Dark horse contenders + HARDEST & EASIEST schedules | Always College Football
Always College Football with Greg McElroy
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think things are looking really, really solid for Matt Rule and Nebraska here in this upcoming season. |
| 0:06.4 | He was 10 and 4 at Temple in his third season. He was 11 and 3 at Baylor in his third season. |
| 0:11.4 | I think double digits is possible. Ambitious, but absolutely possible. |
| 0:25.8 | Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. We appreciate you being here. Really fun show coming up for you today. More camp updates. We did a few of these on |
| 0:32.5 | Monday. I think a lot of people reacted well to them. We will continue on with some updates from some pivotal camps. |
| 0:40.2 | We got Florida State in the mix today. |
| 0:42.1 | Alabama in the mix. |
| 0:43.8 | Sounds like Miami's in pretty good shape at one specific position. |
| 0:48.5 | A handful of other teams that have also announced quarterbacks. |
| 0:51.6 | We'll get the Bama. |
| 0:52.6 | We'll get to Boston College. |
| 0:55.2 | We'll do a handful of others. We also are going to dive into some of the easiest schedules. We shouldn't say easiest, |
| 1:01.8 | right? That's just the wrong way of describing a schedule. All these schedules nowadays have gotten |
| 1:07.0 | challenging. There's no denying that, but there are some within certain leagues that |
| 1:11.6 | are a little more manageable than others. That's perfectly fine. I think we're allowed to say that. |
| 1:15.6 | I think coaches would even welcome that type of vernacular. So we're going to do that today. |
| 1:19.6 | We'll tell you some of the most difficult schedules, some of the most manageable schedules |
| 1:24.1 | there in the power four. We'll go league by league, by the way, because I think |
| 1:28.8 | that best illustrates what these leagues might look like from top to bottom. We will finish up |
| 1:34.9 | by talking about some dark horse teams that could very well make a push towards the college |
| 1:40.4 | football playoff here in 25. I do want to continue to encourage all of you. |
| 1:46.0 | Did this the other day? I'm going to continue to do this. I'm very much appreciate those of you |
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