Doug LaMaurice

It's like, man, that Saturday afternoon game of wildcard weekend kind of stunk.

Why don't we even watch this league?

Right.

That we did get, we got two competitive games that were down to the wire.

And then we got two other games against group of six teams that were not competitive down to the wire, but we did see the winning teams there flex their muscles in certain ways.

But like, I, I think there is incredible, incredible value in all of it.

You just think about like that old miss hosted a playoff game and got a playoff win today.

Like that, and then like people were talking about this.

And again, like you just have to remind yourself, especially when we come at it from an Ohio State perspective.

And Ohio State, for instance, a program at the top of the sport, you think about Georgia, you think about Alabama, how they're playing gigantic games all the time, right?

And their fan bases have these opportunities to engage at the highest level of the sport and get excited and play games that matter.

They were talking about it on the Miami Texas A&M broadcast, and I was like, wait, that's right.

This was Miami's biggest win, biggest game since the O2 National Championship game.

It's 23 years later, and Miami's playing another game

Where if they win it or keep winning it, they have a chance at a national championship.

Like that's a whatever happens for Miami the rest of the season.

Like this is an incredible success for Miami fans who have been in the wilderness for a generation.

And I just like think that's there's I think incredible value in that for the sport that they got a home game at Autzen.

this year right they were the number one seed last year they lose their first playoff game as good like this is huge for Oregon to get to do that in front of their home fans so you know I don't I don't want to come on and be like I don't know about this first weekend I don't know if there's a great team coming out of the first weekend but I still think it's worth it can it can both things be true I mean I think so yeah but I'm I'm also like I don't get uh again I don't get particularly fired up about like the flaws in the system that the school's created right so like if you're

Yeah.