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It is Sunday night, September 19th year of our Lord, 2021. We're jam-packed

fresh in off a plane from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a jam-packed Beaver Stadium last night.

We were on hand. We were on the field to watch Penn State take down Auburn. We will go through

that in parade detail tonight. We've also got Alabama over Florida, narrowly to talk about.

But yes, we're jam-packed.

And, you know, I couldn't help but think as I was looking at the scores come in yet again over the weekend. And as I was trying to watch as many games as I could this morning, I couldn't help but take

myself back to July. You remember July and August when we refused to take a vacation and everyone

else exercised their constitutional right to take an off-season. And while they were at the beach, we were busy here toiling away telling you, hey, friends, on the horizon, we have something coming. It's not just a football season, it's a renaissance season. What do we mean? We think there's going to be a lot more balance at the top of the sport. We think the Redwoods aren't quite going to tower above the rest of the canopy like they

normally do, and we think there's going to be vulnerability even among tier one of this year's

college football field. And that all translates to several more teams are going to be in it for

conference championship races, for playoff races,

even though we won't talk about it until after September. And here we are. We got several of those

contenders, several of those immortals already with one loss and multiple dings on their resume.

We got upsets happening all over the plays. We got narrow escapes happening, and we're going to

talk about it all tonight. I have got like 17 games we're going to touch on in some shape, form or fashion.

We've also got to, in just a matter of moments, reveal where we're headed for the week

four destination of the Renaissance tour. What a stop week three was. I cannot wait to tell you guys

and show you in a lot of cases what it was

like last night at Penn State. Unbelievable, unforgettable atmosphere. A lot of you watched on TV. It

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