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Until Saturday: A show about college football

Week 5 Picks: Alabama-Georgia, Illinois-Penn State & more games + UNLV's ugly QB situation

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

A kaiju brawl takes place in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, but who will win between Alabama and Georgia? David Ubben, Chris Vannini, and Damien Harris have you covered. Before our Week 5 college football picks, the guys react to UNLV's ugly QB situation and the Pac-12 suing the MWC. Louisville vs Notre Dame, Illinois vs Penn State, Washington State vs Boise State, and other big games are on the slate, who will win? Plus, Locks of the Week, Trust Fall Picks and trivia!


Rundown:

- UNLV vs Matthew Sluka in NIL dispute (1:00)

- UNLV realignment? + Pac-12 sues MWC (9:30)

- Louisville vs Notre Dame (13:00)

- Trivia teaser (18:30)

- Penn State vs Illinois (20:30)

- Alabama vs Georgia (26:00)

- Washington State vs Boise State (38:15)

- Arkansas-Texas A&M (41:30)

- Colorado-UCF (44:30)

- Fresno State-UNLV & more G5 games (49:00)

- Locks and Trust Fall Picks of the Week (50:30)

- Trivia (57:30)


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Hosts: David Ubben (@davidubben), Chris Vanninin (@ChrisVannini), Damien Harris (@DHx34)

Audio editor: John Ross

Executive producer: Cam Molina (@commentatorcam)

Supervising producer: Michael Martinez (@MikeMartinezDC)


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0:00.0

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0:02.7

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0:04.6

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0:08.8

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0:13.2

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0:17.5

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0:48.1

We've got Chris Vanini here, senior writer with the athletic, and of course, Damien Harris.

0:52.9

Back with more of Dames''s dogs this week we got a ton

0:55.9

of big games a lot of dogs out there a bunch of those going to be playing in Georgia Alabama the

1:00.3

biggest game of the week but we also get a big 10 showdown when Illinois goes up to Penn State

1:06.1

we're going to learn a little bit more about Louisville when they go to Notre Dame there's a bunch

1:09.6

of other good games too wazoo boise maybe jockeying for the G5 playoff spot. It's going to be fascinating to watch.

1:16.8

Either way, before we get to the games, guys, scandal is afoot in college football. Most likely

1:24.7

you woke up this morning to news that UNLV, who's currently maybe the frontrunner,

1:29.4

certainly in that front group of teams, competing for a playoff spot for that G5, they win

1:33.6

the Mountain West.

1:34.4

They're starting quarterback Matthew Sluka entering the transfer portal, leaving the program

1:38.0

because his NIL deal was not followed through with.

1:46.9

In short, if you haven't caught up on the story, there was a promised $100,000 from UNLV's coaching staff. The SLUC has got about

1:54.2

3,000 for relocation fees. Now, UNLV on Wednesday afternoon, released a statement essentially saying that there was no deal.

2:03.8

They don't engage in pay for play. Blueprint Sports who runs UNLV's collective said there was no

2:09.2

agreed upon deal. Both sides agree that there was no written contract, but there is a certain

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