Mark Schlabach

Mark Schlabach of ESPN.com joins the podcast to talk a wide array of topics:

-- Why he voted Clemson No. 1 in his Way Too Early Top 25 for 2021.

-- How much of an accomplishment it was for college football to reach the finish line in a pandemic.

-- His take on the recent craziness at South Carolina, Auburn and Tennessee.

-- His take on why some national voices are calling Dabo Swinney one of the most polarizing figures in the sport.

-- Growing up near South Bend as a die-hard Notre Dame fan, then moving to Atlanta when the Georgia Bulldogs were in their heyday.

-- As a rookie writer for the student newspaper at the University of Georgia, writing an opinion column saying the basketball coach needed to be fired. And then being summoned to Hugh Durham's office to be told by the coach: "You don't know (excrement)."

-- As an 18-year-old, being hired at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to cover the Bulldogs.

-- His recollections of the early days following Widespread Panic, the Athens-based band that would go on to become one of the most successful touring acts in the industry.