Hour 1: Blake Toppmeyer, USA Today

The Paul Finebaum Show

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3.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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USA Today's Blake Toppmeyer kicks things off today and shares his final thoughts on the NCAA Tournament. Plus ESPN's Bill Connelly on the offseason football news, and we start taking your phone calls and reaction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.
0:09.7	This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our One podcast.
0:15.3	This might be college football head.
0:18.4	Welcome to the new world.
0:39.9	Yeah, we didn't make it in football, but we got it in basketball. That's what SEC fans are saying this morning. Good afternoon. And I think you know where we begin our coverage on this Tuesday. The day after Florida has got another national championship banner about to join the other two from the Billy Donovan era as Florida goes way down. It's been the theme of this tournament. Down but not out as a knockoff
0:46.5	Houston who had a problem coming in as the runner upup to the Gators.
1:01.1	Meanwhile, Spring is now centering on college football,
1:03.6	who are the most interesting college teams?
1:08.2	We'll talk to Bill Conley about that coming up here in a few minutes.
1:11.5	One of those teams is Georgia.
1:14.3	Kirby Smart finding answers.
1:17.0	Mike Griffith on the call there.
1:25.9	Chris Lowe covering Kalin-Dibor.
1:26.7	How about this? Alabama has a harder edge in its second season.
1:32.6	What will that mean? What will it translate to? We'll talk about it today on the show.
1:39.5	And we thought yesterday was a day, but it turned out not to be as the House settlement getting closer, but not home.
1:50.7	Blake Tom Meyer has been covering the college basketball tournament for USA today.
1:55.7	And Blake, thank you for the time.
1:56.9	Good afternoon.
1:57.8	And how about the Gators?
1:58.9	They are the talk of the college basketball world.
2:01.6	They were probably the best team in the final couple weeks of the season. It should not surprise anyone.
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