Welcome to Andy Staples on three.

We have a national championship game, and it took two classic semi-final matchups to get there.

Jesse Simonton, welcome aboard.

We just watched Washington survive Texas, and I thought it was going to be just a disaster.

And like another Mario Cristobal Miami Georgia Tech situation,

like why didn't you take a knee?

We still can talk about that.

They lost the starting running back by not taking a knee.

But they did survive.

They are going to play for the national title against Michigan.

Hold on to your butts. Hold on to your butt. As John in the chat puts it, all Big Ten final.

What a just, we had, what a great day of just of classic football, Andy.

It was just, we got two awesome, awesome games.

And they weren't the prettiest games.

There was, tonight's game was a little more, you know, thrilling in terms of some of the

passing and the fireworks that we got.

But, you know, these games have such ebb and flows.

The swings are so big. They're so long. People forget that just a lot of times it's just being

able to hold on to weather the storm, to get to the next play, to fight the next down. And

ultimately, Michigan and Washington did that better than Alabama and Texas.

Well, and Texas just seemed done, absolutely done. And then they came back to life because Washington

didn't want to run clock. I don't understand why Washington didn't want to run clock. It was like

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