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And just like that, we were back.

Yet another week upon us.

How are you guys? It's been a little while. Well, really only like 48 hours if you listen to every show.

But this is the Late Kick Extra podcast. There is no video version of this.

One of the many benefits of subscribing to the podcast. Many of you have done that. You've left five-star reviews.

And if you haven't already, go ahead, take two seconds and do it. It makes me happy. Don't you want to see someone smile or at least picture them smiling? We got a lot to get to today. I talk too much at the beginning. We waste too much time. I can't keep it under an hour. So here's what's up. This is the late kick extra podcast.

It is 100% your show. It is mailbag format, whether it be the email inbox, Twitter DMs,

YouTube comment section, podcast review section, which we get to momentarily because that's how

we like to kick it off to incentivize. And you know how very rarely I use words with that many syllables, leaving questions in the podcast review section. So I'm very happy that you're with us. We've got a lot to get to this morning. And we will waste no time doing it. Now let me tell you, I'm going to do something that Tati, who is our podcast producer, technician, czar.

He wears many hats. He tells me never to do this. He wants it all nice and regimented and

formatted and he wants my thoughts well timed out and he wants everything dialed in and he doesn't

want me to just go spontaneously through these questions. So what I'm going to do for this show is

I'm going to go spontaneously through the questions, and that's how we're going to answer them.

First up, we got some really good stuff in here. UF. Jack Fitz from the podcast review section.

I figure we talk about this a lot. We have to address it about every few weeks because this is one of the

most popular questions in all of sports. I've listened to your podcast. After playing a bit of

catch-up, I notice you often talk about the title or playoff contenders, but not much about the

playoff itself. Many sports analysts and show hosts have weighed in on their opinion about the

construct of the college football playoff and how it benefits or hinders the game as a whole.

My question, do you think four teams is enough? Should we expand? If there's expansion,

how many is too many? In regards to the Big 12 ACC and PAC 12, with each conference really having one or two teams that regularly contend for postseason, if the playoff was expanded, do you think it would make a good criteria to include everyone or a team from every conference so it wouldn't be an SEC Big Ten invitational?

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