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Here's Mike Lupica and Bob Ryan. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN.

I'm Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News and MLB.com and welcome to our Thursday edition

of the Sports Reporters podcast.

And we tell you this all the time, but it's always worth reminding you that we put the band

back together after we went off the air on Sunday mornings on ESPN.

Mitch is off on his book tour, which is pretty extensive for his new book finding

Chica about his late adopted daughter. And so it's Ryan and me talking about sports,

which we've been doing for about 600 years. And Robert, even though sometimes you feel

like the NFL season hasn't started, the college football season has. And the first rankings came out.

And before we get to the game of the year so far in college football,

Ryan, what do you believe about the Clemson Tigers are defending national Davos being out of the top four?

But Bob, here's the thing.

I always love it when people say, you know, if the season ended up, now, they wouldn't

be in the playoffs.

And I always say to those people, but the season isn't ending now.

But it was still, I don't think it was was unexpected but it was still something to see that five

next to clubs at the other night before we we don't want to bury the lead first of all before we

go anywhere else and talk about anything else but people should know that last night it was

boston college 77 wake 40 so you know college basketball season is often running now

i i i love the discussion.

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