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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Why Texas A&M, Oregon & Notre Dame were ranked correctly & more CFP reaction! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Strong wins, good losses, dominant performances and consistency seem to be the formula the committee is using in their 1st CFP rankings. McElroy goes through the Top 25 and tells you why teams were ranked where they were and some scenarios that could change everything. Plus we have a discussion if Texas A&M or Alabama eventually jump Ohio State or Indiana, why Notre Dame continues to be polarizing, Miami’s tough position, if it's the ACC or BIG 12 that gets two teams in and how many teams from the SEC could get in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you look at Notre Dame, they have been more dominant and consistent than the teams that sit right behind them.

0:07.4

Yes, I agree. It's weird to have a two-loss team that lost to another two-loss team sitting eight spots in front of them.

0:15.8

But tell me who has been more consistent in their performance over the last month of the season, has been

0:21.2

Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, or Virginia.

0:30.2

Hello and welcome in. It's always college football. I'm your host Greg McElroy, and we are

0:34.0

glad to have you with us here tonight, tomorrow, whatever day you are absorbing this conversation.

0:39.6

This is our college football playoff rankings release show, number one.

0:44.5

We just got the college football playoff committee rankings. As you can see,

0:47.5

literally as I'm starting the show, I'm undoing my tie. It was a great show and entertaining show and a lot that we need to break down. And

0:55.7

unfortunately, when we're on the desk with the outstanding Joey Galloway, Booker McFarland,

1:02.8

and Reese Davis, we don't get to necessarily go into the weeds on a lot of these breakdowns.

1:07.1

That's what this is for. That's why we have our always college football post

1:11.1

rankings release show. And we also this year are doing things a little differently. We actually

1:15.5

are submitting or having a lot of our listeners submit questions about what they learned, what they

1:21.8

liked, what they didn't like. And that I think will hopefully make things pretty fun and interactive.

1:26.8

So far, there's a lot to take away.

1:29.3

We learned quite a bit about what this committee is all about.

1:32.4

We also are going to tell you about who's on the committee and why I think it makes sense this year.

1:36.8

For those of y'all that are new to the show, go ahead and join the podcast,

1:42.5

subscribe to the podcast, rate the podcast, whatever you feel like doing,

1:45.8

that's fine as well.

1:47.0

Good with all of that.

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