McElroy & Booger McFarland preview and predict week 1 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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McElroy and Booger McFarland preview the biggest games of the week and tell you what success looks like for Arch Manning, why you should trust Ohio State’s defensive line and much more from the showdown in Columbus. Plus, can LSU protect Garrett Nussmeier (and Brian Kelly’s reputation) from Clemson’s defense, will Gus Malzahn’s offense work at FSU or will Alabama roll the the Noles, and how much pressure is on Carson Beck and Miami to get THAT signature win over Notre Dame? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'll take Arch. I'll take his words over mine. He says, I haven't proven anything. And he's right. He hasn't proven anything. There's a lot of potential there.
0:12.9	Hello and welcome to Always College Football. I'm your host Greg McElroy. And we appreciate you guys being with us here today. It is Wednesday. It is week one. You know what that means.
0:22.4	We're going to have a great college football analyst join us today. Today will be Booger McFarland.
0:28.1	Help set the table for the opportunity sitting right in front of some of the ACC schools
0:33.6	that are hoping to bounce back and chase a championship like Clemson, like Miami.
0:38.3	We'll talk about Texas, Ohio State.
0:40.3	We'll talk about Alabama, Florida State.
0:42.3	We'll talk about young quarterbacks, who has an advantage in the trenches.
0:46.3	So a lot that we need to get to today and we look forward to our visit here with Buger McFarland of ABC.
0:52.3	I also want to continue to encourage all of you guys to go ahead and rate
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1:12.2	workout, on your drive home, whatever. So we always appreciate those of you guys that are
1:16.4	subscribing. If you're here with us via the ESPN College Football YouTube channel, continue to
1:20.7	hit the comment section. Hit the comment section. If you have some questions, we'll get those
1:25.0	into a show here at some point later this week. So we look forward to that. I also want to encourage you to stick with us to the end this week because I think we're going to have a great breakdown show on Thursday. We always do that. We'll do that tomorrow. But we are very, very much looking forward to some lookaheads. We'll do it here on this show today. Some teams that need to be very careful.
1:46.5	I guess spent a ton of time on it. We're not picking upsets, but teams that are favored with expectations here in 2025.
1:53.5	There are some possible landmines that sit right in front of them in week one.
1:59.9	So we'll tell you what those are as well.
2:02.3	So we always appreciate you guys.
2:04.2	Continue to tell your friends.
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