And I might even go as far as to say I think Alabama can beat every team in college football.

I still think they can beat everybody, but they're not going to be able to beat the likes of Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State,

if they play the way they've played in the first half of some of these games.

Hello and welcome to always college football. I'm Greg McElroy. We hope you guys are having a terrific day.

It's been fun kind of picking up the pieces of what was a chaotic week eight of the college football season. today is October 23rd.

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Mark Kubiak Jack Foster Jake Garcia we are halfway through October and things are really starting to

shake out here in the college football world. This past weekend delivered some

really impressive performances. We saw some teams get massive wins like Ohio State like Alabama. We saw some teams look a little bit flat but somehow find a way to win. We've forgotten that the most important part of playing the game each and every week is to win.

Yes, I like style points too, but survive in advance and a handful of teams had to do just that.

Like Texas, like Oklahoma, Oklahoma like Washington there were some less

than stellar performances but either way they found a way to get it done at the

very end so we'll break all those things down telling you the 10 takeaways that we had from this past weekend and we're going to dive into the AP poll.

Got a bone to pick with the AP poll. So let's not waste any time to get it started there, but the AP poll in college football.

Like we do every Monday we kick it off with the AP poll reaction. I wish really badly and look we live in a world of hot takes, and maybe our show is not necessarily always going to generate some ridiculous reaction.

Why? Because I really want to be authentic and I want to be true to the sport. Like I'm not going to come out like some clowns and say that Caleb Williams needs to shut it down. Okay? What I'm going to do is I want to cover the sport appropriately and I feel like I try to remove bias, I try to remove all these things and it's really, really fun to point at the AP poll and rip them on a week to week basis. It's really fun to do that. Unfortunately, I can't do that because

the AP polls pretty dang good and it makes me mad. It makes me very, very mad, but the AP is doing a really good job.

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