X-factors for EVERY Big Ten team + EA Sports CFB 25 rankings BEEF
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Colorado Twitter is EA Sports' #1 fan. College Football 25 is only a few weeks away, and the gracious folks at EA Sports gave us A LOT to talk about, as they published their offensive and defensive rankings on Thursday. Ari Wasserman, Chris Vannini, and Scott Dochterman react to the top-25 lists, and then they share where EA got it wrong. Afterward, who is the x-factor on each Big Ten team? The guys explain each of their picks. Before we roll out, rolling it up is now legal in CFB. Plus, other rule changes.
Read about Austin Mock's top-ranked offenses, defenses:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5595576/2024/06/27/college-football-25-best-defenses-projections/?partner=slack&smid=sl-share
Rundown:
- EA Sports offensive/defensive rankings (2:30)
- Our top-10 teams on offense (13:00)
- Defensive rankings (17:30)
- Big Ten X-factors (25:30)
- Cannabis, unlimited coaches, and more news (1:08:00)
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| 0:29.9 | Music Welcome back to Until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman, joined by two of my steam colleagues, Chris Vanini and Scott Docterman. |
| 0:50.5 | This is going to be a pretty heavy episode. I think we're going to go along. I'm just going to call my shot here now because we've got a lot to cover. |
| 0:56.7 | First, we're going to get into EA Sports, offensive and defensive rankings of the teams in the video game coming out. |
| 1:03.8 | We're also going to talk X factors of every Big Ten team. |
| 1:08.3 | And I think we're going to be doing it for all the power conferences on the until |
| 1:10.9 | Saturday feed. We've nominated one player for each big 10 team or in Chris's case a suggestion or a |
| 1:18.7 | position, but you know, we'll get to it. And we're going to also give you our top 10 teams that we |
| 1:24.6 | would have ranked on both sides of the ball in the video game. So guys, how are we doing today? I'm good, man. So much video game content this week. Just rankings up the wazoo. Some bizarre rankings. We are going to have some takes on this. I think a lot of people have been confused at some of them. And I'm in that. So it's fun to talk about this in a way. It's like the video game, but it's also like talking about the season. That's what's fun about the video game. It's like it's sort of like a season preview anyway. Yeah, man, I'm in the same way. I'm looking at some of these rankings. I'm like, what? But I guess I'm kind of curious as to how this is, |
| 2:01.9 | statutes matches up with what we're going to see on the field. |
| 2:05.7 | So I want to know the rationale. |
| 2:07.6 | I know Vinini, you're the expert in this field. |
| 2:09.5 | So I'm really wanting to get, you know, |
| 2:12.2 | to tap into your vast knowledge of this game. |
| 2:15.5 | And if you're not one of the people, one of the rare people out there that doesn't love |
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