Alabama SHOCKED, Ohio State & LSU statements & more takeaways | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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What a Saturday! McElroy delivers his Sunday morning takeaways covering Arch Manning’s “average” debut against a GREAT Ohio State defense, Florida State dominating Alabama, and Brian Kelly and LSU getting it done against Clemson with a strong defensive performance. Plus Joey Aguilar looked fantastic, Utah bullied Nico Iamaleava and UCLA and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome in. It is a Sunday edition of always college football. It's about 8.30 in the
0:05.3	morning. So we're only about four or five hours removed from Utah's demolition of UCLA. So
0:13.9	little less sleep than ideal, but we're here talking some ball. We got some takeaways, some
0:18.7	immediate reaction from what was an exhilarating
0:21.8	a couple days of college football. So we are going to put out our Monday show, which is a slightly
0:26.9	deeper dive. We're going to record that a little later today before I go and call Notre Dame in
0:32.3	Miami. So, you know, lots to look forward to here on a big Sunday as the massive train that is week one continues to roll along.
0:40.0	We also have South Carolina Virginia Tech today.
0:42.3	We look forward to that.
0:43.7	We also did previews for those shows.
0:45.4	So go back and check those out.
0:47.2	If you haven't seen them yet, go back and check the ESPN College Football YouTube page.
0:51.0	It should be a pretty good, pretty good and entertaining day that is normally
0:54.6	filled with NFL. We now have it for college football. So very, very excited about it.
0:58.4	Let's start with some Saturday takeaways. We will start off the top with the biggest game
1:03.1	at the weekend. That would be Ohio State beating the Texas longhorns, man.
1:07.7	Lived up to the billing, right? Absolutely loved this game.
1:12.6	Super physical football game.
1:18.6	Was it not just an absolute delight to watch those two helmets and the amount of pads that were popping from start to finish?
1:20.2	I thought there was relentless pressure on both quarterbacks for the most part.
1:24.2	It came down to what goodness gracious, how many games this weekend have come down to
1:28.8	critical fourth down stops? A ton, it feels like, dating all the way back to Thursday.
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