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Welcome back to the cover three podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Furnelli, Danny Connell,

and Bud Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to

the national championship and everything in between.

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And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Tom Finnelly,'s Bud Elliott. That's Danny Cannell. I'm Chip Patterson. Coming to you live on YouTube.com slash cover 3. And everywhere you get your podcast on demand, thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, aka the Cover 3 Tailgate, where it's heasy says, I'm checking in from

DFW airport heading back home to Tallahassee, where Mike Norvell is still my coach.

Yes, we will be jumping into the latest from the coaching carousel here in just a second,

including Florida State's announcement that Mike Norvell will be back for 2026.

We've got an actual firing in the

ACC to get to latest on Lane Kiff and latest on Penn State so much more. Poll assassin,

Bud's college football playoff projections. And of course, since it is a Monday, you know we've got to do a pun

for the review, which will include at a minimum, the latest in the conference title race,

mayhem.

And we started this on Saturday night in the instant reaction show.

We will be taking your submissions all through the show.

We need to finalize our nobody wants to see us in the playoffs teams.

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