Lincoln picked me up at the airport on my unofficial visit to Texas Tech and we hit it off right there and he told me how many yards I would throw for and you would have.

Hello and welcome to always college football. Today's Friday, July 8th. I'm Greg

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navigate throughout this journey we have a great game plan on tap for you today we're

going to talk about why all these changes to the college football landscape are not necessarily a bad thing.

Plus, we're going to be joined by USC head coach Lincoln Riley and in full transparency.

We taped this interview before the news was announced that USC was going to leave the

PAC 12 for the Big Ten. So we'll dive into what the Trojans might be like on the field this year,

and then we'll wrap things up with our first

visit to the mail back. But first let's talk about it. Look a lot of people are

talking about how insane college football has become the last couple of years but do you realize that college football has become the last couple years but do you realize that college football has been insane since the start at the BCS era way back in the 90s

But really in the last couple years we've seen changes when it comes to the NIL we've seen freedom of

transfer we've seen the sport navigate its way through a global pandemic however I

feel like the narrative surrounding the sport is that we never change, we never adapt.

And I also feel like with every change, people seem to insist that this is the beginning of the end.

Well, let me just look at it from this perspective.

College football has experienced unprecedented growth in popularity since 1998. And if you look at what the sport once was, it was an

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