College Football 101: Arch Manning’s Future, Transfer Portal Names to Know, 2026 NFL Draft Odds, and More

The McShay Show

The Ringer

Football, Sports

4.7 • 663 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Welcome to The McShay Show! Todd and Steve are back from vacation and ready to recap everything you need to know ahead of the 2025 college football season. (0:00) Welcome to The McShay Show! (2:10) Archie says Arch Manning will play at Texas next year (11:01) Odds for the top draft pick in 2026 (14:52) Biggest transfer portal additions (21:30) Top QBs in next year’s draft (24:57) Does an experienced QB matter? (31:43) Will the committee value strength of schedule more? (39:49) Is LSU poised to take over the SEC? (42:22) Texas Tech could contend for a Big 12 title (44:43) Oklahoma should have an improved offense (48:31) New Big Ten players we're most excited to see (54:49) The SEC has playmakers again (1:05:51) Teams that need a good start to the season On Thursday, Todd will be debuting his preseason 2026 Mock Draft. Be sure to tune in and subscribe to The McShay Report for access to his newsletter throughout the college football season. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit ⁠www.rg-help.com⁠ to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Todd McShay Guest: Steve Muench Producers: Mark Panik, Conor Nevins, Daniel Comer, and Mike Wargon Social: Eduardo Ocampo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.
0:07.4	Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?
0:11.9	Oh God.
0:13.1	Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.
0:17.6	Cool, that was close.
0:18.8	You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver, because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Paddy Power. Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. Tis and exclusions apply. 18 plus scumannibalware. Dot We're back. Mench, I see you there. We are back, man. I hope you've enjoyed your summer. I know Steve and I have, but we're restless. Trust me, the text coming in from MEDs. We are restless, and it's time to go. Big things are happening for this show. Even while we've been on vacation a little bit, some big news coming up. We'll share some of that today and others will start to share as
0:55.8	the month proceeds. But today, we're going to break free from the summer scouting series and get
1:01.2	down to business in college football. It is time, man. Just 11 days until the college football season
1:08.0	kicks off and 258 days until the NFL draft. Mench, you good? I'm great, man. All right. Roll it. Hey! Let's keep the tempo rolling today, Munch.
1:34.1	You know, let's get some new stuff, some information on the show.
1:38.6	Let's get it out of the way, okay?
1:40.7	The McShay report, newsletter.
1:42.4	Spent a lot of time this summer while we weren't watching
1:44.4	quarterbacks and players and evaluating with Connor and Dan and all of our other trusted
1:49.6	confidants and even, you know, talking to Bill Simmons and like trying to refine what we're doing.
1:54.3	You got to remember, we started October 22nd last year in the middle of the season.
1:58.5	So we're coming up on our first full season, our first full year of the NFL draft.
2:03.6	So we kind of went back and looked and I don't think it's a surprise to anyone,
2:08.1	listening to this show, working on this show, being my co-man over there, Mench,
2:13.2	I know it's not a surprise to you.
2:14.7	I talk too much.
2:16.2	I write too much.
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