What they're saying at Clemson and Notre Dame (12/26)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson report back from on-campus visits to both Cotton Bowl playoff contenders. First, reacting Kendal Briles hire at Florida State (3:00), attrition on the field and sideline at Miami (15:26), Dexter Lawrence's failed drug test (23:00), how Clemson's playoff experience is an advantage (30:40), how the Notre Dame team changed after Ian Book took over as the starting quarterback (36:27), where the Irish have an advantage in the matchup (42:55) and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 Podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:10.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:14.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between, CBS Sports Presents, the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 Podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.0 | Happy Holidays to you and yours, Barton Simmons, Chip Patterson. |
| 0:32.0 | Barton, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas. |
| 0:35.0 | We're sitting here on the 26th. We're packing our bags. |
| 0:38.0 | We will soon be IRL face to face as we have our coverage for CBS Sports.com of the Orange Bowl match up between Alabama and Oklahoma. |
| 0:46.0 | We will later in this show be getting to what we learned from Clemson and Notre Dame Media Days as part of an in-depth Cotton Bowl preview. |
| 0:54.0 | But how are you feeling? I mean, it is, we're in final countdown to the semi-finals. Is your body ready to hit the road? |
| 1:04.0 | It is. It's been, in fact, you know, been a knee-deep in three-year-old and one-year-old Christmas and it's football has just been sort of like getting the side eye, like the little half watch here and there and bowl season while I'm wrapping presents or chasing kids or having a baby. |
| 1:23.0 | It might be good to get a little sabbatical from the Christmas chaos. |
| 1:30.0 | Get down to Miami and dig into some ball here. So yeah, it's gonna be fun. |
| 1:36.0 | Did you get your eyes on yet another brilliant Dave Klaus and lead Wake Forest Bowl win? |
| 1:44.0 | I did see, you know, same deal. I kind of, you know, poked in and out of it, but at the very, I did catch the end because, you know, given the locks situation. |
| 1:57.0 | I had, I had some skin of the game on that one and it didn't disappoint. |
| 2:03.0 | I think that my biggest takeaways, my biggest shock from the weekend was not that Wake Forest was able to win 37-34 against Mike Norville Memphis. |
| 2:12.0 | It was not that Troy dropped 21 in the fourth quarter to beat Buffalo by 10. |
| 2:19.0 | I think it was the 70 burger that Army put on Houston. |
| 2:24.0 | Whoa, that was a bad, bad call from me and it leads to one of our early news and notes. |
| 2:29.0 | For some reason, like, I totally had plugged the wrong headline into the wrong file. |
| 2:35.0 | I miss, I miss labeled a file and if you deal with data management and you listen to this, then that's maybe you can relate to this more. |
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