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Bud Elliot, Cover 3 Podcast stresses importance of a Clemson Football fast start

Clemson’s schedule is manageable, but the first five games will be important to its College Football Playoff hopes.

After a 9-4 season, the Tigers are looking to gain some of the momentum they’ve lost. It just so happens that Clemson has a relatively easy schedule to do it, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be roadblocks.

On the “Cover 3 Podcast,” Bud Elliott sat down with Austin Hannon of 247 Sports. “It’ll be important to start fast,” said Elliott. “In the first five games, they play Georgia neutral, [at home] against NC State, and at FSU. That’s not super easy.”

After Florida State, the Tigers have a relatively easy path to the ACC Championship. The hardest games left will be at Virginia Tech, vs. Louisville, and vs. South Carolina. Having two of the three at home helps, too.

However, its record against Georgia, NC State, and FSU will be early indications of how the season will unfold for Clemson. If the Tigers drop all three, they might as well kiss the playoffs goodbye. On the other hand, if Clemson wins just one and sweeps the rest of the season, they’ll at least be in the conversation.

Unfortunately, it won’t be as easy as that. Between those three games, Clemson will play a bottom-of-the-conference Stanford team and a Group of Five team in Appalachian State. Hannon discussed just how dangerous the latter could be. “If they go to Atlanta and get beat around by Georgia like some people expect, [and then] you got to come home and play App State the first game next the home opener, and that’s not really a pushover,” said Hannon.

App State famously knocked off No. 5 Michigan in 2007. It was the first time an FCS team beat a ranked FBS team. Only two years ago, the Mountaineers did it again. Although they were an FBS team, App State went into College Station and dominated Texas A&M.

They are the giant slayers of college football. If Clemson is caught licking their wounds from a Georgia loss like Hannon stated, or looking ahead toward NC State, it might be the next victim on Appalachian State’s list.

College football analyst gives brutal assessment of Marcus Satterfield

One prominent college football analyst gave a brutal and honest assesment of Nebraska offensive cooridnator Marcus Satterfield.

On Sunday, CBS Sports college football analyst Bud Elliott was asked on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, if he thought that the Nebraska Cornhuskers would have “a shot at any high-level QB transfer?”

Elliott’s reply was short and simple but ultimately brutal on the Huskers’ offensive coordinator. “No way in hell I would sign up to play QB for Satterfield,” he said as a quote-tweet. “But Nebraska does have money so,” he added, referring to the Cornhuskers’ ability to woo a quarterback when it comes to NIL potential.

As the Huskers’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach this season, Satterfield led the Huskers to an abysmal 18.0 points and 312.8 yards per game. Nebraska quarterbacks suffered mightily throughout the season, completing 52.1% of their passes for just 1,631 yards and ten touchdowns while throwing 16 interceptions on the season.

Nebraska only scored 30+ points three times this season and was kept to under 20 points in seven of 12 games while only surpassing the 400+ total yard mark once.

Ultimately, with the Cornhuskers’ defense among the best in the nation, only allowing 18.2 points per game, it will be Satterfield and the offense that carries the brunt of the blame for the Huskers’ season likely not reaching its full potential. Despite posting a top-20 scoring defense, Nebraska finished their first season under Matt Rhule with a 5-7 record, losing each of their last four games, including three games in which they kept opponents to 20 points or fewer.

In their regular-season finale, the Huskers’ defense kept the Iowa Hawkeyes to just 13 points and 257 total yards. Still, the offense could only muster up 10 points of their own as they eventually fell in overtime 13-10.

Ultimately, while Sattersfield’s job appears safe for now, his seat will undoubtedly be warm heading into the 2024 season.

The Huskers will start their 2024 season on August 31 against the UTEP Miners at Memorial Stadium.

WATCH: MSU football featured on Cover 3 Podcast’s ‘Summer School’ series

Generally, summer school isn’t something many are excited to attend — but that’s not the case here

Generally, summer school isn’t something many are excited to attend — but that’s not the case here.

Bud Elliott of CBS Sports and 247Sports is hosting a “Summer School” series on the Cover 3 Podcast that provides an inside look at numerous schools — which includes Michigan State. Elliott caught up with Spartans’ beat reporter Stephen Brooks to discuss how Michigan State looks heading into next season.

Check out the complete “Summer School” series episode on the Spartans below:

Contact/Follow us @The SpartansWire on Twitter, and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan state news, notes, and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on Twitter @RobertBondy5.

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Grading Notre Dame’s positional groups for the 2020 season

Letter grades for Notre Dame football during their 2020 season, which saw them go undefeated in regular season play, only to lose their final two games.

The season has now ended and we can start to look back on what was a very odd 2020 season of college football. Two of 247Sports analysts Brad Crawford and Bud Elliott, broke down each team in the ACC and gave out grades for their performances.

Both, Crawford and Elliott gave the Irish A’s for the 2020 season, but I wanted to dig a bit deeper and give grades out for each position group and coaching. So here it is, my grades for each Notre Dame unit from this past season.

Notre Dame’s Talent is Title Caliber per Blue-Chip Ratio List

Extensive research has found Notre Dame can win a national title this year but also suggests it’d take a ton of luck.

If you’re like me you hear the word ratio and you immediately start to wonder who said something dumb on Twitter this time.  It’s probably a sign I need to delete that app from my phone sooner rather than later.

However, Bud Elliott has been doing his Blue-Chip Ratio project for years and released his 2020 version this week.  The research Elliott puts in finds the amount of elite talent, or four and five star recruits who are on the current rosters versus the three star or lesser talents that are also getting scholarships.

It’s worth noting that walk-on’s are not included.

These ratings provide both good news and bad news for Notre Dame fans.

The good?

Notre Dame makes the list, even if it is at twelfth.  The research essentially finds that if a team doesn’t make this list in the pre-season that they’ll have no chance at winning a national championship so clearly just getting on it is an important note.

However, further examination of the list and the numbers that go along with it tell the rest of the story and that’s that Notre Dame still has a ways to go in order to catch up to the truly elite.

54% of Notre Dame’s talent this year is of the four or five star caliber which might seem great and compared to the vast majority of college football it is.

However, when you see Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State all at 80% or above it really opens your eyes.

The biggest surprise to me is how Clemson is “just” seventh on this list and 20% behind Alabama and is significantly closer to being on Notre Dame’s level than on that of the Tide, Bulldogs or Buckeyes, at least on this list.

Texas checking in at four came as a surprise to me, too.  Maybe they are closer to taking over the Big 12 than we think?

So what does this all mean for Notre Dame?

Brian Kelly and the Irish could win a national championship but I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting this fall.  The Irish still have a long ways to go in order to close the depth issues they have compared to the best programs going right now, something Kelly has spoken on time and time again.