Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football, previewing the national championship game between Georgia and TCU.  Bobby Petrino lands at Texas A&M; Jim Harbaugh is flirting with the NFL No tailgating at 430 pm local time The setting for the title game TCU's truly incomparable run Sonny Dykes unlikely retread Stetson Bennett's unprecedented career Building blocks of a TCU upset Max Duggan superman What to do with Quentin Johnston? UGa keeps it simple Patience and blue chips Final Predictions A case for and against expansion 

An Unprecedented Monday Night

The Athlon Sports Cover 2 College Football Podcast previews and reviews every aspect of the greatest sport on the planet.

Join Athlon’s editorial team every week of the preseason, regular season, postseason and offseason for a breakdown of the entire circus that is college football.

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Steven Lassan and Braden Gall tease the magazine's Top 25 rankings by looking at what will be the toughest and most important games of 2024. Which games will define the season and which games will prove our rankings wrong?

The Toughest Games of 2024

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. The sport is close to revenue sharing agreement so it's important to ask what is best for the game? An equitable financial format that fosters parity and balance across leagues and schools? Or a system where the gold rules? Also, which teams "won" the portal and does it even matter?

Football's Golden Rule + Spring Winners

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. Which teams are on the top tier in each major conference - who are the conference contenders we are debating during magazine production? What is the one big roster question about each of these championship contenders?

Biggest Roster Concerns for Contenders

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. We take a deep dive into the 31 new head coaches, what are expectations, which program did the best job hiring a headman, which names could be busts and which could be stars. We also talk Colorado, the NFL Draft and the FSU-ACC lawsuit.

Grading The 31 New Head Coaches

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. We head out on our SEC dream road trip for 2024. With two new teams, no divisions, a deep crop of contenders, lots of new rivalries (and some old ones) and no Nick Saban, the SEC 2024 schedule appears to be loaded with monster games. You have to see all 16 teams, can't see any team more than twice and can't repeat a stadium. Let's go!

An Unprecedented Monday Night

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