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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Georgia, Notre Dame or Ohio State - who do you trust more in 2026? | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What’s the best way to recruit a quarterback in 2026? McElroy gives you five very different philosophies utilized by teams like LSU, Indiana, Penn State, Miami and Vanderbilt to bring in the most important position in college football. Plus, we continue our series on teams that can win the National Championship next season and McElroy tells you why Georgia, Notre Dame and Ohio State are in prime position with loaded rosters for a “title or bust” run in 2026. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The smart money says the iris aren't just a contender.

0:02.5

They are potentially the standard going into this season.

0:05.6

Marcus Freeman has his team.

0:07.3

He has his quarterback.

0:08.5

Now he just needs his ring.

0:14.9

Hello and welcome in.

0:16.2

It's always college football.

0:17.5

Today is January 28th of 26. And I want to begin by wishing my dad a happy birthday.

0:25.0

Dad, love you. I would not love college football if it weren't for you. So thank you for all you've done

0:30.2

for me, and thank you for being the man that you are. Happy birthday. I wish we could celebrate together,

0:35.6

but something tells me we will celebrate it at some point here

0:37.9

very soon. Today we are going to dive deep into the economy that is recruiting the quarterback

0:44.8

position. It's not necessarily about who's doing this, who's doing what. It's more different

0:52.4

philosophies that are being applied to how teams are building

0:57.3

their rosters. Now we've identified five distinct philosophies the teams are using to figure out

1:03.7

how they want to approach the most important position in the sport. Are you running a hedge fund

1:09.3

comparable to that of Lane Kiffin? Are you playing

1:12.3

moneyball like Kurt Signetti? Or are you entering into a marriage, so to speak, with the head

1:19.0

coach that you just hired and the quarterback that he had success with that led to him getting the job

1:24.4

at your place to begin with, a la Matt Campbell and Penn State with Rocco Beck.

1:28.9

So we'll break down all the different philosophies

1:31.9

the teams are using right now when it comes to the quarterback position.

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