College Football Season: What Comes Next?

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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College football is off to a strange and uneven start. The SEC, ACC, and a few other conferences kicked off their season last weekend. Meanwhile the Big 10, which cancelled its season, seems to be muttering about regrets or even reconsidering, and the Pac-12 remains firmly out of the picture. Paul Finebaum explains the decisions and power struggles still at play even as college football kicks off, which stars are opting out to prepare for the NFL draft instead, and what it will take for the season to stay on course in coming weeks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Paul, thank you for making some time with us, man.
0:08.2	Thank you. I don't know. I'm not trying to get the middle of this. I just saw it. Did you see this Trump tweet about talking to Kevin Warren?
0:15.5	Well, we are in a world where this is absolutely a thing that would happen when you sit down to talk about college football.
0:22.0	The president tweets the following.
0:23.4	Yeah.
0:24.2	Had a very productive conversation with Kevin Warren, commissioner of the Big Ten conference, about immediately starting up Big Ten football.
0:32.1	Would be good, parentheses, great exclamation point for everyone, players, fans, country, on the one yard line, exclamation point.
0:41.9	So, I'm just curious, Paul.
0:44.6	Are you numb to stuff like this happening at this point?
0:47.5	Yeah, no.
0:48.3	I mean, listen, to be on the one yard line is, that means they've covered 99 yards since we started this conversation.
1:10.1	College football has kicked off officially with the first NCAA game completed this past weekend in Alabama in front of a couple thousand fans.
1:19.1	And how things play out from here is anyone's guess.
1:22.4	Paul Feinbaum joins the show to talk pushback against canceled conferences, star players opting out,
1:28.7	and the many, many, many directions this 2020 season could still go.
1:33.8	I'm Pablo Torre.
1:35.3	It's Wednesday, September 2nd.
1:37.4	This is ESPN Daily.
1:41.7	But let's dive into this, Paul Feinbaum, and thank you for joining me.
1:45.8	So it is theoretically back-to-school time.
1:50.1	And some college campuses are opening, some are not.
1:53.8	Some teams are suiting up.
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