MAILBAG! Alabama coaching candidates, Ohio State loading up for 2024, changes to the CFP committee, more! (01/11)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew talks Alabama coaching search, Nick Saban, Dan Lanning, Mike Norvell and more. First, continued conversation on Nick Saban's decision to retire with a focus on the many ways he created a competitive edge in the sport (4:00) before diving into the 2024 Alabama outlook knowing that players will have the option to transfer out without penalty (14:18). Then, after discussing the factors that might have sparked this retirement decision (18:10), a renewed look at the list of candidates and the timeline for Alabama naming its next head coach (25:10). Finally, with Emeka Egbuka announcing his return to Ohio State why the Buckeyes are primed for a big year in 2024 (45:20) and what changes should be made to the College Football Playoff selection committee or selection criteria.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.2 | Canel and Bud Elliot. It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:15.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.0 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Here on CBS Sports, that's Danny Canale, that's Bud Elliot, |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chip Patterson, coming to you live at |
| 0:34.4 | YouTube.com slash Cover3 and everywhere you get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.4 | Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat aka the cover three tailgate |
| 0:47.3 | minor news in college football here over the last you know 48 hours or so |
| 0:57.6 | maybe more coming by the end of this show watching live who knows Danny but we're gonna tackle a couple mailbag questions. |
| 1:03.7 | The live chat is going. |
| 1:05.3 | We've got some huge news on the recruiting trail. |
| 1:08.5 | We've got some huge news in terms of a team |
| 1:11.1 | that we've been talking about a lot to keep an eye on in |
| 1:13.8 | 2024 but I don't want to drift from the point here but you were on a |
| 1:19.7 | plane when this news dropped yesterday so we haven't gotten a chance to hear from you so I'll let you get |
| 1:25.1 | first word we've had some time to digest it we've had a have you seen the fake flight |
| 1:31.1 | tracker no okay so somebody sent like a flight tracker and it was |
| 1:36.2 | from Eugene to Tuscaloosa and they're like oh my gosh like this is |
| 1:39.4 | obvious this is gonna be Dan Laning But because I'm a capital J journalist, |
| 1:45.0 | I looked up the type of plane that it was on this flight tracker. |
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