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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Greg McElroy and David Pollack look at some of the biggest and best storylines so far in the 2025 season. Is it time we finally trust Texas A&M, what’s Tennessee’s ceiling, is LSU's defense good enough to carry them to a National Title, can Georgia solve their Alabama problem (lost 9 of the last 10) and what’s more surprising Florida St in the Top 10 or Texas offensive struggles? Plus the guys look ahead to some huge week 4 matchups including Texas Tech at Utah, Auburn at Oklahoma, Michigan at Nebraska, Florida at Miami and McElroy gives his Top 25. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If I gave you the number one draft pick of all players in college football,
0:06.0	it is very clear to me who I'm taking, and his name is John Mateer.
0:10.0	Yeah.
0:11.0	He's my first pick in all of college football.
0:13.0	So Greg McElroy, I give you the first pick who you're taking in all of college football
0:18.0	for your number one pick.
0:19.0	Yeah, he'd be number one.
0:25.9	Hello and welcome.
0:27.0	It's always college football.
0:29.6	Today is Wednesday, September 17th, and we greatly appreciate those of you that are coming to us yet again.
0:33.4	We know our Wednesday shows are some of our favorites in the week.
0:36.2	We'll have a tremendous conversation with David Pollock. He is the host of the Seaball Get Ball podcast.
0:41.7	He's been doing an amazing job covering college sports for a very long time. It's going to be
0:46.1	great to get his perspective on the SEC and some of the big matchups coming up this weekend.
0:51.3	And like we always do on Wednesdays, we give you our updated rankings.
0:55.8	These have caused a bit of a stir, but when you look at the comments section, a lot of people
0:59.8	are like, thank you. You're finally doing what the AP should do. Well, we'd hope that the AP
1:04.3	would actually do their job, watch the games and move teams accordingly, and not allow pre-season expectations for a team to impact
1:14.7	what we've seen through three weeks.
1:16.6	Like we have to be willing to maneuver.
1:18.6	We have to be willing to adjust.
1:20.6	And that's what we do on always college football every single week.
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