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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

McElroy’s Top 10 takeaways: Kiffin’s decision, CFP bubble & more | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Lane Kiffin’s decision to leave Ole Miss for LSU sent a shockwave through college football, but it’s not the only storyline after the regular season ended. McElroy tells you the ripple effects of Kiffin in his Top 10 takeaways plus goes into why Ohio State is different this year, why the CFP bubble with Alabama, Notre Dame, Miami, BYU and Vanderbilt is incredible, reaction to the new coaching hires at Florida, Auburn, Arkansas and Ole Miss, why the CFB calendar needs to change sooner rather than later and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The college football playoff committee is going to have to look at the eye test over some of the resume gaps.

0:05.3

And frankly, right now, some of the metrics between Miami and Notre Dame, they are literally right next to each other on a lot of the metrics.

0:18.3

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host, Greg McElroy, and we are so happy to have you here with us again today.

0:24.7

It is our second show of the day. We always do our rapid fire reactions that's based on the results of Fridays and Saturdays games.

0:34.3

But we always take a slightly deeper dive here on Sunday evenings.

0:39.2

We've gone back. We've watched some of the tape. We've drawn some conclusions. We're looking

0:43.5

big picture. What do the outcomes mean? And especially fun version of our 10 takeaway show today

0:50.6

is the coaching carousel and the moves that have been made across the college football

0:56.3

landscape. If you listened to our show last week, we did a pretty good job, by the way,

1:02.9

telling you who was going where and our sources were very sound, very sound, but there were a couple

1:09.0

late switcherooze that we will tell you about today,

1:12.9

why they fit, why it makes sense, what led to this decision being made to go here as opposed

1:20.2

to here, and of course, the big fish, the big conversation that has captured the attention

1:26.9

of the college football world, Lane Kiffin,

1:30.2

and his pursuit of a new opportunity down on the bayou. We will talk about that. What does it

1:36.5

mean for LSU? What does it mean for Ole Miss? They now have their permanent head coach moving

1:42.5

forward, and there have been a lot of other

1:44.4

vacancies that have been announced here in the last few hours as well.

1:48.2

So before we get into all of our takeaways, I kindly encourage you and just ask you,

1:54.2

if you would, go and subscribe to the podcast wherever you get the podcast.

1:58.1

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1:59.2

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