The Next Round (5/2/25) - Hour 1
The Next Round
The Next Round
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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Which college football conference race will be most congested at the top? Will the SEC, Big Ten, ACC or Big 12 be crowded?
Are the USC Trojans on the verge of an awakening? USC Football numbers may be trending up.
President Donald Trump and Nick Saban speak at the University of Alabama’s commencement, a few takeaways from the event. The Alabama Crimson Tide got some presidential love, not just Alabama Football but also Alabama Basketball.
Bruce Feldman looks back at the 2021 high school football recruiting class, the quarterbacks got it done. Caleb Williams, Shedeur Sanders and Quinn Ewers were all there.
Are The Texas Longhorns really paying $40,000,000 for this roster, The Athletic did a deep dive and anonymous GMs give us the going rate for a championship roster.
Interesting numbers on how often every NFL franchise drafts a Hall of Famer.
More fun with AI statues.
How good has Aaron Judge been so far? Also, the New York Yankees are pretty good, too.
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| 0:25.5 | The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now. |
| 0:33.3 | We've got a lot of college football to get to now on the live show that includes a realistic number about Texas football in their roster. |
| 0:43.8 | And what one anonymous college football GM says he thinks the roster payroll cost will be for the major national championship contenders moving forward. |
| 0:53.8 | An awakening at USC, the Trojans, it could be happening. |
| 0:59.6 | We'll talk about that as the show moves on. |
| 1:01.5 | The most congested conference races of 2025, that's part of the show today. |
| 1:07.5 | But we'll start in Tuscaloosa, where last night the President of the United States |
| 1:12.5 | was there and the most powerful person in sports, Nick Saban, was there as well. Here first, |
| 1:18.9 | President Donald Trump addressing the graduates of the University of Alabama as he made |
| 1:24.6 | his way into Coleman Coliseum to a packed house there, a place that he has |
| 1:29.2 | fallen in love with, the state of Alabama, he said, and he had this to say at the podium. |
| 1:34.6 | For the University of Alabama, good isn't good enough, tough isn't tough enough, and great isn't |
| 1:39.9 | great enough. The crimson tide does not rest, does not quit, and does not stop winning until |
| 1:46.6 | it's all time. You know, it's all time. You're always winning and you're going to keep winning. |
| 1:52.6 | That's why the University of Alabama football team has won more games in the last decade |
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