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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

AP Poll reaction + QB Competition updates from Alabama, Notre Dame & more | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The AP Poll is out and McElroy goes over the good, the bad and the questionable rankings. Plus, quarterback competitions are heating up at Alabama, Notre Dame, Ohio State and McElroy tells you why this is a GOOD thing (especially at Notre Dame). Fall camps are also giving a little insight as to why Nebraska might be a “ground and pound” team in ‘25, while the wide receivers are stepping up at Penn State and running backs at Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There are some people that really believe that this roster,

0:03.0

while it might lack some of the experience that last year's roster had,

0:08.0

some people genuinely believe and are saying it privately

0:11.0

that this roster might actually be more talented in certain places than it was a year ago,

0:17.0

which is a very scary thought for those that are trying to knock off the defending national champions.

0:26.6

Hello and welcome in. It is always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy. Today is August 11th.

0:32.6

We are going to dial it up today, ladies and gentlemen. We have a brand new AP poll.

0:38.6

We are going to eviscerate the AP poll like we always do.

0:42.1

It's so fun.

0:43.0

I love it, but it is just a starting point.

0:45.8

Everyone that freaks out over preseason polls need to know exactly what they're for.

0:53.0

It's to generate conversation. And we will generate conversation

0:56.6

today. I can promise you that. We also are going to get into some camp whispers, some buzz that's

1:02.5

building in a few different places. Quarterback competitions that are ongoing will give you the

1:06.5

latest on Ohio State's quarterback competition on Notre Dame's quarterback competition. Bamma's got

1:12.7

a quarterback competition. Tennessee's got a quarterback competition. LSU has a quarterback injury.

1:17.7

We'll discuss that. And some of the positive revelations that have happened here these last

1:22.7

couple days in fall camp. We'll get to all of that. So fun, fun day here on Always College Football.

1:30.0

Before we get into the AP poll, I just want to encourage everybody. If you can, okay, I'm challenging

1:37.4

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1:47.0

if you haven't already. Okay, that goes without saying. If you want our up-to-date episodes and you want

1:53.6

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