Welcome to Andy and Ari on three. Happy Monday, or he's on a mountain somewhere, but you're going to see him later in the show.

We got to talk about the AP poll. It is out released late Monday morning.

And it jibes with something that we noticed in the coaches poll.

And I'm looking at the actual individual AP poll ballots here.

And it's not every single one of them has the same top eight,

but all every single one of them has the same top eight.

Just like Ari and I in ours had the same top eight,

Brett Mitt Murphy when he did his AP poll ballot, same top eight.

Coaches poll, the amalgamated version, same top eight.

AP poll, same top eight.

So that's, if you're in listening in podcast form, this is the top eight in order in the AP poll.

Texas, Penn State, Ohio State, Clemson,

Georgia, Notre Dame, Oregon, Alabama. I've said this multiple times. You can make a very

compelling case to me for any of those eight teams to win the national title. And I will buy it right now. Whatever you want a

scenario you want to contrive that has one of those eight teams finishing the season as the

national champ, I will take it. I also had Texas number one. But looking at the AP poll,

you had quite a distribution between, you know, first place votes.

You had Texas getting first place votes, Ohio State getting first place votes, Penn State getting first place votes.

We talked to Brett McMurphy about his Georgia first place vote, which he was the only one.

But it seems to be concentrated mostly between Texas, Ohio State, Penn State,

and Clemson. And I get it. The Texas thing, we're all thinking Archmanning's going to come in and be

very good. We know that they do have to replace some key offensive linemen, some really good

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