247sports Morning Blitz

The Coloradoan capped Tuesday afternoon with a story that figures to be damning to first-year coach Steve Addazio: Some CSU players and staff members do not trust the athletics program has their best interest at heart as they return to play. Allegations include players being told not to report symptoms and a lack of contact tracing, all in the effort to keep players on the field. Coloradoan reporter Kevin Lytle joins the show. Read the full article on the Coloradoan here. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Kevin Lytle 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

Tuesday morning began with a bang as one of the best players in football, Minnesota's Rashod Bateman, opted out. Over in Big 12 country ... When the conference finally did announced its scheduling news, the details were inadequate. All we know is a 9+1 with a 'mid-September' start date. Trey and Chris Hummer react to the broader implications of that. 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

Player agency reached a critical mass this weekend when numerous Pac-12 players united to submit a written list of demands to promote player health and racial justice across the conference. Like all good negotiators, they start with a high asking price. Host: Trey Scott   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

It's deja vu all over again as another conference surprised us with an afternoon scheduling announcement. Trey Scott and Chris Hummer react to the SEC's nixing of non-conference foes as it goes to a 10-game format. Then Trey dials up Notre Dame expert Tim O'Malley to get the pulse in South Bend on the Irish's new ACC digs. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Tim O'Malley 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

A new championship game format! A 10+1 system! Notre Dame!! Trey and Chris Hummer chop it up about the ACC's scheduling announcement Wednesday, which punctuated a busy hour of college football as Virginia Tech cornerback became the first notable player to announce his decision to opt out of the 2020 season. 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

The NCAA issued a blanket waiver allowing all Football Bowl Subdivision Schools to begin playing the college football season as early as Aug. 29. Brandon Marcello tells us what this means and what it doesn't. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: 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

247Sports released a list Tuesday of the 50 best players in college football, so Trey brings in Charles Power and Chris Hummer to ask about the criteria they used, what themes they noticed, which players might have been snubbed and who is going to crack the top 50 come the end of the year. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Charles Power, 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

Brandon Marcello calls into the College Football Daily for his regular Monday check-in regarding college football's fate in the age of the coronavirus. A few takeaways: Scheduling decisions from the ACC and Pac-12 are imminent. The Big 12 is getting aggressively flexible — as seen in Oklahoma's decision to move up the opener. And the NCAA delaying a decision on fall championships was music to the ears of Power 5 officials, even if they operate within their own jurisdiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

OK, maybe "winning ways" is a stretch here — as a good season for the Commodores is an exception, not the rule. But a loyal listener requested we spend some time on the subject, and it just so happens that Barton Simmons and Bud Elliott recently touched on such a topic on the Barton & Bud podcast. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Barton Simmons, Bud Elliot 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 NCAA likely to pass name, image and likeness legislation ahead of the 2021 academic calendar year, 247Sports spoke to Opendorse CEO Blake Lawrence about how much college football players stand to make off their NIL. There's a lot of money to go around, and it's going to become the next recruiting arms race. Hosts: Trey Scott, Chris Hummer Guest: Blake Lawrence 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 California delaying the fall sports season until December at the earliest, Greg Biggins believes most of the prospects in his backyard will skip their senior season to enroll early in college (whatever that may look like). This includes No. 1 overall recruit Korey Foreman, who's as good as gone. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Greg Biggins  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 Crimson Tide continued their run up the recruiting rankings, landing twin linemen Tommy and James Brockermeyer. But that's not the whole story here. The brothers are Texas Longhorn legacies, and their decision to spurn the in-state favorite speaks loudly about what the Longhorns are sorely lacking. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Mike Roach, Hank South 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

Brandon Marcello checks in with Trey for his weekly status report on how college football officials are scrambling to save the season. There's a lot to juggle, but Brandon believes some semblance of a fall season will occur in 2020. Fingers crossed! 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

Sources close to college football's best players tell us not to expect them to play if the season gets pushed to the spring. Chris Hummer and Trey have a conversation about that. 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

Pull up a chair and let's listen in on the latest in Georgia's pivotal quarterback battle, where JT Daniels is eligible immediately to go toe-to-toe with Jamie Newman for the rights to lead one of football's most talented teams. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Jake Rowe, Greg Biggins, Kipp Adams 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 247Sports updating its class of 2022 rankings Wednesday, it's time to get familiar with a player atop the list: Quinn Ewers, perhaps the best quarterback prospect at this stage since Trevor Lawrence. Trey calls up Southlake (Texas) Carroll head coach Riley Dodge, who knows a thing or two about high-pressure quarterbacking and high-profile quarterbacks, to see what it's been like coaching Ewers — so far. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: Riley Dodge 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

5-star cornerback Tony Grimes has reclassified from the 2021 class to 2020, setting him up to make an impact this fall for the Tar Heels. For Grimes, it's a no-brainer. For North Carolina, it is a bit more complicated. For everybody else ... well, it's possible this isn't the last talented 2021 recruit we see jump up a year. Host: Trey Scott   Guests: Don Callahan, Brian Snow 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're reckoning with the reality that 2020 might feature conference-only action in college football. It's a bummer. But as Brandon Marcello tells Trey, it might be the only shot we've got at getting a fall season off the ground. The reasons are numerous and the options, at this point, feels endless. Tuesday night football, anybody? Check Brandon's article: Why conference-only schedules could save the football season. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: 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 Big Ten Conference shocked the college football world Thursday with the news it would only play conference games in 2020. Expect every other Power 5 conference to follow, which leaves more questions than we have answers: How long will the seasons be? When will they start? What about Notre Dame? How does this affect the Playoff? Chris Hummer joins Trey Scott to talk through everything. 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

The Ivy League has announced the cancellation of football this fall. Will other Power 5 schools follow suit, the way they did in March when the Ivy was ahead of the curve on cancelling its conference basketball tournament? Brandon Marcello doesn't think that will be the case — for now, at least. Host: Trey Scott   Guest: 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