Mailbag! Spring Games At Nebraska & Clemson, Bill Belichick & Lane Kiffin Preview 2026 & more!
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their Mailbag episode, Breaking down the latest news around college football and answering all your questions. Plus the guys look ahead to Nebraska and Clemson Spring Games.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:00) - Tom Golf Update
(00:03:00) - Opening Day/Golf Handicaps
(00:08:00) - Spring Game Lookahead: Nebraska
(00:14:00) - Spring Football Soundbites
(00:22:30) - LB to Edge Transition in NFL
(00:25:10) - Salary Cap/NIL Numbers
(00:34:10) - Analytics Question
(00:41:00) - Underestimating Penn State?
(00:45:30) - SEC Defenses
(00:50:00) - Nascar
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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. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.8 | Come to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:35.3 | and every way to get your podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging |
| 0:38.4 | out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, aka A.K.A. The cover three |
| 0:43.8 | tailgate where Brad and Dirty Dogs and Coach Kay and Thomas and Dash and Trigg and Zach have already |
| 0:52.0 | gotten the conversation started. That's right. It is a Thursday. It is a mailbag episode. |
| 0:57.7 | We've got a couple questions from the big old bag of mail where listeners have gone to leave us a five-star review. |
| 1:03.4 | And in that review, put your mailbag question. |
| 1:05.5 | But I want to get started with what we finished the show with because at 736 a.m. Eastern time, Brad jumped into the |
| 1:16.3 | tailgate and got the conversation going with the question. Tom, was there a breakfast ball |
| 1:22.6 | yesterday on whole one? Yes. Yes, there was. Yeah, no, there was a, I mean, a mean you know I didn't I don't go to |
| 1:31.6 | the range during the winter I don't do any of that stuff I didn't go to the range |
| 1:34.5 | before I teed off I just walked right to the first tee and my first swing in five |
| 1:37.8 | months was that first swing and as I texted you boys I hooked that thing a good 50 yards |
| 1:43.0 | to the so yeah breakfast ball for sure. |
| 1:47.3 | You love to see that hook, though. It means you're back. Oh, it's great. It's great. I loved |
| 1:51.9 | watching it, but I was like, yeah, I'm not going to play that one. Is it OB left or like we just |
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