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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

McElroy’s Top 10 takeaways from Week 7 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A shocking home loss to Northwestern cost James Franklin his job at Penn State, Indiana made a statement to the college football world, Texas (finally) showed the grit that we have been waiting for, Alabama just continues to impress, USC is showing signs of a potential CFP team and another week and another dominating performance for Ohio State, Texas A&M and Texas Tech. McElroy breaks it all down in his top 10 takeaways and gives shoutouts to those who made correct BOLD predictions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

There was buzz that it would be trending in this direction,

0:03.6

but none would have assumed it would come after the loss to Northwestern

0:08.0

because none assumed that they would actually lose at home to Northwestern.

0:13.2

So what had to be done was done.

0:15.8

James Franklin is out and now Penn State becomes by far the most desirable opportunity on the open market.

0:27.5

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. It is our Sunday after further review,

0:34.3

deep dive, our takeaway show. We used to put this out on Monday morning. We now are putting it

0:39.8

out on Sunday. We just feel like we should watch a ton of tape in the morning, which, by the way,

0:43.9

is the greatest way ever to wake up. However, today's news took us in a slightly different

0:49.1

direction and the direction that we didn't necessarily anticipate things happening this

0:53.6

swiftly in Happy Valley, but guess what?

0:56.2

There is a big, powerful job that is now available.

1:01.3

Penn State has parted ways with James Franklin, the biggest news in the college football world.

1:06.7

So naturally, our takeaways will veer in that direction, especially off the top.

1:11.3

Before we get into those, let me first start by encouraging everybody.

1:15.8

Please just go and check out our podcast.

1:18.7

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1:21.5

We have a lot of listeners on the podcast, but not everybody's subscribed.

1:25.4

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1:27.0

And we also have a lot of listeners. Not everybody's left a rating or a review. You don't have to do that. But if you want to help the show, that would be really great. So if you can do that, that'd be awesome. You can also check us out on the ESPN College Football YouTube page. All right, let's kick things off when what we thought was going to be a

1:45.1

takeaway revolving around the games from yesterday's outcomes. We actually are going to start

1:50.2

with the coaching carousel and how a big fish is officially out. Well, Penn State is officially

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