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Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
🎶COME GET THESE LOCKS🎶 The Cover 3 crew is back with their College Football Playoff first-round locks. The guys give their best bets for each game.
(00:00:00 Intro (00:05:45 Locks (00:06:15 Oklahoma-Alabama (00:17:05 Texas A&M-Miami (00:26:30 Ole Miss-Tulane (00:33:30 Oregon-James Madison (00:41:15 Bowlnanza (00:56:45) Club Kenz
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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. |
| 0:30.9 | That's Tom Finley, that's Danny Cannell, that's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:33.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:34.6 | Coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover three and everywhere to get your |
| 0:38.0 | podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the |
| 0:43.6 | chat, aka the cover three tailgate where I have question for y'all tailgate. Let's go. I see you. |
| 0:50.2 | Everybody locked in ready to go. But have you in the tailgate? Have you at home gotten yourself locked in for the cover three bowl pickum on splash? |
| 1:00.7 | That's right. |
| 1:01.4 | Bowl season is here and we're teamed up again with Splash Sports for a bowl pickum contest. |
| 1:06.6 | Zero entry fee and $5,000 in splash cash on the line. |
| 1:13.4 | And plus, as we've been discussing, |
| 1:20.0 | the ultimate bragging rights of being the best, most locked in member of the cover three tailgate going head to head with us as well. Here's how it works. You've got different weeks, |
| 1:24.6 | kind of like our full season long splash contest. |
| 1:28.3 | The first one are going to be the games we're picking today, the college football playoff |
| 1:32.5 | first round. |
| 1:33.4 | Then you've got some holiday games and the contest will continue all the way through |
| 1:37.3 | bowl season, all the way through the college football playoff. |
| 1:40.8 | You pick one best bet, but you pick all the games that they offer. The best bet is |
| 1:45.9 | everything. It's worth double the points. Now, first place at the end of the postseason, |
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