McElroy’s Top 10 takeaways from week 12 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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Football, Sports

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Oklahoma is now in prime position to make the CFP for the first time since 2019, Georgia looks like they are peaking at the right time, Texas A&M continues to find ways to win and the SEC’s path to getting 5 teams in the CFP is becoming very clear. Plus, there were dominating performances from Ohio State, Indiana, Miami and Texas Tech. Notre Dame looks like a playoff team but they might not control their own destiny and the group 5 (and ACC) are still in chaos. McElroy breaks it all down in his Top 10 takeaways from Week 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you're an Irish fan and you're looking for hope,
0:03.0	you need a little bit of chaos.
0:05.0	Because a lot of the teams that are sitting right in front of you
0:08.0	have stronger finishes to the season,
0:11.0	so they're likely in victory only going to strengthen their position
0:15.0	sitting right in front of you.
0:17.0	So you need an upset or two.
0:22.7	Hello and welcome in.
0:24.2	It's Always College Football.
0:25.3	I'm your host, Greg McElroy,
0:26.6	and it is our Sunday evening edition of Always College Football.
0:30.5	It's one of our favorite shows of the week.
0:31.9	It's our top 10 takeaway show.
0:34.3	We had the opportunity earlier today to give you our rapid reactions, kind of take you through what happened.
0:41.6	Well, here's the show where we tell you why. It happened to what it means moving forward for some of these teams.
0:47.3	Just some bigger picture landscape type conversations that we love having here on a Sunday evening.
0:55.4	A lot that we need to get to.
0:57.5	Ten massive takeaways, a lot of shakeups, some dominant performances,
1:01.5	a Heisman Trophy odds list that will go through to me that makes very little sense.
1:07.2	But I'll explain why here in just a little bit.
1:09.8	We'll talk some conference championship scenarios.
1:12.7	We'll also talk about the G5,
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