Caleb Downs and Bill O'Brien to Ohio State, Alabama's QB room for 2024, more! (01/22)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew talks Ohio State, Alabama, Caleb Downs, transfer portal and more. First, taking stock of Ohio State's continued transfer portal success with the additions of Caleb Downs and Julian Sayin from Alabama (1:40) then what Kadyn Proctor's addition to Iowa means for the Hawkeyes (12:00). Plus, Kalen DeBoer's former Washington players that are joining him at Alabama (23:03), Arizona keeping its top offensive stars out of the transfer portal (30:57) and a coaching carousel round-up that discusses Bill O'Brien as Ohio State's OC (39:00), San Jose State hiring Ken Niumatalolo (48:23), Chip Kelly's future with UCLA (52:05) and Pete Lembo's return to the MAC as Buffalo's new head coach (57:13).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.2 | Canel and Bud Elliot. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:15.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.0 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 Podcast. |
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| 0:30.0 | That's Tom Finelli, that's Danny Canel, I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at |
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| 0:43.0 | aka the covered three tailgate. |
| 0:46.0 | Lost to get to here on a Monday, |
| 0:48.0 | the transfer portal, specifically the exit train |
| 0:52.0 | from Tuscaloosa has been running to one destination. |
| 0:56.0 | We'll be getting to that in a little bit. |
| 0:58.2 | Also, we get a big pickup for Iowa. |
| 1:00.8 | Arizona, get some of its most important players to stay home. |
| 1:04.0 | Coaching Carousel is buzzing, especially when it comes to the assistance. |
| 1:08.0 | And it looks like, as the NCAA has been going around and you know handing out a little |
| 1:14.7 | I notice of allegations here notice of allegations there they're just now |
| 1:18.3 | coming around on what they believe to be potential violations due to NIL Florida has a little bit of a case on his hand |
| 1:25.3 | tied to the Jayden Rashada recruitment. But we begin with an interesting conversation. |
| 1:31.6 | Danny, we said, you know know like who would be the greatest you know |
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