CFP First-Round Previews: Alabama-Oklahoma, Miami-Texas A&M, Tulane-Ole Miss & JMU-Oregon
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
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šļø 15 December 2025
ā±ļø 76 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with a special Monday Big Game Breakdown episode. The boys break down each of the first round CFP games before discussing some upcoming bowl games.
Cover 3 CFB Bowl Pick'em: https://app.splashsports.com/contest/ddab7b92-7845-40c9-aac9-12d6b9eedac3/detail
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:40) - New Splash ContestĀ
(00:03:58) - Alabama-OklahomaĀ Ā
(00:19:55) - Miami-Texas A&M
(00:32:30) - Tulane-Ole Miss
(00:41:00) - JMU-OregonĀ
(00:53:53) - DJ Lagway PortalĀ Ā
(00:59:40) - Transfer Portal BuzzĀ
(01:05:30) - Coaching Carousel Updates
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.1 | That's time for Nelly. |
| 0:30.9 | That's Bud Elliott. |
| 0:31.6 | That's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:35.8 | and everywhere get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.4 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.5 | Smash that subscribe, smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:42.9 | AKA the Cover 3 Tailgate, where they are getting fired up and ready for an extra special |
| 0:49.0 | edition of Big Game Breakdown, some of the biggest games of the year. |
| 0:53.0 | That's right, the college football |
| 0:54.5 | playoff first round. We are going to be giving you the X factors, the keys to the game in all |
| 0:59.9 | four one game Friday, three games, all four of the college football playoff first round games. |
| 1:06.0 | But before we do that, speaking of bowl season, we loved our competition with you, everybody in the |
| 1:12.6 | tailgate. We enjoyed it with our friends from Splash and we just heard something. |
| 1:19.9 | Hot off the presses, boys, we've got a new cover three bowl pickum. That's right, bowl season is |
| 1:26.5 | here and we're teamed up again with Splash Sports for a bowl pickum. That's right. Bull season is here and we're teamed up again with |
| 1:28.0 | Splash Sports for a bowl pickum contest. Zero entry fee and $5,000 in splash cash is on the line, |
| 1:35.3 | plus the ultimate bragging rights of getting to be supreme among the cover three tailgate. |
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