Alabama, Ohio St & Oregon get HUGE road wins + more reaction from week 5 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 28 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Ty Simpson and Alabama handed Georgia their 1st home loss since 2019. Oregon was unfazed by the atmosphere in Happy Valley and beat Penn State, making it 15 consecutive losses to an opponent ranked 6 or higher for the Nittany Lions under James Franklin. Ole Miss shut down the LSU offense, Virginia shocks Florida State, USC takes the L at Illinois and Notre Dame dominated Arkansas giving new hope to their fans. All that and more as McElroy gives you his rapid reactions to an incredible weekend in college football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome in. It is Sunday. It is September 28th, and we are so happy to have you with us today after what was one of the great weekends of college football that I've seen in quite some time. We were able to do the LSU Ole Miss game. I was able to get in the car, watch other games, consume so much football, get home in time to be able to watch the fourth quarter of Penn State, Oregon,
0:23.3	watch the fourth quarter of Alabama, Georgia, and to just absorb college football.
0:28.9	And then I was somehow magically able to stay awake for the BYU comeback against Colorado.
0:33.8	So I'm, I am flying high here on a Sunday today because I'm usually sitting
0:38.8	there, you know, three, two hours of sleep coming back in, limping back to Birmingham to do this
0:45.4	show. Today I've got like six and a half. I feel great today. So let's dive in, man, double
0:50.0	overtime winner in Happy Valley, Oregon goes and takes down Penn State. This was a really good
0:59.6	football game. Now, if you remove some of the missed opportunities by both sides, the first
1:06.1	three quarters of this football game, this was a great win for the Oregon Ducks.
1:11.4	And I know we got this one wrong.
1:12.7	I will admit, like I looked at this one.
1:14.7	I thought the environment would be very, very challenging for a young Oregon team.
1:19.5	I think we all acknowledge that Oregon probably had the slightly more talented roster.
1:24.5	I think we all acknowledge that Oregon probably had a little more explosiveness
1:30.7	offensively. I don't think that was a huge conclusion to jump to. But what I was most impressed
1:37.0	with, and this one was probably the poise displayed by Oregon's quarterback, Dante Morgan.
1:43.5	He was outstanding.
1:45.0	And he really was.
1:46.0	But how many of y'all were sitting there about 12 minutes left in the fourth quarter?
1:51.0	You're sitting there and all of a sudden Oregon takes a commanding two touchdown lead.
1:55.0	At that point, how confident are you that Penn State's going to come back in this football game and make it interesting.
2:02.3	Because at that point, I would imagine most of the world might have switched the channel.
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