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Cover 3 College Football

🚨 Emergency Pod: Nick Saban tests positive for COVID-19 (10/14) 🚨

Cover 3 College Football

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4.5 β€’ 4.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Instant reaction to the breaking news that Alabama coach Nick Saban has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be in isolation as the team prepares for Saturday's showdown with Georgia. Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson discuss how Steve Sarkisian and the rest of the Alabama coaches must adjust and how the senior leadership on the Tide's roster will help the team navigate this challenge ahead of one of the biggest games of the year in college football.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Anderson, Barton

0:09.8

Simmons and Tom Fonelli.

0:12.3

It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the

0:17.2

National Championship and everything in between.

0:21.1

CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast.

0:25.4

And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports.

0:29.2

I'm Chip Patterson.

0:30.2

Thank you if you're watching on YouTube YouTube.com slash Cover 3 go and subscribe to our

0:36.9

YouTube channel.

0:37.9

Please, if you're listening to this, download wherever you get your podcasts, you might

0:42.1

be listening to this podcast within a news story because this is breaking news.

0:47.2

That's why you see the sirens.

0:49.0

Wee, wee, and this is the, we look beautiful because we're fresh off the set CBS Sports

0:56.1

HQ from news that we did not anticipate tackling at the top of the six o'clock hour.

1:02.0

And it is that Nick Saban has tested positive for COVID-19, along with Alabama athletic director

1:08.7

Greg Bern.

1:09.8

He found out the results of his positive tests this afternoon.

1:13.1

He left the building immediately, went home, began the isolation process.

1:17.6

Nick Saban says he is asymptomatic and he has passed on the preparation duties at least

1:24.7

to offensive coordinator Steve Sarkisian, the Alabama George game that we laid out a full

1:31.8

mega preview for earlier today.

1:35.5

I, Bern, I'm still standing by all of it.

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