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Cover 3 College Football

True freshman All-Americans, concerns for title hopefuls (08/19)

Cover 3 College Football

CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks

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4.54.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson run through the latest from fall camp. First, whether North Carolina naming Sam Howell the starting quarterback should inspire confidence in the Tar Heels (6:00) and then takeaways from a behind the scenes SI story on Virginia Tech's struggles in 2018 (14:30). Then, introducing the Preseason True Freshman All-America team (28:08) and identifying concerns for the top teams in the country (46:30).

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0:00.0

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0:37.5

Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. It's your call for the best college football coverage.

0:49.5

From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast.

1:01.5

And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Barton Simmons, I'm Chip Patterson.

1:07.5

Monday morning August 19th, it's Game Week. Here's what you can expect from us.

1:12.5

We're going to be having Barat Slyon later in the week. We're going to have Tom Furnelli for our week zero locks.

1:18.5

Right now Barton is just you, me. We've got a pre-season true freshman all America team to announce. We've got some headlines.

1:27.5

And we're going to also be talking about some weaknesses for the biggest title hopeful. So Barton, how was your last weekend?

1:36.5

Who in your household was named the starting quarterback after the final, you know, scrimmages.

1:42.5

You got to make some decisions. So who's who's named the starting quarterback in your world right now?

1:46.5

We're still keeping things locked tight in the household. Don't want any of the opponents to get this gathering report on us.

1:54.5

So we'll find out when we try it out there for the first series.

1:57.5

That's very Jim Harbaugh. Whenever we've had, we don't have a quarterback, a quarterback controversy or a quarterback battle at Michigan right now.

2:07.5

But I think Jim Harbaugh always was one of those quarterbacks that got great joy in making you wait until the first team offense took the field in the first game of the season to see who is going to be trying out there.

2:18.5

Harbaugh doesn't even, he doesn't even allow for depth charts. What does he do? He just sort of like lists, like alphabetical order, all the players on the team or something.

2:27.5

Organizational contributors or something along those lines.

2:30.5

Yeah. Yeah. So no, we'll, we'll, yeah, we're not announcing anything yet. I'm trying to try to find every advantage we can.

2:41.5

What's going on here in the middle of a move, huh? Yeah. We are the police.

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