Circa Friday Football Invitational | September 4, 2026 | Hour 2

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25 pro handicappers, $30,000 on the line. This is the Circa Friday Football Invitational, presented by Omaha Steaks on VSiN, the sports betting network. Here's your host, Matt Youmans.

**Matt Youmans** (1:29)
One week from tonight, we kick it off. Circa Friday Football Invitational, $30,000. Derek Stevens money up for grabs. 25 pro handicappers. I know Brent Musberger loves that Friday night contest. This show is brought to you by Omaha Steaks. Get two free pounds of American ground beef on any order of $129 or more at omahosteaks.com/vsin.
All right, let's kick it out to a gentleman who's 87 years young. The godfather, Brent Musberger on the Progressive Guest Line joins us on the phone tonight from Montana. Brent, how are you doing tonight?

**Brent Musburger** (2:03)
Oh, Matt, this is such a great, great time here. You mentioned Omaha Steaks. Labor Day is coming up.
Get some for a barbecue. It's awesome. We got football and all the monitors and what could be better than this?

**Matt Youmans** (2:17)
I was going to say, you're grilling out in Montana tonight?

**Brent Musburger** (2:21)
Monday, we'll grill out for sure. We'll have the big barbecue on Monday.

**Matt Youmans** (2:26)
I know you're coming back to Vegas for week one for the Dolphins Raiders game. We'll talk a little NFL here with you, but I always feel like college football is close to your heart.
I'm sure you watched Bill Belichick pulling up set last week. Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, in an ugly game last night, got the win. What are your impressions early here from what you've seen in the college football season after a week?

**Brent Musburger** (2:50)
Well, first of all, I think North Carolina is going to be much better than we anticipated. Now, everybody hang on because it looks like there's a recurring problem with his son regarding a drug investigation going on, not only his usage, but some of the active players. Of course, our friend, Mr. Lombardi, stepped down, resigned and walked away before the investigation. He had been suspended, but I still now want to go to the field because Bill Belichick has always, Matt, he's been able to look a little past the off-field drama. Last year, of course, was a bad season. They had players who didn't live up to what they expected. I thought it was a much better team and I like the fact that Bill himself was hands-on running the defense. Now, listen, you can say what you want about Bill Belichick. You can tell jokes about his young girlfriend. All of that aside, the one thing that man can do is coach defense.
When he called the North Carolina defense over a couple of times in the rain in Dublin, and settled him down, he's got a great defensive end who led the way. They're changing the offense and we'll see, I thought they looked much better. As far as Colorado was concerned and Georgia Tech, stay tuned on a couple of those. It was a dramatic ending and of course, the block field goal seals it up and prevents Georgia Tech from pulling off the win. But you know, there's something special, Matty, about college football. It's just so exciting to watch with the fans and everybody on the sideline. I know that we're very few people on the USC sideline last week, but it's great to have them back. And you know, there's a great controversy, Matty. There's a great controversy going on over college football regarding these NFL players and we're going to see what LSU is going to do. In the Saturday night game, the big one against Clemson over on ABC. I, you know, I'm like everybody else emotionally.
Oh, how can these kids come back? However, however, when a judge looks at what's going on, I want to say something because I think legally, the kids have an argument and here it is. They were given five years, okay, to play at a university and they went to the NFL after four.