College Football Week 5 BEST BETS and PICKS!
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Our College Football experts are BACK for Week 5 best bets! Join Mackenzie Brooks, Tom Casale, Mike McClure, and Emory Hunt as they give their FAVORITE picks for Week 5's slate, including USC-Illinois, LSU-Ole Miss, Oregon-Penn State, Alabama-Georgia, and MUCH MORE!
(0:00) Intro
(3:15) Week 5 Storylines & Futures
(21:40) USC vs Illinois
(25:30) LSU vs Ole Miss
(30:15) Oregon vs Penn State
(37:05) Alabama vs Georgia
(42:55) Week 5 Best Bets
(52:40) Week 5 Underdogs
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| 0:00.0 | The college football pick show here on the early edge presented by BEDMGM, the sports book born in Vegas. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm your host, Mackenzie Brooke, taking you through the slate with Emery Hunt, Mike McClure, and Tom Cassali. We had a great week last week. We'll dive into that a little bit more later in the show. This is obviously going to be a massive, massive week in college football. We've had this weekend on our calendar circled for a very, very long time. Tom, I know you mentioned it on Twitter as well. If anyone has plans, you're just really not in the right headspace. |
| 0:39.5 | That we can tell you. Tom, how are you feeling about this week and coming up in general? |
| 0:44.2 | Oh, I can't wait. I love a good big college football Saturday. And maybe let's have a little chaos, |
| 0:50.7 | huh? I enjoy a little chaos. We'll talk about that later on in the show. |
| 0:55.1 | Yes, a lot of chaos coming. Emery, are you feeling mentally prepared for the week ahead? |
| 1:00.1 | Definitely. It almost harkens back to the old days where you had these big games all in the same |
| 1:06.4 | game window. So that 330 window is going to have a huge slate of huge big games on the schedule. |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah. Even that night slate as well, Mike, any slate specifically you're looking at and |
| 1:18.0 | targeting here. The entire slate, whether it be starting on Friday, all the Saturday games. |
| 1:24.7 | Like, I mean, I think we got a banger on Friday night, Florida State at Virginia. |
| 1:28.7 | Like, that is a very, very good game. |
| 1:31.3 | If you like following the Big 12, TCU at Arizona State has some implications in that conference. |
| 1:37.4 | So yeah, big games everywhere. |
| 1:39.2 | But as Emery mentioned, that afternoon window on Saturday, absolutely loaded. |
| 1:44.2 | Yeah, no doubt about it. |
| 1:45.6 | We're going to get into our best bets for all of these games, talk all the marquee |
| 1:48.8 | matchups. |
| 1:49.4 | Before we do that, just want to address some housekeeping things from last weekend and even |
| 1:53.6 | yesterday when we find out Oklahoma's quarterback John Mateer is undergoing right-hand surgery, |
| 1:59.4 | no timetable for his return. He was in that |
| 2:02.4 | Heisman front runner race, someone we've been high on on this show specifically as well. |
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