10 Games that will shape the rest of the College Football Season

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Fox Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt lists the 10 games that will shape the rest of the season in CFB. He considers which games will have the most impact on the chases for Conference Championships and the College Football Playoff. He kicks things off with this weekend’s Oklahoma-Texas Red River matchup that will have major ripple effects on the SEC. He points out the Notre Dame game that will likely decide whether the Irish get back to the Playoff. Klatt also picks the Big 12 game that will play a huge role in whether the conference gets multiple Playoff bids. He also explains why the Big Ten schedule in November is loaded with monster matchups that could lead to a new contender emerging in the conference and breaks down the potential stakes for this year’s edition of The Game between Ohio State and Michigan. Klatt wraps up the show by wishing Coach Prime well as he goes through a medical procedure. Chapters 0:00-2:13 Intro2:14-2:40 10 games that will shape the rest of the season2:41-4:27 Oklahoma vs. Texas4:28-6:42 USC vs. Notre Dame6:43-8:27 Tennessee vs. Alabama8:28-10:16 Texas Tech vs. Arizona State10:17-12:37 Texas A&M vs. LSU12:38-14:05 Penn State vs. Ohio State14:06-15:33 Indiana vs. Penn State15:34-17:33 Oklahoma vs. Alabama17:34-18:31 Texas vs. Georgia18:32-22:40 Ohio State vs. Michigan22:41-25:53 Coach Prime news Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you hearing this? The Chipotle rumor could be true.
0:03.1	Marcus Freeman and the Golden Domas, I think this is going to be the most difficult test.
0:08.3	This is do or die for Penn State.
0:10.4	OU is basically the grenade of the SEC.
0:13.8	If OU is real, they're going to just start eliminating teams one by one.
0:19.3	They've won the last four against Ohio State.
0:22.0	Are they playing for a spot in the playoff when we get there?
0:29.0	Touchdown.
0:31.2	These fans are the best of the country.
0:33.6	A day like today is why we love college football.
0:45.4	Thank you. A day like today is why we love college football. Hey, welcome into the program, everybody.
0:47.1	I'm Joel Klad.
0:47.7	This is the Joel Klaude show, and this show is brought to you by the graduate by Hilton.
0:51.2	We thank them for their support, as always.
0:52.9	Love staying in the graduates on all these weekend trips to cover and call all these college football games. We've got a lot to get into today, so let's get right into it. Listen, if you haven't subscribed to the show, go ahead and do so. We're up over 250,000 on our way to 300,000. Let's make it happen, invite a friend. That would be awesome. And then follow us on social media, wherever you like to social media. We're out there. Our content is available in shorter form. At Joel Clat Show is where you can find us out there. I really am looking forward to this exercise. I know I teased it on Monday show. If you didn't go and listen to Monday's show, please go to do so. By the way, I was down in the comments of Monday show, and I know people were, you know, upset with maybe, you know, like I was defending Arch Manning.
1:35.9	Just listen to the episode. Like, that's all I would ask is that just listen to the whole thing because clearly wasn't. But that's how it goes, and this line will work.
1:44.7	So here we go. What we're going to do today, and actually this is a repeat, because I went
1:49.8	through 10 of the most important games in the whole schedule back before we started the regular
1:56.1	season. So in the off season, we did one of these episodes where I said, hey, these 10 games
2:00.2	are going to shape the college football playoff.
2:02.6	Well, now it's obviously a lot more clear picture, even though it's been a wild ride thus far with three of the top four teams in the AP top 10 to start the year now, totally unranked.
2:13.5	Yeah, it's been a wild year.
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