Hey, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast. I'm your host Michael Brenton.

Go by SEC Mike on Twitter's and there's our great friend, Stephen Lassen, the senior editor over at Athlon Sports.

Stephen, how are you, my friend?

Hey, Mike, fired up for week nine, my friend.

What a great slate of games we got.

Week 8 was awesome with the eight conference games.

We've got some favorites going on the road, which is always danger zone time in the world

of college football.

We've got some playoff hobs.

We've got all the coaching stuff going on. So, man, what an exciting weekend of college football we got some playoff hobs we got all the coaching stuff going on so

man what an exciting weekend of college football we got here for the final weekend in october

where the heck did the season go right oh yeah that is wild to think about so here these are the games

this week of course seven all conference matchups uh only georgia and florida are off the board they're each

on a buy week so uh cannot be more fired up for that stephen's going to make his predictions for each

and every game we've got some prize pick selections and shout out stephen he's tied the cousins

he's all the way up to 69 correct picks so you if you really to listen to somebody, listen to the smart guy. Don't listen to Shane and I. We're trailing the cousins and Stephen. So, hey, pressure's on, Stephen. I won't even, and here's the thing. I never tell Stephen who the cousins pick. So this is all fair. The cousins don't know who Steve's going to pick. So

a lot of pressure on you, Stephen, a lot of pressure on the cousins to nail this one. You know what?

There is a ton of pressure. I mean, the weeks are counting down. I got to try to get in the lead,

caught up a little bit. I should also mention, you know, sometimes when we get on the show, I try to ask Mike

leading questions to figure out who he's picking during the week.

So that way, maybe I feel better.

But he is very coy until about Thursday on his predictions.

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