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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Greg McElroy & Ryen Russillo, can we (should we) fix the CFP? | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Ryen Russillo joins McElroy to talk all things college football playoff. Should Notre Dame be outraged, can we (should we) fix the CFP and if so what is the next best step and what can be done to conference championship weekend to make sure ALL the games mean something? Should the G5 inclusion be a year-by-year basis and who do they guys trust most in the CFP to win the National Championship? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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setup it turns into like hey this is this is unfair i want it to be unfair i know that's not

0:36.8

very popular but i would rather leave someone out in the four-team system

0:41.3

than being inviting to somebody that has done nothing for 12 games

0:47.3

and then thinks they have some kind of argument to be competing for a national championship.

0:56.0

Hello and welcome in, It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy. We are very happy to have you here with us.

1:02.0

We have college football playoff season going on right now. We have incredible matchups all over the board.

1:08.0

We're not that far away from crowning a national champion.

1:11.6

We have a lot of momentum going on right now. Yes, selection day was met with criticism.

1:18.5

It was met with chaos, subjectivity, issues with the playoff format, issues with the conference

1:25.2

championship format. I'm good with all of that and we can fix

1:29.6

college football. We can. We can fix it. We just got to learn what we don't know just yet. I think

1:36.4

sometimes we get so caught up and well, this is wrong. This is wrong. This is wrong. Well, did we

1:41.6

know that this was going to be a problem? Did we know that we're

1:44.5

going to be challenges when we instituted the 12 team playoff? Because I think a lot of people looked at it and said, well, the 12 team playoff will solve everything. I mean, it'll be a breeze. If you are on the bubble, man, you're in. Well, now those teams that are on the bubble are saying the format is messed up, how we're deciding the teams are messed up.

2:02.6

The changes from year to year, teams that are on the bubble are saying the format is messed up how we're deciding the teams are

2:01.4

messed up the changes from year to year as far as the criteria is concerned is messed up and who can

2:08.9

blame anybody for their frustration we all want what's perfect but the beauty about college football

2:14.2

is that it will never be perfect it will never never be fair. I know that sounds hard.

2:20.4

That's difficult to consume. I get that. It'll never be perfect. Unless all 136 teams that are

2:27.0

playing set up and play in a tournament in which you crown a worthy champion, it'll never be fair.

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