Alabama Defeats Oklahoma INSTANT REACTION | Alabama-Indiana EARLY Preview | CFP First-Round Results
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with an instant reaction to the College Football playoff first-round matchup between Alabama and Oklahoma.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:40) - Alabama Defeats Oklahoma
(00:24:00) - What's Next For Oklahoma?
(00:33:40) - Alabama-Indiana Preview
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.6 | That's Tom for Nelly, that's Bud Elliot. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live on YouTube.com |
| 0:35.6 | slash cover 3 and everywhere get your |
| 0:37.6 | podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe, smash that like and come and join |
| 0:42.6 | us in the chat, aka the cover three tailgate where they, I mean, I love, love that the tailgate |
| 0:51.1 | always gets the conversation going early. The question is, and I need to go back to audit this, how early? Like, were they in the tailgate just throwing roses on Bama's grave? Were they in the tailgate photoshopping Kalin DeBore in Michigan colors? Because I tell you what, at 17-0, boy, we thought we had it all figured out. |
| 1:14.7 | But no, Alabama rolls back with 24 unanswered points. |
| 1:21.3 | In total, it ends up being a 34-7 outscoring the rest of the way. |
| 1:27.3 | The Alabama Crimson Tide advance in the college |
| 1:29.7 | football playoff. Here we go, real fast, right off the dome. First Alabama college football |
| 1:35.2 | playoff wins since? Uh, not 20, I don't know when. 21 semis against Cincinnati before they went on to lose to |
| 1:48.3 | Georgia in the championship game so i mean look at that beat a p4 team go way to go guys first first |
| 1:54.9 | college football playoff win against a power conference opponent since winning the national |
| 1:59.9 | championship five years ago. |
| 2:17.9 | Whoa. Lots to be able to break down. Here's what we're going to do. We're going to spend a little bit of time. Just talk about the game, the football of it all. We don't have that many instant reaction shows left or we can just talk about the football. So we're going to enjoy that because this is our podcast. That's one of the things we like to do. But we're also going to do the things that we need to do for business purposes and also answer your questions, |
| 2:22.6 | including, well, what is the line for Indiana and Alabama? What is it going to look like? What are |
| 2:28.1 | going to be the matchup factors? A way too early preview of the Rose Bowl quarterfinal between |
| 2:33.3 | the Hoosiers and the Crimson Tide. |
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