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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Ohio State D, Georgia WR’s, Mertz and Ward dazzle & more spring game takeaways

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

McElroy goes over the BIG takeaways from spring games this past weekend including Milroe (and Simpson) looking good for Alabama, a dominant Ohio State defense, Cam Ward for Miami and Graham Mertz for Florida both looking good. The return of Cam Rising, the depth at Virginia Tech and Georgia, and Lane Kiffin completely changing the game with the “Grove Bowl Games”. Plus the transfer portal opens and we hit the mailbag  | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The portal this time of year is more beneficial to the top programs, but that's because I think the portal this time of year is always beneficial to the top programs.

0:10.0

Not just this time of year, but in December as well.

0:12.5

Like if you have playoffs and deep NIL resources,

0:15.8

you're always going to be at a massive advantage,

0:18.4

regardless of when the portal opens in April

0:20.6

or when the portal opens in December.

0:22.3

You're always a step ahead if you have crazy resources.

0:30.8

Hello and welcome to always college football. I'm Greg McElroy. Appreciate you guys being with us. Today is Monday, April 15th. It's tax day. So a lot of us writing checks today in some cases maybe some cases collecting checks but

0:45.4

either way kind of a stressful day for all of us but not so stressful if you're

0:50.6

finished with your spring football responsibilities and a bunch of teams are they were able to go on the field on Saturday in some cases had a real game like scrimmage in other cases they had tug-of-wors, slammed-down contests, and hot-dog-eating

1:06.6

contest. We'll tell you who had what here in just a bit. We're also going to naturally, this point with the portal opening in the next day.

1:16.0

We're going to evaluate the possibility of whether or not these teams will add a player in the

1:20.2

portal and we'll probably get into this a little bit more.

1:23.3

Portals open for two weeks.

1:25.1

So there's a lot of time to be able to get to it, but there were some glaring holes

1:29.4

on a few different rosters this weekend that I think teams will try to address.

1:34.6

Alongside as always Marcubiac Jack Foster and Jake Garcia.

1:37.8

We appreciate all of you coming to us from wherever it is you're coming to us from.

1:41.0

Well that's the ACF podcast.

1:45.0

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1:48.5

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1:50.0

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