Ryan McGee’s Mid-Season College Football Check-In

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This college football season has been full of excitement, and not always from the places we’ve grown to expect. Because for every Georgia and Michigan and Ohio State sitting at the top of the rankings, we’ve also got rebounding powers making noise, like Florida State and Texas. And unexpected teams like North Carolina pushing their way into the conversation. Not to mention a Pac-12 conference insisting on making its final season a memorable one. So today, Ryan McGee drops by to tell us what he’s been looking at as the first college football playoff rankings of the season loom on the horizon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ryan McGee, it's the heart of college football season.
0:04.1	NASCAR is heading toward the playoffs.
0:07.1	Is it true that this is sort of the holiday season for you right now?
0:10.8	It's the holiday for my wife because I just wave goodbye to her, you know, usually
0:15.0	in middle of October.
0:16.0	And so I'll see you after Thanksgiving.
0:19.0	Yeah, no, it's, it's the most wonderful time of the year for me because as you know,
0:24.0	the goal is to keep the phone ringing and the phone keeps ringing and whether it's a
0:28.8	football coach or a race car driver and don't tell anyone as well, they pay me an American
0:34.0	dollars to do this.
0:35.0	Yeah, keep let's keep that between us.
0:38.4	Well apologies to the speed demons out there, but we're talking to you today about the
0:43.4	college football season.
0:44.4	We're halfway through the first college football playoff rankings will be out at the end
0:48.6	of the month.
0:49.6	I just wanted to sort of get your feel for this.
0:52.9	What's it looking like to you?
0:56.2	It's been chaotic, which as you know, as writers, that's what we root for.
1:01.3	Everybody thinks we root for certain teams are getting, that's not true at all.
1:04.5	What I'm looking for is entertainment.
1:06.6	And this year has been, I mean, full to the brim.
1:09.9	And every time we think we know where it's going, we don't.
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