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A strange season ended in usual fashion: Another Alabama national championship, No. 18 for the Crimson Tide and No. 7 for Nick Saban. Trey and Chris Hummer give their biggest takeaways. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Chris Hummer Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcasts ,  Stitcher , or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcas...

We made it! In a few hours, either Alabama or Ohio State will be crowned champions of a season unlike any other. Who will win? By how much? And what will swing the game? Trey enlists Charlie Potter of BamaOnLine and Patrick Murphy of Bucknuts to break down the title game. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Charlie Potter & Patrick Murphy Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,...

Hank South remembers when he was tipped off about a thin "machine" of a football player. With DeVonta Smith winning the Heisman Trophy and set to light up Ohio State, Hank joins Trey Scott to reminisce on the 2017 Crimson Tide class that will go down as the industry standard. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Hank South Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  G...

Clemson and Notre Dame finished the year with the same record and the same Playoff outcome, but with different outlooks on their season. For the Fighting Irish, 2020 was a success. For Clemson, it probably wasn't. Anna Hickey of Clemson247 and Tim O'Malley of Irish Illustrated go in-depth with Trey Scott on what each program will take from this season, where they will get better, where they will b...

Blair Angulo, host of the 247Sports Football Recruiting Podcast, drops in to catch fans up on the news they've missed since the Early Signing Day like Alabama and Clemson grabbing 5-stars from under Oklahoma's nose and USC making good on its West Coast promise. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Blair Angulo Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcast...

A slew of concerning trends — not related to wins and losses — dogged Tom Herman in his final days and weeks as head coach, and while a few of us saw his firing coming, Chip Brown says Herman himself did not. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Chip Brown Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcasts ,  Stitcher , or wherever you get your podcasts. Find...

In retrospect, we should have given Ohio State much more of a chance against Clemson because of two advantages: In the trenches and on the outside. Speaking of the outside, what Alabama did to Notre Dame is reflective of college football's hottest new arms race — receiver recruiting. Trey Scott and Chris Hummer run through those talking points and hit on Texas' hire of Steve Sarkisian. Host:  Trey...

They have no business being rivals, but here Ohio State and Clemson are, ahead of Friday's Sugar Bowl, talking mess on a daily basis. Our team experts shed insight into that. Plus, a reaction to the news the Tigers are without OC Tony Elliott against the Buckeyes and whether Oklahoma's rout of Florida portends a Playoff-caliber 2021 for the Sooners. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Dave Biddle, Patrick...

On the heels of Texas' impressive showing vs. Colorado in the Alamo Bowl, Trey Scott asks Horns247's Jeff Howe a few important questions: Where was this team all year? Sam Ehlinger is gone, right? And ... why does it seem like Tom Herman could still be fired? Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Jeff Howe Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcasts , ...

Chris Hummer is joined by Brad Crawford to break down and predict the remaining College Football Bowl games. They give their thoughts on which teams will win straight up, which will cover the spread, and which teams will meet in the College Football Playoff National Championship. Host: Chris Hummer  Guest: Brad Crawford Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcast...

Bud Elliott fills in for host Trey Scott and runs down the important news in college football over the Christmas weekend, including players returning to school, turning pro early, and transferring. Plus, marveling at Alabama's absurd recruiting class. Host: Bud Elliott Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on  Spotify ,  Apple Podcasts ,  Google Podcasts ,  Stitcher , or wherever you g...

247Sports' bowl guru Brad Crawford joins the show to recap a strange year of projections and explain why schools like Army and Coastal Carolina have such a gripe this week (Note: After recording of this episode, Army replaced Tennessee in the Liberty Bowl). Brad ranks the non-Playoff New Year's Six bowl games as him and Trey sort through the games worth keeping an eye on. Host:  Trey Scott    Gues...

We have a rematch-laden CFB Playoff playoff setup for 2020, with No. 1 Alabama looking to once again blow out No. 4 Notre Dame and Clemson and Ohio State gearing up for a redux of their Fiesta Bowl thriller. Trey Scott and Chris Hummer break down the two semifinals and discuss whether the committee got it right in leaving out Texas A&M and Cincinnati. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Chris Hummer F...

Trey and Cory Morrissey got to know each other during the Paul Rhoads era, which had its ups and its downs. Morrissey, an All-Conference selection in 2014, sheds insight into the foundation Rhoads built, how Matt Campbell amplified it with his excellent culture and staff, and breaks down one of the best games of championship weekend. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Cory Morrissey Follow or Subscribe t...

Recruiting analyst Andrew Ivins joins the show to break down the winners and losers from the start of the Early Signing Period, including Alabama flexing its muscle, Lane Kiffin wishing the world a Merry Flipmas, LSU bouncing back and Los Angeles rivals USC and UCLA battling for several prospects. Host:  Blair Angulo   Guests: Andrew Ivins Follow or Subscribe to the new 247Sports Football Recruiti...

Steve Wiltfong stars in a rare nighttime episode drop of the College Football Daily, delivering scoop and predictions ahead of the Dec. 16 Early Signing Day. Host: Trey Scott Guests: Steve Wiltfong Follow or Subscribe to the new 247Sports Football Recruiting show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!

Analysts Steve Wiltfong, Greg Biggins and Brandon Huffman join the show for a round table discussion heading into the Early Signing Period, including the recent commitment of five-star WR Emeka Egbuka to Ohio State, the flip of Top247 cornerback Nathaniel Wiggins to Clemson from LSU, the latest on five-star defensive end Korey Foreman, coaching moves and which program could close the best. Host: B...

The Auburn Tigers are paying a hefty buyout to part ways with coach Gus Malzahn just a few days before the Early Signing Period. It might send what was already the No. 42 ranked recruiting class in 2021 up in smoke, but the payoff — according to Keith Niebuhr — could mean top-5 contention in the future. Host:  Trey Scott    Guest: Keith Niebuhr Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on ...

With the announcement of the four College Football Playoff teams less than two weeks away, there are still quite a few scenarios that could shake up which programs get chosen. Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, Florida, Texas A&M, Iowa State, and others are still in the mix as they fight to catch the eyes of the committee. Many of your favorite 247Sports personalities sit down to run th...

Emeka Egbuka, the No. 1 WR in the class of 2021, will announce a commitment between Washington, Oklahoma, and Ohio State on Friday. If the Washington native leaves the state, it'd be yet another brutal blow for the Pac-12's recruiting fortunes. We listen in on Egbuka talk about his favorite schools and discuss Egbuka's options with 247Sports insider Brandon Huffman. Host: Trey Scott    Guest: Bran...

The highest-ranked tight end in the modern recruiting era is looking to transfer out of LSU after a strong season, citing homesickness. Billy Embody of Geaux247 joins Trey to break down what's going on with Gilbert, what happens next for him and why LSU's fall is getting worse by the week — and whether it's enough to have Ed Orgeron worried about his job. Host: Trey Scott    Guest: Billy Embody Fo...

Texas brass performed a coaching search without having a vacancy. Now that top target Urban Meyer has said no, the Longhorns find themselves in a horrible situation with fourth-year head coach Tom Herman (who has plenty of beef with Meyer that makes this story all the more juicy). Should Texas cut its losses, the bill will be $25 million. Or the Longhorns can move on with Herman as a lame duck. Ne...

The 43-year-old Shane Beamer has never even been a coordinator, but he's got loads of experience under a few of college football's best coaches — Lincoln Riley, Kirby Smart, Steve Spurrier, plus think about whose household he grew up in. That rolodex plus Beamer's love for the program and the vouching of the Gamecock greats who he recruited and coached were enough to land him the gig. Trey and Bra...

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, BYU's once-vaunted schedule fell apart. But the No. 13 Cougars suddenly have a great matchup on the docket in No. 18 Coastal Carolina, who just had their game vs. Liberty canceled. That it was scheduled four days in advance of the game flies in the face of the sport's logic of scheduling out non-conference games by 10 years. Trey brings in Matt Brown, the publi...

Much like Tennessee's 2020 football season, its 2021 recruiting class in the cycle started hot — with plenty of promise — and then began sliding in the wrong direction. The two aren't totally related, but the total picture isn't pretty: A spate of decommitments has knocked the Vols out of the top 10 in the team recruiting rankings and the football team is looking to snap a five-game losing streak...