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Over/unders with the Bear
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - April 09, 2020 02:12 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsLas Vegas has weighed in with its win total projections of the 2020 college football season. Every FBS team from Alabama to UMass. Chris Fallica from ESPN, aka Bear from “College Gameday,” joins AP’s Ralph Russo to share his early picks in every conference. Optimism for Purdue. Pessimism for Kans...
AP Ground Game: Inside The Poll Numbers
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - April 03, 2020 19:43 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThis is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak.State and local officials are receiving high marks for how they’ve been handling the coronavirus outbreak, less so for President Donald Trump and the federal government. AP Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace and Director of Pu...
AP Ground Game: Inside The Ripple Effect
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - April 02, 2020 20:30 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThis is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak.The coronavirus pandemic continues to take a devastating toll on The United Sates economy, with over 6 million Americans filing for unemployment. The disruptions due to coronavirus are causing a ripple effect, trickling into t...
Best Teams to Come up Short
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - April 01, 2020 23:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsWho are the best college football teams to not win the national championship? USA Today’s Paul Myerberg has some candidates, going back as far as 1940. Paul joins AP’s Ralph Russo to talk all-time great teams that came up short on a national title, including heralded squads from Michigan, Ole Mis...
AP Ground Game: Inside Madrid, Spain
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - April 01, 2020 22:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThis is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak.Spain has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus outbreak and the country’s death toll remains comparatively high despite a two-week lockdown. With more than 9,000 COVID-19 deaths documented, officials have been forced to...
AP Ground Game: Inside The Epicenter
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 31, 2020 19:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThis is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak.New York has been hit especially hard in the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 75,000 cases confirmed so far. In New York and elsewhere, health officials are reviewing guidelines from sources including state governments and me...
Bonus: AP Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak - Inside Rural America
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 30, 2020 21:30 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThis is a special presentation of APs Ground Game: Inside The Outbreak.In rural towns and already isolated communities across the country, the concerns about the coronavirus outbreak range from outsiders bringing the virus with them from bigger cities to economies that normally rely on tourism gr...
How I Came to Love College Football
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 25, 2020 23:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsEight college football writers. One question: How did you come to love college football? On the latest AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, AP’s Ralph Russo asks that question some of his friends and colleagues who cover the game for a living. Each shares a story of being drawn into the passion an...
Projections: Numbers vs. Humans
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 18, 2020 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsIt’s never too early to have a Top 25 for next season. Plenty of those have been circulating since the day after LSU beat Clemson to win the national title. ESPN’s Bill Connelly chimed in with his SP+ preseason projections for 2020 in February. Connelly joins the AP’s Ralph Russo to compare and c...
Sports are Shut Down -- So Let's Talk Football
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 14, 2020 00:38 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe sports world has been shut down because of the coronavirus outbreak. The AP Top 25 College Football Podcast will try to get you through it. In this week’s episode, host Ralph Russo of the AP goes solo on why he’ll miss March Madness so much. But his is a college football show. And since all o...
The State of Officiating
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - March 03, 2020 13:24 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsFormer NFL official and college coordinator of officials Terry McAulay has made the transition to TV rules expert, but he still keeps a close on officiating at all levels of football.McAulay joins AP’s Ralph Russo to talk about the state of college football officiating and what _ if anything _ ca...
Smart Move by Georgia
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 26, 2020 05:03 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe most fascinating coaching move of the offseason might involve a man who has never been an on-field college coach. Georgia hired longtime Alabama strength and conditioning coach Scott Cochran away from Nick Saban and the Tide and is making him an on-field coach.Max Olson from The Athletic join...
Never-Ending Coaching Carousel
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 19, 2020 03:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsIt is the middle of February and still a major college football team is trying to hire a head coach. This week on the AP Top 25 College Football Podcast, ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg joins AP's Ralph Russo to discuss Michigan State’s hiring of Mel Tucker, Colorado’s reaction to Tucker leaving and why s...
From NCAA Investigator to Athlete Advocate
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 11, 2020 20:20 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsTim Nevius is a former Division I baseball player who worked for five years as an NCAA investigator after graduating from law school. Now he works to change college sports by representing athletes and pushing for reforms to NCAA rules regarding things like transfers, and compensation for name, im...
Transfer of Power
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 05, 2020 00:04 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe transfer rules could be changing in a big way in college athletics within the next two years. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported last week the Big Ten athletic directors are planning to put forth a proposal that would allow all college athletes to transfer once without sitting out a season. T...
Transfer of Power
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 05, 2020 00:04 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe transfer rules could be changing in a big way in college athletics within the next two years. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported last week the Big Ten athletic directors are planning to put forth a proposal that would allow all college athletes to transfer once without sitting out a season. T...
Andy Who? Andy Reid the Champion
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - February 03, 2020 16:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsPatrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to their third straight postseason comeback win from a double-deficit to beat the San Francisco 49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl 54, giving Andy Reid his first championship as head coach. AP Pro Football Writers Teresa Walker and Dennis Waszak joined Rob Maaddi...
From One GOAT To Another
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 31, 2020 23:37 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe 49ers and Chiefs got a break from the media and we moved closer to Super Bowl 54 with a star-studded list of guests on Radio Row.Joe Montana talked about being forced to leave the 49ers and join the Chiefs and offered Tom Brady advice. Cowboys tight end Jason Witten said he's leaning toward p...
Prankster Eli Has A Secret
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 30, 2020 23:47 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsWhile the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs get ready for Super Bowl 54, Radio Row is filling with athletes, entertainers and anyone who wants to be part of the Big Game hype. Former Giants running back Rashaad Jennings revealed that he and newly retired two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manni...
Rooney Rule Isn't Working
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 30, 2020 00:26 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs hit the practice field to prepare for Super Bowl 54 while current players, former stars and various entertainers made their way to Radio Row to discuss the Big Game and much more. Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk expressed his frustration with the lack...
Kicking Off Super Bowl in Miami
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 29, 2020 00:35 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsSuper Bowl kicked off in Miami with a more subdued Media Night Monday that opened with a tribute to Kobe Bryant. The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs have two of their four media sessions out of the way and now can start to focus on practice. Chiefs coach Andy Reid seemed to be enjoying...
What’s next for the NCAA and NIL?
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 21, 2020 23:02 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe college football offseason is here but there is still plenty of news in college sports. This week attention turns to the NCAA convention where the hot topic will be name, image and likeness. The NCAA is trying to come up with an ideal model that would allow athletes to be paid for their fame....
Last Word on LSU and Looking Ahead to 2020
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 14, 2020 20:28 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsOn the final AP College Football Podcast of the 2019 season, Dan Wolken and Paul Myerberg of USA Today join AP’s Ralph Russo to recap LSU’s national championship game victory against Clemson.What is Joe Burrow’s place in college football history after a record-breaking season and remarkable rise ...
CFP Championship Preview
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - January 08, 2020 03:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe national championship comes down to Tigers vs. Tigers. No. 1 LSU will face No. 3 Clemson in New Orleans for the title. To break down the matchup, Cam Mellor, a college football analyst from Pro Football Focus, joins AP’s Ralph Russo. What is Clemson’s best route defensively to slowing down Jo...
Targeting, Conspiracy Theories and Tua
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - December 31, 2019 21:12 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe last AP Top 25 College Football Podcast of 2019 is with Andy Staples of The Athletic, and the Andy Staples Show podcast. Andy and AP’s Ralph Russo talk officiating and targeting in the wake of the Clemson-Ohio State game in which a few close calls helped swing things the way of the Tigers.And...
Playoff Preview
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - December 24, 2019 13:51 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsNo. 1 LSU and Heisman Trophy winner Joe Burrow face No. 4 Oklahoma and Heisman runner-up Jalen Hurts in the Peach Bowl. No. 2 Ohio State and its two Heisman finalists, Justin Fields and Chase Young, face defending national champion and No. 3 Clemson, with Trevor Lawrence, in the Fiesta Bowl. The ...
All About Recruiting
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - December 17, 2019 19:49 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe early signing period is here and in just three years it has become THE signing period for college football teams. Most FBS teams will have their classes full before Christmas. Barton Simmons, scouting director for 247 Sports, joins AP’s Ralph Russo to run down what teams are cleaning up and w...
Bowl Season Preview
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - December 10, 2019 17:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe bowl matchups are set. A marathon football feast that lasts from December to early January includes 40 games of varying quality needs an extra-long podcast to preview it all. Matt Brown, college football editor at The Athletic -- and an AP poll voter -- joins Ralph Russo on the AP Top 25 Coll...
Championship Week Preview
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - December 04, 2019 00:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsChampionship weekend is upon us, but that’s only a portion of all that is going on in college football this week. The coaching carousel has cranked up and the Heisman race will be settled as well. USA Today national college football writer Paul Myerberg joins AP’s Ralph Russo for an extra long ed...
Rivalry Week
AP Top 25 College Football Podcast - November 27, 2019 00:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsAre rivalries as important as they used to be in college football? With so much focus on the College Football Playoff and the sport's becoming more national, AP’s Ralph Russo worries that it’s taking away from the intensity of regional rivalries. Stephen Godfrey of the Banner Society joins the AP...
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