Power Ranking 2025's Epic Week 1 Games & RIP Spring Games
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Why are college football spring games dropping like flies? David Ubben, Chris Vannini, and Damien Harris examine spring game's terminality, and they discuss why they're so important to CFB. Does 2025 have the best Week 1 slate ever? The guys power rank a loaded 2025 opening weekend. Lastly, Ben from Sarasota left a voicemail to posit a very interesting playoff proposal.
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Damien Harris (@DHx34)
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| 0:00.0 | If you're looking for a family-friendly pub this summer, |
| 0:02.7 | Vindicins is the place for you. |
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| 0:40.6 | deserves to be seen. |
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| 1:02.2 | Thank you. Hello and welcome to until Saturday. I am your host, David Ubin. |
| 1:07.4 | recovering from perpetual sickness. We got two little kids, and nobody explained to me the chain reaction of sickness, where if somebody gets sick, then everybody's sick for like two weeks. Not a huge fan. I'm here with my co-host, as always, Chris Finini. What's going on, guys? I got to say, I was thinking this weekend, should I shave the beard? It's that time of year where I start to think about it. I'm asking everybody's opinions on what they think. Can't do it. Can't do it. |
| 1:28.3 | No, absolutely. I don't think so. Okay. I didn't know if this was for us to speak on because you hadn't |
| 1:33.0 | really asked us, but no shot. Don't do it. Don't do it. Our guy Damien Harris is in the show as well. So guys, soon to be father of two sons. So, um, thank you. Congrats, Damien. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:31.3 | Uh, been, shout out to you for Congrats, Damien. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:45.5 | Ubin. Shout out to you for giving me a picture of what I'm going to be looking at soon of the next year. So, so thank you. My son was actually, my son was going to say my son was actually sick recently and I've gotten bits and pieces of it. and it just, the way it just |
| 1:41.7 | circulates in your household, man, it's |
| 1:43.5 | it's a problem. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm about to have a recommitment to the flu |
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