McElroy’s Top 5 CFP rankings reaction: Oregon’s path, Alabama out & more | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The first 12 team College Football playoff ranking is official. SMU stays in, pushing Alabama out, Oregon’s path is tougher than Penn State’s, Ohio State looks to get right vs Tennessee and there’s a battle of Indiana (which NO one saw coming). Boise State and Arizona State get a buy while the ACC Champion Clemson is a 12 seed. Year 1 is wild and McElroy tells you what the committee did right, the issues he has and what can be fixed to make the 12 team CFP better. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	I'm very excited, and I think as far as the playoff is concerned.
0:35.9	I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do think it's a net positive for the sport.
0:46.0	Hello and welcome. It is always college football. Today is Sunday, December 8th. You might be
0:52.7	getting this on Monday, December 9th, but I'm your host, Greg McElroy.
0:57.4	Welcome in. Today is Selection Day. And what a day it was here in the college football world,
1:03.7	was just on the set alongside Reese Davis, Booker McFarland, and Joey Galloway the about four hours. Then we had Kirk Curb Street and
1:14.4	Nick Savin joining us as well with plenty of guests throughout the show. It's a lot of fun to be there.
1:19.2	It's a lot of fun to be a part of it. And like we always do, we have some takeaways.
1:24.1	Takeaways from the rankings, takeaways from some of the matchups that we have to look
1:28.1	forward to, and some things that we've already kind of noticed that might be flawed with our
1:34.0	current 12-team playoff system, current, this version of the 12-team playoff system. We will explain
1:42.0	that here as we go along. If you guys are new to the show,
1:45.5	like, rate, subscribe. Really appreciate you guys. We've been doing this a lot the last couple
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