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Cover 3 College Football

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Cover 3 crew is back with their Big Game Breakdown Episode for Week 2. The boys discuss Michigan-Oklahoma, Kansas-Missouri, Baylor-SMU and much more!

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:02:00) - Alabama NIL Question

(00:08:40) - Reacting to the new AP top 25

(00:18:25) - Michigan-Oklahoma

(00:22:00) - Illinois-Duke

(00:23:20) - Kansas-Missouri

(00:29:30) - USF-Florida

(00:41:20) - ASU-Miss St

(00:48:15) - Vanderbilt-Virginia Tech

(00:52:40) - Ole Miss-Kentucky

(00:54:00) - JMU-Louisville

(00:55:00) - Boston College-Michigan State

(00:56:00) - Virginia-NC State

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott.
0:11.7	It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between.
0:20.6	CBS Sports presents the cover three podcast.
0:25.2	And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS Sports.
0:30.5	That's Tom Furnelli, that's Danny Cannell.
0:32.2	I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover three
0:35.7	and everywhere you get your podcast on demand.
0:38.7	Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat,
0:43.3	aka the cover three tailgate. Where, among other topics, we've got some questions coming up.
0:50.2	I'm going to get to you, Michael, in just a second. Not that, Michael. We will here on this Wednesday be doing a little bit of Monday. We'll react to the new AP Top 25 in Pole Assassin. We've got some injury availability updates, but it is a Wednesday. We've got to get you set for the week ahead. That means we are going to be doing big game breakdown. Oklahoma, Michigan,
1:12.2	some of the Big Ten action that we talked about about a little bit on Tuesdays, CBS Sports Network
1:17.3	show, Kansas, Missouri, Baylor SMU, also got our eyes elsewhere. Very excited to get into those
1:23.5	matchups here. But, Danny, I think this is a good one for you because you just shared the set
1:28.9	with him. Michael jumped in the tailgate about an hour and a half before we got started and said,
1:34.8	cover three, any thoughts to A.J. McCarran's comments on Alabama's NIL operation this past week.
1:42.0	For context, AJ insinuated that his understanding is that this
1:48.3	Alabama NIL budget is not close to the, you know, 40 million, which is your rev share plus
1:56.0	NIL, that that 40 million number, whether it's Mike Gundy, whoever's throwing it out, that seems to be the new 20 million.
2:03.9	Last year, it was Ohio State, the $20 million roster, Texas and the $20 million roster.
2:09.8	Danny, any thoughts here on McCarron's analysis of where Alabama's NIL is?
2:16.1	So if I remember correctly, I don't think he insinuated.
2:21.0	He said, I know for a fact.
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