Ohio State, Notre Dame & Penn State dominate - Texas holds on in CFP 1st round | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

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🗓️ 22 December 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Notre Dame hosted the first CFP game on campus and dominated an Indiana team that didn’t have a good game plan. Penn State’s defense crushed SMU’s dreams before the 1st quarter was over. Texas held off a good Clemson team by running the ball all over the Tigers and Ohio State flexed hard on Tennessee and looked like a team on a mission from the start. McElroy breaks down the 1st round games and has a few more general takeaways for all of us i.e. stop with the hypothetical matchups in the CFP (looking at you SEC fans). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	They play like they played last night, that's Ohio State's game.
0:03.0	And if they play like that, three more times, Ohio State is going to win the national championship.
0:08.0	But I'm just going to tell you that.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome in. It is always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy, and it is Sunday, December 22nd, just a couple days away from Christmas.
0:22.8	So hopefully, college football did not get in the way of your Christmas shopping yesterday.
0:27.9	I hope it didn't happen because it did me, and now I'm going to have to make up for it today.
0:33.4	Yes, I put things off to the last minute.
0:35.2	It is what it is, but we're glad that you're here with us.
0:37.5	So if you're out bouncing around town, they're going to to the last minute. It is what it is, but we're glad that you're here with us. So if you're out bouncing around town,
0:39.4	going to grab some last minute gifts,
0:41.5	glad you're here listening to us on Always College Football.
0:45.9	Like, rate, and subscribe to the show, wherever you get the show.
0:48.7	We do this every single week.
0:50.3	We do a Sunday takeaway show.
0:52.0	We usually do a Monday top 10 deeper dive takeaway show.
0:56.2	We're going to kind of blend those today, where we're going to dive just a little bit deeper
1:00.9	on some of these matchups from the college football playoff, all four of them.
1:05.1	Tell you a couple things that stood out to us. We'll preview some of the games coming up in
1:10.1	the quarter final matchups and we'll tell some of the games coming up in the quarterfinal matchups and
1:12.3	we'll tell you why the system isn't broken and just because your team didn't get in doesn't
1:19.6	mean that the committee got it wrong. Okay, a lot that we need to get to. So we will dive in and
1:25.5	start with the game on Friday night between Indiana and
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