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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Reasonable & unreasonable expectations for Alabama, Michigan & more of CFB's most interesting teams with Ralph Russo

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

What are reasonable and unreasonable expectations for fanbases of some of college football's most interesting teams? Ari Wasserman is joined by The Athletic's Kennington Smith III and Ralph Russo of the Associated Press to solve what rational, and irrational, benchmarks Alabama, Michigan, Colorado, Clemson, and more should hit this season. Kenny and Ralph are subjected to an expectations lightning round before the triumvirate reveal which fanbases are the most irrational. Listen to Ralph on the AP Top 25 College Football Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/id1138957862 Read Kenny's SEC schedule breakdown: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5556938/2024/06/12/sec-football-2024-tv/ Rundown: - Reasonable/unreasonable expectations: Alabama (3:00) - Texas to the moon? (13:00) - Notre Dame standard in '24 (22:30) - Is Ole Miss a National Championship contender? (30:15) - We're the "Michael Jordan of being wrong about Texas A&M" (39:15) - Colorado fans, let's be real (47:00) - Miami boom or bust (52:30) - Clemson, Dabo need to "stand on buisness" (59:30) - Can Michigan win The Game? (1:06:00) - Lightning Round: FSU, Penn State, LSU + more (1:09:30) - Most irrational fanbases (1:12:30) Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to the Until Saturday newletter & join in answering the Question of the Day!: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.0

Welcome back to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman joined by Kenny Smith the third our Alabama Beat writer and SEC expert wrote a really interesting story this week

0:20.4

breaking down the SEC schedule that we're going to be leaning on heavily and

0:23.3

National College Football reporter Ralph Russo from the Associated Press. If you've

0:28.6

listened to the show before you know that Ralph and I get kind of spicy so

0:32.1

I'm hoping that we do get into that a little bit.

0:34.7

It's going to be an interesting show today.

0:36.7

What we're going to attempt to do is break down reasonable and unreasonable expectations

0:41.9

for the most interesting teams in college football. Maybe not the most interesting teams in college football,

0:43.8

maybe not the most interesting teams, the most interesting seasons and

0:47.1

teams that are at interesting cross sections.

0:49.1

We'll give a conservative and radical estimations for each team listed.

0:52.9

We're going to break down fan bases at the end of the show

0:56.9

and we're all going to give one fan base

0:58.8

that we have found to be particularly irrational

1:01.7

in our time covering college football and why.

1:04.6

But I do think that you're going to see a little bit of a departure on the show from just like the

1:08.8

Ohio State to the world.

1:10.5

You know, we will have big time teams on here, but we know that Ohio State's facing a lot of pressure

1:14.8

We know that they have to beat Michigan blah blah blah blah that's not as interesting we're gonna focus on some programs that are interesting cross sections of their programs and season so Ralph Ralph, I'll start with you. How are we doing today?

1:25.9

Awesome man, big day in the Russo household. It's a prom night for my daughter. So once I get done with this,

1:32.1

this is like the highlight of my day, the next

1:34.4

highlight, the highlight of my afternoon, the highlight of my night is making sure my daughter gets

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