Expectations For ACC Teams In 2026: Who Can Contend With Miami? James Franklin’s VT Debut & More!
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their "If Vegas is Right" Series, Breaking down each ACC programs win total for the 2026 season. How does Vegas expect the first-year hires to perform? The boys discuss it all.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:00) - Show open
(00:04:45) - If Vegas Is Right: Miami
(00:15:30) - If Vegas Is Right: SMU
(00:22:50) - If Vegas Is Right: Louisville
(00:32:00) - If Vegas Is Right: Virginia Tech
(00:39:00) - If Vegas Is Right: Cal
(00:45:30) - If Vegas Is Right: Stanford
(00:54:00) - If Vegas Is Right: Florida State
(00:59:35) - If Vegas Is Right: Boston College
(01:02:30) - If Vegas Is Right: North Carolina
(01:07:20) - If Vegas Is Right: Rapid Fire
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Tom Finnelli, that's Bud Elliott, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.4 | Come to you live at YouTube.com slash cover three and every get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.3 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.5 | Smash that subscribe. |
| 0:40.6 | Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:42.8 | AKA the Cover 3 Tailgate, where they might be hiding in the group chat. |
| 0:48.7 | We need to do a forensic investigation because Drew at 8.37 a.m. Eastern time is bringing private conversations forward. |
| 0:57.1 | And I'm a little uncomfortable. Drew says, for Tom, is Italy now a certified baseball country? |
| 1:05.5 | I don't think that's nice. I, I, this is for those who are not aware, there were some final |
| 1:10.2 | World Cup qualifying matches yesterday. |
| 1:12.2 | And Italy could, is that, did they just need the win against Bosnia? |
| 1:18.3 | Yep. |
| 1:19.8 | And they did not get the win, losing penalties. |
| 1:23.4 | What's, what, do you want to reveal to the people? |
| 1:26.1 | I mean, for those who are watching on YouTube.com slash cover three, and also have a sharp eye for international kits when it comes to football. They may be aware. You want to announce your, your affiliation, your rooting interests for the, for the World Cup this summer? Scotland's in the World Cup. I'm half Scottish. |
| 1:44.4 | There we go. |
| 1:45.4 | There we go. |
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