Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott.

It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between.

CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast.

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

That's Bud Elliott.

I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere

to get your podcast on demand.

Thanks for hanging out.

Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat where they know.

You see those sirens in your feed. You know exactly what that means. A whole hit list of names,

bud, it could have been. We figured it would be a siren Sunday. And here we go, 2.10 p.m. as we are coming to you live as the news had been confirmed, shout out to Matt Zenitz, Richard Johnson, our friends, our colleagues here at CBS Sports. They were on it. I know they've been working this story to be able to get the confirmation. We knew there would be assistant coaches meetings. We knew there would be team meetings. And now we know that Florida has,

in fact, decided to fire Billy Napier. Lots to get to here as we react to the news in real time,

including what the domino effects are going to be here, candidates to watch, and whether

this will be the only firing that we have here on Sunday, October the 29th. But, but there's

no surprise here. I will pose it like this. Do you think any performance against Mississippi

State could have changed this outcome,

the timing, of course, being heading into the off week before you go into the cocktail

party game against Georgia?

No.

I think this was done after the USF game.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

...