Dabo vs Ole Miss + Texas, Texas Tech, Oregon & Indiana loaded again in ‘26 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The College Football Playoff is staying at 12 teams next year despite a lot of talk about expanding, McElroy tells you why it stayed and what the chances are of expanding next December. Dabo Swinney shined a bright light on transfer portal tampering calling out Pete Golding and Ole Miss - will the NCAA do anything about it? Plus, it’s never too early to start looking ahead, so we started our series of title contender teams today where McElroy goes over the additions that Indiana, Texas, Texas Tech and Oregon made in the transfer portal and what the early outlook is for a run at a National Championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	What's the craziest reality show in all of the United States?
0:35.7	You might think it's one of those shows.
0:37.3	Now, I'm just telling you now, it's college football.
0:40.3	And we have reached a bit of a breaking point.
0:47.6	Hello and welcome in.
0:48.8	It's always college football.
0:49.8	I'm your host, Greg McElroy.
0:50.9	We're so happy to have you here with us on our first show of the 2026 off season.
0:58.9	It's seldom an off season anymore.
1:01.1	It's as crazy now between the months of January and August as it's ever been.
1:07.3	And this year is no exception.
1:08.9	It might be even crazier.
1:10.7	Now, we will get into the transfer portal.
1:13.4	We'll get into all that fun stuff. But we do have some fun news and notes that we need to hit from last week.
1:18.7	And we will begin our series that we'll do over the next few episodes of teams that we believe can win the national championship. But the day we are planting our flag,
1:30.6	the college football playoff committee and the commissioners, they've come down from the
1:35.6	mountain and the verdict is in. We are staying at 12 teams right now. No, no expansion to 14,
1:41.4	no 16 team super bracket, no 24 team bracket, at least not yet.
1:47.5	We're going to dive into what this stagnation means for the SEC and the Big Ten.
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