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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

McElroy’s Top 5 takeaways: Alabama’s comeback, Miami’s grit, Ole Miss & Oregon roll | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Sports, Football

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The first round of the college football playoff delivered some great storylines. Was the bigger story Alabama’s comeback or Oklahoma choking away a 17 point lead? Miami and Texas A&M battled in a bare-knuckles brawl which saw the Hurricanes escape College Station with a 10-3 win, does Miami have enough to beat Ohio State? Plus, Ole Miss and Oregon steamrolled the G5 teams (which everyone expected), so McElroy breaks down what can and should be done moving forward with the CFP format. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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We did not see an offensive explosion. We saw a 15-round, heavyweight brawl, where the boxers did not bring gloves they brought brass

0:40.2

knuckles the final score in this game was 10 to 3 it was beautifully hideous I guess

0:48.3

is the best way to to describe it.

0:56.9

Hello and welcome in.

0:58.0

It's always college football.

1:00.5

It's our Sunday takeaway edition.

1:03.9

But because there's only four games we're going to talk about,

1:05.5

we're kind of blending it all together.

1:10.0

We usually on Sundays, as you know, we'll do two shows where we kind of do the rapid fire reactions to kind

1:12.0

to get people up to speed because you probably couldn't watch everything. But you probably

1:16.7

watched all four playoff games if you're listening to this show. You're a college football

1:20.6

fan. I am too. And while some of the games, especially in the afternoon and the prime time window

1:26.6

last night.

1:27.6

Even though they weren't outrageously competitive, I was still, I didn't miss a snap.

1:32.9

I just, I know we have so few games remaining.

1:35.8

I got to make sure I watch them all.

1:37.3

I'm your host Greg McElroy, and I'm really happy to have you with us here today.

1:40.9

It is the 21st of December, and we will kind of put a bow on what was the first round of

1:47.5

the college football playoff. We will do four game breakdowns. We will also give you kind of

1:53.8

the overarching low-hanging fruit conversation that's going on right now with the group of five.

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