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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

Will an 80-team SUPER League work + spring game reaction for Clemson, Auburn and more

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Greg McElroy and Kevin Clark combine for a special crossover podcast with ‘Always College Football’ and ‘This is Football’. In this episode we focus on the Miami Hurricanes, the future of the transfer portal (and how much it impacts G5 schools), why NIL is very good for the sport and the possibility of an 80-team Super League. Plus McElroy breaks down the spring games from Auburn, Clemson, NC State and SMU. | Always College Football Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

To nationalize this sport in the way they're doing it, I think is a mistake and I think they're going to regret it.

0:05.0

I mean, it's kind of what like NASCAR did a little bit 20 years ago where it's like, oh, everybody loves the original sport.

0:11.0

Let's put a bunch of tracks in Phoenix and just see what happens.

0:14.0

We'll put tracks in Chicago and see what happens. No, it's about the

0:17.2

regionality of it and there's an ecosystem there and if you get away from what you are

0:21.3

things start to devolve pretty quickly.

0:28.2

Hello and welcome in, it's always college football. It is Monday, April 8thth and we are deep in the weeds on spring

0:36.2

football here at always college football I'm your host Greg McElroy alongside

0:40.7

always Jack Foster Mark Kubiak Jackrail, and of course Jake Garcia who does a great job for us as well.

0:47.0

We have a really fun show for you. We are going to welcome in a guest host. We did a two-part series. One that will be on This is Football. You can check that out with Kevin Clark. Talk to little drafts, talk to little quarterbacks. And then now we have a chance to talk with Kevin Clark,

1:04.0

who's a Miami fan, by the way,

1:05.8

talk with him a little bit about what college football

1:09.3

looks like through the lens of a fan

1:11.7

and a guy that mostly covers the NFL so look forward to

1:15.0

our visit with him and then we will break down four key spring games from

1:20.4

this past Saturday. Clemson was on the field. Things to like, things to not like.

1:26.4

Auburn was on the field. Thanks to like, thanks to not like, we'll also hit NC State

1:31.4

and we'll hit new member of the Power Five and member of the

1:35.2

ACC SMU as well. So a lot that we need to get to continue to ask all of you to like

1:40.8

great and subscribe to the show wherever you get your show you also can

1:44.8

watch us on the E.S.B.N. YouTube channel so hit that thumbs up button if you're at the

1:48.4

E.S.B. on the E.S.B. on YouTube channel we very much appreciate you.

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