Teams with most to gain -- or lose -- in Week 1, CFP and title picks (09/01)

Cover 3 College Football

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Cover 3 crew makes their official playoff picks for 2021. The conversation opens with looking for spots in the Week 1 slate where teams have a lot to gain or lose based on the result, starting with North Carolina’s ACC title chances being on the line at Virginia Tech on Friday night (2:30). Then, what a win at Wisconsin would mean for Penn State (6:20), the springboard opportunity for UCLA hosting LSU (10:00), the long shot chances for Miami (17:45) and bowl hopes on the line for both West Virginia and Maryland (22:00). Plus, putting our official predictions on the record with our College Football Playoff and National Championship picks for the 2021 season (37:45). Cover 3 is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Watch Cover 3 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/cover3 Follow our hosts on Twitter: @Chip_Patterson, @TomFornelli, @DannyKanell, @BudElliott3 For more college football coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Nick right now. I want to talk to you about what's right one of the fastest growing podcasts on the Fox Sports
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0:40.0	Welcome back to the cover three podcast with your host chip Panerson Tom Fernelli Danny Canal and
0:46.6	Bud Elliott it's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between
0:57.2	CBS Sports presents the cover three podcast
1:02.0	And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Tom Fernelli. That's Bud Elliott. I'm chip Patterson
1:09.3	Week one is creeping upon us and we realized that as the seasons yet to get started
1:15.3	We've given you win totals for every single power five team and many group of five teams
1:20.6	We've given you our win totals locks the ones we feel the best about and there was something missing
1:25.9	We haven't even given you our national championship picks. We have yet to give you our playoff picks
1:30.7	And so we are gonna put our name to it. We are going to put it in stone the official cover three
1:37.4	2021 college football playoff picks and predictions that will be coming up later in the show
1:42.8	But we are gonna begin with a unique look at this robust week one slate because we have seen going into week zero
1:51.7	That a lot can be determined. You know, there can be a great springboard for an Illinois team that is able to get a great
1:59.3	Home win and generate a lot of positivity and there can be just devastating
2:05.9	Results it emotionally with narratives from a loss as we saw from the other side of that with Nebraska
2:12.6	I think you can say the same thing about UCLA, but anyway it got me thinking about stakes
2:17.1	Not meet but just the stakes of the games and where do we have high stakes and so
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