Way-too-early Top-25 for 2025: Where do Ohio State, Texas, Notre Dame & others rank?
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State put a bow on the 2024 college football season, but where do they rank going into 2025? David and Chris welcome Stew Mandel to Until Saturday to react and discuss his way-too-early top-25 ranking. Where does Arch Manning's Texas fall? Are Notre Dame and OSU top-3 teams? How about Michigan, Penn State, Georgia, and Alabama?
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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Stewart Mandel (@slmandel)
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| 1:16.0 | Hello and welcome to until Saturday. Our first, I'm kind of sad saying this because our first off-season episode, sort of, |
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| 1:29.6 | We haven't talked to you enough on the pod. We've talked plenty this week, but thanks for coming on. Yeah, absolutely. I just did one podcast at 3.30 in the morning. I'm back at 11 for a second run. Listen, we grind here. We grind here at the athletic. Before we get into today's episode, we're going to look at the top 25 for next season. |
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