The Biggest Spring Practice Questions Across College Football
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Spring practice is underway across college football, and we’re diving into the biggest storylines and burning questions to watch as teams begin preparing for the 2026 season. From Alabama’s quarterback battle to Bryce Underwood’s fit in Jason Beck’s offense, we break down the developments that could shape the year ahead. Plus, how LSU fans feel about the Tigers’ roster, the potential impact of freshman quarterbacks at Tennessee and Vanderbilt, Ohio State’s tradition of producing new defensive stars and standout receivers, what to expect from Nebraska under Matt Rhule.
2:00 Mark Stoops at Texas
8:00 24-team playoff?
17:00 Alabama QB battle
25:00 Bryce Underwood
31:00 Jared Curtis
38:00 LSU
43:30 Demond Williams
45:00 QB questions
47:30 Ohio State
49:30 Indiana
50:30 Clemson
56:30 Final Burning questions
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
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| 0:42.1 | aka A.K.A. The Cover 3 Tailgate, where 9.21 a.m. our friend BL 1632 said spring previews, |
| 0:50.8 | real football talk. Let's go. That's right, because as you see here in the headline we're just |
| 0:57.8 | going to go ahead and open up that 2026 book we're going to all the sudden start writing in our |
| 1:02.2 | initial opinions gave you our our initial thoughts on what we are looking for out in spring |
| 1:08.3 | practice as spring ball gets going around the country here in the month of |
| 1:11.8 | March. |
| 1:12.7 | Fired up to do so, always a fun part. |
| 1:14.9 | We'll be doing lots of ways to tackle spring practice, including once we get to spring |
| 1:19.3 | games, a little bit more team focused, you know, what we want to see going into a weekend. |
| 1:24.3 | Now we're going to start a little bit abroad. |
| 1:26.7 | Cast a wide net, lots of burning |
| 1:28.8 | questions from across spring football. But first, just a quick transactional note where I'm curious |
| 1:36.9 | to see if this caught your attention, curious to see if you had any reaction. So the University |
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