Notre Dame, Ohio State questions plus the ACC’s HUGE weekend | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Iowa State kicked off the 2025 season by taking down Kansas State in Ireland. McElroy tells you why you need to watch out for the Cyclones this season. Plus we hit the mailbag with some banger questions like - who has the better season - CJ Carr, Julian Sayin, DJ Lagway or Dylan Raiola? Can a team outside of the Top 6 win the National Championship for the first time in CFP history? Who needs to make the CFP more, Alabama, LSU or USC and just how important is this weekend for the ACC and the conference's narrative moving forward? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think this is the biggest weekend for ACC football in years.
0:05.0	You've said that all throughout the offseason.
0:12.3	Hello and welcome in. It's always college football.
0:14.6	I'm your host Greg McElroy, and we are so happy that you're here with us today.
0:18.8	It is Monday. It is week one. We have a game to recap.
0:22.4	There are a few that we could recap. We will resist the urge to go down that rabbit hole because
0:27.9	I do think there's one worth taking a look at. We will revisit Iowa State's victory over
0:34.7	Kansas State. We'll document that like we always do on our Monday show.
0:39.7	For those of you that have never really been with us here at Always College football
0:43.8	throughout the regular season, we have an awesome, awesome Monday show. It's kind of a deeper dive.
0:48.6	We might tweak it a little bit this year. Stay tuned. We'll see exactly how we're going to tweak it,
0:54.0	get a little bit more
0:54.8	listener engagement, make sure we are continuing to have great dialogue with the people that
1:00.5	have made this show awesome over the last few years. So make sure that you continue to follow along
1:05.0	on the ESPN College Football YouTube channel. If you've been with us here in the past,
1:08.9	you know that we not just put out episodes
1:11.0	on a daily basis, but we also will send out clipouts, some of the highlights of some of our
1:17.1	full length episodes. We clip them out five, six minutes at a time. So if we're not talking about
1:22.1	your favorite team for 42 minutes or 45 minutes, however long we go, maybe there's only
1:27.4	six minutes on your favorite team.
1:28.8	That's what you want to listen to.
1:30.0	By all means, totally support that.
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