3, 2, 1, 0, all engine running.

Let's go, we have a let's go.

Welcome back to the Solid Verbal Boys and Girls.

My name is Ty Hildenbrand.

Thank you for joining me.

Bad news, you are stuck with just me today.

It's fine, he's fine, but he's off-tending to a personal matter.

He'll be back pretty soon.

In the meantime, I dug through our deep, deep database of friends, of colleagues, of reporters,

beatwriters, you name it, to find someone who wouldn't mind blasting off into an unexpected

Friday orbit with me.

And the good news is that we got Bill Connolly from ESPN.

He's going to stop by here momentarily.

You may recall we had him on as part of one of those social media live streams that we

were doing with folks having trivia contests and whatnot, but we actually haven't had

a chance to catch up with Bill since the season started to get his take on what's been

going down.

And I have so many questions for him as somebody who we all know has a deep appreciation

for the stats has been a pioneer in advanced analytics on the college football side.

How do you grade out 2020?

How do you even keep track of stats in 2020?

So a bunch to get through with him.

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