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The College Football Dominoes Continue To Fall

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Last week, college football seemed to be moving full speed ahead, albeit with a limited schedule. But on Tuesday, the Big Ten and PAC-12 announced that they would not be playing football this fall after all. The Athletic’s Nicole Auerbauch joins us to explain how this apparently sudden shift came about, and whether or not the other Power Five conferences will follow suit.

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0:06.1

Hello, I'm Hannah.

0:08.1

And I'm Sirete.

0:09.1

And we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.

0:12.8

Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked-about cases.

0:16.3

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

0:21.6

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

0:29.6

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood,

0:33.9

the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

0:39.9

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.

0:44.8

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0:47.2

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0:49.5

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0:51.4

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1:08.3

A week ago, college football was moving full speed ahead.

1:11.5

But on Tuesday, two major conferences pulled the plug.

1:15.7

We are now learning that the big 10, one of the largest college conferences has decided to postpone its fall season.

1:24.4

The Pac-12 joins the Big 10 in canceling all sports events through December 31st.

1:30.4

Today, the Athletics Nicole Hourback joins us to talk about how the sudden 180 came about,

1:36.4

and why other conferences might not follow suit.

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