Can the BIG 10 make it 3 in a row? BIG 10 Tiers | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Greg McElroy breaks down the ‘tiers” in the BIG 10 and tells you why Penn State, Oregon and Ohio State can ALL win a National Title and make it three in a row for the conference. Michigan, USC and Nebraska are all playoff contenders but don’t sleep on Washington or Indiana making it back to the CFP either. It is a deep and dangerous conference with Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa looking to play spoiler to the top teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.5	worried about that spot and don't intend to start right now.
0:42.2	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. Today is Monday, July 28th. We're so happy
0:47.5	that y'all are here with us because we continue on with our series of putting teams in tears this year.
0:54.0	We've done so already for the three power four leagues, the Big 12, the SEC and the ACC,
1:00.0	which probably means you're going to like today's show if you're a fan of the Big Ten.
1:05.0	We will go through the Big Ten, all 18 teams, put them in tiers.
1:10.0	Tier one, National Championship Contenders. Tier two, tier one national championship contenders tier two college football
1:13.0	playoff contenders tier three the spoilers teams that can be very dangerous in the league tier four
1:18.8	teams that we think will go bowling in tier five teams with a lot of work to do we always encourage
1:24.5	all of you to check us out on the esb and college football youtube page we also encourage you to check us out on the ESPN Cultural YouTube page. We also encourage you to check us out on the podcast platform wherever you get your podcast.
1:32.3	For those of you that are watching here on the ESPN cultural YouTube channel, I do have a cut on my face, a little friendly fire.
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1:40.2	It was not a fight.
1:41.1	By the way, I haven't been in a fight in like 25 years.
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