How confident are we in Alabama, Michigan & other bowl winners/losers in 2025?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Non-playoff bowl season is over. How confident are we in Alabama, Florida, Michigan, and others going into the 2025 season based on their bowl win or loss? David Ubben, Chris Vannini, and Scott Dochterman provide a confidence rating from 1 to 5 (with 5 being most confident) in several teams post-bowl season.
Rundown:
- Michigan is due for a huge 2025 (1:15)
- BYU, 2025 dark horses? (7:30)
- Can Florida's promising end to 2024 carry into 2025? (11:15)
- Will Nebraska plateau next season? (16:15)
- Navy's momentum (19:00)
- Kansas State's upside (23:00)
- Washington & Demond William's encouraging finish (26:00)
- Alabama's bleak 2025? (28:15)
- Brent Venables hot seat watch? (35:00)
- Does Iowa's 2025 hinge on a portal QB? (40:00)
- NC State's in trouble (44:00)
- Colorado's rising stock (47:15)
Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Scott Dochterman (@ScottDochterman)
Audio editor: John Ross
Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)
Supervising producer: Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinezDC)
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| 0:47.4 | I am David Ubin with Chris Vinini as always. |
| 0:50.5 | Hello. |
| 0:52.8 | And, of course, the athletics do it all, know it all writer, Scott Docterman. |
| 0:57.4 | What's up, guys? It's good to see you again. |
| 0:59.7 | Scott, I appreciate you joining us. |
| 1:01.8 | I just want to give you a warning. |
| 1:02.9 | If you do break out any cottage cheese at any point in this podcast, we will cut your mic, Scott. |
| 1:07.2 | So that's a fair warning, I feel like. |
| 1:09.6 | Anyway, non-playoff games bowl season is in the books. |
| 1:13.7 | We ended with a pretty lackluster game on a literal beach in the Bahamas, but there were some |
| 1:18.8 | great games this week. And Chris Scott and I are going to look ahead to how confident we are |
| 1:23.0 | in some bowl winners and losers going into next season. So on a scale from one to five, |
| 1:28.7 | with five being the most confident, how do we feel about 25, 26, Florida, Michigan, Colorado, |
| 1:33.8 | Alabama, a bunch of others. We each have a list of two teams that won their bowl game and two teams |
| 1:39.2 | that lost, and we'll assign our confidence levels to them moving forward into next season. |
| 1:43.8 | So without further ado, Scott, who is your first team? And how confident are you heading into |
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