Pressure building in the Big Ten (09/02)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dennis Dodd joins Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson to discuss the path to playing in the fall. First, Barton and Chip put a bow on the most off-schedule offseason in podcast history and detail what fans should embrace about this strange season (1:30). Then Dennis joins the show to give a behind the scenes look at how conferences have reached their decisions to play (9:30), what the Big Ten might be thinking in regards to playing this fall (18:30) and whether opt-outs are going to become a growing trend for soon-to-be draft eligible players in college football (33:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Anderson, |
| 0:09.3 | Barton Simmons, and Tom Fonelli. It's your call for the best college football coverage |
| 0:15.4 | from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.4 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Barton Simmons. I'm Chip |
| 0:30.9 | Patterson, Dennis Dodd coming up in a little bit. We will be talking about the big 10. |
| 0:37.0 | We will be talking about players opting out and much more fun. Just sort of the landscape as he |
| 0:41.5 | has seen it. He has been reporting on a lot of the pieces behind the scenes. He broke the story |
| 0:46.9 | of Jamar Chase going opting out of the season. And so we will be hitting on a lot of those big |
| 0:52.7 | picture topics as well. Barton, this is our last official offseason podcast because while we sort |
| 1:02.9 | of had, I guess we have Central Arkansas buzz last week leading into Central Arkansas, Austin. |
| 1:08.7 | We will be the next time we will be in your earholes. It will be for our week one locks. We're |
| 1:15.2 | going to be recording that tomorrow, Thursday, mid morning, look for it around lunchtime. |
| 1:21.4 | So I just wanted to take a little bit and just sort of reset because I felt like we went hard |
| 1:29.0 | early. We're like, okay, spring practices canceled. Let's just start doing our spring clean. |
| 1:34.0 | You know, let's dive in on these depth charts. And I think that Barton even said on a podcast, |
| 1:39.9 | he said, man, I hope we have a season because I'm going to be more prepared than ever before. |
| 1:45.1 | So our notes for some of the conferences at least stick around, but like, how are you doing? |
| 1:52.9 | You know, how are we feeling as we approach this unusual 2020 fall season? |
| 1:59.2 | Well, I mean, just the way you sort of introduced this conversation kind of gives me goosebumps |
| 2:06.2 | to think that are we in fact saying goodbye to this horrible offseason? |
| 2:11.7 | Yeah, kind of. |
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