College football rankings: Inside the CBS Sports post-spring Top 25 (05/05)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew discusses and debates the best teams in the country. First, catching up on some transfer news with additions for both Tennessee and Alabama (1:45) before a rundown of the entire top 25 from the just-released CBS Sports post-spring college football rankings (18:10). Topics discussed include where to draw the line for the top tier of title contenders and whether Iowa State should be in that group (25:25). Then, some conference-wide takeaways with a look at the Big Ten and Pac-12 (40:25) and how many teams in the top 25 are really that much ahead from teams ranked in the top 40 (44:00)?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fonelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:11.9 | 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. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.5 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.0 | This time for an Elliott, that's Danny Cannell, that's Bud Elliott, I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.3 | You know what's going on because we're rolling it out multiple platforms. |
| 0:38.0 | We have a new CBS Sports Post Spring, top 25. |
| 0:43.0 | We're going to get into that here in just a little bit. |
| 0:46.7 | The number one team is no surprise. |
| 0:50.0 | It is Alabama, but elsewhere, it's very interesting to see how the same voters who participate |
| 0:55.8 | in the CBS Sports 130, who, you know, our just comprehensive, FPS-wide ranking of every |
| 1:03.2 | single team. |
| 1:04.6 | We decided to just go Post Spring. |
| 1:06.3 | We're only releasing the 25 here. |
| 1:08.3 | We will be back with a preseason full 130 a little bit later in the summer, but you know, |
| 1:14.3 | just a little taste test now that we've got all the news and notes and apologies to |
| 1:18.3 | Stanford because we did not wait until May 22nd to go ahead and declare this post spring. |
| 1:24.5 | I'd love to you, David Shaw, but man, that's what we ain't doing that. |
| 1:28.2 | May 1st was the last big wave of spring games, and so we're going to continue to move forward. |
| 1:33.5 | Before we jump into those rankings, a little bit of some headlines from the transfer portal. |
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