McElroy’s Top 10 Takeaways from Week 1 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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McElroy delivers his Top 10 takeaways from week 1 of the college football season! Carson Beck delivers a HUGE win for Miami, LSU looks like a legit national Title Contender, Florida State is the real deal and the SEC is wide open. Alabama has A LOT of work to do and Texas is going to be fine but needs to clean some things up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.8	understand it's one game but it was a big game and i know we talked about that as last week is you
0:37.1	to be on this stage you can top 10 opponent you know very talented team and you know we talked about that as last week is you to be on this stage
0:37.8	against top ten opponent you know very talented team and you know but we wanted to
0:41.8	be the aggressor and when we were hello and welcome in it is always college
0:51.4	football I'm your host Greg McElroy and we appreciate so much those of you coming to us today.
0:56.5	Just in an effort to be fully transparent, because we love college football and we love our listeners.
1:04.2	We have such a loyal and educated listener base.
1:07.5	We don't want to try to mislead.
1:08.9	I am taping this show on Sunday, August 31st. We don't want to try to mislead. I am taping this show on Sunday August 31st. We normally
1:14.1	take our Sunday takeaways and we do them on Monday, the 10 things we've learned. We do that on
1:20.6	Monday's show. We're not doing that today. Why? Well, because I'm calling a game tonight.
1:25.5	And with the magic of post-production, you will see a remarkable change from me.
1:35.2	If you're watching on the ESPN College Football YouTube page, I will somehow morph from a hoodie
1:40.6	that I'm currently wearing into a suit with no tie at some point in this show.
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