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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Rivalry Week previews: Can Notre Dame, Tennessee & Texas A&M keep CFP hopes alive | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It’s the last week of the regular season and SO much is on the line. Ryan Day looks to break a 3 game losing streak to Michigan, Alabama tries to rebound to keep slim CFP hopes alive in the Iron Bowl, Texas and Texas A&M renew a rivalry while Notre Dame heads out west to USC looking to secure a home playoff game. McElroy previews all the big games and tells you if Tennessee & Miami are on upset alert, who will win between Clemson and South Carolina and who will take charge in the BIG 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'll tell you this, the guy in college football that is feeling more pressure than anybody going into this weekend is Ryan Day.

0:12.2

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football and we are so grateful to have you here with us or should I say thankful.

0:20.5

We are here in the midst of a Thanksgiving

0:23.5

holiday, a week of festivities and includes family and football and fun. For us, college football

0:31.8

game previews. We are very happy to be here on our preview show here leading you into rivalry weekend. To me,

0:40.3

this is the best week of the year. I love bowl games. I love the first week of the season.

0:47.4

I love all the incredible matchups that we have throughout the year. But there is nothing that

0:52.6

quite comes close to rivalry weekend.

0:56.4

It's just the best I remember as a player playing in the Iron Bowl five times.

1:02.7

I remember specific plays from every single one of those games.

1:06.9

And there's just nothing quite like it.

1:08.8

It's a legacy builder.

1:10.0

It's a legacy cementer.

1:11.9

It's something that is of the utmost importance to your fan base.

1:16.0

And while we've seen changes and we've seen adjustment to the college football landscape,

1:21.6

we acknowledge that it's different.

1:24.0

The college football that my kids will grow up with is different than the college football that I grew up with and potentially the cultural football that you grew up with.

1:33.8

But one thing remains the same.

1:37.1

You always, always hold those rivalry games above all else.

1:42.3

And that will not change regardless of realignment. And in some

1:46.0

cases, realignment renews rivalries like it will in College Station, Texas this weekend. We'll get to

1:53.9

that one. Iron Bowl, good clean, old-fashioned hate, Michigan, Ohio State or Ohio State, Michigan,

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