. But exactly like what you said, it's like these

1:28.4

games are a little bit unserious. They're a little bit fun. So there's no

1:31.2

reason to start 90% of the schedule and two. We're going to make this is not

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