Greg McElroy’s Top 10 takeaways from Week 5 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Alabama just put on the best performance in the Kalen DeBoer era, Oregon just took down Penn State in Happy Valley and Ohio State aced their first road test of the season. McElroy breaks down the importance of those wins and tells you why it' s the same ol’ Penn St, why you shouldn’t sleep on Ole Miss and if LSU can fix their offense anytime soon. Plus, what the Sam Pittman firing means for Arkansas and who could be the next head coach and why this weekend was all about “grit” for Tennessee, Georgia Tech, Indiana and Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	Look, this win proves that Alabama absolutely without a shadow of a doubt has the right guy in
0:36.1	Caitlin the floor, the right staff around him,
0:38.3	the right mentality that you want in the team.
0:45.3	Hello and welcome. It is always college football. Week five is in the books. And what a week it was.
0:52.3	We have had some time now. We, of course, put out our
0:57.2	immediate rapid reaction show, but now we've had time to kind of dive in, to really watch
1:03.0	the tape, watch the coaches tape and draw some legitimate conclusions. So today, we are going to
1:09.1	give you our top 10 takeaways from week five of the college football season.
1:14.1	There's a bunch of good ones, too, including ones involving Bama, involving Georgia, involving Penn State, involving Oregon, involving Ohio State, Ole Miss, LSU, how the margins are tightening.
1:26.7	There's a lot of great takeaways from this weekend's action.
1:29.5	There was also a ton of grit on display and a few victories as well.
1:32.7	We'll give some love where that love is due because there's a lot of fun, a lot of fun
1:37.9	outcomes from this weekend and we look forward to diving into them with you.
1:41.8	Before we get into our takeaways, want to go ahead and
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