CFP Rankings Reaction: Why Notre Dame is in big trouble + latest on Penn State’s coaching search
The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:43.8 | I think it would be impossible for the committee to rank Miami behind Notre Dame in a direct fashion. |
| 0:44.3 | If we keep this current 12-team format that is a selection-based format, I do think that there |
| 0:50.1 | needs to be two adjustments made. |
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| 2:04.8 | Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into the Joel Clad Show. I am Joel Clad. This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton. We thank them for their support. As always, we've got another rankings reaction show ready for you. Here, we've got some new rankings and some movement. So we'll get to all of that in just a moment. Plus, we've got more coaching news around college football that's been dropping. We've got Crumble cookie news, which, by the way, those are delicious. And something tells me the sales of Crumble cookies in Provo, Utah are going to go through the roof. All of that a little bit later. But first, hey, make sure to subscribe to the show. That would really mean a lot to us, obviously. Invite a friend. That would be awesome as well. Leave a comment down below. We'll get to some things that I'd love to comment on and discuss down in the comments from today's show. I'll get to that a little bit later. If you haven't followed us on social media, you can do that wherever you like to social media. I know that everyone has a different preference. We're on all of them. At Joel Clat Show, you can get our content in shorter form. |
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| 2:19.5 | we've obviously got huge reactions from the college football playoff rankings release on Tuesday night. |
| 2:51.2 | Let's get right into it because, listen, there were some things that changed up that are going to be really impactful for the playoff, obviously, not only for the teams that are trying to get into the playoff, but also matchups within teams that we already know are going to be in this college football playoff. Here's the top 25. If you're watching on YouTube, you can see it right there. And as we know, once we get this late in the season, it doesn't really matter until you get to about 13, 14 right there. Those are the bubble teams that we've been talking about. |
| 2:56.0 | So from 15 on in, you've got Utah at 15, Vandy at 14, Texas at 13. |
| 2:58.0 | Miami is at 12. |
| 2:59.8 | They continue to inch up. |
| 3:01.0 | BYU at 11. |
| 3:04.2 | Notre Dame, this is a big change. |
| 3:07.2 | I think a massive change, and I'll get to why in a moment. But Notre Dame goes to number |
| 3:09.1 | 10. Bama somehow after that performance against Auburn and the Iron Bowl, Leap Bronx, Notre Dame, |
| 3:17.6 | okay, I guess so, but Bama goes to 9. OU is at 8. A&M falls all the way down to number 7 after that loss to the Longhorns. |
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