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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

CFP Rankings Reaction: Is Notre Dame being protected? Do USC, Michigan & Texas have a path?

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt reacts to the latest set of College Football Playoff Rankings. He begins by discussing the Notre Dame-Miami conundrum as the Irish come in at #9 while the team that beat them in Week 1, Miami, sits at #13. He explains how the Committee is protecting themselves from a difficult conversation with those two teams with their rankings. Klatt then looks at the paths for 3 blue bloods: #15 USC, #17 Texas & #18 Michigan and explains how viable each path is should they win their final games. How high would USC jump with a win at Oregon this weekend? Would a win over A&M be enough to launch Texas back into the Playoff picture and would a 5th straight win over #1 Ohio State send the Wolverines into the CFP? 0:00-2:02 Intro2:03-5:47 Klatt’s reaction to November 18th rankings5:48-11:31 What does the gap between Notre Dame and Miami mean for the Hurricanes’ at large chances?11:32-22:01 What are the CFP paths for USC, Texas and Michigan?22:02-24:31 Overall takeaways from CFP rankings Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/KLATT10Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:00.7

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0:01.5

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18 plus opt in and bet on any football marketing at odds of evens or greater no, cash out seven-day expiry terms and conditions apply at gamblerware.org. There's never been a 9 and 3 team in the playoff. Do they want to set that precedent? Was it right to drop Alabama behind Notre Dame? USC against Oregon.

0:39.1

This is a playoff game.

0:40.5

Michigan would be coming off of six straight wins.

0:43.5

They would have beaten the clear number one team in the country by the committee's standards.

0:48.5

And you look up and you're like, that's the best win in the country.

0:55.2

Touchdown.

0:57.4

These fans are the best in the country.

0:59.8

A day like today is why we love college football.

1:27.5

What's up everybody? Welcome into the program. This is the Joel Klapp show. I'm Joel Klaught. This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton. And we thank them for their support. As always, we've got another rankings reaction show ready for you as we got some new rankings here on a Tuesday night. Got to love college football. I just love that we can talk about it all the time.

1:29.6

And there's a lot of fan bases that are engaged at the top end here.

1:32.9

Deep into November, that's been a huge plus in the last couple of years of the playoff, as we all know.

1:38.4

And that's why I continue to be optimistic about where the sport is.

1:41.8

So here we go.

1:42.9

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