Reasonable & unreasonable expectations for Alabama, Michigan & more of CFB's most interesting teams with Ralph Russo

Until Saturday: A show about college football

What are reasonable and unreasonable expectations for fanbases of some of college football's most interesting teams? Ari Wasserman is joined by The Athletic's Kennington Smith III and Ralph Russo of the Associated Press to solve what rational, and irrational, benchmarks Alabama, Michigan, Colorado, Clemson, and more should hit this season. Kenny and Ralph are subjected to an expectations lightning round before the triumvirate reveal which fanbases are the most irrational.

Listen to Ralph on the AP Top 25 College Football Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ap-top-25-college-football-podcast/id1138957862

Read Kenny's SEC schedule breakdown:

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5556938/2024/06/12/sec-football-2024-tv/

Rundown:

- Reasonable/unreasonable expectations: Alabama (3:00)

- Texas to the moon? (13:00)

- Notre Dame standard in '24 (22:30)

- Is Ole Miss a National Championship contender? (30:15)

- We're the "Michael Jordan of being wrong about Texas A&M" (39:15)

- Colorado fans, let's be real (47:00)

- Miami boom or bust (52:30)

- Clemson, Dabo need to "stand on buisness" (59:30)

- Can Michigan win The Game? (1:06:00)

- Lightning Round: FSU, Penn State, LSU + more (1:09:30)

- Most irrational fanbases (1:12:30)

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