This episode of Football 301, a very special episode. Dane Bruegler from The Athletic

joins me to talk about the college football playoff and the prospects involved there for the

2026 NFL draft class. Very fun conversation. We talk about all the teams, one through 12,

prospects to watch for this year's class, maybe some ones to watch in future classes,

quarterback discussion, strengths of this draft class, plenty of linebackers actually too.

Dane's awesome.

This was an awesome show.

See you guys in a second.

Hello, welcome back to Football 301.

I'm your host, Nate Tice.

We are recording on Monday.

I have a fun guest because we have the college football playoff this weekend.

And we're starting to get into draft season.

You know, some of the fan bases have been in draft season for a few weeks now.

But I'm going to be joined my guy, the athletics draft expert, to talk about this

weekend's college football playoff, opening weekend games and all the prospects involved.

Maybe we get some big board talk, what the hell's going on with this QB class?

The Athletic Zone, Dane Bruegler joining me.

How are you doing today, Dane? Great seeing you. Thankgler joining me. How are you doing today? Dang, great seeing you.

Thank you for joining me. It is always my pleasure. I miss talking to you on a podcast.

And so this is a lot of fun. This is awesome. We've talked about a lot of these guys,

you know, through text and like just messaging throughout the year. And so it's a, it's been really interesting to see how this draft class

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