1. Let's be honest here: between travel difficulties and decrepit computers, you're really lucky to be getting a podcast this week. But we made it in under the wire.

2. SUN BELT PREVIEW STUFF: Georgia State stumbled! Bill has no words for South Alabama! ULM is awesomely pissy! UL is loading the hell up! Georgia Southern is full-on G.A.T.A. again! Coastal Carolina's still weird! We forgot Texas State!

3. Okay, yes, let's talk about the Pac-12's latest someone-give-us-money-please gambit. (Also, NewCo? Really?) That AAC media deal is probably not as pretty as it seems, and besides, the Mountain West is the better conference anyway amirite????

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