Mailbag! Why Do Coaches Make Terrible Decisions? + Matt Norlander Joins For College Hoops Primer
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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šļø 5 March 2026
ā±ļø 59 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their Mailbag episode. The boys discuss the latest news around the college football world before answering all your questions.
(00:00:00) - IntroĀ
(00:03:10) - Lou HoltzĀ
(00:14:50) - Top 5 Defenses in 2026Ā
(00:20:17) - 2026 Indiana vs. 2025 Ohio StateĀ
(00:24:25) - Multi Year NIL DealsĀ
(00:27:15) - Bad Coaching DecisionsĀ
(00:34:15) - Matt Norlander Joins Cover 3
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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. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:34.4 | and everywhere to get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for hanging out smash that |
| 0:38.8 | subscribe smash that like and come and join us in the chat aka a cover three tailgate where they |
| 0:45.1 | are rolling with all kinds of questions because we are getting interactive here on a thursday |
| 0:51.7 | we got questions from the big old bag of mail that we are going to get to. We have some questions here from the tailgate that we are excited to discuss as |
| 1:00.2 | well. And yes, Tailgate, we hear you. We are going to be getting a visit later in the show from |
| 1:06.2 | Matt Norlander, senior college basketball writer for CBS Sports. |
| 1:11.2 | And of course, one of the co-hosts of the eye on college basketball podcast, |
| 1:16.3 | the second best college sports podcast that's here on the CBS Sports family of, |
| 1:21.8 | I kid. |
| 1:22.8 | They're what? |
| 1:24.1 | Fourth at best? |
| 1:25.4 | Like, I don't know, we have a college basketball podcast i kid i kid i kid i kid there are |
| 1:31.0 | more of us than there are of them we're excited to have mad and he's done this before a little bit |
| 1:36.4 | disappointed i'm gonna i'll just like but full behind the curtain here we clerical error we thought |
| 1:43.3 | we were going to have Bud here because Bud's college |
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