247sports Morning Blitz

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, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   Guest: Brad Crawford Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Recruiting show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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: Blair Angulo  Guests: Steve Wiltfong, Brandon Huffman, Greg Biggins 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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 through the various storylines and hypotheticals to get you up to date on which teams could be the ones left standing. Host: Josh Pate Guests: Barton Simmons, Bud Elliott, Trey Scott, Chris Hummer, Brandon Marcello Follow or Subscribe to the Barton & Bud, College Football Daily, Late Kick with Josh Pate, and the Football Recruiting Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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: Brandon Huffman Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Neither option sounds nearly as Meyer, but there's no going back now. 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 the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Brad Crawford discuss the pros and cons of the hiring and what success would look like for Beamer. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Brad Crawford Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 publisher of the popular Extra Points newsletter, to talk about BYU's yearly scheduling conundrum and, more broadly, why college football scheduling can't always be this fun and easy. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Matt Brown, publisher of Extra Points (learn more about extra points here) Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 ... with Florida on tap. Believe it or not, but Jeremy Pruitt is on the ropes. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Ryan Callahan Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Has enough time passed between Hugh Freeze's nasty exit at Ole Miss? Does Jamey Chadwell have the experience and the chops needed to succeed at the Power 5, or even the SEC? We won't learn all the answers to that this weekend, but Liberty vs. Coastal Carolina promises to be a duel between two coaches who won't be at their current schools forever. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Brandon Marcello Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ohio State Buckeyes are crossing their fingers they can play this weekend against Michigan State, especially with The Game (Dec. 12) in doubt. If not, the College Football Playoff committee — and the rest of us — are going to have to grapple with how we view a 5-0* Buckeye team when it comes to the postseason. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Patrick Murphy Follow or Subscribe to The College Football Daily on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Find the 247Sports podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Big Ten is in a massive playoff bind, the Pac-12 is already out of it and the coaching carousel is humming as we head into the craziest time of the year. Trey Scott and Chris Hummer react to the news that Vanderbilt has fired Derek Mason and wonder who they'll tab to replace him, then discuss the feasibility that Texas executes an Urban Meyer-for-Tom Herman swap. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: 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 podcast for your favorite team here!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices