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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

McElroy & Finebaum talk CFP model, new changes coming, the NCAA’s lack of power and more

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

McElroy and Paul Finebaum get together to discuss the NCAA and what power they have over CFB, the college football 5 +7 playoff model and if Notre Dame really has any issues with it. Is 12 the right number and if there is more expansion, are conference championship games a thing of the past. Plus Eric Bieniemy is back in college, how big is the loss of McGee for Georgia and Sarkasian earns an extension at Texas. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What we have now in 2024 is not going to look like this two to four years down the road.

0:07.1

I think I don't think a lot's going to change short term, but I think college football is going to go through a another explosion here in a couple of years.

0:19.3

Hello and welcome in to always college football. We took a week off. It was our, I guess you could call it our spring break. It was really early to be on spring break, so that's not exactly what we did. I was still working. I was still around here, but we decided to take a couple days off just to kind of

0:33.7

refresh regather we're hitting the ground running yet again today spring

0:37.8

football is upon us but there are some big picture topics that are going on in the sport. We're going to have Paul Feinbaum

0:45.1

join us today to help us break down Tennessee in Virginia. We're going to help us break down

0:50.0

the 5-7 model for the college football playoff talk about the future of

0:54.1

conference championship games talk about the calendar and how that might

0:59.7

ultimately drive more and more coaches away. A lot of big picture discussions

1:04.1

that we want to get to with Paul Finebaum, so we'll have him on in just a minute.

1:08.3

As always, you've got Mark Kubiak, Jake Garcia, Jack Foster, and I'm Greg McElroy.

1:13.0

We have a terrific show, this door for you today.

1:15.2

We have some big news and notes that we need to get to as well.

1:17.8

Eric Bienemies back in the college world.

1:20.1

Georgia State has landed, I think, a huge fish, a huge fish from the University of Georgia and

1:28.0

Steve Sarkesian, he's got enough money to buy a few ranches in the state of Texas now.

1:33.9

So without much further to do, let's dive in.

1:35.7

It's Paul Feinbaum of the SEC Network.

1:38.8

We welcome men from ESPN, ABC, SEC Network. he's Paul Feinbaum of the Paul Feinbaum show.

1:46.2

What's going on today, Paul, how are you, my friend?

1:48.0

Greg, I'm doing great.

1:49.0

Seems like forever since I've seen you.

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