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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

STATEMENT wins for Notre Dame, Georgia & Miami + more Week 1 reaction

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Georgia dominated Clemson showing why they are the #1 team, leaving Clemson fans to wonder - what’s next? Miami and Cam Ward looked comfortable in an impressive victory at Florida while the Gators begin what will be a LONG season. Notre Dame silenced their doubters (and the Texas A&M crowd) in a huge road win. Oregon and Michigan won - but not nearly as impressive as some would have thought. A lot of SEC QB’s - including Arch Manning - looked great in game 1. Alabama, Ole Miss and Tennessee looked like well oiled machines plus much more. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome in it's always college football. I'm your host Greg

0:02.8

McElroy today's Sunday. Today's our Sunday takeaways show for those of you that

0:07.0

have never really been with us in the past is this kind of free-flowing

0:11.5

consciousness based on what I watched yesterday.

0:15.0

Granted, there are some games that go on that I don't always get to see.

0:19.8

I was calling, for example, I was calling Clemson and Georgia yesterday, noon on ABC.

0:27.2

Up against it was Penn State, West Virginia.

0:29.4

So in a normal setting, I wouldn't necessarily be able to break that game down but because of the weather delay

0:35.4

it'll be the opportunity to actually watch quite a bit of that game. So we will break down as much as we can. We're not going to dive deep in the

0:43.1

wheat. You'll have to check back with us tomorrow when we have a little more time to

0:47.0

further review the tape and look at some trends and better kind of assess what actually went down after 24 hours of thought.

0:57.6

So check back with us tomorrow.

0:59.8

We'll have a more comprehensive breakdown on some of these games and some more takeaways

1:04.6

that we usually have. Let's start chronological order with the Georgia

1:09.1

Bulldogs. Number one team in the country, my goodness did they prove it there in the second half of that football game.

1:14.3

First half Clemson battled. I mean Clemson battled the entire first half. They couldn't

1:19.3

really get much going on the run game, Georgia couldn't. They couldn't get a whole lot going down the field. It felt like there really wasn't a lot for them. They kept getting behind the sticks, which was very, very out of character for Georgia. Last year, Georgia, do you realize that Georgia's

1:34.4

average line to gain on third down last year was third down in 5.7 yards that was

1:39.8

the best in the country? Well they lived in like third in 10, third in 11, third and 12 for much of the first half

1:47.6

yesterday. They only had 44 third down attempts all of last year that were eight yards or more to go.

1:54.6

So they were already kind of way off schedule.

1:58.4

I thought there were some things that they'd love to clean up.

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