Shehan Jeyarajah on College Football Week #1

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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National College Football Writer of CBS Sports Shehan Jeyarajah joins the show to discuss his top takeaways from the opneing weekend of College Football, including his expectations for Alabama the rest of the season after their dissapointing Week #1 loss, will LSU win the National Title, should we be worried about Cade Klubnik and Clemson, plus more!

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0:00.0	Hour two. You Better You Bet, presented by BedmGM, PJ Glasser, Jake Gasson, here with you on Labor Day.
0:07.3	We hope everybody is having a great holiday weekend. We appreciate you spending some time with us.
0:12.7	Coming up here in our number two, we're going to dive into the NFL a little bit.
0:17.2	Jake and I will talk about some of our favorite games for week one and then those
0:21.3	Survivor contests. Everybody's getting in their entries trying to pick the team that they think
0:25.9	is going to survive in advance to week two. Jake and I will talk about some strategy, some teams that we
0:31.3	like for week one and the NFL is we've made it. NFL week season kicks off Thursday eagles and cowboys but let's get back to college
0:39.6	football and recap what we saw in week one talk about tonight's unccc and tCU game as well
0:46.1	we're going to do that with shahan jaraaja who joins us national college football writer for
0:50.5	CBS sports give shahan a follow on x at Shahan J. Rajah on X.
0:56.4	Shahan really appreciate the time, man.
0:58.1	Before we recap what's happened over the last few days in college football, just
1:02.5	want your thoughts on tonight's matchup, TCU and UNC, and really how you see tonight's game
1:09.2	going and also how you expect Belichick's first year
1:12.9	to go in Chapel Hill as well. What are your expectations?
1:17.7	Yeah, it's such an interesting situation to be going into because you look at this North
1:22.7	Carolina team. I like the addition of Geo Lopez, the South Alabama transfer at quarterback, but other than that, it's just a whole bunch of unknowns. You know, this was one of the worst defenses in the country last year, but at the same time, you're in a situation where you brought in a couple of key guys, especially in that secondary. You'll be coordinated by a Belichick. You'll be head coached by a Belichick. You expect that unit to get better.
1:45.7	But I think the other thing too heading into this one is that people I think are undervaluing
1:50.5	TCU just a little bit.
1:52.0	If you look over the past three or four years, there's a number one recruiting program
1:55.7	in the Big 12.
1:56.7	They've got a guy in Josh Hoover who I think will be an NFL draft pick.
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