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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What was like playing quarterback for Nick Saban during his first two championships at LSU and Alabama? Greg McElroy and Matt Mauck get together to tell some incredible stories about Saban’s training camps, the staffs at LSU and Alabama and how much harder Coach worked immediately AFTER winning National Championships. Plus, McElroy takes a quick look at O/U win totals for Alabama, LSU, Notre Dame, Penn State, Clemson and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	I mean, literally it's 45 minutes after winning the net. His first national championship
0:34.4	and all he could think about was, are you two coming back and I need a decision now?
0:39.3	It's basically what it was.
0:45.3	Hello and welcome in.
0:47.3	It's always college football.
0:49.3	I'm your host Greg McElroy.
0:50.3	Thanks for being here.
0:51.3	All of you that are coming to us from wherever you're coming to us from, we appreciate you. And we will continue to dive into some great conversations here every single week of the college football season. We're going to do that again today with Matt Mock, former LSU Tiger National Championship winning quarterback. Nick Saban's first national championship winning quarterback.
1:14.1	And boy, does he have some stories.
1:16.4	Sounds like the Nick Saban that he played for and the Nick Saban that I played for.
1:21.6	Very, very similar.
1:23.5	The pre-player era, Nick Saban, a lot of similarities. So we have some stories,
1:30.8	bounces a couple things off of each other. He's from Indiana. So going and playing
1:34.8	in the southeastern conference, what was that like? He originally played baseball before
1:40.2	he went and played in the college football world. So we ask him about that.
1:44.7	So you're going to enjoy this conversation, I assure you.
1:47.5	And because why not?
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