Cooper Manning Reveals Why He & Peyton Had To ‘Split Up’ In ‘College Bowl’ Season 2 

Cooper and Peyton Manning are 1 of the champion member duos connected TV, and they’re returning for NBC’s Capital One College play 2 connected September 9. Sixteen elite teams from the nation’s top colleges and universities volition vie successful the eventual conflict of the brains to triumph $1 cardinal successful life-changing scholarships.

Cooper Manning connected ‘Capital One College Bowl.’ (NBC)

HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Cooper, who admitted that helium and Peyton are a “little much seasoned” successful play 2 arsenic the co-hosts. “The crippled got a small changed a small bit. It conscionable got much compact and better, faster moving. I deliberation play 2 volition beryllium adjacent better,” helium added.

The oldest of the Manning brothers revealed what helium and his member decided to hole erstwhile coming backmost successful play 2. “There were a mates of times wherever Peyton and I were unneurotic excessively overmuch erstwhile we were getting the questions and answers, truthful we decided let’s spell up and divided up,” Cooper explained. “He goes into his room, makes definite he’s got each the pronunciations correctly due to the fact that that tin surely change however idiosyncratic views a question if he’s announcing immoderate benignant of upland successful the mediate of obscurity oregon immoderate governmental ruler. He’s got to get each those right. And past I spell into different country and effort to fig retired wherever I mightiness beryllium capable to travel successful and adhd a small levity and benignant of beverage a small drama retired of immoderate beauteous mundane topics. Therefore, erstwhile we’re talking successful the mediate of it, immoderate I’m saying is virtually the archetypal clip he’ll beryllium proceeding it, truthful it’s authentic.”

Cooper pointed retired that helium is astir decidedly the “jester” successful the Manning family. “It is the lone existent relation I have,” helium said. “I bash assistance with a batch of drama that some Peyton and Eli are progressive in, and they bash thin connected maine for judgment, which is frightening successful itself.”

Cooper and Peyton Manning with the Georgia team. (NBC)

Cooper admitted that he’s thrilled to beryllium capable to enactment alongside his younger member and walk prime clip unneurotic portion filming Capital One College Bowl. “Everybody’s going abstracted ways and going 100 miles an hour. I deliberation each those years of taking roadworthy trips and sitting successful the backseat with nary phones and nary iPads and conscionable talking… I tin retrieve america adjacent having a agelong level thrust wherever neither 1 brought a Walkman, nary books, we conscionable talked. Therefore, we tin benignant of inactive erstwhile it comes to definite topics and decorativeness each other’s sentences.”

He continued, “It’s a dainty for america to beryllium unneurotic for a week moving hard, benignant of 7 to 7. You don’t get to walk a week with your member precise much. We person breakfast, lunch, and meal together, truthful that’s a treat. I look guardant to it. I’m definite he’s sick of maine astir the clip it’s over, but I’m gladsome we got it done,” Cooper said. Capital One College Bowl volition aerial Fridays astatine 8 p.m. connected NBC.