Dark Horse Candidates for 2024: What non-favorites could win up playing for the conference title (or more)?
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew talks conference sponsorships, coin-flip games and conference dark horses. First, imagining what it might look like with conferences exploring naming rights as a means of increasing revenue (2:00) and the beginning of a "Who ya got" series that will run through some of the season's coin-flip games according to the early betting odds (19:35). Then it's on to dark horse teams to watch for 2024, going conference-by-conference with picks for the Big Ten (36:43), SEC (48:10), ACC (56:02), Big 12 (1:06:00), the Group of Five leagues (1:12:00) and dark horse picks to. make the College Football Playoff (1:16:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.2 | Canel and Bud Elliot. It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:15.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
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| 0:30.0 | That's time for Nelly, that's Danny Canell, |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chip Patterson, coming to you live at |
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| 0:38.4 | Thanks for hanging out. Smash and subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat aka the cover three tailgate today |
| 0:46.7 | I'm gonna get get things started with a like way way you have you got your way too early, top 25, |
| 0:53.4 | you're way too early, everything rankings. |
| 0:55.5 | Well, how about way too early game picks? |
| 0:58.8 | So I've identified a lot of games that in their early release, you know, some sports books call them the game of the year. |
| 1:06.4 | Everyone's got their own way. |
| 1:07.4 | We will be using FanDool Sportsbook, make every moment more for a lot of our prices today. |
| 1:11.8 | You know, games that have point spreads here in mid-June of less than six points. |
| 1:18.2 | So five points or less. |
| 1:19.4 | We're going to call those coin flip games. |
| 1:21.6 | We're going to tear through about 30 of them over the course of the next month in a simple segment |
| 1:26.8 | creatively called who you got. We'll get to that in just a little bit. So on Thursday |
| 1:30.6 | you gentlemen had a conversation about private equity, private capital, |
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