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It is Thursday night, September 16th, the year of our Lord, 2021.

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Here we are. We restart it, so it looks cool when we cut it. Three, two, one. And welcome in. Lake Kick is live. It is Thursday night, September 16th, the year of our Lord, 2021 jam-packed wall-to-wall.

Then again, we always are. We're about to dive head-long into week three.

We've got some games on the marquee. We've got several more games on the undercard, and we're going to talk about a whole lot of them tonight. Let me ask you a question. Rhetorical, we're about to hit it. Who are going to learn the most about? Because I've got several teams. Some of them are on the radar, some of them a little bit off the radar. this is the time of year that's dangerous.

This is the time of year where we on the show metaphorically every year like to tell you the fog starts to burn off. And the fog is the things you think you know. We all think we know some stuff this time of year. And then the fog burns off and you see the landscape a little bit more clearly and it turns out

three weeks from now you'll look back and say remember when we thought this remember when we thought

we had that pegged this is when that process starts this is why we never use the word lock ever but

much less in week three you never start speaking definitively we never put any of these bootleg

playoff projections out

because we don't believe in the playoff in September. But we're going to start to learn some

more things this week. We'll come back to that in just a second. We've got mood tracker updates.

Three more of them. Texas has warranted a mood tracker update. Certainly Arkansas,

been talking with our friends over on Hogs in the last hour actually and Ohio State.

Bucknots, up in arms, defensive, might I add. And we're going to talk about all those programs,

also Cincinnati. The G5 love that you claim we don't give. I'm going to give. I can make an

argument to you that the Bearcats play the biggest game since Luke Fickle has been there this Saturday.

It's not the biggest in terms of prestige, but it is the biggest, I think, in terms of current and

future impact. All that, and we're going to add two more best bets onto the Ramen

Noodle Express. So just a little word to the wise, by the way, as we talk about the Ramen

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