Mailbag! Best Players Who Did NOT Declare For The Draft + Fan Bases With Unrealistic Expectations
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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šļø 5 February 2026
ā±ļø 61 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back for their Mailbag episode. The boys break down the latest news around the college football world before answering all your questions.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:00) - HS recruiting vs. The Portal
(00:07:50) - Bud's Run It Back All-star teamĀ
(00:22:40) - Fanbases With Unrealistic Expectations
(00:44:15) - Mr. Beast Potential ECU DonationĀ Ā
(00:54:15) - Super Bowl Preview
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.9 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Bud Elliott, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.6 | Coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:35.8 | and everywhere to get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.5 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.6 | Smash that subscribe, smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:43.0 | aka the Covered Three Tailgate, where Joel and Raymond and Taladaget, |
| 0:49.3 | Taladaga Junkie, and Kayski, and Ryan and Jerry all have great questions that we will be including in |
| 0:56.6 | today's mailbag episode. |
| 0:58.5 | Additionally, we've got some from the big old bag of mail, some leftovers from yesterday, |
| 1:03.3 | and a little bit of fun with the topic that we've been discussing and hitting around here |
| 1:10.4 | with the best players who did not go to the NFL draft and could have gone to the NFL draft. |
| 1:18.6 | Bud's actually put together a full run-it-back All-Stars team. |
| 1:23.4 | But I'm going to begin with just a real simple one to get us going here on a listener interaction Thursday. |
| 1:29.8 | Jerry said, and this with National Signing Day on Wednesday, and we discussed that on Monday and Wednesday as well. |
| 1:37.3 | But Jerry says, has high school recruiting changed due to the portal? |
| 1:43.4 | Does Arch Manning get the same attention in |
| 1:46.8 | 2026 as he got four years ago? Yes and yes. Because it's Archmanning? You would get it |
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