If Vegas Is Right: What’s The Pressure On Big Ten Teams To Meet Expectations In 2026?
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their "If Vegas is Right" Series, Starting with the Big Ten and discussing each programs win total for the 2026 season. Are Penn State and Michigan's Totals too high with new hires? Will Curt Cignetti be able to continue his run at Indiana? The boys debate it all.
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:00) - DK's Travel
(00:06:20) - If Vegas is Right: Title Contenders
(00:16:40) - If Vegas is Right: New Hires
(00:41:30) - If Vegas is Right: Hot Seats
(00:53:10) - If Vegas is Right: Elevator Teams
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
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| 0:42.5 | aka the Cover 3 Tailgate, |
| 0:44.9 | but they are fired up for if Vegas is right. |
| 0:49.2 | That's right. |
| 0:50.4 | Wind totals are starting to get out there, |
| 0:52.7 | and that means our annual spring discussion, taking a look not just at the wind totals, starting to get out there and that means our annual spring discussion taking a look |
| 0:56.0 | not just at the wind totals but what they say if Vegas is right and if we are talking about a season |
| 1:02.8 | that is somewhat close to what the wind total that's been posted well how did we get there what |
| 1:07.8 | does that mean and so much more today we are going to be starting with our look at the Big Ten. |
| 1:13.8 | Looks like we've already got some commentary about Michigan State, about USC. |
| 1:18.6 | Don't worry. All of that is on the agenda here today. |
| 1:24.7 | Unless there's any business. I mean, we can just dive right in. |
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