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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, USC & more fight to keep CFP hopes ALIVE & more previews | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Week 10 is here and CFP hopes and dreams are on the line. Will Arch Manning be back to help lead the Longhorns to a much needed Top 10 win over Vanderbilt, will leaving the state of Florida for the first time all season hurt Miami’s chances at SMU and can USC prove they are still a CFP contender by beating Nebraska in Lincoln? Plus, will Florida play loose and aggressive in their first game without Billy Napier against a hungry Georgia team and whose playoff dreams will come crashing down in Knoxville on Saturday night? McElroy delivers his in-depth previews and predictions for the biggest games of the weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Tough situation on everybody. I mean, let's be honest. Players dealing with it, fans dealing

0:35.8

with it, coaches dealing with it at this time in the middle of a season.

0:40.3

You know, I think there's so much built around the playoffs.

0:45.3

And it's like everything's boom or bust and you can't have a normal season.

0:51.3

People have got to make decisions earlier based on how somebody does.

1:00.0

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy and it is week 10.

1:06.0

Week double digits, baby. We are getting to the final stretch. A lot of these games that we will talk about today, they are going to be played in November. In November is where we start to separate. Is it not? Hey, we all look great through September. We all look great through October. Well, now, now is the time when you want to start to peak. And as you start to peak with where we've gone on the 12-team playoff era, the teams that are playing best here from this point forward, those are the teams that will be crowned national champs. Now, last year, of course, with Ohio State, they peaked and then dipped and then peaked. Let's avoid the dip this time if we can. All right, Buckeyes, how's that sound?

1:44.5

But I think from this point forward, man, we're going to start to separate the haves from the have-nots. We're really looking forward to this final month of the season, some of the matches that we have in store for us. A lot of good ones that will break down today. We're going to do all of our big breakdowns, and we have a few, just one hitters that we're going to hit on a few games

2:02.4

throughout the rest of the slate that aren't necessarily super marquee, but just something

2:07.8

to watch, a key from some of those games involving top teams. Before we get into our previews,

2:13.1

if you could, if you're new to the show, go ahead and subscribe to the podcast. Cannot emphasize that enough. Subscribe to the podcast, whatever podcast platform you're on. If you want to leave a rating, if you want to leave a review, we much appreciate it. That's for sure. And you're here with us via the ESPN YouTube channel. Leave a comment. Tell me what you think. Give us a bold prediction. We're always about that as well. All right. It's not wasting

2:34.1

time. We'll kick things off in the noon window like we always do. Penn State at Ohio State.

2:39.3

This game's 12 o'clock Eastern time on Fox. Ohio State is obviously the number one team in the

2:44.0

country, the defending national champs, and are the consensus title favorites again, and they're hosting

2:49.0

a Penn State team that's now three and four,

2:51.7

O and four in the Big Ten.

2:53.1

They are in an uncontrolled free fall.

2:55.6

They've lost four straight.

2:57.0

Amazing to me, the narrative arc of Penn State's implosion.

3:01.3

Just one month ago, this is a team that was number three.

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