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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Instant Reaction: Colorado THRILLER, Alabama, Texas and Florida State survive | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Greg McElroy gives his instant reaction to Colorado winning a double overtime thriller against Colorado State and the rest of a wild Week 3 slate. Florida State, Texas and other top teams scraped by, while the QB spot at Bama is still a concern. McElroy discusses Florida’s big win, the Backyard Brawl, Michael Penix’ dominance, Missouri’s upset win over Kansas State, a great performance from Jayden Daniels and more. | Always College Football  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What a Saturday in college football. It is 225 a.m. here in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I'm a few hours removed from having called the backyard brawl. We were about to tape this about an hour ago. We were going to do it.

0:16.6

But we said, you know what, let's just see what's going to happen here in the final two minutes of the

0:21.7

Colorado, Colorado State game. boy are we glad that we waited

0:26.4

what an incredible comeback by Colorado.

0:29.8

Shador Sanders and company backed up in their own end.

0:33.1

98 yard drive, two point conversion into overtime.

0:38.6

Just a phenomenal, phenomenally resilient performance, nothing going in the first half, really getting pushed around defensively there at times throughout the game.

0:49.0

Colorado State, hats off to Jay Norville and his team. They played incredibly hard, very impressed by their

0:55.5

personnel, their wide receivers, their quarterback, but Shador Sanders and company were just

1:01.2

too much down the stretch. It was really the weapons for

1:04.4

Colorado that ultimately made the difference and how many different weapons had to

1:08.8

emerge tonight in route to what was an incredible comeback victory there in the Rocky Mountain

1:14.2

showdown. We will break that game down in its entirety on the Monday edition of

1:18.9

always college football, but it was a chaotic day in college football I might add, it got started with Florida State in Boston College.

1:27.3

Looked like BC had things going there for a little while and then it flipped immediately.

1:32.4

Florida State there in the second half even though it didn't look like Jordan Travis was anywhere near 100% at times.

1:40.0

They of course just pulled away and then boom you blink your eyes a couple times next thing you know Boston

1:47.1

College is back in the game Florida State survives what was a chaotic one setting up which should be an excellent showdown between them and Clemson,

1:55.4

who looked pretty good, I might add, against FAU. Defense coming together, often starting

2:00.1

to figure it out. Clemson and Florida State next week is going to be awesome. I can't

2:03.8

wait to preview that one as the game goes along. As the week goes along, excuse me.

2:09.7

Penn State and Illinois, Illinois just a turnover city.

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