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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Surprises, Disappointments, the best QB’s & more from the 1st month of CFB! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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What have we learned after FIVE full weeks of college football?  There have been great surprises like Florida State, Indiana, and Vanderbilt, some huge disappointments like Clemson and Florida and everything in between. McElroy runs through those plus his Top 10 defenses he has seen so far, his Top 10 quarterbacks so far highlighted by FOUR first year starters in Trinidad Chambliss, Ty Simpson, CJ Carr and Dante Moore and his all-transfer team with more September superlatives Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now a lot of people are probably going to look at our list,

0:32.6

and they're going to lose their mind because they are currently acting as prisoners of the moment.

0:43.3

Hello and welcome in. It is always college football.

0:47.3

We are so happy that you're here with us today. Why?

0:50.3

Because we're putting a bow on the first month of the season.

0:53.3

And yes, if you want to get technical, there were a handful of games, quite a few,

0:58.4

ever played in August, but we're going to include August for this exercise in our September superlatives episode.

1:06.4

A lot of conclusions that have been drawn.

1:08.2

And frankly, I think a lot of conclusions are a bit

1:11.0

premature on whether or not teams are dead, buried, and gone or teams that are going to go on

1:16.5

to win the national championship. It's still very early. Teams are still very much a work in progress.

1:22.5

We've had injuries that have affected rankings. We've had injuries that have affected outcomes. Maybe guys get

1:28.4

healthy. They get better. The teams improve, what have you. Maybe teams started hot and they fall

1:33.1

off a cliff. So everything right now is very much up in the air. But there have been some conclusions

1:40.0

drawn just from my evaluation of some of these teams, watching the tape of some of these players,

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