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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Post-Spring Top-25 Rankings Reveal + Breakdown with Dan Wetzel

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ari Wasserman is joined by Max Olson and Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports sports writer extraordinaire and 1/3 of the 'College Football Enquirer' podcast, to discuss his post-spring top-25 rankings. Which teams are ranked too high, too low, not at all? We want to hear your thoughts about Ari's rankings, so call the Until Saturday phone line and leave a voicemail (or text): 316-462-9852. Plus, Dan attempts to explain new emerging details about the NCAA's compensation model.


Rundown:

- Compensation model new info (2:00)

- Post-spring Top-25 rankings: Nos. 1-3 (12:30)

- Nos. 4-7 (27:00)

- Nos. 8-10 (38:00)

- Nos. 11-13 (45:00)

- Nos. 14 & 15 (53:00)

- Nos. 16-18 (1:00:00)

- Nos. 19-22 (1:09:00)

- Nos. 23-25 + Dumping USC (1:14:30)


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:29.9

Music Welcome back to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by Max Olson, who is out of hiding from Irrational Colorado fans after the tremendous story. And I'm going to say that again, tremendous story that he did on the Colorado Buffaloes. How are we doing, Max? I know it was kind of a rough few days for you, but, you know, I'm so happy to see you. And I just want to echo again. I thought it was an incredible story. And I'm sorry you had to go through that, but we all go through that at some time. It's okay. It's okay. I'm alive and well, and it's good to see you, buddy.

1:11.9

Okay. I'm happy you're here. And Dan Wetzel, one of the best, if not the best college,

1:16.9

not college, sports writers in general in the entire world. And one third of the college football

1:22.4

not just sports writers, humans. One of the best humans. Yeah. I undercutted him by saying,

1:26.3

I went college and writer, then, yeah, let's just arrive at humans. Yahoo Sports and College Football Enquirer podcast. Thanks so much for joining us, Dan. It's always great to have you here. Well, as long as you got the introduction, right? I'm good. Yeah. I think we're good. I don't know. Thank you for having me. We have a fairly big show today.

1:46.0

I'm probably going to enrage I think we're good. I don't know. Thank you for having me. We have a fairly big show today.

1:56.4

I'm probably going to enrage a lot of people, but we are going to attempt to break down my post-spring way too early top 25 for next year.

1:58.7

I wanted to start to show off by just apologizing to you all.

2:00.8

That was a very hard thing to do.

2:06.4

I can't fathom how Chris Vinini does 131 teams every week throughout the season, and I gained a new appreciation because this is the first time I've ever been asked to rank teams before.

2:10.5

It's hard. It's really hard. But first, we're going to talk about the new compensation model

2:16.2

that Ross Dellinger wrote about.

2:17.7

A very interesting story and might just be another clue as we try to figure out what the future

2:22.1

of college football looks like. Be sure to follow the podcast on Apple or every list in your

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