McElroy’s conference championship game and CFP predictions

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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You’ve heard the rest now hear the best (at least the most accurate, go ahead check the receipts). Greg McElroy gives his conference championship game predictions for the BIG 10, SEC, ACC and BIG 12. Plus he breaks down the 12 teams that will make the College Football playoff and explains why it's possible the SEC will get 5 teams in while the BIG 12 and ACC may be 1 bid leagues. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	That's five from the SEC that I think will make the initial 12 team playoff feels like a lot feels like a little let us know I really think the SEC's depth and the fact that you're going to have a bunch of teams with pretty dang good records and pretty good resumes
0:15.2	gonna have them well positioned.
0:21.2	Hello and
0:25.0	it's a very important day.
0:26.0	it's always college football.
0:28.0	And it's a very important day because today it's official.
0:33.2	Today we etch our predictions in stone.
0:37.6	We have long speculated for the last eight months
0:40.2	how we might lean when evaluating some of these teams. We've long considered
0:45.8	possibilities and whether or not we're going to take some flyers. But today is
0:51.1	the day. I'm your host Greg McElroy along with me is always the usual crew.
0:55.0	Jack, Jake, Jack, the other Jack, everybody's here, all right? But today's a very special day.
1:01.2	We've given you our top 25. That was a few weeks back. So there've been a couple
1:06.8	tweaks based on some buzz coming out of fall camp. We've also basically told you some dark horses over the last few years and if you want to go back,
1:19.0	just for the record, last couple years, nobody in the pre-season has been more accurate for the most part
1:27.1	than us when evaluating conference champions.
1:30.8	Last year in the power five we were five for five in picking the conference
1:36.7	champion. That's right we had Texas. We had Washington. A lot of people didn't we did. We had Washington.
1:42.7	A lot of people didn't.
1:43.6	We did.
1:44.5	We had Alabama last year over Georgia.
1:48.2	We also had Florida State in the ACC.
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