From college football to the high school hardwood, as well as a Rams-Vikings pick - we take you through all levels of the sports world in the second hour of The Huddle!

After a run to the state tournament last year, Cretin Durham Hall boy’s basketball has all cylinders firing so we talked to their coach Jerry Kline Jr about their number one ranked team, recruiting talent into this new season, the scrappy win over Woodbury and even an ode to Mancini’s!

For today’s Fast Breaks, Josh takes his Fast Breaks to South Beach as they will now host the 2026 Winter Classic outdoors between the Panthers and Rangers, Jim Nantz will make history on Sunday when he picks up the headset and also its WIld Card weekend in football and we make our picks known!

Pete and Steve recap the College Football Playoff and weigh in on the final two teams being Notre Dame and Ohio State facing off for it all in the National Championship!

It's a ‘wild’ first hour of The Huddle with Wild Card weekend underway in the NFL, we chat with Matthew Coller about the Monday Night Football matchup with the Rams and the Minnesota Wild out west this weekend we chat with Kevin Gorg, also what is going on with Gophers men's basketball!

It has been a tough stretch for the Minnesota Wild as they are without their top three defenseman and top forward in Kirill Kaprizov with injuries hurting this team - we ask Kevin Gorg of Fan Duel Sports Network how this team has managed to stay in the playoff spots in the Western Conference, what went wrong with Gus vs. Colorado and recap their win over San Jose last night!

Time is winding down as we approach kick off on Monday night with the Rams “hosting” the Vikings at State Farm Stadium in Arizona in wake of the tragic devastation taking place in California. Matthew Coller of Purple Insider previews the matchup, how the Vikings can rebound from a blowout loss in Detroit, Vikings defense needing to be ready for this Rams offense this time around and much more!

Not the result the Minnesota Vikings wanted last weekend so they now face a Wild Card matchup with the Los Angeles Rams in a relocated State Farm Stadium matchup on Monday Night Football, Pete and Steve preview the matchup, how much relocation affects the matchup and more!

Did PJ Fleck win a “bowl game that matters”? Also we give our end of season NFL award picks. Nadine Babu of GopherHole.com joins the show as we wind down on the second hour of the first show of 2025. Also, could we see the Gophers in a College Football Playoff someday?

We were pleased to get a full breakdown of the Gophers win in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl, PJ Fleck’s effect on the culture at the U and recruiting with Nadine Babu of GopherHole.com.