1st Annual Transfer Portal Draft (01/31)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
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🗓️ 31 January 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Barton Simmons, Tom Fornelli and Chip Patterson draft college football teams based exclusively on players in the transfer portal. Tune in to find out what quarterback was taken first and who didn't pick a quarterback in the first round (3:51), the pros and cons to Tennessee picking up former five-star Aubrey Solomon (10:55), the former Penn State and USC linebackers taken early in the draft (16:15) and hear a discussion on the different reasons for players transferring (21:00). Plus, the high-ceiling Oklahoma State wide receiver that caught Barton's eye (28:43), Tom's defense of a trenches-first drafting technique (35:28), the former Florida State player to start Tom's run on the skill positions (44:53) and Justin Fields' team getting the top running back available late in the draft (53:20). Finally, Barton, Tom and Chip run through their 22-man rosters with a pitch to their listeners that their team is the ultimate Transfer Portal champion (1:15:05).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:10.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:14.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between, CBS Sports Presents, the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports January 31st. Happy Thursday to you. |
| 0:32.0 | The Transfer Portal has been all the rage and that's why... |
| 0:36.0 | ...cue the music! |
| 0:39.0 | We are pleased and introduced to you and welcome you to the 2019 First Annual Transfer Portal Draft. |
| 0:49.0 | That's right guys. Barton Simmons, Tom Furnnelly, gentlemen. |
| 0:52.0 | This is going to be a monumentous day in the world of January College Football Content, I think. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, this is either going to be the inaugural Transfer Portal Draft or the first and only Transfer Portal Draft. |
| 1:13.0 | This either going to be really awesome or a complete disaster. We'll find out, but I think it'll be fine to figure it out. |
| 1:20.0 | I just like the synergy as we're doing the Transfer Portal Draft on Sockers Transfer deadline day. |
| 1:26.0 | Yeah, I think that's great timing on our part. |
| 1:29.0 | You really messed us up when you said that. Barton and I are on the group chat like wait, there is a deadline today? |
| 1:34.0 | What? |
| 1:35.0 | You non-socker fans were confused. |
| 1:39.0 | My head was exploding. I was like, how was that possible? |
| 1:43.0 | You just put a matter of... |
| 1:46.0 | But as a matter of point of order, I do want to call some attention before we get into this 24-7 sports has been all over this. |
| 1:55.0 | The Transfer Portal that you don't need a log in to access, well, you can find that at 24-7 sports. |
| 2:01.0 | And then this week Barton, you led the charge in a meticulous re-ranking of some of the prospects in the Transfer Portal releasing your top 50 to get that process going. |
| 2:14.0 | Ben, you've been in the thick of it this week. |
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