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TNR 1/27/26 - Hour 2 | SEC AD's Want to Kill 9-Game Football Schedule?

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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SEC ADs are starting to push back on the idea of a 9-game football schedule. Could that idea be dead just as it is being started? LSU AD Verge Ausberry on future non-conference scheduling New targeting rules? The NCAA may be looking at changes. The Duke Blue Devils and their former quarterback Darian Mensah have reached a settlement that will allow Mensah to transfer to the Miami Hurricanes. As strange as this sounds in college football, could this actually be a positive development? Mark Gottfried joins the show FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com #SEC #Alabama #Auburn #secfootball #collegefootball #cfb #cfp #football #sports #alabamafootball #alabamabasketball #auburnbasketball #auburnfootball #rolltide #wareagle #alabamacrimsontide #auburntigers #nfl #sportsnews #footballnews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.

0:10.0

The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.

0:19.0

Hour number two brought to you in part by our friends at Bojangles today.

0:24.1

That includes our conversation about Missouri and Alabama basketball tonight down in Tuscaloosa,

0:29.9

Auburn off tonight.

0:30.7

They play tomorrow at home against Texas.

0:33.0

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0:36.9

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0:55.8

hungry you know what to do head to bow jangles drive-thru's always open make it bow time a couple of

1:02.0

notes from college football duke and darian minza have reached a mutual agreement a resolution if you

1:10.6

will that would allow both parties to move on, says

1:13.2

Duke football. So I don't know what the financial terms are, but it does look like Mintsa's

1:19.1

on his way to quarterback at Miami next year. And the NCAA, there you see, the Duke

1:26.3

Football statement there.

1:32.2

I think that's actually somewhat of a positive out of this story, Jim.

1:41.6

I mean, I think the more financial penalty involved, I think will slow down the movement and the transfer portal.

1:42.8

I mean, you're still going to have teams that are willing to pay

1:45.5

whatever Miami is going to have to pay Duke to get Darien Mintsa.

1:49.4

That's still going to happen.

1:50.5

But at least Duke leaves this situation with more money in their NIL than they started it with.

1:55.8

Now, I know they've lost their starting quarterback.

1:58.3

You don't want to do it that way, but at least there's that.

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