Football season is officially in the on-deck circle. Ro, Jenners, Scoop, and Toast open up 473 with ACC Media Kickoff a week away and a full slate of Miami news to get through — but before any of that, Ro shares something personal: the story of his daughter Natalia's comeback from ACL surgery, from the stage in Orlando where she got hurt to the same stage a year later, where she came back and reclaimed it. It's a rare unguarded moment for the show, and it hits.

From there it's back to business as usual down at the Green Tree. College Football 27 finally dropped, and the guys have a field day with the fact that Mario Cristobal opted out of being the Canes' in-game coach avatar — which means the honor falls to a fictional Leo Hernandez, kicking off a bit that runs for the rest of the episode.

The crew works through the CBS Sports wide receiver room rankings controversy (spoiler: they think Miami got robbed), Ahmad Moten cracking ESPN's top five defensive players in the country, and who's actually heading to ACC Media Days to represent the U. There's also a long stretch on the international soccer fandom taking over South Florida during the Club World Cup, a new Big 12 sponsorship deal with Monster Energy that has the guys doing math on what conference-wide naming rights are actually worth, and an MLB Draft weekend preview with a couple of Miami commits worth tracking.

As always, it wouldn't be an OBB episode without a tangent or six — golf talk ahead of the Open Championship, a cruise line debate, a baseball coach story that goes somewhere nobody expects, and the crew's ongoing search for what to actually name this episode.

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Go Canes.

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00:00 Cold Open: ACC Kickoff Countdown Begins

02:00 Ro Opens Up: Natalia's ACL Comeback Story

08:30 College Football 27 Drops (and Coach Leo Hernandez Takes Over)

12:00 ACC Media Days Are One Week Away

13:30 World Cup Fever and the Viral Fan Reactions

16:00 Why International Soccer Fandom Hits Different

19:00 USMNT's Rough Stretch and Alexi Lalas

21:00 Cam Ward's Legacy and Miami's Mount Rushmore Debate

22:00 Miami's Three Reps Heading to ACC Media Days

23:30 CBS Sports' Wide Receiver Room "Snub" Debate

26:00 Ahmad Moten and Miami's Stacked Front Seven

28:30 Sponsors and Partners

33:00 The Monster Energy Big 12 Sponsorship Bombshell

35:00 Yormark Dodges the Soresby Question

36:00 Who Should the ACC Sell Naming Rights To?

37:00 Cruise Talk, Coach Frank's Wipes Story, and MLB Draft Watch

39:00 MLB's Looming Lockout and Baseball's Pace Problem

42:30 Naming the Episode

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