Florida State & Miami’s resurgence + McElroy’s Top 25 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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McElroy and Danny Kannel talk about the Florida State win over Alabama, if the Seminoles are a real threat to win the ACC, what he thought of Miami’s win over Notre Dame and why LSU dominated Clemson. Also, what's the narrative that would play out if the BIG 10 goes 2-0 vs the SEC early in the season if Michigan beats Oklahoma? Plus, the AP Poll is overrated so McElroy updates his Top 25. Where does LSU come in, does Alabama stay ranked, and where will Notre Dame, South Carolina and Utah end up. McElroy also gives love to the Dude and Team of the week and we have a roll call for the BEST of your bold predictions that were submitted last week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It just felt very cathartic, very, it made it that much enjoyable. Like when you go through the rough times, it really does make you enjoy the good times that much more.
0:14.3	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy. Today's September 3rd. We are on Wednesday right before week two.
0:22.2	We got games tomorrow night. We have things to look forward to this weekend, and we always appreciate
0:26.8	you joining us. We have a great show for you today. Danny Cannell will join the show. I'm sure he'll
0:31.9	gloat about what the Florida State Seminoles did last week to my alma mater, but we'll allow him the opportunity.
0:39.3	They won fair and square, but I do want to ask Danny a little bit bigger picture questions
0:43.6	about where we're at right now in college football. Where is the ACC relative to the SEC,
0:48.8	the Big 10 relative to the Big 12, what have you? So we're going to kind of bounce around and do a lot of different
0:54.4	things and we'll get Danny Cannell's perspective. We also are going to give out some awards
0:59.6	because we still had games to be played when our show was taped on Sunday and Monday. So we
1:05.4	have awards that we will normally give out on Monday. We'll do that here today with our due to the
1:10.6	week and our team of the week
1:11.9	from week one. I know it feels like forever ago, but weird schedule this week. Just bear with us.
1:17.2	We'll get into a routine here very, very soon. We also are going to go through some bold
1:22.4	predictions. You guys have been doing a great job interacting with the show via our social media platform on
1:28.7	always CFB on Instagram and on Twitter slash X.
1:33.5	So continue to send in those bold predictions about the upcoming games this weekend.
1:38.0	We've picked out a few from last week that were nails, absolutely nails.
1:44.1	So we will make sure that we give you the
1:46.1	props that you rightfully deserve for forecasting the weekend going the way it was supposed to go.
1:51.5	We also encourage everybody. You guys have done an incredible job the last couple weeks of pushing
1:57.7	back against the haters, man. We do do a good job here.
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