Cover 2 College Football pod
410 episodes - English - Latest episode: 12 days ago - ★★★★ - 506 ratingsThe Athlon Sports Cover 2 College Football Podcast previews and reviews every aspect of the greatest sport on the planet.
Join Athlon’s editorial team every week of the preseason, regular season, postseason and offseason for a breakdown of the entire circus that is college football.
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Episodes
Week 2 Recap: UGa, the Pac-12 and The Worst Rule in Football
September 09, 2018 16:12 - 58 minutes - 26.8 MBMitch and Braden break down all of the action from Week 2. Who make the Playoff today? Is the Pac-12 better than we thought and is the Big Ten worse than we thought? Is the SEC East race already over? Is there reason for concern about Clemson or reason for hope for Texas A&M? And what to do about the worst rule in all of football?
Week 2 Preview: UGa-South Carolina, Clemson-TAMU, USC-Stanford
September 05, 2018 16:33 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThere are huge playoff implications on the line when both Clemson and Georgia go on the road this weekend. And can Stanford make a big statement against USC? The Cy Hawk Trophy is up for grabs in Iowa while Penn State and Pitt do battle in PA. Can Florida keep its streak alive against Kentucky and can Michigan State go out West and top Coach Herm? Hail State vs. Bill Snyder? And so much more in our Week 2 preview.
Week 1 Recap: LSU, Va Tech, Notre Dame and Nick Saban
September 04, 2018 16:24 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MBWeek 1 Recap: Has our top four changed? Tua vs. Hurts and Saban vs. the Media? Big wins for LSU, Virginia Tech and Notre Dame have changed the way we view certain leagues. Are we more concerned about Michigan, Miami or Florida State? And did both teams actually win in the Auburn-Washington tilt? Mitch's offers us reasons for optimism and reasons for concerns moving forward. Fantasy performers, waiver wire adds and more!
Week 1 Preview: Auburn-Washington, Miami-LSU, Michigan-Notre Dame
August 29, 2018 16:19 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MBCollege football is back and we have you set for five straight nights of college ball! Washington and Auburn will have the biggest impact on the playoff. Notre Dame and Michigan is loaded with intriguing individual matchups. LSU could completely change the offseason narrative with a win over Miami. Upset specials, picks against the spread and the rest of our favorite games from Week 1.
Official Playoff and Natty Picks
August 27, 2018 16:22 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MBMitch and Braden make their final official 2018 college football playoff predictions and national title winner. They disagree on who will win it all this year. They guys also discuss some of the latest QB battles at USC, Florida St, Nebraska and elsewhere. Could Urban Meyer retire after this season? Week One is here!
Open Practices and Death Valley
August 16, 2018 16:19 - 45 minutes - 20.8 MBThere isn't a lot of news because coaches won't ever allow open practices! Why does this happen and could it help solve some of the issues we are seeing at places like Maryland. LSU and Clemson should play for the Death Valley moniker while Michigan and Wisconsin should play for the U.P. What else should be on the line? And a guy's road trip question of etiquette.
All Quarterbacks, All the Time
August 07, 2018 17:46 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MBQBs, QBs and more QBs. How do we handicap the playoff contenders battles at Bama, Clemson and Georgia? Did Nick Saban mishandle his QB room? Who are the most clutch fourth quarter gunslingers in college football? Which battles are most intriguing? And which late bloomers could change the Playoff landscape should they breakout in 2018?
Anonymous Coaching Scouting Reports '18
July 30, 2018 21:44 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBMitch and Braden run through their favorite anonymous coaching scouting reports from the 2018 preview magazine. It is their favorite part of putting the magazines together each year and this season offered up another set of juicy coaching morsels.
Playoff Expansion and the Worst Games of 2018
July 25, 2018 18:19 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBCoaches have been bringing up playoff expansion at media days so the guys tackle the essential issues surrounding playoff expansion... for the 113th time. Also, what is Urban Meyer thinking? And a nightmare road trip to the worst Power 5 games of 2018.
College Football's Challenges and Media Days, Pt. II
July 20, 2018 16:32 - 56 minutes - 25.6 MBMitch Light gets his chance to chime in on the biggest challenges facing college football and react to the all of the answers given to this question on our previous episode. Additionally, what do we make of Larry Fedora or Aaron Murray's comments? Are the players the most important part of media days and how defined are the tiers in the ACC, Big Ten and SEC?