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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Big 10 Tiers: Ohio St, Oregon, Penn St and then WHO?

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Greg McElroy goes through the BIG 10 and breaks down who falls into championship contention, CFP contention, dark horses, sleepers and more. Find out why McElroy has Penn State as a tier 1 team and Michigan as tier 2. Is Iowa a CFP contender and will Washington, USC and Nebraska surprise a few teams and make a move? Is conference supremacy on the line for the BIG 10 this year? Plus, Nick Saban field and the ACC claiming the toughest non conference schedule in CFB. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

So if you're a championship contender, you're probably going to be well positioned

0:07.2

who maybe, just maybe, win the national championship too.

0:11.8

This group might surprise some. There is a notable

0:16.4

exclusion from this group and I think people are going to let me hear about it. it's always college football. Today's Monday, July 22nd. We hope that you're

0:30.0

enjoying the show. We're coming to us from with Where that's Spotify, the Apple Podcast platform

0:35.3

where the ESP and YouTube channel,

0:36.5

I'm Greg McElroy, alongside the same crew

0:39.0

as always, Markubiac Jack Foster, Jake Garcia.

0:41.6

Today we're gonna have some fun.

0:43.4

We've found that in the absence of divisions,

0:47.8

when trying to piece this thing together,

0:50.2

when piecing together the college football landscape.

0:53.0

For a while it was pretty simple.

0:55.0

Like you'd group teams based on what division they were in.

0:59.0

Well, first you'd start with conference, then you'd group by division, and then you'd assess who really is a championship

1:05.6

contender. But now it's kind of a little bit different. It's a little bit different because it's almost like we

1:11.6

need to take all the teams put them into one pie

1:14.6

we'll still break them up by conferences but it's almost tier-based when it comes to how we

1:20.9

should evaluate these teams hey these are the championship contenders.

1:24.3

Here's the teams that can make a college football playoff. Here's the teams that can

1:29.3

ruin people's seasons and probably win eight or nine games. Here's the teams that should get to bowl eligibility. Here's the

1:36.3

teams that could get to bowl eligibility and if they do get the bowl eligibility that would be a tremendous season so we're kind of

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