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Lane Kiffin Just Made SHOCKING Move After SCARIEST WARNING Yet! | SEC | LSU Tigers | CFP · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: Forget everything that you think settled overnight because in the
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  Speaker 1: last 18 hours, three more things happened with this LSU
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, SEC drama and a national governing body made
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  Speaker 1: a move that nobody's talking about correctly. A rival program
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  Speaker 1: sent a legal warning that nobody expected, and Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: did something that nobody predicted after two days of daring
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  Speaker 1: the SEC to stop him.
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  Speaker 2: I won't bury the lead here. It seems that he.
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  Speaker 1: Backed down just a little, just enough to notice, and
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  Speaker 1: by the time we finish our video today, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to understand exactly why and exactly what it tells you
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  Speaker 1: about how scared everybody in this fight actually is. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God we're just a few hours away from kickoff from
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  Speaker 1: real live football, and we get this game, the LSU-Clemson
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  Speaker 1: one tonight. But before then, instead of watching game day,
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  Speaker 1: button while you're here as well. The CFP's non-statement statement.
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  Speaker 1: I want to start with the college football playoff for
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  Speaker 1: a few minutes because everyone read their statement wrong yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I'll read it to you as a quote right now,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll tell you what it actually means. The
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  Speaker 1: CFP strongly supports the positions and the rules of individual
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  Speaker 1: conferences concerning the return to college of athletes with professional draft, contract,
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  Speaker 1: or roster ties.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like a hard stance, right?
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like the playoff committee just sided with the
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  Speaker 1: SEC over LSU, but it didn't. Read that again, just
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  Speaker 1: one more time slower. Back the video up. They said
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  Speaker 1: they support the conference having positions and rules. They themselves
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  Speaker 1: did not create a rule of their own. They did
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  Speaker 1: not say that LSU would be banned from the playoff consideration.
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  Speaker 2: They did not say anything.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, they could get them dragged into a courtroom in
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  Speaker 1: Birmingham or Baton Rouge.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's an accident.
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  Speaker 1: That's a committee full of lawyers who watched what happened
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  Speaker 1: to the SEC this week and said, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: We're not doing that. Here's the move.
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  Speaker 1: By refusing to create an actual rule, the college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff committee can't be sued for violating one. There's nothing
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  Speaker 1: to challenge. There's no bylaw to pick a part in
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  Speaker 1: front of a sympathetic judge. You can't win an injunction
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  Speaker 1: against a policy that doesn't exist anywhere on paper. But
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  Speaker 1: this is the part that should terrify programs thinking about
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  Speaker 1: testing a loophole.
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  Speaker 2: The committee absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Reserved the right to leave out any team of a
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  Speaker 1: 12-team field for any reason it wants. Character clause, conduct clause,
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  Speaker 1: unfortunately for me, injury clause to a quarterback, coaching change clause.
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  Speaker 2: We just don't think you're good enough clause.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the committee decides matters that particular year. which means
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  Speaker 1: the college football playoff committee just told college football, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to fight this battle for you, but we're
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  Speaker 1: also not promising you a playoff spot if you win
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  Speaker 1: it your way. That's not indecision. That's the smartest possible
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  Speaker 1: position for an organization that doesn't want to be the
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  Speaker 1: next name on a lawsuit. Support the conferences publicly. Commit
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  Speaker 1: to nothing legally. Keep every option open behind closed doors.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, if you were watching any of my content
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  Speaker 1: back in December of 2023, you know I can't stand
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  Speaker 1: this committee for very obvious reasons. And I think they
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  Speaker 1: hit this one out of the park. If you're LSU,
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  Speaker 1: that statement should scare you more than anything that Greg
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  Speaker 1: Sankey has said in or out of court. Because Sankey's
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  Speaker 1: authority is being actively challenged and he's losing in state
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  Speaker 1: court right now. The CFP's authority to simply not pick
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  Speaker 1: your team, nobody can challenge that. Clemson, Jumped into the
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  Speaker 1: mix here. Here's a part that surprised me just a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Clemson's general counsel sent a letter to LSU's
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  Speaker 1: legal team Friday flagging language buried in the two schools'
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  Speaker 1: game contract, specifically an article prohibiting the participation of ineligible players.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Clemson didn't threaten to sue.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't demand that LSU forfeit. They didn't even say
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't play the game. This was quieter than that
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  Speaker 1: and honestly smarter than that. It was a paper trail.
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  Speaker 1: Think about what it actually accomplishes. If LSU was to
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  Speaker 1: roster Wright or Harris and something goes sideways later, say
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  Speaker 1: the federal case in Alabama eventually rules the SEC's way,
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  Speaker 1: Clemson now has a documented record showing they raised the
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  Speaker 1: exact concern in writing in advance through official channels. That's
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  Speaker 1: not what a program does when it's bluffing. That's what
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  Speaker 1: a program does when it's protecting itself for a fight
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  Speaker 1: that might come six months from now, not tonight. And
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  Speaker 1: this fits everything we already know about how Dabo Sweeney
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  Speaker 1: feels about the entire situation. He's already called the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing embarrassing for the sport just days ago. This letter
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  Speaker 1: is Clemson putting that sentiment into something with actual legal
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  Speaker 1: weight behind it. So by Friday afternoon, LSU wasn't just
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  Speaker 1: getting pressure from the SEC in a second lawsuit sitting
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  Speaker 1: in federal court. They were getting a written warning from
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  Speaker 1: a team that they were playing the next day. Then,
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  Speaker 1: near midnight, LSU blinked. Talk about that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: Here's the twist that nobody called. LSU had until midnight,
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  Speaker 1: I'm recording this at 1.36 in the morning on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: game day, thank God, Eastern time. They had until midnight
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  Speaker 1: to submit an official roster. Everyone, Wright, Harris, national reporters,
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  Speaker 1: probably half the fan base, expected both players.
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  Speaker 2: To be on it through the weeks leading up to tonight. However,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't on it.
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  Speaker 1: LSU submitted its week one roster to the SEC without
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  Speaker 1: Daquan Wright or Xavier Harris. After everything, after winning the ruling,
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  Speaker 1: after a judge specifically barred the SEC from punishing schools
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  Speaker 1: that use these players, after two days of Kiffin sounding
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  Speaker 1: like a man who couldn't wait to prove.
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  Speaker 2: A point, they pumped the brakes. Now, an important detail here,
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  Speaker 2: because it's not over.
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  Speaker 1: ESPN's Pete Thamel reported both players can still be added
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  Speaker 1: to the roster later in the season since they're already
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  Speaker 1: enrolled at LSU. This isn't LSU walking away from the plan.
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  Speaker 1: This is LSU deciding that tonight wasn't the night to
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  Speaker 1: test it. So why back off after winning? Well, read
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  Speaker 1: between the lines. Think about everything stacked against LSU by
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  Speaker 1: Friday night. The federal lawsuit in Alabama is still alive.
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  Speaker 1: It's still unresolved and still built on a completely different
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  Speaker 1: legal theory than the one that LSU just beat in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: The SEC already announced it plans to appeal Thursday's ruling.
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  Speaker 1: The CFP just made it clear it'll do whatever it
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  Speaker 1: wants with playoff selection, regardless of what any court decides.
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  Speaker 1: And now Clemson's got a signed letter and a file
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  Speaker 1: somewhere establishing they raised the exact issue before kickoff. Put
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  Speaker 1: yourself in Kiffin's shoes for a second. You can play
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  Speaker 1: two extra bodies in tonight's game in your season opener,
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  Speaker 1: or you can wait. Let this legal picture clarify even
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and then add them in a few
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  Speaker 1: weeks to once some federal uncertainty either resolves or at
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  Speaker 1: least stops being an open question hanging over every single
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  Speaker 1: game you play with them on the field. One version
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  Speaker 1: risks the SEC finding some way to retroactively hit LSU,
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  Speaker 1: whether that be fines, suspensions, wins that suddenly come with asterisks,
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  Speaker 1: exclusion from the SEC championship game, and the other version
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  Speaker 1: costs you exactly nothing except for two players for one
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  Speaker 1: night against LSU. an opponent that carries the same name
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  Speaker 1: that your team does. The math on that is not close,
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  Speaker 1: not with everything else circling. This isn't fully Kiffin losing
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  Speaker 1: his nerve. I think it's Kiffin reading the room a
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  Speaker 1: little bit better than he usually gets credit for. He
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  Speaker 1: got everything he needed out of this fight, a legal foothold,
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  Speaker 1: a roster spot held open, players still enrolled and eligible
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  Speaker 1: whenever the timing's actually right. He didn't need to win
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  Speaker 1: Saturday's headline, too. He needed to still be standing by October.
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  Speaker 1: Where this actually goes from here, what happened next? Well,
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  Speaker 1: nothing's getting settled tonight. Whatever happens on the scoreboard in
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  Speaker 1: Baton Rouge, the actual answer to this fight is sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a federal courthouse in Birmingham, completely untouched by anything
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  Speaker 1: that's happened this week. That's still the SEC's real weapon.
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  Speaker 1: That's still the case that determines whether Kiffin ever gets
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  Speaker 1: to use Wright and Harris without looking over his shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: And the SEC already said it's appealing the Louisiana ruling,
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  Speaker 1: so even the win LSU has right now isn't final,
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  Speaker 1: it's just currently standing. Everyone involved in this, the SEC,
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  Speaker 1: the CFP, Clemson, LSU, spent the last 24 hours doing
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  Speaker 1: the exact same thing, protecting themselves for a fight that's
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  Speaker 1: not quite over yet. Most importantly, it is game day.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow, after all of that, we still get football tonight.
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  Speaker 1: It's the battle for Death Valley, which, if you didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: is one of the funniest quirks in this entire sport
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  Speaker 1: because both of these stadiums call themselves that.
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  Speaker 2: Clemson's had that name since the 40s.
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  Speaker 1: LSU didn't lock it in until beating Clemson in the
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  Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl back in 1959. Nobody's ever actually settled which
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  Speaker 1: one's the real Death Valley, and nobody ever will because
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  Speaker 1: both fan bases will go to their graves insisting that
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  Speaker 1: it's theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Two Tiger mascots. Two Death Valleys.
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  Speaker 1: Zero chance either fan base admits that the other one
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  Speaker 1: has a point. So tonight, when you see people posting
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  Speaker 1: go tigers and everyone's screaming that into the void, just
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  Speaker 1: remember to ask which one, because after the week of
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  Speaker 1: college football that we've just had, even that question doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to have a clear answer. We appreciate you guys
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