Final & Future College Football Rankings, YOUR Mailbag Questions & more!
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 ⢠4.1K Ratings
šļø 22 January 2026
ā±ļø 60 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is bringing back the Mailbag episodes! The boys discusses the final rankings before answering all your questions.
(00:00:00) - IntroĀ
(00:02:00) - Poll Assassin
(00:11:00) - Way-Too-Early 2026 RankingsĀ Ā
(00:27:50) - Cover 3 Mailbag
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:25.6 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.6 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.6 | Come to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere. |
| 0:35.6 | Get you a podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:38.8 | Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:42.2 | aka the cover three tailgate, where dash the Esper says halfback ISO to the like button. |
| 0:49.4 | I mean, it's right there. You don't, you don't, the gap is open. Offensive line does the job. The like button is |
| 0:55.8 | right there. Yeah, we are excited because this is the first of many, many Thursdays where a lot of |
| 1:01.5 | the show is driven and determined by you. We had a bunch of people pull up to the tailgate early |
| 1:06.9 | and get in some great questions that we will get answered before we get out of here. |
| 1:16.4 | And that conversation is just going to continue to be ongoing all throughout the rest of the coming months. |
| 1:18.6 | So there is one last piece of sort of wrap-up business, right? |
| 1:22.1 | Like we did our last instant reaction show. |
| 1:23.9 | We sort of put a bow on lots of different things for the season. |
| 1:27.2 | But one last time |
| 1:29.9 | because we've got an AP top 25 because we've got a coaches poll. And you know what? I'll go |
| 1:36.2 | ahead and tease this. We got some very interesting coaches ballots and coach rankings to discuss |
| 1:41.4 | because we actually get to see. We get to now grill the coaches the same way we grill the AP voters. |
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