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Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their Mailbag episode! The guys are here to answer your questions! They also break down the CBS Sports 138 CFB rankings following spring practice, discuss their takeaways from ACC Spring Meetings, and much more!
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(00:00) Intro
(1:18) Steve Sarkisian Rips Ole Miss Academic Standards
(16:43) ACC Joins Big Ten & Big 12 In Support Of 24-Team Playoff
(22:06) Would An Expanded Playoff Hurt The Regular Season?
(38:32) CBS Sports 138 Released
(50:10) Team Most Likely To See Season Go Off The Rails
(54:28) Who Rebounds First: Florida State or Clemson?
(56:31) Simulate EA Sports College Football Season?
(58:08) PGA Championship Picks
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere. |
| 0:35.6 | Get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:37.2 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:38.2 | Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:41.5 | aka the cover three tailgate, where Ryan and Isaac, Yovie, and more have jumped in to get |
| 0:49.0 | the conversation started because it is a Thursday. We are getting interactive. That means |
| 0:53.8 | your questions, |
| 0:55.1 | our answers, news of the day, and so much more. And we're just going to go ahead and get |
| 0:59.6 | it started with the tailgate because it should be a good episode. Underwater |
| 1:03.9 | Basket Weaving, anyone. Danny, I had this in the rundown even before I saw the comment. |
| 1:10.8 | Did you ever take basket weaving during your time as a high-level athlete at Florida State University? |
| 1:18.4 | If it was offered, I probably would have looked into it. |
| 1:22.3 | I mean, this often gets brought up, you know, when we talk about athletes not being the brightest or they're taking lighter workloads. |
| 1:31.6 | Those elective courses are available for everybody. |
| 1:34.9 | Like it's not just what was that because I had a class. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm curious to know what your easiest class was at Chapo. |
| 1:40.7 | Like did you take an elective that was kind of the laffer course? Because I definitely |
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