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Must watch College Football Bowl Games · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Bill Connley, who covers college football really well for ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: wrote a story today and the headline is storylines to
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  Speaker 1: watch for every twenty twenty four college football bowl game.
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  Speaker 1: You think about that for a moment, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: he starts it all by talking about what it was
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  Speaker 1: like fifty years ago. Fifty years ago, there were eleven
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  Speaker 1: bowl games in college football major college football. He had
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  Speaker 1: a relatively minor affairs, the Liberty Bowl, which was a
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  Speaker 1: Maryland against Tennessee. I remember watching that Tangerine Bowl, Miami
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  Speaker 1: of Ohio against Georgia, Blue Bonnet Bowl, ns he State
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  Speaker 1: against Houston Sun Bowl, Mississippi State against North Carolina, Peach Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt against Texas Tech. I think that wound up in
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  Speaker 1: a six to sixth tie. And the Fiesta Bowl BYU
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  Speaker 1: and Oklahoma State. He said then he had the major stuff.
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  Speaker 1: On De Semmer thirtieth, number six Auburn end played and
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  Speaker 1: beat number eleven Texas, and the Gator Bowl. I think
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  Speaker 1: that was the last college football game Keith Moreland played
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  Speaker 1: in because he played two seasons of college football, and
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  Speaker 1: Auburn beat Texas. And I don't know if it was
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  Speaker 1: the opening kickoff or a kickoff after a Texas field goal,
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  Speaker 1: but they ran one of the starburst kickoff returns and
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  Speaker 1: the Longhorns.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't make the tackle. It was return for a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: Auburn went on and won that game. It says.
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  Speaker 1: On December thirty first number eight Nebraska, last number eighteen
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  Speaker 1: Florida and the Sugar Bowl, and in a New Year's
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  Speaker 1: Day tripleheader, number seven Penn State, wallet number twelve Baylor.
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  Speaker 2: In the Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Baylor had the miracle on Nebrassas that year, seventy four
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  Speaker 1: beating Texas, got to the Cotton Bowl, and then Penn
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  Speaker 1: State beat him forty one to twenty. Number five USC
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  Speaker 1: up set number three Ohio State and the Rose Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Number nine Notre Dame up set number two Alabama in
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  Speaker 1: a bowl for the second straight year, this time in
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  Speaker 1: the Orange Bowl, and then he.
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  Speaker 2: Says, and that was it.
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  Speaker 1: Number one Oklahoma ban from the postseason almost feels like
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  Speaker 1: even more of an ancient relic than having only eleven bowls.
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  Speaker 1: Won the national title with Ease. They were on probation,
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  Speaker 1: but they were the ap national champion. USC finished number
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  Speaker 1: two in the Ape Pole. They were crowned the national
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  Speaker 1: champion in the UPI poll number four, Michigan out of
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  Speaker 1: the postseason because of the Big Ten's only one team
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  Speaker 1: bowl policy, moved up to number three with Ohio State's loss. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: back then the Big Ten only one team went. That
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  Speaker 1: was the Rose Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: That was it. That's how they did.
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  Speaker 1: He said, bowlseason has shall we say, evolved in the
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  Speaker 1: half century since. To those scoffing and saying the older
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  Speaker 1: days were olden days were definitely better, you're wrong. Eighty
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  Speaker 1: two of the FBS is one hundred and thirty four
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  Speaker 1: teams plus a pair of smoking hot FCSHBCU teams will
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  Speaker 1: play at least one postseason game in the coming weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Four playoff teams will play in a pair of major bowls.
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  Speaker 1: Texas could be one of those, and two of them
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  Speaker 1: will meet in Atlanta for a national title game.
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  Speaker 2: That isn't a ball.
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  Speaker 1: So he goes on and he has these different categories,
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  Speaker 1: and he said some of them fit more than one category,
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  Speaker 1: said just go with it. For example, chasing the ring
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  Speaker 1: and the record is the quarterfinal. He expects that Oregon
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  Speaker 1: against either Ohio State or Tennessee another category, a hell
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  Speaker 1: of a time to potentially start a new quarterback. The
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  Speaker 1: quarterfoun of Georgia against the Notre Dame Indiana winner justifying
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  Speaker 1: the bye, Boise State against the Penn State SMU winner
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  Speaker 1: in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year's Eve, and also
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State against the Texas Clemson winner on January first,
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  Speaker 1: So talking about a chance to justify that bye, and
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  Speaker 1: then he goes my favorite five favorite non playoff bowls.
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  Speaker 1: You have the Cricket Celebration Bowl that's tomorrow, Jackson State,
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina State, and they're pretty exciting offenses and defenses.
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  Speaker 1: The Staff DNA Cure Bowl Ohio against Jacksonville State, he said. Granted,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been more excited about this one had
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  Speaker 1: Ohio's Tim Alban and Jacksonville State's Rich Rodriguez not already
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  Speaker 1: taking different jobs. But this game does feature two group
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  Speaker 1: of five teams to finish the regular season in torrid form.
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  Speaker 1: Both finished really hot and yeah, Alburn's a new coach
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  Speaker 1: at Charlotte and Rich rod as the new coach returning
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  Speaker 1: to West Virginia. Also Birmingham Bull, Georgia Tech Vanderbilt. I
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  Speaker 1: love it when two of the season's main characters get paired.
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Tech began Florida State's twenty twenty four disintegration with
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  Speaker 1: the last minute went in Dublin and went on to
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  Speaker 1: upset Miami, playing a major role in the Hurricanes's elimination
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  Speaker 1: from CFP contention, and nearly upset Georgia, which would have
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  Speaker 1: been the same eventually falling in eight overtimes. It was
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  Speaker 1: just about the most memorable way possible to go seven
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  Speaker 1: and five. Vanderbilt meanwhile, beat Alabama for the first time
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  Speaker 1: in forty years and nearly upset Texas as well.
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  Speaker 2: That's not true. People saw the final score Dottals in
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  Speaker 2: the euro outset.
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt scored with under a minute ago and to pull
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  Speaker 1: to within three and then couldn't recover it on sidekick,
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  Speaker 1: so to say, nearly upset of a bit of a stretch.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, talks about them both both being for an
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  Speaker 1: entertaining bowl. Go Bowling Military Bowl, East Carolina and NC State. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of his favorites.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Bowling Military Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this is funny. On January first, nineteen ninety two,
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  Speaker 1: in front of fifty nine, three hundred and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: in Atlantis Fulton County Stadium, quarterback Jeff Blake and East
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  Speaker 1: Carolina came back from thirty four to seventeen in the
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  Speaker 1: final ten minutes to knock off NC State thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: Pirate fans stormed the field afterwards, and according the newspaper reports,
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  Speaker 1: some ECU fans even dug up part of the e
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  Speaker 1: in Pirates lettering one of the end zones. But compared
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  Speaker 1: with what some officials feared might happen right as ec
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  Speaker 1: fans had torn up whatever they could find following an
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  Speaker 1: upset of NC State and Raleigh in eighty seven, which
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  Speaker 1: had caused NC State to end the series between the schools,
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  Speaker 1: this was tame, so it said. This is a long
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  Speaker 1: way of saying that playing n C State means a
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  Speaker 1: lot to ECU fans, and the Pirates usually play their
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  Speaker 1: best when their line up against the wolf Pack.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. That's why he's got that there. And then.
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  Speaker 1: The fifth of his five Favorita bowls. This is the
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  Speaker 1: Kinders Texas Bowl. Baylor LSU thinks it'll be really good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh So he's got those down there, oh so close.
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  Speaker 1: Miami and Ohio and Iowa State, and the Pop Tarts
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Alabama and Michigan, and the Relaoquest Bowl South Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: Illinois and the Cheese at Citrus Bowl and Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: and Duke and the tax Slayer Gator Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: So then he's got Finishing.
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  Speaker 1: Strong, the Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl Florida Tulane, the
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  Speaker 1: Myrtle Beach Bowl, Utsa and Coastal Carolina, the Auto Z
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  Speaker 1: owned Liberty Bowl, Texas Tech Arkansas, the Direct TV Holiday
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  Speaker 1: Bowls Syracuse, Washington State, Bad Boy Moor's Pinstripe Bowl, Boston College, Nebraska,
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  Speaker 1: Valero Alamo Bowl, Colorada BYU and the Tony the Tiger
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  Speaker 1: Sun Bowl Louisville and Washington. And then he's got a
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  Speaker 1: category called Embrace the Silliness the Art of La. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the official name cam the Art of Sport LA Bowl
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  Speaker 1: hosted by Gronk. That's the name of it is still
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  Speaker 1: in all right, Artists Sport LA Bowl hosted by Gronk. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Like he said, embrace the silliness Famous Sidaho Potato Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Pop Tarts bowl Snoop dogg Arizona Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: And the Duke's Mayo Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, what was the most memorable moment of
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  Speaker 1: last year's bowl season The murder of the pastry.
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  Speaker 2: When we're eating the pop tart there.
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  Speaker 1: So, and then it's who starts the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: season one to zero A and m or USC in
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  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Bowl. Can a prolific quarterback go out
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  Speaker 1: with a W Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl Memphis and West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: Missouri and Iowa in the trans Perfect Music City Bowl
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  Speaker 1: or the sixty eight Ventures Bowl Bowling Green against Arkansas State.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the category congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: You get to play a Service Academy Lackey Martin Armed
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  Speaker 1: Forces Ball Oklahoma and Navy playing in Fort Worth and
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  Speaker 1: the Radiance Technologies Independence Balls Marshall against Army on December
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, Redemption Time Booca ratone Ball James Madison in
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  Speaker 1: Western Kentucky, the Game Above Shorts Bowl Toledo and Pitt
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  Speaker 1: Day after games of Game Above Sports Bowl, the Rate
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Case State against Rutgers, that is leta New Mexico Bowl,
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana against TCU, and the Bahamas Bowl Liberty against Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: Then he's got the category seven and six sounds so
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  Speaker 1: much better than six and seven. That's the I S
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  Speaker 1: four Salute to Veterans Bowl. That's tomorrow South Alabama and
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  Speaker 1: Western Michigan. The Myrtle Beach Bowl UTSA and Coastal Carolina,
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  Speaker 1: the Hawaii Bowl South Florida and San Jesse State, the
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  Speaker 1: SERB Pro First Responder Bowl North Texas against Texas State
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  Speaker 1: on January third, the Wassabi Fenway Bowl North Carolina and Yukon.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, the last category would be First Bowl Interim
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  Speaker 1: Coach RNL Carriers New.
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  Speaker 2: Orleans Bowl Sam Houston against Georgia Southern.
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  Speaker 1: So he gives you a reason to watch, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got paragraphs on why these games are worth watching. So
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  Speaker 1: are you basically are you okay with proliferation of bowls?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course it's diluted a little bit
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  Speaker 3: with the playoff, Craik. It just depends on who's playing
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  Speaker 3: these games, you know, Like I'm ecstatic that we get
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  Speaker 3: to see Daego Pavia and Hayden's key.
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  Speaker 2: I think they both are playing in their bowl game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's awesome, you know, but.
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  Speaker 3: Then you have other games where you know, the quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: are sitting out. Kudos to Colorado that Shador and Travis
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  Speaker 3: and Shiloh were all playing in that game, because you
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  Speaker 3: figure Travis Hunter probably gonna be the first pick Chador
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  Speaker 3: first rounder. Yeah, there's no reason for them to play
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  Speaker 3: in their bowl game, but no, they want to play.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's awesome. I wish there was more players
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  Speaker 3: like that. But at the same time, I understand why
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  Speaker 3: as an athlete, you're trying to protect yourself from an
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  Speaker 3: injury like Gelan Smith. After him and over Dame, we
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  Speaker 3: had this postseason injury and missed the entire season and
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  Speaker 3: had to you know, work his way back into football.
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  Speaker 2: No no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We'll be back to wrap up our number
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  Speaker 1: two in sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.