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We're On To 2026... Brad Powers Joins for Early Offseason Takeaways

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Brad Powers says Alabama may be entering an 8-4 reality after losing starters to Ohio State and Notre Dame.

1. VSiN College Football Betting Podcast returns for the 2026 offseason with early betting discussion after the February 11 recording.\n2. Tim Murray hosts Brad Powers, a college football handicapper whose roster evaluations and power ratings shape his market timing.\n3. The episode asks whether transfer-portal production can help bettors identify undervalued teams before the 2026 futures market adjusts.\n4. Powers says roster analysis now requires 25 to 30 percent more work because of the transfer portal and roster overhaul.\n5. Powers expects to establish a stronger 2026 power rating by April 1 because there will be no post-spring portal.\n6. Powers uses Indiana's experience-and-production model to assess whether portal starters matter more than recruiting potential.\n7. Ohio State brought in 17 transfer commits according to 247 Sports, including nine players who started elsewhere in the previous season.\n8. Powers views Texas as a portal winner after adding players such as Hollywood Smothers, Relique Brown, and Cam Coleman.\n9. Powers calls Ohio State's schedule the toughest he has seen for the Buckeyes entering a season and says it could produce a 10-2 theoretical record.\n10. Texas is described as one of the country's most experienced teams after combining 10 returning starters with 12 portal starters.\n11. Powers calls Indiana's 200-to-1 championship price an outlier rather than a repeatable annual betting model.\n12. Powers identifies Alabama's defensive-line losses to Ohio State and Notre Dame as evidence of a broader program decline.\n13. Powers says Alabama may face an 8-4 reality instead of the 11-1 or 12-0 expectations associated with recent seasons.\n14. Powers rates Darian Mensah as approximately status quo or a slight downgrade from Carson Beck at Miami because Mensah offers more mobility but may create more turnovers.\n15. Powers expects Josh Hoover to improve at Indiana after producing more at TCU than Mendoza did before arriving from California.\n16. Powers upgrades LSU's quarterback position with Sam Levitt over Nussmeyer if Levitt is healthy and avoids locker-room problems.\n17. The episode uses a conversational interview format, with Murray moving Brad Powers from portal analysis to quarterbacks, schedules, and coaching changes.\n18. Murray and Powers maintain an informal betting-show style that includes disagreement about Alabama, Michigan, Notre Dame, and coaching hires.\n19. College football bettors tracking transfer-portal value and early futures markets.\n20. Listeners uninterested in roster movement, schedules, or college football betting.\n

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