2024 College Football fan primer: 10 things you should NEVER do

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Do you consider yourself a smart college football fan? Do you break down rosters, depth charts and love a great debate amongst friends (and people on the internet), then we have a list for you. McElroy gives his top 10 things you should NEVER do. NEVER use conference record vs. other leagues as a way to support your conference’s superiority, NEVER cite star rankings on why a player should be good, NEVER claim that if team X was in another conference they would dominate it and much more. Plus what Georgia Tech’s win over FSU means and numbers you need to know heading into week 1. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Never claim that if Team X was in another conference, they would dominate it.
0:10.0	You don't know. I don't know.
0:13.0	Hello and welcome.
0:18.0	Hello and welcome in, it's always college football. The season is here.
0:22.0	Ladies and gentlemen, it is week one.
0:24.0	We're going to kick off week one in style today.
0:26.6	I'm your host Greg McElroy.
0:28.5	Today is Monday, August 26th, and we appreciate you coming to us from wherever it is you're coming to us from
0:34.9	with us the podcast platforms on Spotify Apple Podcast wherever you get your podcast if you hear
0:39.4	with us via the ESPN College Football YouTube channel.
0:43.0	Thanks for being here.
0:44.1	Gonna be an awesome show today.
0:46.3	Before we move ahead, we got to look for, look,
0:49.6	look back just a little bit, look at Week Zero.
0:52.3	We're not gonna spend a ton of time on Florida State Georgia Tech that was two days ago
0:56.8	They've probably gotten breakdowns from every talking head in the sport about Georgia Tech in Florida State.
1:05.2	Massive win for Georgia Tech, huge disappointment for Florida State.
1:09.1	We'll break it down, but we're not going to live and just dwell on it and sell and people are like
1:16.2	dancing on Florida State's grave it's like guys it's week one there's still a lot to play
1:19.5	for goodness gracious alive and Georgia Tech I mean they had a great performance, but guys, I mean, I don't know if I'm putting them in the playoff yet.
1:25.8	So let's just have some fun. We'll break it down and we'll explain why that mattered, why that happened,
1:31.6	and what needs to be done for both programs moving forward to continue,
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