CFP First-Round Burning Questions: Alabama-Oklahoma, Miami-Texas A&M, Tulane-Ole Miss & JMU-Oregon
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back on CBSSN to preview the first round of the College Football Playoff. The boys discuss their biggest questions for the first round matchups.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:20) - Alabama-Oklahoma
(00:12:34) - Miami-Texas A&M
(00:22:45) - Tulane-Ole Miss
(00:34:10) - JMU-Oregon
(00:42:30) - Postseason Top Performer Predictions
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| 0:45.4 | And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:46.5 | That's Tom Furnelli. |
| 0:53.2 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live on CBS Sports Network, fired up to be with you for the next hour as we continue to look at the college football |
| 0:56.5 | playoff first round getting started on Friday night with Alabama and Oklahoma, then a triple |
| 1:02.8 | header of matchups on Saturday starting with Texas A&M and Miami. Then we move over to Ole |
| 1:08.7 | Miss and Tulane and then finally it'll be Oregon and James Madison in the nightcap for first-round games feeding into four quarterfinal matchups. |
| 1:17.6 | And so what we're going to do is we're going to go matchup by matchup, taking a look at some of the burning questions that we have. |
| 1:23.6 | Earlier on the Cover 3 podcast this week, which of course you can find wherever you |
| 1:27.9 | get your podcast or at YouTube.com slash cover 3. We gave the big game breakdown, kind of going |
| 1:32.7 | inside the matchups, the nitty gritty. But now let's lean out. Let's spread it out a little bit |
| 1:38.0 | with some burning questions. So Tom, let's start with the Alabama side in Alabama, Oklahoma. What is your burning question for |
| 1:47.7 | Kaelin DeBore and the Crimson Tide? Yeah, you mentioned our big game breakdown earlier this |
| 1:53.4 | week on the Cover 3 podcast about this game. And one of the stats I brought up during that big |
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