What Clemson, Alabama & Oregon's returning production says about their championship hopes with Bill Connelly
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Is Clemson the College Football champion front-runner? The Tigers rank #1 in ESPN's Bill Connelly's returning production, but the metric is far more nuanced than a ranking. David, Chris, and Bill discuss Dabo's squad, Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona State, and others' returning production, and what it means for their title hopes. Before Bill joins the show, Chris recaps the CFP meeting, and he and David chat Jim Nagy to Oklahoma. Plus, Kirby Smart takes a shot at Johnny Manziel.
Rundown:
- CFP Meeting: Play-ins, Big 12 and ACC deal, and end of conf championships? (2:00)
- Jim Nagy hired as Oklahoma's GM (11:00)
- Bill Connelly joins to talk returning production (16:00)
- Missouri Tiger Trivia (46:15)
- Kirby Smart jabs Johnny Football (53:30)
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| 0:45.1 | I'm your host, David Oven, here with my co-host, Chris Finini. |
| 0:49.0 | Dave, it's good to be here. |
| 0:50.7 | I enjoyed my Tuesday spending eight hours in a hotel lobby underground for the |
| 0:55.2 | college football playoffs. So it's a, it's been a long day. I'm tired. How has your week been? |
| 1:01.3 | It's been good, Chris. I'm sorry you spent all that time at the hotel waiting for college football |
| 1:07.4 | news. You could have been at the Dollywood Media Day previewing the season for |
| 1:11.4 | 2025. I have fallen into theme park YouTube, which is an interesting subculture, a lot, very, |
| 1:16.8 | very similar to CFB25. But we got a great show for you today. We're going to talk about what Chris |
| 1:21.3 | learned at that meeting, where we're at in the future of the playoff, which will be changing. |
| 1:26.5 | We've got Bill Connolly on from ESPN to talk about his returning production ratings and |
| 1:30.9 | what that means and what that means for the future of this season and who is going to surprise |
| 1:36.5 | and teams that are going to be moving up, teams that are going to be moving down based on |
| 1:40.5 | players that are coming in and out that you might not know about, and Johnny Mansell. |
| 1:45.0 | Take some fire from Kirby Smart. |
| 1:47.5 | We're going to talk about all that on today's show. |
| 1:49.5 | Chris, let's start in Grapevine. |
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