Who’s next? 2025 Playoff contenders who fell short last year | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

There are 13 teams that missed the 2024 College Football Playoff that McElroy thinks will be playoff contenders in 2025. Is Alabama ready to make the jump into the CFP in 2025? Can LSU and Miami start the season out with wins to push towards the playoffs? Can South Carolina improve on last year or will it be Florida or Ole Miss who make the jump into the CFP. Who from the BIG 10 and BIG 12 can make a run - is it finally USC’s chance or will Michigan bounce back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	Just looking at the schedule, looking at the pieces that they've added, and knowing how close
0:34.0	they were last year to breaking down that door, this feels like a year they need to get over the hump and they can't lose games.
0:40.3	They have no business losing like they did last year.
0:47.3	Hello and welcome in. It is always college football. It is February 10th and I am your host, Greg McElroy.
0:53.3	We appreciate you being here today. It is right 10th, and I am your host, Greg McElroy. We appreciate you being here today.
0:56.2	It is right after the Super Bowl. So if you enjoyed the Super Bowl last night, if you were excited about the Super Bowl last night, we have officially watched our last football game for the next eight months.
1:08.6	I know those of you that indulge in UFL, by all means.
1:13.2	Great. Go for it. I, however, don't watch as much UFL as I once did, but I will be watching
1:21.8	some spring games coming up and I will be excited about the season that is upon us here in
1:26.5	2025. I do think that this year,
1:29.6	and I'm trying hard not to go down the rabbit hole of like fixing college football because I
1:35.2	don't feel like it's broken. I think there are things I would tweak. But if you look last year,
1:40.2	there were things that we were trying to tweak, whether it was conferences, this team really
1:43.8	should be in this team and how it really should all phase out, and how is, how should we
1:48.2	fix the college football playoff? Like, I don't think we're in a position where we really need
1:52.4	to fix the college football playoff. I think it's fine, as it is. We saw the Super Bowl last night.
1:57.9	The game is completely uncompetitive. The Chiefs did nothing the entire game.
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