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In Just 37 Days
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You’re having trouble falling asleep. The excitement and anticipation are keeping your mind too occupied to get comfortable as you toss and turn in bed thinking about what the next day will bring.
The possibilities. The matchups. The internal hype you’ve unwittingly created from filling the otherwise monotonous summer days with reading and rereading practice reports, ball-knower film breakdowns, and listening to Paul Finebaum predict your team will make a run at the playoffs. A couple incoming freshmen are turning heads already. Your quarterback is primed for his breakout season. Which teams are overrated? Who will surprise?
You feel the Christmas-like morning awaiting you. You’ll wake up 10 minutes before your 7:45 alarm sounds and you’ll fire up the De’Longhi — a little cream is all, though a nip of bourbon tempts you — and tune in at 8am sharp to watch Lee Corso’s final College GameDay live from Columbus, Ohio.
Your restless energy absentmindedly leads you out to your back patio, cup of coffee in hand. You pace back and forth and take in the summer morning air. It’s late August with a high of 96, but it feels like fall is knocking on the door ready to bust it down. Not crispy outside yet, not by a long shot, but you sense it won’t be long until the crewnecks come out. The sports drought is over. We made it.
The week 1 slate is especially nasty.
Friday 7:00
Georgia Tech @ Colorado
Auburn @ Baylor
Saturday 11:00
Texas @ Ohio State
Syracuse @ Tennessee
2:30
Alabama @ Florida State
6:30
LSU @ Clemson
10:00
Utah @ UCLA
Sunday 2:00
Virginia Tech @ South Carolina
6:30
Notre Dame @ Miami
Monday 7:00
TCU @ North Carolina
Saturday is an all-day onslaught of premium matchups and wild horses couldn’t drag you away from the TV.
After you finish bing bong cup number two, you’ll want to crack the first of many frosty boys you’ll imbibe on this Saturday, but you know the sooner you start, the less likely you are to watch the entirety of the 10pm west coast game, a nightly/early morning tradition each Saturday/Sunday in the fall where you catch perfectly mediocre college football action intermittently between heavy eyelid blinks.
You’ll hold off on beer number one until 10:30 as you finally succumb to the nervous excitement that overtakes you, and kickstarting the BAC is the best way you know how to settle into the couch and calm the nerves. The sound of the Busch Light cracking awakens you fully. Everything about the situation is right. Everything is perfect in that moment.
All teams that matter are 0 and 0. It’s all on the table. Heartbreak, unbridled elation, or something in-between.
There it is. Corso puts on the Bevo headgear, the last of his career. Herby is teary-eyed and he says his lump-throated farewell to an absolute legend. Your shared sentiment is heartfelt but brief as you remember kickoff in Columbus is merely minutes away. You might cry. Is it from Corso’s departure or the day of ball ahead? You don’t know. You don’t care. You’re simply overcome with emotion and you’re embracing it.
You spend the next 12 hours on your couch, walking to the fridge and back, the bathroom and back, and finally to your bed for the west coast finale featuring a slew of sloppy turnovers and missed 30 to 40 yard field goal attempts. But it’s football, and it makes you happy.
Your team expectedly wins big against a directional school, your obviously overrated rival sneaks past a team it should have beaten by 30, and three top 10 teams went down in dramatic fashion. And it’s only week one.
You downed 14 domestics and grilled burgers for yourself and three friends that stopped by for the LSU-Clemson game that ended in overtime.
You pass out during halftime of Utah-UCLA on account of the 14 domestics and 15 straight hours of football watching only to wake up the next morning and catch the SportsCenter highlights of the games you watched live the day before.
It was the perfect day.
That day is 37 days from today.
Reminder: Circling Back Live & New Studio Set Next Week
We dropped the news on Wednesday’s Circling Back. If you missed it, the format of Circling Back is moving from a Monday and Wednesday release to Monday through Thursday. That’s four free episodes per week.
It is also moving to a live show with a hard start time of 10:30am central time. It will be accessible on YouTube live each day with a live chat if you feel like hopping in and chopping it up with the boys.
If you prefer to listen to or watch Circling Back on your own time and won’t be tuning in live, that’s totally fine. It changes nothing for you, as it will still be available on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube, or wherever it is you listen to podcasts, whenever you have time to listen.
This change also coincides with a complete studio set redesign. It’s a more relaxed vibe. Out with the news desk style tables and in with new chairs, a loveseat, a coffee table, rug, and beer fridge.
We’re excited and we hope you are, too. See you Monday at 10:30 sharp.
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0% chance Corso puts on Bevo. Go Bucks.
Football can’t get here soon enough