(UPDATE: WE DISCOVERED A TECHNICAL GLITCH WITH THE MP3 FILE. WE ARE WORKING TO GET THE THE PROBLEM CORRECTED. PLEASE CHECK IN AGAIN THIS EVENING)  This is it! We are in the run up to week 1 match-ups and I'm damn near ready to crawl through my skin with excitement. As with the previous podcast, things are still a little bit unorthodox right now. This week's recording took place just outside of Huntington, West Virginia (Home of the Marshall Thundering Herd). The good news is that I made it safely to my destination. The bad news is that my mic apparently did not, so I certainly apologize for the crappy sound quality. More importantly, I regret that Randy wasn't able to join me for this episode, due to some personal things he is attending to. Randy should be back with us next week, and hopefully things will begin to resemble a bit of normalcy. In this episode, the NBL takes a brief look at a few week one contests including: Pitt vs Utah, Illinois vs Missouri, Purdue vs Notre Dame, TCU vs Oregon State, UNC vs LSU, and Virginia Tech vs Boise State. We also discuss the prospects of an undefeated Ohio State, this year's quarterbacks to keep an eye on, new spoiler teams, and former spoilers that may have stepped it up. All this and more on the NBL's 5th Down podcast.

With just one more week till the season opener, the NBL staff felt it was beyond the right time to finally get out an episode. So here it is, the first episode in our podcast series that we are now calling, the 5th Down. In this episode, Randy and Eric discuss the changes to the podcast format, the website, and to college football conference. Altogether, there’s a whole lot of change happening, and we need to talk about it.

Also, for those of you that have tried to update your feed via iTunes recently, you may have noticed that an error keep popping up. This is do to an automatic redirect that for some reason is no longer functioning. We know about it and are doing what we can to get the redirect functioning, and the good folks at Apple know as well. They have heard our cries and are working with us to restore things. However, since we are redirecting things anyways, why wait for iTunes, right? The current feed currently and forever will be located at http://www.thenakedbootleg.com/feed/podcast/ . You can copy this link into your iTunes or other preferred feed reader, and away you go.

Thanks for tuning in everyone. These podcasts will be produced on a weekly basis and we look forward to providing an updated feed every Wednesday evening. Till next week, take care!

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