Week 3 reaction: Should Alabama be No. 1; is OSU a contender & are there any elite teams?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ari returns from Paqui Hell to join Andy in a breakdown of college football's third week of action. Should Alabama remain the country's top team after narrowly dodging Florida? If not, who should preside over the top-25? Nebraska nearly won a game they tried to avoid? Is Ohio State really a contender? Will a G5 team make this year's playoff? Penn State smells blood in the Big Ten's waters. Plus, Andy's theory on college football's competitive equilibrium in 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. |
| 0:11.9 | Hope you are cooking breakfast right now. |
| 0:14.4 | Hope you are enjoying your Sunday morning. |
| 0:17.3 | We are wrapping up your Saturday night. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm here with Ari Wasserman. |
| 0:22.0 | Mostly this is a proof of life episode. |
| 0:23.8 | We wanted to make sure everybody knew that Ari was okay after eating the death chip. |
| 0:28.4 | Ari, please let everybody know, hold up the newspaper and let everybody know you're all right. |
| 0:33.2 | I don't have a newspaper, but I'm here. |
| 0:39.4 | Alabama and Florida played a close game. |
| 0:41.6 | So there's your proof that we're in the future. |
| 0:43.1 | I had a lot. |
| 0:46.8 | Anybody who saw the video saw me struggling big time. And I got to say, I was anticipating it being really, really hot. |
| 0:51.2 | The thing I was not anticipating was that it was going to last for as long as it did. |
| 0:55.7 | Like, it's one thing to be, to be super hot and have like a tough few minutes, but my mouth was on fire an hour later. |
| 1:03.3 | I was in the shower under a cold, cold stream drinking milk out of a Yeti. And here's the thing that's the toughest part. |
| 1:13.5 | You need milk to survive it, |
| 1:15.6 | right? |
| 1:16.2 | Like you, |
| 1:16.7 | that's the only thing that can, |
| 1:17.8 | that'll cool you down in your mouth. |
| 1:20.1 | You can't drink too much milk too fast. |
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