According to Front Office Sports, Paul Finebaum is \u201cvery close\u201d to leaving ESPN in favor of getting involved in politics. Finebaum previously discussed the possibility of running for Senate in Alabama, replacing Tommy Tuberville. Now, he might be closing in on a decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cPaul Finebaum is \u2018very close\u2019 to leaving ESPN to jump into national politics, sources tell FOS,\u201d they said<\/a> via X. \u201cFinebaum, who is considering a run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in Alabama, is waiting to make a decision on his political future until after the college football season.\u201d<\/p>\n Three weeks remain in the college football regular season, before conference championships take place on Dec. 6. Finebaum will likely be focused on the SEC title game in Atlanta, which is coming down to an exciting race down the stretch.<\/p>\n From there, the College Football Playoff<\/a> would take place over the course of a month. Dec. 19 and Dec. 20 serve as the first-round dates, set to be on college campuses. The quarterfinals and semifinals take place on neutral site locations before the CFP national championship is played on Jan. 19 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.<\/p>\n Based on the timeline provided by FOS, a choice might be made in the final days of January or early February. But it appears as if Finebaum is leaning toward entering the political world.<\/p>\n Paul Finebaum explains thought process behind potential political career<\/p>\n If Finebaum opts to run for public office, it\u2019ll be a brand new experience for him. Finebaum has no previous political experience. He spoke with Outkick\u2018s Clay Travis on Sept. 29<\/a>, saying the death of political activist Charlie Kirk made him consider running for Senate.<\/p>\n \u201cI spent four hours numb, talking about things that didn\u2019t matter to me. And it kept building throughout that weekend,\u201d Finebaum said. \u201cI felt very empty doing what I was doing that day \u2026 It\u2019s hard to describe, not being involved in politics, how that affected me and affected tens of millions of people all over this country. And it was an awakening.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul Finebaum was initially hesitant to even consider running for Senate due to former Auburn<\/a> men\u2019s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl<\/a>. Always open to discussing political issues, there were rumors of Pearl being interested in running for the same Senate position after his retirement. However, Pearl came out and said the seat is not something he plans to pursue at the moment<\/a>, leaving the door open for Finebaum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Front Office Sports, Paul Finebaum is \u201cvery close\u201d to leaving ESPN in favor of getting involved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-287684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}