Coach Rankings, Pt. 1 (05/19)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 19 May 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Debating the CBS Sports coach rankings from 65-26. First, reaction to UCLA's expected AD hire (5:00) and Taulia Tagovailoa's commitment to Maryland (13:10). Then it's on to counting down the CBS Sports 2020 Coach Rankings, with topics of conversation including how to rank first-year coaches (18:00), buying Jonathan Smith stock (29:00), Will Muschamp's trajectory (33:50), how Clay Helton's hot seat status overshadows his resume (41:15) and Tom Herman falling out of the top 25 (56:15).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your hosts, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:10.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:14.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between, CBS Sports |
| 0:21.0 | Presents, the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.0 | We're at Barton Simmons, that's Tom Frennelli and we have gathered together for some of our most exhilarating shows of every single off season. |
| 0:37.0 | We have done our annual Coach Rankings at CBS Sports. |
| 0:41.0 | The three of us are among a panel that were asked to rank every coach from the Power 5, 1 through 65. |
| 0:48.0 | They will be compiled, then they will be put together into a consensus rankings on CBS Sports.com. |
| 0:54.0 | More on that in a little bit. |
| 0:56.0 | We've got some headlines including what's next for Tug of Aloe's younger brother, Telia and some shake up some on the Power 5 Athletic Director scene. |
| 1:07.0 | But just to get things started here, are you guys fired up for Coach Ranking Weeks? |
| 1:12.0 | Are you full-throated with your support and your claims of where there was improper counting? |
| 1:21.0 | Are we ready to rage over the debates? |
| 1:25.0 | No, because I'm going to get yelled at for two weeks because of it, which is how it goes every year. |
| 1:32.0 | Since I'm the one who writes the post and nobody reads the part of the post where I mentioned they're like six or seven different people voting and that it's a compilation of their votes like an AP poll. |
| 1:43.0 | All they see is my byline in the rankings and they decide that I'm the one that hates their coach or I'm the one who likes the rivals coach way too much. |
| 1:52.0 | Soxie hasn't had anything compared to our coach. |
| 1:55.0 | I love Coach Ranking Week. |
| 1:58.0 | I think Coach Ranking Week is, it's like what's especially right now when we're in this total wasteland of content and we can kind of have some fun. |
| 2:15.0 | I was thinking a little bit and discussed this. |
| 2:19.0 | I was trying to, as you were talking, I was trying to pull up. |
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