Which college football national title contender might fall flat? Q&A

08/31/21 • 38 min

On this Tuesday press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take questions from text subscribers as the college football season kicks off. Among them:

Which national contender has the greatest chance to fall short of expectations?
Which contender might be hurt most by a COVID-related absence by players?
How would a COVID forfeit affect a contender's playoff chances?
Should a loser of a conference title game ever make the playoff?
And then there's a discussion about the best next move for the Big 12.

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Which national contender has the greatest chance to fall short of expectations?
Which contender might be hurt most by a COVID-related absence by players?
How would a COVID forfeit affect a contender's playoff chances?
Should a loser of a conference title game ever make the playoff?
And then there's a discussion about the best next move for the Big 12.

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Ranking the best quarterbacks on college football national title contenders

On the big ep this week, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah debate whether North Carolina deserves to join the list of College Football Playoff contenders discussed on this podcast. And then they dive into ranking the quarterbacks for all those playoff contenders, from D.J. Uiagalelei at Clemson, to Alabama's Bryce Young, to Oklahoma's Spencer Rattler, to the new young QBs just named starters -- Haynes King at Texas A&M and C.J. Stroud at Ohio State.

The contenders discussed every week so far are Oklahoma, Clemson, Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, Iowa State, Texas A&M, Notre Dame and Oregon. Will North Carolina join that group? And if the Tar Heels do, where does UNC QB Sam Howell rank compared to other QBs on contenders?

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Doug and Shehan make their playoff picks; and is Cincinnati a contender?

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah have been talking about the College Football Playoff since the middle of July. Now they'll tell you which four teams they think are going to make it.

On this final preseason episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug and Shehan each explain why they chose their four playoff teams, why they left certain teams out, and which team they think is going to win the national title. That's in the second half of the show.

In the first half, Doug and Shehan analyze the Cincinnati Bearcats and whether they should become the 10th team to officially join the group of contenders before the start of the regular season. North Carolina was rejected last week. Will this week be kinder to Cincinnati?

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