CFP First-Round INSTANT REACTION: Miami Holds Off Texas A&M, Oregon & Ole Miss Dominate
Cover 3 College Football
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šļø 21 December 2025
ā±ļø 79 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with an instant reaction to the first-round of the College Football Playoff. The guys recap Miami-Texas A&M, Tulane-Ole Miss and JMU-Oregon.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:03:00) - Miami-Texas A&MĀ
(00:15:30) - Early Look at Miami-Ohio StateĀ
(00:22:20) - Ole Miss-TulaneĀ
(00:29:25) - Early Look at Ole Miss-GeorgiaĀ
(00:41:20) - Oregon-JMU
(00:53:00) - CFP Format DiscussionĀ
(01:05:05) - Early Look At Oregon-Texas TechĀ
(01:11:00) - Final Thoughts
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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. |
| 0:25.4 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.4 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:32.1 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:35.5 | and everywhere to get your podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:42.5 | aka the cover three tailgate. They're feisty. I'll tell you what. Listen, here's the deal. We are coming |
| 0:51.2 | to you and those of you who are joining us live, we very much appreciated. We are coming to you third quarter just getting started. Oregon 34, J.MU6. If we |
| 0:59.9 | have the most unlikely of comebacks, we will be covering it live here on the cover three podcast and |
| 1:06.7 | what would certainly be an all-timer. But as it is, we do feel as though there is enough hay in the barn for us to be able to move ahead |
| 1:14.4 | with our reaction of Saturday's first round action, which started with Miami's win at Texas A&M. |
| 1:21.9 | It continued with the first victory of the Pete Golding era, and it sure does seem, as we mentioned, |
| 1:27.0 | as though the Oregon Ducks are going to be well on their way to flying across the country to go play |
| 1:32.8 | Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl quarterfinal on New Year's Day. I mentioned that they're feisty |
| 1:38.3 | because we are going to talk about these games. We are going to talk about them. We may get |
| 1:43.7 | into the discourse. I don't know. |
| 1:45.8 | The discourse is strong. There are very strong opinions. The discourse is lively anywhere, |
| 1:51.3 | whether it's your group chat, whether it's who you're watching the games with, or whether |
| 1:56.0 | it is on social media, where the discourse always is spicy. Also, as promised, just like we did on Friday night's reaction to the Alabama win against Oklahoma, |
| 2:05.9 | we will be previewing those quarter final matchups. |
| 2:10.3 | So let's begin, well, I guess I mean, Tom, do you want to just get discoursoursey right off the bat or do you want to take, go football on this? |
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