Top QB Battles To Watch As Spring Practice Gets Underway | College Football
Cover 3 College Football
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šļø 23 March 2026
ā±ļø 63 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back to discuss the latest news around the college football world. PLUS a breakdown of the top quarterback battles to watch this offseason.
(00:00:00) - IntroĀ
(00:01:00) - Tailgate Questions
(00:09:10) - Whittingham-Utah SplitĀ Ā
(00:16:10) - Austin Simmons Named Missouri Starter
(00:21:00) - Alabama QB BattleĀ
(00:30:45) - Tennessee QB BattleĀ Ā
(00:36:40) - Tailgate Question
(00:43:22) - Nebraska QB BattleĀ
(00:46:00) - Florida QB BattleĀ
(00:49:20) - Iowa QB BattleĀ Ā
(00:51:00) - Rapid Fire QB BattlesĀ
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.9 | That's Tom for Nellie. |
| 0:30.7 | That's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:31.3 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.5 | Coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and every got your podcast on demand thanks for hanging out smash that subscribe smash that like and come and join us in the chat aka a cover three tailgate where dash the esper said i see tom and danny's brackets but chip where is yours, I don't know what happened exactly. |
| 0:54.6 | You were going to be looking for Carl Patterson as the entry you're looking for. |
| 0:58.6 | Currently at 99th in the Cover 3 bracket challenge. |
| 1:03.0 | Tom, I believe you're leading the way, like 41st or something. |
| 1:07.7 | 65th, Chip. |
| 1:09.1 | 65th among the hosts. |
| 1:13.5 | They've got some, where are you, Danny? |
| 1:20.8 | 380th. 380th. Okay. So, uh, and what do you have that? We have 1100 done, don't we? |
| 1:30.0 | We've got a lot. Yeah. We're top third. Yeah. Top third. Um, yes. I hope, uh, we appreciate uh we appreciate seriously sincerely everybody who jumped into our bracket challenge we we love running that every single season um |
| 1:35.3 | but how's your time the football bracket we submitted by the way yeah has has the lowest possible |
| 1:41.1 | points remaining they are dead last as far as the Texas Texas is still alive. Yeah, I know, but most of the other teams aren't. Miami is not. Ohio State didn't get out of the first round. Georgia didn't get out of the first round. Yeah, it's in trouble. Yeah, lots of that. Hope you enjoyed the basketball over the weekend. One more question from the tailgate, |
| 2:01.5 | which is a little bit interesting one and ties into hoops. Jerry B pulled in and said, I don't |
| 2:06.3 | really follow basketball, but are the results so far more evidence of SEC Big Ten separation from |
| 2:13.9 | the rest of college? Tom, is it really just Big Ten separation from the rest of college basketball? |
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