Ohio State defense, Georgia receivers & more spring game takeaways 👏 | Always College Football
On Always College Football, Greg McElroy goes over the big takeaways from spring games this past weekend including Milroe (and Simpson) looking good for Alabama, a dominant Ohio State defense, Cam Ward for Miami and Graham Mertz for Florida both looking good. The return of Cam Rising, the depth at Virginia Tech and Georgia, and Lane Kiffin completely changing the game with the “Grove Bowl Games." Plus, the transfer portal opens and we hit the mailbag.
0:00 Intro
2:35 Ohio State defense was impressive
7:00 Penn State’s vanilla offense (on purpose)
11:00 Boston College has RB and WR depth
12:10 Georgia Tech’s defensive overhaul shows promise
13:00 Pittsburgh’s choppy roster leaves more questions
14:00 Virginia Tech has depth everywhere & a QB who can put up points
16:00 Cam Ward looks dangerous at Miami, transfer portal DB help might be coming
17:15 Cam Rising is back at Utah and Dorian Singer looks as advertised
19:20 Milroe and Simpson look good for Alabama; the Tide will be active in the portal
24:45 Arkansas’ first team offense looked strong
26:00 Graham Mertz is the leader Florida needs
27:50 Georgia’s WR is deep and talented
30:05 Kentucky’s tempo is impressive
31:10 Tennessee’s run game will be a strength
33:20 Garrett Nussmeier looked good for LSU but the defense needs help
35:50 Mailbag - UGA and their defensive pressure?
38:10 Mailbag - The Ole Miss start “Grove Bowl Games” - will more teams do that?
41:10 Mailbag - Who benefits from the spring transfer portal?
43:20 News and Notes: A&M injury + Mississippi St gets good portal news
45:50 Thanks for watching
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Greg, I did not know you had a brand new baby. Congratulations, you are one of my favorite voices in college football and I wish you and family the best. 🎉
Ohio state will have the best defense it will be historic secondary BIA
Best DL and secondary in the country this year. That defensive roster might have 7-8 guys drafted in the first 3 rounds in 2025.
Easily @@NateBee
@@NateBee better cool those jets, Skippy...
Am I crazy to think Oklahoma will have a better SEC opening season than Texas ? Even though I think Texas can go further in the playoffs this year. Roll Tide
yes. Oklahoma is getting reset trust and believe that
I feel that as long as Willie Martinez is on staff, our Secondary will always be a question mark.
Jesus died for us
spring games do give away what your team can look like but people take it waaaayy too seriously when it’s just a preview for the year to come. bowl games should be moved to the beginning of the year, as they will now be completely useless with all the NY6s now being used in the CFP since they agreed to expand the CFP.
I’m one of the people that enjoyed bowl season, some of the lower tier games were very entertaining.
@@D_Shep343 I mean sure the Mayo Bowl and the Potato Bowl and even the Armed Forces bowl that features one of the armed forces vs a texas school, they can provide great games and have provided great games. But in today’s world with no boundaries anymore, the portal window opens immediately once the regular season ends. and that means recruitment. It goes for the NIT in basketball as well as the exhibition end season tournaments in baseball too. it’s just sad that there’s no regulation anymore and the NCAA is double reactive to anything and everything willing to be passed or vetoed and the judges has denied all 3 cases of regulation of NIL, movement of the portal window and the gray area of tampering that goes on in high schools. the NCAA is toothless in the football world, the changes shouldn’t be across all sports and HAS to be changed immediately
@@GoatedAtNFS I’m not saying that there weren’t issues but I personally will miss the games of teams that never play on television unless they are a sacrificial lamb for one of the big boys. The bowl experience for those players cannot be measured in dollars. The only thing is everything boils down to dollars unfortunately.
Will Howard doesn't have to be CJ Stroud. All he has to do is go through his progression, get it to the playmakers in space, and have a plan when things break down. Honestly, just don't f*ck it up. That's where his experience comes in and why he'll be a major upgrade from Kyle McCord.
Hyping up Alabama when they had a horrible spring game lol
George Rush defense definitely needs to improve, but you didn’t say anything about the wide receivers Like the name of the video says The only thing you said about Georgia wide receivers was a comparison between one of George’s best receivers and a transfer coming to Alabama which in my opinion is a heavy stretch Sounds like Greg might be biased, wanting to rave about Alabama receivers when they are probably weaker in that department then they have been an over a decade
Onward Notre Dame
So the same Drew Allar from last year. Can only hit a wide open receiver.
Jesus loves everyone ❤
The only problem I have with Ohio’s defense is they heavily sell out for pass defense. To the point that any elite running team has a hay day with them up front because their back end is too entrenched with covering routes.
I didn’t know that anyone cared about the Ohio Bobcats football team.
They have a D line, and very good linebackers as well
Lmao, let's see how that works out
Stay tuned we will have 2 legit LBs stuffing the run and 2 deep Dline that would start anywhere in country All draft picks you already know the secondary is the Best in country this D will be top 3 period offense top 10
@matthewmiller5194 at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Travis Hunter hit the portal and ended up at Ohio State 😏
Ohio state didn’t even tackle to the ground in there spring game
Why would they?
Lol you still can't tie your shoes I can tell