‘Bama, Bulldogs, and The Big Ten: College Football’s Wild 2021 Season
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 18 minutes
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The 2021 college football season has been full of twists and turns. Alabama lost to an unranked opponent for the first time in over a decade. Clemson is adrift. And Ohio State looks like it has a real fight on its hands to scrap out of a wildly competitive Big Ten East. Today, we talk with The Athletic's Stewart Mandel who tries to make sense of all the chaos and let's us know how this season could affect College Football Playoff expansion talks going forward.
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| 0:46.0 | So far, the college football season has been a wild ride. |
| 0:58.0 | Texas A&M is taking down the top ranked Crimson Tide 41-38 in absolutely dramatic fashion. |
| 1:18.0 | Today, the Athletics Stewart Mandel joins us to talk about the surprising names sitting at the top of the rankings |
| 1:24.0 | and what this unusual season could mean for the future of the college football playoff. |
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| 1:42.0 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:46.0 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the team. |
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| 2:07.0 | So Stewart, you've been covering college football for quite a while now. |
| 2:11.0 | Can you remember a season as chaotic as this one? |
| 2:14.0 | Well, the gold standard season for chaos, the people always harken back to, is 2007, where everybody from USF to Boston College in Oregon was in the mix at some point. |
| 2:25.0 | We're not quite there yet, but when Alabama lost to A&M, to me, that was when it started to feel like, okay, this has the makings of an all-time chaotic season. |
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