One of these 16 teams will win the national title (06/16)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
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🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew discusses recruiting’s impact on winning a national championship. The conversation opens with an explanation on the Blue-Chip Ratio and the reveal of the teams on the list for 2021 (3:30). Then, how certain programs have moved up and down the list in recent years and the group narrows the field by striking teams for various reasons beyond the recruiting data (23:00). Plus, the TV side of the playoff’s impact on college football (38:20) and the winners and losers of conferences losing divisions in the new 12-team playoff era (50:13).Â
Check out Bud Elliott’s Blue-Chip Ratio write-up for 2021 at 247Sports
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Nick right now. I want to talk to you about what's right one of the fastest growing podcasts on the Fox Sports |
| 0:05.7 | Podcast network you might know me from FS1's first things first |
| 0:09.2 | But what's right is different? Why is it different? Well, I have a little more time and space to talk not only about our favorite sports topics |
| 0:17.1 | But also our lives and how do our lives incorporate into the show? |
| 0:20.5 | Well, I also with my own family demands a my son is here for each and every show my wife and my daughters |
| 0:26.5 | Sometimes show up so check out what's right with Nick right wherever you get your podcasts new episodes drop every Monday Thursday and Friday |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome back to the cover three podcast with your host chip panoron Tom for Nelly Danny canell and |
| 0:47.2 | Bod Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National |
| 0:54.0 | Championship and everything in between |
| 0:57.2 | CBS sports presents the cover three podcast and |
| 1:02.4 | Welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS sports. That's Tom for Nelly |
| 1:06.6 | That's Danny canell that's blood Elliott. I'm chip Patterson a lot to get to today including the definitive list |
| 1:13.2 | From which we will find our national champion much more on that in a minute plus we've got continued fallout from the college football playoff announcement |
| 1:21.2 | The 12 team model a little bit of ownership and some accountability being taken by some of the rights holders around the |
| 1:28.4 | Conversation of college football in which when we talk about the sport and the health of it that is certainly a part of it plus |
| 1:34.6 | You know, we've got some reporting on the ways that the conference commissioners and college football stakeholders are thinking about changing |
| 1:41.4 | conferences so if we do away with division play what would that mean? |
| 1:45.8 | For the way that we talk about some jobs the way that we talk about some programs |
| 1:49.0 | So we talk about some conferences. We will get into all of that but back to that list the definitive list of the teams |
| 1:58.3 | That are have what they need to win the national championship and that is talent now if you've been following but Elliott for a long time |
| 2:05.5 | Then you know about the blue chip ratio and we referenced it on Monday show |
| 2:09.5 | But we thought that since we've got the author of the theory here as a host of the show that we should give it some good time for listeners |
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