Mailbag! End of Bedlam, early results vs. preseason expectations, more (09/21)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew answers listener questions on Alabama, Nebraska, Notre Dame and more. First, addressing some of the news of the week with both Oklahoma and Oklahoma State athletic directors indicating the Bedlam series is done when the Sooners go to the SEC (1:00), plus the fall out from injury news out of Auburn (6:00) and Stanford (10:00). Then, on the questions from listeners and live viewers that include the teams who have changed our expectations the most through three weeks (11:45), the best matchups if we could set them up like fight promoters (19:25), Nick Saban’s decision to keep Bill O’Brien as offensive coordinator (26:30), strong football starts for traditional basketball schools (31:15) and the realistic ceiling for Notre Dame in 2022 (44:10).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the |
| 0:16.8 | National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:28.7 | We're on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.3 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:31.3 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.3 | Come into you live at youtube.com slash Cover 3 and all across the 24 7 Sports Facebook |
| 0:37.7 | network. |
| 0:38.7 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.7 | Come smash that subscribe smash that like jump into the chat. |
| 0:43.3 | This is a mailbag episode. |
| 0:44.8 | We love our listener and live viewer interaction. |
| 0:47.6 | We do have questions from the big old bag of mail, but we will also take some from the live |
| 0:51.6 | audience as well. |
| 0:54.1 | We have questions regarding it. |
| 0:57.2 | Both college football was able to set up matchups with styles and storylines, much like a |
| 1:04.2 | fight, a boxing match or Dana White with UFC. |
| 1:07.7 | What are some of the matchups that we would want to see? |
| 1:09.9 | Is there any explanation behind all the success of the basketball schools or so called basketball |
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