CFP Bracket is set, Alabama and Miami IN, Notre Dame OUT! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The college football bracket is set and McElroy is here to give you his reaction. Indiana, Ohio State and Oregon lead the BIG 10 with 3 of the Top 5 teams while the SEC gets five in. McElroy goes over the debate between Alabama, Miami and Notre Dame and what potential changes we could see in future playoffs because of it. Plus, Notre Dame opts out of the bowl game, what impact will that have on 2026 Fighting Irish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	You all the sudden, from the committee standpoint, are telling the SEC or the ACC or the
0:36.8	Big 10,
0:38.3	hey guys, yep, we are really gonna hold the teams
0:41.8	accountable that lose in the conference championship game.
0:45.5	You're basically telling teams not to play
0:48.8	in the conference championship game.
0:55.2	Hello and welcome in, It's always college football. It is a Sunday edition. However,
1:00.9	today's Sunday a little different than what we've done in the past. Normally, I'd be
1:04.7	coming to you with our 10 takeaways. And today, obviously, with it being selection day,
1:10.4	things change just a little bit. I'm your host
1:12.3	Greg McElroy, glad to have you with us. I am here in Bristol, Connecticut, just got off the set of
1:18.5	our three-hour college football playoff rankings release special. And it was a chaotic day. Wild,
1:26.2	to be honest with you, we're going to try to make sense of it today.
1:29.5	We're going to also talk a little bit about the conference championship games that we watched this past weekend,
1:34.9	give you a few takeaways from those, and we'll try to make sense of what this playoff might look like here as we move forward into the first round,
1:45.0	just 12 days from now.
1:46.5	It's going to be here quickly.
1:48.0	We will have games upon us very, very soon.
1:51.1	I want to begin by asking all of you to continue to subscribe to the podcast,
1:55.8	if you could.
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