McElroy’s Conference Championship & CFP predictions | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The season is right around the corner so we thought it was the perfect time to give you McElroy’s Conference Championship and CFP predictions. Is it a TWO team race in the ACC with Clemson and Miami? Can Penn State handle the hype and hold off Oregon or Ohio State for the BIG 10 title? A wide open BIG 12 has Arizona State, Kansas State, Utah and others all in the hunt and which heavy hitters out of Alabama, Georgia, LSU and Texas will win the SEC? Plus, McElroy gives his prediction for the CFP bracket with a few surprises coming from USC and a G5 team no one is talking about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The USC Trojans will make the playoff and the haters are the sides of themselves.
0:12.2	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. Today is Thursday, August 21st. We appreciate
0:18.3	you being here. We have a great show for you today. This is the show that we look forward to all off season. It's finally here the hold me to them picks for this upcoming football season. We don't love doing predictions too early and then changing. We wait until the very end. We wait until we get through fall camp,
0:38.2	and we find out where the quarterback's going to be playing, which quarterback's going to be playing.
0:42.5	We try to figure out there's been an injury in fall camp that might have an impact on whether
0:47.6	or not this team can reach its potential. So we wait as long as humanly possible. Today is the last
0:53.1	possible day.
1:00.4	We will have toe meat leather in just two days when things get underway from Dublin, Ireland,
1:05.8	between Kansas State and Iowa State in the annual Farmageddon rivalry game,
1:07.2	one that we absolutely love.
1:08.3	Can't wait to watch that one.
1:31.5	Maybe one of those two teams will show up in our prognostications for this upcoming season. We will pick the ACC champ. We will pick the SEC Big Ten and Big 12. We will give you the group of five champion this year. And it might not be the team that you think it's going to be. We will also give you all 12 seeds in the college football playoff,
1:38.0	and then we will pick the matchups in those games to present you with the national champion.
1:41.7	We'll also tell you who's going to make the quarterfinals, who's going to make the semifinals. So a full jam pack show for you today as we
1:44.9	continue to look forward to this upcoming season. This is not my favorite show to do, to be honest
1:49.6	with you, because there are so many things that could go wrong. And yes, I've taken some risks.
1:55.3	It's not the most chalky, I guess, preview this season. I do have some chalk that flies, but it's not across the
2:04.1	board. It's not unanimous chalk, but there are a couple, I think, curve balls that I'm going to
2:08.8	throw in the direction of the college football playoff this year. So let's kick things off. Before we do,
2:15.4	I do want to continue to encourage all of you to rate the show, to review
2:20.3	the show. We have seen the reviews pouring in on all the podcast platforms, especially on the
2:25.7	Apple podcast platform. We love you all, man. We do this because we love it. This is a labor of love. It's a lot of hard work. And sometimes
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