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Until Saturday: A show about college football

We watched a college football game

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Andy Staples and Max Olson revel in the first college football game of the season between Central Arkansas & Austin Peay. Clearly not household names, these two FCS programs put on a show Saturday night in primetime on ESPN. The game was sloppy at times, but hey, that's college football. In the news: LSU WR Ja'Marr Chase is opting out of the 2020 season.

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Andy.

0:18.0

Welcome to the show.

0:19.6

Before we get talking about an actual college football game, that's right.

0:24.6

Max Olson and I, my colleague from the athletic, we watched an actual college football game.

0:30.5

He was in Nebraska. I was in Florida. The game was played in Alabama between a team from Tennessee and a team from Arkansas.

0:37.1

But we all watched it.

0:38.6

And it was on our TV, and it was college football, and it was awesome.

0:42.1

So before we talk about what we took away from Central Arkansas's win against Austin P,

0:47.1

we've got to talk about a little bit of news.

0:49.5

Jamar Chase, LSU-LSUide receiver defending Bolitnikoff Award winner is opting out of this season.

0:56.6

And I tell you what, this one didn't come as a shock to me.

1:00.9

What came as a shock was a few weeks ago when it looked like he was going to play.

1:04.3

Because, you know, if we're talking about the guys that have nothing to prove in college football,

1:10.8

who could go and have enough tape and go into the draft

1:14.2

and don't really need to say anything else,

1:16.9

Jamar Chase would be near the top of that list.

1:19.0

Now, I'd say Trevor Lawrence is near to the top of that list.

1:21.2

He's planning on playing.

1:22.7

Justin Fields might need a little more tape,

1:25.0

but I think people be willing to take a chance on him, quote unquote, chance in the top five.

1:30.1

And of course, he still wants to play.

1:31.9

We'll see when Ohio State can get back on the field, but he certainly seems very adamant about trying to play when they do.

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