X-factors for EVERY ACC program + EA Sports vs Ari's top-10 teams

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We continue our Until Saturday X-factors series with the newly minted 17-team ACC. Our Atlantic Coast Conferece guru, Manny Navarro, jumps on the mic with Ari Wasserman to share his list of impact players this season. Before then, EA Sports revealed their team rankings for the upcoming college football video game. Where did EA Sports get it right and wrong? Plus, Ari compares his pre-season top-10 teams against EA's. Check out our ACC x-factors story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5608807/2024/07/02/acc-football-x-factors-damien-martinez-maalik-murphy/ Rundown: - EA Sports CFB 25 team rankings + Ari's top-10 teams vs EA (2:00) - ACC X-factors: Boston College, Cal & Clemson (10:00) - Duke, Florida State & Georgia Tech (16:45) - Louisville, Miami & North Carolina (24:15) - NC State, Pittsburgh & SMU (33:00) - Stanford, Syracuse & Virginia (39:30) - Virginia Tech and Wake Forest (42:45) Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to the FREE Until Saturday newletter:: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to until Saturday. I'm Ari Waserman joined by my esteemed colleague
0:16.3	Mandy Navarro. How are we doing today, Manny? I'm actually at IMG Academy.
0:22.0	I'm in a random strangers hotel room. I borrowed it so that we could do our show today because I had to come attend the future 50 where we get to talk to a bunch of 2026 recruits and so I came I did my work and then I had
0:36.5	nowhere to record and thankfully our relationships come in handy I ran into a high school
0:41.9	coach a guy who used to be a high school coach more than a decade ago in Miami. He remembered me and he said,
0:48.0	sure, you can use my room. Gave me his key and let me come up here and work so we can record a show.
0:53.6	That's really great.
0:55.2	You're Mr Florida for a reason.
0:56.5	I knew you'd find somebody down there.
0:57.6	I appreciate you doing that.
0:58.5	Today, we are recording this on Friday, which is the day that EA Sports Video Game release its
1:06.3	rankings.
1:07.3	It's top 25.
1:08.3	We're going to react to that at the beginning of the show.
1:10.1	I'm going to compare and contrast the top 10 of the EA Sports video game
1:14.8	first the preseason poll that I did a month ago. We're also going to do the next
1:21.0	conference in our series of X Factors, the ACC.
1:25.0	Mandy and I split them up and we're going to go through those.
1:29.4	So, Mandy, let's just jump into it.
1:31.5	EA Sports released its top 25 for the video game.
1:36.4	Everything is still subject to be updated if things are proven to be wrong or they have second thoughts on the way they did it but I'm going to run
1:44.2	through the top 25 real quick.
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