People are always seemingly pointing to games in which Alabama has nothing to play for so they're going to be flat.

Well, they've only, that's only happened a couple times and it's been eight years since that happened last.

So I think Alabama's going to show up and I think Alabama is going to play well. I'd be surprised. This is a culture indicator. Bryce Young wants to play. Will Anderson wants to play. The other guys want to play. I'd be surprised if they didn't play well in the game.

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We hope that you've had a phenomenal holiday season. We know we have. We are continuing to enjoy the bowl season that keeps on giving. We've had some awesome match-ups the last couple nights. We had a quadruple

header two days ago. Last yesterday we had triple-headed, so we are starting to really

dive in to the bowl season, a of entertaining storylines a lot of entertaining topics and as you know

We still have some great games coming up but today it's Thursday, right? We do this every

Thursday or at least we've done it every Thursday up to this point. A little

throwback Thursday today. The team that finished ranked fourth in the

college football playoff

committee rankings. We are going to break down the Ohio State Buckeyes

season from start to finish and we're going to talk about what they need to do to

pull off what would be one of the great upsets of the college football

playoff era. And as I referenced, we're going to break down tomorrow, we're going to break down

games against the spread with Chris the Bear

Felica but we're also going to break down the semi-final matchups

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