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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Can Alabama & Miami win on the road? CFP 1st Round previews | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The first round of the playoffs start this week and McElroy is here to give you the most comprehensive breakdown you will find. Can Alabama avenge a November loss at home to Oklahoma or will the Sooners defense prove to be too much for Ty Simpson and company? Will Miami go into Texas A&M and contain Marcel Reed or will the Aggies be too tough at home and can Tulane or James Madison put up a fight against Ole Miss and Oregon? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.2

intensity being that it's you know win or go home it's it all comes down to execution.

0:49.3

Hello and welcome in it's always college football it's one of our favorite shows of the year.

0:55.8

At least one of, we have a lot of favorite shows, I will admit, freely. There are so many shows.

1:03.1

We love our preview shows. We love our takeaway shows. We love our rankings reaction shows.

1:07.8

But some weeks are just better than others. I don't really know what else to tell you,

1:11.8

partly because of matchups, partly because of what's on the line, partly because it's rivalry

1:17.5

week. So there's a lot of intensity when it comes to making the pick, knowing that you're going to

1:21.4

hear about it if you get it wrong. All these are the things. Like we love our shows and we love

1:26.1

our content and we love our listeners.

1:28.8

But when you get into the postseason, you got to be at your best.

1:32.2

You need to kind of look within.

1:34.0

You need to make some tweaks.

1:35.6

You need to make some adjustments.

1:36.8

And that's exactly what we've done.

1:39.5

We are slightly altering our preview shows.

1:43.8

We'll still give you all the details. We'll still give you all the details. We'll still give you

1:46.6

all the information that you need to feel prepared to discuss these games on whatever side you're

1:53.2

on. You will probably have all the information needed to make strong arguments against some of my

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