Greg McElroy's Preseason Top 10: Who's No. 1?!

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Greg McElroy ranks his Top 10 teams going into the 2025 college football season. McElroy explains reasons he loves each team and also one area of concern for each. Defending champ outside the Top 5? Any SEC teams in the Top 3? Surprising No. 1? Find out in the latest Always College Football. | Always College Football (0:00) Intro (2:24) #10: Miami (7:07) #9: Oregon (11:05) #8: Ohio State (14:16) #7: LSU (17:54) #6: Georgia (22:05) #5: Alabama (27:37) #4: Texas (32:03) #3: Notre Dame (37:13) #2: Penn State (42:14) #1: Clemson (46:40) Outro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think all in all, the talent is there, but will they have the cohesiveness necessary to make a run?
0:06.7	That is the question mark right now for the Texas Longwoods.
0:14.5	Hello and welcome in. It's always called football. Today is Thursday, August 7th,
0:19.1	and we appreciate those of you that are coming to us from wherever it is you're coming to us from. If you're here via the podcast platform, we appreciate it very much. Continue to subscribe to the podcast if you haven't. Our episodes will automatically populate on that podcast platform or when we put out something new. We're also here on the ESPN
0:39.3	and Cultural Bowl YouTube page. So if you haven't subscribed there, go ahead subscribe. You'll
0:43.9	have tons of great content throughout the fall as we navigate throughout this 2025 season.
0:49.8	Today is the day. We gave you our 15 teams that are ranked 25 through 11 on Monday's edition
0:58.1	of Always College football. Today we reveal the top 10. We're not necessarily picking
1:04.4	national championship winners just yet, but this is kind of how we see things heading into
1:10.5	the season.
1:11.3	When we fast forward a couple weeks from now, we will pick those conference champions.
1:16.2	We'll pick national championship winner.
1:18.3	We'll pick all the different playoff teams that we expect to make the postseason.
1:23.3	But that's a little bit more of a projection with where teams might go.
1:27.4	Our free season poll is based a little bit more of a projection with where teams might go.
1:32.4	Our free season poll is based a little bit more on what we know.
1:35.4	We've already given you 25 through 11.
1:42.2	So go back and check Monday's episode if you missed that to see if your team cracked our top 25.
1:45.1	And if you haven't heard your team just yet and you think you're supposed to be in it, maybe you made the top 10. Maybe not. The top 10 maybe isn't quite as
1:52.0	controversial as 25 through 11 and not quite as interchangeable as 25 through 11. Today's going to be
1:59.8	a fun show. All right. We're going to have some fun with this.
2:03.1	We're going to go through it. Tell me how ridiculous it is or tell me how good you think it might be.
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