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Lock of the week:

Georgia -3 over Auburn

Trap of the week:

Iowa +13 over Wisconsin

Over/under:

Nebraska / Minnesota under 48.5

Dan, Tom and Ryan talk about Jim McElwain being let go as coach of Florida, and suggest a familiar name that the Gators should consider as his replacement.

The guys break down week 10 of the college football season, including Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State, Ohio State vs. Iowa, Penn State vs. Michigan State, Alabama vs. LSU, Texas A&M vs. Auburn, Arizona vs. USC and a lot more.

This week’s Greatest Teams of Our Lifetime matchup is a tough battle between the 2004 USC Trojans and the 2009 Alabama Crimson Tide. We offer analysis and choose a winner to move on in our bracket.

Happy Halloween!

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Lock of the week:

Notre Dame -14 over Wake Forest

Trap of the week:

South Carolina +24 over Georgia

Over/under:

Michigan / Minnesota over 41.5

From 2017

During the 2017 season, we took some time at the end of each show to debate the greatest college football team of the past 25 years. We started with a 16-team bracket, and each week, the last segment of our podcast was dedicated to one of these hypothetical match-ups, with the winner advancing. Visit the podcasts page and start with the 2017 season preview episode to listen from the beginning.

Listen to our breakdowns of the final four matchups:

• 1995 Nebraska vs. 2001 Miami
• 2008 Florida vs. 2009 Alabama
• The final matchup, 1995 Nebraska vs. 2008 Florida, was part of our 2017 National Championship Game preview show.

Update 2023

Since we created this bracket, there have been several teams that are worthy of inclusion.

• The 2018 Clemson team, led by freshman Trevor Lawrence, is arguably better than the 2016 Clemson team and would be a top 12 seed in a current bracket.
• The 2019 LSU team, featuring Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson, would absolutely be a top 4 seed and is arguably the best college football team of all time.
• The 2020 Alabama team, featuring Mac Jones and a loaded WR room, is difficult to judge since they played in a COVID season, but would potentially make our current list of top 16 teams.
• The 2021 and 2022 Georgia teams are both worthy of inclusion. As we did with the USC 03-05, Alabama 11/12, and Nebraska 93-95 dynasties, we’d pick one of these teams (slight edge to the undefeated 2022 team) and seed them in the top 6.

A revised bracket for 2023 would probably featuring the following teams as the top 4 seeds in some order: 2001 Miami, 1995 Nebraska, 2008 Florida, 2019 LSU

Dan and Tom look back at Notre Dame’s blowout of USC and project which teams will make the playoff. They predict the best games of week 9, including Penn State vs. Ohio State, Georgia vs. Florida and a lot more.

This week, we move into Round 2 of the Greatest Teams of Our Lifetime bracket with a game between the 1995 Nebraska Cornhuskers against the 1999 Florida State Seminoles.

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