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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: I am Chad Norman. It is going to be college

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Speaker 1: football season in a matter of weeks. We're down from

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Speaker 1: this day as we are recording, we are down to

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Speaker 1: about seventeen days until week zero begins. In case you

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Speaker 1: haven't noticed, we have a brand new podcast feed for

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Speaker 1: all of our podcast for all of our college podcast content,

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Speaker 1: Big Bets on Campus, which debuted a number twelve on

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Speaker 1: the iTunes Sports Charts this week. It is hosted by

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Speaker 1: Colin Wilson and Stucky, the same great college football podcast

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Speaker 1: they always used to do on the Action Network feed,

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Speaker 1: only now it's brand new feed, Big Bets on Campus.

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Speaker 1: Everyone go check it out. I think we'd be remiss

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Speaker 1: even of the Favorites. It tends to be focused on

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Speaker 1: the NFL, and Simon Hunter is going to be coming

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Speaker 1: on uh for the second episode we do this week,

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Speaker 1: along with Chris Raybon. But we gotta do a little

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Speaker 1: bit of college um because eventually some of these college

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Speaker 1: guys are gonna be in the NFL. You want to

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Speaker 1: know what you want to know right now before it

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Speaker 1: gets too late. Colin Wilson, Pig Suey, whoo whoo, Pig

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Speaker 1: suey whoo, Pig suey chat win total of five and

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Speaker 1: a half at five point six. I hope Arkansas can

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Speaker 1: make a bowl. We were a three win team that

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Speaker 1: made the Texas Bowl and COVID canceled it because the TCU.

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Speaker 1: I hope there's no COVID. I hope these vaccination rates

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Speaker 1: go way up for these teams and we don't have

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Speaker 1: any issues whatsoever this fall. What am I supposed to

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Speaker 1: do with college football column? Why is it going to

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Speaker 1: be any different than Clemson's the best, Ohio States the best,

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Speaker 1: Alabama's the best, Oklahoma's the best, Georgia's the best. Give

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Speaker 1: me something to root for season long. That is not

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Speaker 1: about those four or five teams. If you want that

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Speaker 1: kind of drama, then you have to go to the

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Speaker 1: Group of five. But you know, I think it's like

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Speaker 1: I both agree on our podcast that Georgia and Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: is going to be the national championship game. These are

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Speaker 1: the teams that don't have any turnover in their coaching stabs.

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Speaker 1: These are the teams that don't have turnover at the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position. All the other big blue bloods do. Uh

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Speaker 1: and I hate to say it, but we've turned into

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Speaker 1: the n B A. We used to joke when we

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Speaker 1: started podcasting five years ago, we knew the Warriors would

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Speaker 1: be in the finals. We knew it for nine months.

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Speaker 1: And now college football has turned into a sport where

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Speaker 1: six teams can win the national championship. I mean, we're

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Speaker 1: still looking at only ten teams that have ever ten

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Speaker 1: programs have only ever made the College Football Playoff. It's

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Speaker 1: it's really uh. This is the season where Cincinnati is

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Speaker 1: have no chance, even beating Notre Dame, they'll have no

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Speaker 1: chance to make the playoff. Well, well, let's talk about

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Speaker 1: that for a second. A. I love Cincinnati being great.

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Speaker 1: I love it because in a lot of ways, you

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Speaker 1: could argue Luke Fickle, who's the coach at Cincinnati, got

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Speaker 1: into a group of five juggering what people are all

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Speaker 1: teams like Cincinnati into it. Good for him, good for Cincinnati? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I completely agree, and I think Cincinnati is the team

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Speaker 1: think the bar was really the Playoff Committee set the

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Speaker 1: So I think if we're looking down the line, I

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Speaker 1: always be an appetite for the Wolverines. And then there's

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Speaker 1: You've got quarterback to play has just been in the dumps.

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Speaker 1: and it just never happened for Gaddis on the defense. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: It's many I forgot Michigan fans saying that they have

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Speaker 1: you to come to their program, you obviously have to

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Speaker 1: Iowa State, I have no clue. They have a ceiling

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Speaker 1: wins everybody bets in October. That's great, but you're still

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Speaker 1: love the players and they're fantastic, and Breece Hall should

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Speaker 1: be mentioned for Heisman, but I'm sorry, but there's just

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Speaker 1: that would be my that would be my college ball.

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Speaker 1: I did not expect you to say Georgia and Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: Last question, I'm going to bet who's going to win

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Speaker 1: But for Casey Thompson to win that for Texas, they've

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