CJ Stroud, so his first NFL action is the Texans beat the Patriots in the preseason opener last night.

More Iowa and Iowa State football players have been charged in a big sports betting scandal,

and we're going to break down how a relegation system could actually work for college football,

because they're changing all of it anyways. Check it out a more on a flaming dragon edition,

Cranica.

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party. Now I see all these preseason polls and these rankings and sports media members sowing out

their top 25s. And I'm so sick already of people acting like USC Southern Cal is a top five team

in the country right now. I get that they're a huge brand. They do return last year's

Highest Been Winner in Caleb Williams. And nobody is going to question whether or not Lincoln

Raleigh is an absolute sorcerer when it comes to offensive game planning and play calling.

But in order to be a top five team and a national championship contender,

you have to be better on one more than one side of the ball than everybody else.

You need balance. And as much as an offense needs balance, we talk about it all the time,

a team needs it even more offensively, defensively, and special teams. Because there are always

those couple of games each season where your best side of the ball struggles and your weaker side

has to bail you out. Sometimes you have to be able to drive left to score. And until USC proves

that they can do that in a big game, I'm not talking about a cupcake game. They are not going to

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