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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

It all comes down to the BIG 12 & SEC for Notre Dame and Miami | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The penultimate college football rankings were released which saw Texas A&M drop to to #7 and the Alabama move up to #9 meaning it all comes down to Championship weekend for the bubble teams. How far will Alabama move up with a win and would they drop 1 spot with a loss, if BYU wins they are in but would they drop with a loss leaving Miami at 12? If BYU loses and Alabama wins does Miami move up now putting the head to head with Notre Dame as the deciding factor for the last at-large spot? So much on the line and McElroy is here to break it all down and answer your questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Do I think Alabama's in the field? Yes, I do. I think they are. Because I don't think the

0:34.1

committee is going to overly penalize a team that already beat the team that they're playing against in the conference title, which means Notre Dame is squarely on the bubble.

0:42.3

They need chalk to fly this weekend.

0:49.6

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy.

0:52.6

Glad to have you with us here tonight on a Tuesday night. It's a college football playoff rankings released edition of Always

0:59.5

College Football. And there is some shakeup tonight. A couple things that we need to iron out. Not often

1:05.1

as at this time of the year when we're trying to rearrange or we're trying to make sense of what the

1:10.6

committee did.

1:11.9

And yet the committee tonight did something that we did not anticipate.

1:15.6

Now, to be honest, yeah, I thought it probably should have been this way a couple weeks

1:18.8

back when we talked about this when we were in New York at Madison Square Garden.

1:22.2

But we will explain the move tonight and why it's so significant.

1:27.0

There's also a couple more things on the back end of the top 25 that are meaningful and impactful as well.

1:33.1

So we will get through all of it.

1:35.1

I'll tell you what the committee got right, what the committee got wrong, what the committee might adjust, what the committee might need to consider for Sunday's final release on selection day when we find out officially who is in

1:47.1

we also always encourage you to send us your questions we have a bunch of those and then mark

1:52.0

and jack will also ask some questions that you guys have been submitting so we'll try to iron some

1:57.7

of those things out as well and you guys love the superlatives so you love the hypotheticals so we'll dive into a few of those things out as well. And you guys love the superlatives. So you love

2:01.6

the hypotheticals. So we'll dive into a few of those as well. So before we get to that,

2:06.4

always college football. Download the podcast for you get the podcast. That's always appreciated.

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