National Signing Day Recap: Winners, losers, how college football recruiting is evolving in the transfer portal era (02/03)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 3 February 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is here to give you the latest in the world of college football. National Signing Day is coming to a close and Alabama has landed the best recruiting class of all time! Let’s dive in! (2:00) How did Alabama land the best class ever? Who are the names to know? (10:00) New coaches, average classes. How did the new coaches fare this year? (16:00) Wisconsin has brought in its best class ever! (22:19) What kind of class does Jimbo Fisher have at Texas A&M? (25:08) USC does a good job holding on to California talent. Class stays inside the Top 8. (31:45) What are the recruiting gaps like in the top 10? How do these schools match up? (35:20) Deion Sanders is making magic at Jackson State. (39:20) Explaining the 2021 recruiting classes compared to other non-Covid years.
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| 0:30.8 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Patterson, |
| 0:36.6 | Martin Simmons, and Tom Fonelli. |
| 0:39.2 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National Championship |
| 0:45.8 | and everything in between. |
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| 0:56.3 | That's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:57.1 | I'm Chip Patterson, National Signing Day 2021, the conclusion of the 2021 recruiting cycle. |
| 1:03.9 | We do still have a few stragglers out there. |
| 1:07.1 | You know, you've got some that will be committing later in the week. |
| 1:11.0 | I know we've got a couple Friday commitments that are still hanging out there. |
| 1:14.3 | You've also got the number one prospect in the class who has not set a date based on my understanding. |
| 1:20.4 | We're just assuming later this spring for defensive lineman JT2 and Moa Loweau. |
| 1:26.5 | And as we're sort of putting the pieces back together, there's a couple different places to start. |
| 1:32.4 | Bud, you've got a winners and losers column available on CBS Sports.com that all the listeners, |
| 1:37.2 | if you have not seen it already, should absolutely go and check out. |
| 1:40.8 | We've got some storylines that sort of have continued and paid off in ways that we might have predicted |
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