College football best bets: LSU-FSU, UNC-South Carolina, TCU-Colorado and more Week 1 LOCKS! (08/31)
Cover 3 College Football
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4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew shares their top picks for Week 1 in college football. After a brief review of our Week 0 results (1:00) the breakdown of best bets starts with the weeknight action with picks for NC State-UConn (14:13), Florida-Utah (14:13) and the Friday games (16:13). Then it's on to Saturday and Sunday's slate with breakdowns of TCU-Colorado (20:49), Ohio State-Indiana (26:17), UNC-South Carolina (29:58), LSU-FSU (33:49), Texas Tech-Wyoming (42:20), Tennessee-Virginia (45:50), Washington State-Colorado State (48:26), Alabama-Middle Tennessee (54:21), Northwestern-Rutgers (56:48), Iowa-Utah State (59:54), Washington-Boise State (1:03:29), USC-Nevada (1:05:56) and more plus MoneyLine Sprinkles (1:12:08).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:12.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the |
| 0:16.8 | National Championship and everything in between. |
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| 0:25.5 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.2 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:31.1 | That's Tom Fernelli. |
| 0:31.9 | That's Blood Elliott. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at youtube.com slash cover three and on demand wherever you |
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| 0:46.2 | Y'all are hanging out. |
| 0:47.2 | We appreciate you doing that week one on deck. |
| 0:51.6 | Week one locks coming up. |
| 0:52.9 | We've been waiting for so long. |
| 0:54.0 | It's a five-day marathon. |
| 0:55.9 | And we sprint the whole way. |
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| 0:59.6 | But we begin every single Thursday with a review of the week that was. |
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