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Cover 3 College Football

Surprises, disappointments, All-America team and coaches to watch (10/16)

Cover 3 College Football

CBS Sports

Football, Sports

4.54.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson hand out midseason superlatives for 2019 in college football. First, a second chance at College Football Playoff picks (2:30), the CBS Sports Midseason All-America team (13:00) and the stories behind the biggest surprise teams of the season (18:00). Then, the best game of the year so far (27:00), teams that have disappointed (31:30), coaches on the rise and on the hot seat (38:00) and players exceeding expectations that might be flying below the radar (56:00). 

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Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. It's your call for the best college football coverage.

0:49.5

From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast.

1:01.5

And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Barton Simmons. I'm Chip Patterson. It's the mid season package mid season week.

1:10.5

I mean, you are here at CBS Sports. You are listening to the CBS Sports Digital Podcast and you know that as one of the pre-imminent destinations for college football coverage.

1:21.5

I mean, we've got we've got the mid season covered from everything you need at CBS Sports.com. You'll be able to see the All America team.

1:28.5

You'll be able to see our second chance at making some expert picks. And here on the Cover 3 podcast, we're going to take it even deeper and sort of take stock of where we're at and where we think things are going.

1:41.5

So Barton, I kind of like this exercise because I think that it refocuses me for the home stretch the second half of October, November in terms of really forcing me to get out of whatever bubble I'm in and survey the landscape. So I kind of like this week.

1:58.5

Yeah, pull, pull it back a little bit, pull back the lens and get out of the minutia a little bit and sort of rewrack things.

2:09.5

So where do you want to start? Do you want to you want to get started with our second chance expert picks?

2:17.5

Yeah, that sounds great.

2:18.5

Okay. So on CBS Sports.com, you can see everyone's second chance expert picks, Dennis, Jerry Palm, Tom Furnnelly, Barrett Sully, Ben Kurchable and ours.

2:29.5

And so when you had to break down first picking a new college football playoff, beginning of the season, we have to pick our four. And I think that, you know, that was where I rolled out my beloved USC Trojans. I pulled them back off the table.

2:44.5

They are not in my second chance expert picks. But as you were trying to debate a college football playoff field that as we've discussed here on the podcast and on CBS Sports HQ is deeper than ever.

2:55.5

You know, like where did you end up land and when you were trying to make those decisions?

3:00.5

Well, I'll introduce this by just listing my four. I went Ohio State one Alabama to LSU three Clemson four. And as where is that sounds to have two teams from the same division in the playoffs, I think that's starting to look more and more plausible and realistic.

3:21.5

I think Ohio State looks like the best team. I think Ohio State.

3:26.5

Oh, I don't, I mean, I don't, I don't feel like.

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