Mailbag! What Schools Could Thrive As An Independent In The Modern Era? | College Football
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back to answer all your questions in this mailbag episode! The boys discuss which teams they think would thrive as an independent, are multi year NIL deals possible and much more.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:00) - underrated color scheme
(00:06:30) - Texas/Arch Manning QuestionÂ
(00:11:05) - Independent SchoolsÂ
(00:27:20) - Team CultureÂ
(00:41:00) - Fernando MendozaÂ
(00:45:00) - Auburn's 2026Â
(00:52:20) - Cover 3 Naming Â
(00:55:20) - Winter Olympics Â
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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 three podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:31.1 | That's time for Nelly. |
| 0:32.0 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:34.1 | Come to you live at YouTube.com slash cover three and every get your |
| 0:37.7 | podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join |
| 0:42.7 | us in the chat, aka the cover three tailgate where they are asking. They are demanding more |
| 0:48.7 | Purdue talk. Yeah, no, we've got actually more productive questions from the tailgate. |
| 1:04.3 | We asked you delivered the Cover 3 tailgate rocking and rolling with lots to get into here on an interactive version edition of the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 1:05.7 | That's what Thursdays are for. |
| 1:12.6 | We've got questions from the big old bag of mail, including the one that you see here in the headline. Kind of a fun opportunity to look back at the past, but think about the present. |
| 1:17.6 | What schools might be able to thrive as an independent here in the modern era. |
| 1:24.6 | So I'm sure that there are, actually, I'm positive. There are a lot of suggestions |
| 1:28.8 | in the tailgate. We'll get to that one here in just a little bit. But let's start with a little |
| 1:35.3 | bit of a fun one just to get us rocking and rolling. Garrett jumped in the tailgate and said, |
| 1:39.2 | which school has an underrated color scheme? |
| 1:44.6 | Garrett offers a suggestion of Minnesota, |
| 1:47.9 | but then also if you want to take the other side of color scheme, |
| 1:51.9 | what is a color scheme that should not be used? |
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