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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

January’s biggest winners: The SEC, Michigan, Texas and…

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

McElroy and Matt Barrie go through the biggest winners from a wild month in College Football. We know Michigan is the biggest winner with the Natty but the guys tell you why Ohio State, Penn State, USC were also big winners in the Big 10. Plus with Saban retired, Kirby Smart and Georgia are now the clear #1 program, while LSU, Texas and everyone else in the SEC took a big sigh of relief with a different outlook on the future. Also, Florida State and Miami took big transfers in January which makes them BIG winners. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I think Texas is headed to a spy where they just had to believe, recruits, college football and the public, had to believe that Sark could get it done to Texas.

0:12.3

I think that's all they needed. They

0:13.9

needed proof that someone could get it done again at Texas. The proof is there.

0:18.8

I think you were going into another golden era of Texas football.

0:24.0

Hello and welcome in, it's always college football.

0:31.0

Today is February 1st and we appreciate you coming to us

0:34.3

from. Well that's the ESPN Podcasts. That's just podcast platforms with Apple and Spotify or

0:40.0

wherever you get your podcast, the ESP and YouTube channel, we appreciate you very much.

0:44.0

I'm Greg McElroy alongside as always, Mark Kubiak, Jack Foster, and Jake Garcia.

0:49.0

We have a great show in store for you today.

0:50.8

We want to kind of sum up so far and look we say January

0:54.8

winners which is great I mean the problem is I almost have a hard time

1:00.2

remembering all right well if a guy committed or transferred on December 31st, are we not going to give

1:04.6

them credit in January? So basically, we're taking some winners from the ACC, the SEC, and the Big Ten. So far throughout the off season, subject to change,

1:17.1

especially as the portal opens up in May and as things start to turn. But we've had a lot of chaos in college football the last

1:24.9

handful of weeks, whether it be Nick Savant's retirement, who benefited from that, whether

1:29.6

it's Jim Harbaw taking an NFL job. Who benefited from that?

1:33.8

And frankly, who are some winners?

1:36.7

As a result of some of the changes.

1:38.8

Who are some winners as a result of the portal?

1:40.9

So to help us break it down, we're gonna bring in E-SPN's Matt Berry. He is the host of

1:46.3

college football final. He does a great job obviously throughout the studio and

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