Mario Cristobal interview, a 9 game SEC schedule & Week 1 improvements | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Mario Cristobal joins the show to talk about Miami being on the up and up, how his first recruiting class are now the clubhouse leaders, Carson Beck’s impact, the youth at wide receiver, why playing Notre Dame early will motivate his team (and the fans) and much more. Plus, week 1 in 2025 is good with Texas vs Ohio State, Notre Dame vs Miami, LSU vs Clemson but McElroy lays out how it could be better and why the SEC going to a 9 game conference schedule is the best thing for college football fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	And I think everyone is very well aware and sees like the steady progress and how it's building momentum.
0:36.3	So to what I expect from our fans as we open the
0:39.3	season for all those games complete an utter lunacy in that stadium.
0:48.4	Hello and welcome it's always college football today is Thursday May 15th and we appreciate
0:53.3	those of you coming to us from
0:55.0	wherever it is here coming to us from. It's a fun show that we have in store for you today.
0:59.4	The head coach, the Miami Hurricanes, Mario Cristobal will join the show. We'll talk a little bit
1:04.1	about their breakthrough season in 2024, how they're going to finish this upcoming year,
1:10.1	the addition of Carson Beck.
1:12.1	Their homegrown recruiting class from three years ago, all those guys now are in year
1:17.4	number three. And it feels like Miami, they're in a position to really break through.
1:21.5	I know they did last year and they came up just a little bit short, but the best might be coming
1:26.0	for Mario Cristobal and the Keyains. We'll talk about that.
1:29.9	We also are going to dive into the week one schedule. Part of what got us down that rabbit
1:34.0	hole is the fact that Miami will host Notre Dame on Sunday in what should be one of the
1:40.5	biggest matchups of week one. We're going to talk about week one. We have a lot of
1:44.7	good games in week one that we just want to just a little highlight of not going to spend like a
1:49.4	ridiculous, not going to break them down in detail and ask our questions like we do in our Thursday
1:53.7	breakdowns. But I do kind of want to go through a few and acknowledge that there is an opportunity
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