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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

The REAL challenge facing Steve Sarkisian & Texas | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Expectations will always be high at Texas and this year is no exception. Head Coach Steve Sarkisian joins Greg McElroy to discuss the pressure on Arch Manning, what he loves about his roster, what Will Muschamp will bring to the defense and why he feels coaches should have a bigger voice in college football. Plus, Coach Sark talks about strength of schedule and why it might expose a huge CFP flaw and how Curt Cignetti and the “Indiana Way” has changed nonconference scheduling until proven otherwise.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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To Coach Signetti's credit, everybody wants to impact our sport in some way, shape, or form in a positive way.

0:34.9

He's impacting people because people now are starting to adjust

0:37.9

their non-conference schedules because they're seeing the value of another win as opposed to

0:43.7

the value of a strength of your schedule.

0:50.1

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy. So happy to have you here with us another day here in early June as we inch closer and closer every week towards the start of the college football season.

1:03.0

Because I got to be honestly, I can't wait for it to get here. All these big picture conversations, they're fun and all.

1:09.0

Like I care about the future of the sport like many of you,

1:11.8

but I just, I miss the games. I miss the practices. I miss the competitions within a position

1:17.9

group. That's what I really love. That's what I'm all into. And we haven't got to do much of that.

1:22.7

I don't know why that is, probably because we've had bills to assess and breakaways and possible breakaways and just stuff that's not that fun.

1:32.0

But we're glad that you're with us nonetheless because today we will dive in to a little bit of football.

1:36.9

We will have Steve Sarkeesian join the show, the head coach of the Texas Longhorns.

1:41.9

And look, he's been he's been all over the place for the last month.

1:45.3

I mean, he really has. I mean, he's gone after Ole Miss. He's talked about strength of

1:50.4

schedule in other leagues. He told everybody that would listen that 24 teams in the, in the college

1:57.0

football playoff is a knee-jerk reaction. He said he'd like to go back to four teams

2:01.4

and have a way to play in through your conference. He said that the selection committee doesn't

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