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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Why the SEC has College Football CORNERED! | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Greg McElroy is joined by new SEC Nation host Matt Barrie to discuss if the BIG 12 and ACC can keep up with the SEC and BIG Ten, if the system as a whole is sustainable and the inevitable playoff expansion and what (if anything) will be lost. Barrie also tells you the moment that changed college football for him, if the SEC can break a three year streak without a National Title and if the SEC could really breakaway from the NCAA? Plus, McElroy issues a mea culpa for leaving Miami’s defensive line out of his Top 10.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Attention all passengers. The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four

0:08.6

minutes from Platform 6. Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat,

0:15.3

ideal for playing footsie beneath. Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:21.6

Trains on Uber. For the SEC to say they can break off and do their own thing, well, that'd be pretty entertaining.

0:27.6

Because every team is pretty damn good, whereas the Big Ten, you're kind of a top-heavy league with nothing in the middle of the bottom.

0:38.1

Hello and welcome in.

0:39.1

It's always college football.

0:40.1

So happy to have you here with us today.

0:42.5

It is June.

0:43.3

We are here and we are just a couple months away from college football getting underway.

0:48.1

We're all looking forward to that.

0:49.4

But right now, still talk and season, if you will, especially here in June.

0:54.1

Prognostications, big picture conversations,

0:56.4

where's the world going? But y'all, just a few days removed from a really large announcement

1:02.0

when it comes to college football media, Laura Rutledge is no longer going to be hosting SEC Nation.

1:07.3

She's got so much going on. We love Laura. We're going to miss her hosting SEC

1:11.3

Nation. But Matt Berry is. And if you've been watching college football for the last decade,

1:16.2

we all know Matt Barry. We all know Thursday nights when he's calling those games, spending Sunday

1:20.9

mornings with him watching the final that they had taped the night before. You've seen this guy

1:26.5

for a very long time. He's won a lot of Emmy

1:28.4

awards. He calls games. He's been hosting SportsC Center. And now he's officially the host of SEC

1:34.0

Nation. We know that that's obviously a huge deal on Saturdays throughout the South. So today we're

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