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Welcome back to the Solid Verbal Boys and Girls. My name is Ty, Hildenbrand.

That fine gentleman over there, the one the only still the incomparable Dan Rubinstein.

Sir?

Yeah.

How are you?

I'm good. And I, something struck me about bowl season that I, I didn't fully bring into account when we did part one of bowl season.

And that is that I think we use a pejorative term of TV show, right? The playoff is a TV show, right?

And that it is kind of true that there is that element of we're doing things for entertainment above all else, not necessarily for competitive reasons,

or national college football reasons, whatever. That this is like the good of the sport.

And obviously there's something about the good of the sport being, hey, let's make a bunch of money so we can pay coaches or retain coaches or maximize things for the program.

But bowl season is that unabashed elements or that unabashed motivation being TV show friendly.

And I love not, I mean, the major bowls are fine, but there is something about forgetting that there's a bowl game on and coming across.

Oh, the New Mexico bowl is on. I have no investment in any of these teams.

This has no bearing on the future of the sport, you know, writ large, anything like that. But I don't know.

I can watch Colorado State for a few minutes. I can dedicate 57 minutes of my life to watching Memphis football.

Three hours of my life, like it's snowing outside, it's windy, it's blustery. Like, yeah, I'm going to absolutely cancel whatever workout I was going to do or whatever meal I was going to make and dedicate myself to Wazu Miami.

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