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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Who are the REAL CFP contenders?! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On our 500th episode of Always College Football, Greg McElroy gives you his top 25 after week 8 and goes through the P4 to tell you who might (will) win the conference championship and who the real CFP contenders are. Is it just Ohio State, Indiana and Oregon from the BIG 10, will the ACC get TWO teams in again, or is this the year the BIG 12 gets two in and is it just Alabama, Georgia, Texas A&M and Ole Miss from the SEC?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

What will the playoff field look like? The SEC will have four. I think the Big Ten will have three.

0:35.7

The ACC will have two. Like the Big 12 will have one. I think Notre Dame will get in. And I like the Big Ten will have three, like the ACC will have two, like the Big

0:37.6

12 will have one. I think Notre Dame will get in and I think the G5 will be represented by the

0:42.8

USF goals. Hello and welcome. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy.

0:51.5

And today is a very special day. Yes, it is October 21st, and we hope that you're enjoying the show, wherever you're getting

0:59.2

it, where it's on the Spotify, Apple Podcast platform.

1:02.2

If you're here with us via the ESPN YouTube channel, by the way, I was going for a run the other day.

1:07.0

I was trying to listen to the podcast on the Apple podcast platform. And I guess

1:12.1

like Amazon Web Services went out or whatnot. So I had to run without being able to listen to a

1:19.1

podcast. I was in a dark spot. Thank goodness for Spotify. Shout out Spotify. You got us where we

1:25.1

need to go. I was able to listen to some podcasts on that platform,

1:28.6

so I'm very grateful. I might now be moving to Spotify, not necessarily permanently. I go back

1:34.6

and forth, but shout out. You guys got me through my five-mile Monday run. Had I not had a podcast,

1:42.4

I'm not sure I would have made it through the first mile.

1:45.2

Appreciate you guys.

1:46.2

ESPN YouTube channel also awesome.

1:48.1

Hit that thumbs up button.

1:49.0

Appreciate you guys being here with us.

1:50.8

I am very excited about the show.

1:53.4

Why?

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