Welcome to the Andy Staples Show.

It is Friday.

That means there is a football weekend upon us, and if it feels anything like last weekend did,

we're back.

College football is truly back.

Ari Wasserman joining me, as he does every Friday.

Ari, how different did last Saturday feel?

I thought that it was the first weekend where college football was truly back.

And I know that we're still waiting on a few Power 5 conferences, but like the games were good.

There were upsets.

It was entertaining.

You could see a lot of the young players that everybody's excited to see.

You know, I truly felt like last week was a true full college football viewing experience.

Like, even though there were teams missing, I didn't really necessarily feel that.

Now, it's going to be great when the Big Ten and eventually the Pac-12 come back and you have

some of those other conferences in the mix, but like the SEC playing

SEC games, like, I mean, it's truly really all I need to feel that way.

It is sort of a straight into your veins experience.

And I had somebody in my mailbag say, I live out in California, so I don't watch much

SEC network, you know, usually watch the CBS and the ESPN games.

But what's up with the commercials?

They're like, there were three straight commercials for Broughtwurst.

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