Coaching tiers 2024: Which HCs are ranked too high and too low? + Week 1 sneaky-interesting games
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Get your typing fingers warmed up because it's coaching tier season. Bruce Feldman joins David Ubben to discuss his 2024 coaching tiers. Why is Dabo in tier 1 (2:00)? Does Deion Sanders deserve to be in tier 6 (17:30)? Which coaches could have a breakout season (20:30)? Later, Manny Navarro joins the podcast to dicsuss the top-100 impact transfers this season (26:30). Who are we sleeping on, and which transfers are we overhyping? Oklahoma State-South Dakota St. and UNLV-Houston headline this week's sneaky-interesting Week 1 games (43:30). What other games are on our radar? Before we go, the debut of Message Board Maniacs hits your ears (53:00).
Read about 2024's top-100 impact transfers: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5714910/2024/08/23/college-footbal-transfer-portal-rankings/
Read Bruce and Chris' coaching tiers: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5722244/2024/08/26/college-football-coach-2024-rankings-tiers/
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB), Manny Navarro (@Manny_Navarro)
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| 0:47.8 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to until Saturday, the Athletics College Football podcast. |
| 0:49.4 | It's still week one. |
| 0:51.5 | We're still waiting on games, but we're here. |
| 0:53.4 | We got plenty to talk about today. |
| 0:55.2 | We'll start with Bruce Feldman coming on to talk to us about his coaching tiers. Article he did with my co-host, Chris Finini. |
| 1:00.0 | Where does each coach stand coming into a season that I think is going to change a lot of narratives |
| 1:04.7 | for plenty of coaches? After that, we're going to talk to Mani Navarro later in the show. |
| 1:09.6 | We're going to talk about some impact |
| 1:11.2 | transfer portal players guys that are new faces and new places that you need to get to know and some |
| 1:17.1 | under the radar games everybody knows about miami florida notre dame texas a and m u s s u s u |
| 1:22.5 | u s u s u the big big games but there's still plenty of football that might not be getting as much |
| 1:26.4 | attention and manny and i are going to point that out so that you are well prepared for week one. |
| 1:31.3 | And of course, we're going to debut a new segment, Message Board Maniacs. |
| 1:35.9 | We love you, not only because you are the reason that people like me get to talk and write about |
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