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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

USC is different, SEC QB play stands out, a deeper BIG 10 and more takeaways from week 1

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

USC looked different in their win over LSU who has now dropped 5 straight season openers. Miami is more than just a CFP contender and Clemson is not out of it..yet. Notre Dame needs to get the passing game going, Freshman were balling this weekend and is the BIG 10 deeper than we thought? McElroy goes over his Top 10 takeaways plus gives huge props to Travis Hunter who might be the best player in the country. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I know we need to not overreact to week one. I get that. But every box that you need to win a national championship, every box that needs to be checked,

0:09.4

quarterback, offensive line quality, defensive line quality, playmakers at wide receiver,

0:15.0

team that's well coached by both coordinators.

0:19.0

I think they have good systems both offensively and defensively.

0:22.0

I think they checked every box.

0:24.0

Hello and welcome in, it's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy.

0:32.0

We appreciate you guys being

0:33.7

here with us. It's Labor Day and as we always said when I was playing we labor on

0:38.8

Labor Day because it's a labor of love. This is one of my favorite shows of the week. I always love the Monday show. It allows us to dive a little deeper. If you missed our Sunday show, you can have some immediate rapid fire kind of streaming consciousness reaction to the

0:55.9

outcomes on Saturday throughout the day. But it gives us time after the Sunday media takeaway show to dive in, were we right with some of our

1:07.2

media takeaways? Were we wrong? And then luckily enough for us we had another

1:11.6

big game last night that we will break down as well.

1:14.0

So we'll tell you about USC. We'll tell you about LSU, where they go from here.

1:18.0

And the other eight or nine things that we learned on Saturday throughout the day. I also want to encourage all of you to

1:26.0

like great and subscribe to the show wherever you get the show whether it's on the ESPAN

1:29.0

YouTube channel if you're here with us via the podcast we appreciate you guys very

1:32.0

very much.

1:33.2

Continue to tell your friends, like you said,

1:35.4

if you're looking for like hot takes,

1:37.4

this is not your show.

1:39.7

This is a show for the intellectual fan that really cares about the sport and we're going to break down things and yes, sometimes

1:47.1

hot takes are necessary. But that's not really who we are, so if you hear it from us, you know we must really meet it. All right? So let's dive in with the ten things that we learned from week one in college football. So we will call this upon further review.

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