At 36-years old, Marcus has made a meteoric rise in coaching to become the head coach at Notre Dame. Freeman joins AP’s Ralph Russo to talk about the whirlwind couple of days during which he went from defensive coordinator to the man leading the Irish back in December. How is he preparing for maybe college football’s toughest job? Then Ari Wasserman of The Athletic joins to the show to talk about the implosion of College Football Playoff expansion talks. Ari wrote about why four is enough in a sport where they are so few elite title contenders. Ralph believes the imbalance at the top of the sport is exactly why the playoff should expand.

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