Welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast. I'm your host Michael Bratton.

Go by SEC Mike on the Twitter machine and there he is Senior Editor over at Athlawn Sports the Dean Stephen Lassen. What's up brother?

Hey Mike, it's good to be talking with you. We are a couple days within the week seven of the season.

Also, I mean, I'm a college football nerd.

I'm a junkie.

There's games on Tuesday and Wednesday every week, leading up to the week for Thanksgiving.

So I know if you're an SEC fan, maybe some Conference USA, Sunbelt, Mac, doesn't get you going,

but it's a nice little appetizer for the weekend just saying.

Right yeah band in the family tune in for some college football that's what I that's

my motto there you know know what? Absolutely.

It's a good appetizer for the season.

And hey, maybe some of these teams, SEC teams

will be playing in bowl games.

Maybe some of their players will be transferring to teams,

coaches. So yeah, you're scouting, you're prepping

for what's to come later this year.

I never even thought about it like that.

But that's brilliant, Stephen.

You want to know the players that you're going to have next season.

Yeah, you've got to watch these lower level

teams. That's where we're at this crazy sport. You know what? Mike, it is so crazy to even like be thinking like that, but you almost have to because you go back to like last season was like Nick

Sabine was talking about Kian Mitchell the corner at Toledo and somehow they were

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