College Football Playoff Big Game Breakdown: Keys to victory, X-factors and best bets for Michigan-Alabama and Washington-Texas
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew does a deep dive preview and makes picks for the Rose Bowl and the Sugar Bowl. After a brief review of USC's impressive performance against Louisville without Caleb Williams in the Holiday Bowl (1:50) the College Football Playoff preview gets rolling with a look at the on-field matchups that will decide the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Alabama (8:54). Then, debating the coaching edge between Jim Harbaugh and Nick Saban (21:24) and best bets for the game (28:54). After that it's the keys and X-factors for the Sugar Bowl between Washington and Texas (39:32), best bets for that game (50:41) and MoneyLine Sprinkles for the College Football Playoff semifinals (57:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.2 | Canel and Bud Elliot. It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:15.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
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| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | Here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.0 | That's T |
| 0:33.2 | Bud Elliot. I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at |
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| 0:39.4 | Thanks for hanging out. Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat |
| 0:43.7 | aka the Cover 3 tailgate where topics of conversation include the topic of the day which |
| 0:49.8 | is us going on a deep dive into our two college football playoff |
| 0:56.5 | semi-finals. Of course, the Rose Bowl |
| 0:58.6 | between one seed Michigan, four seed Alabama, |
| 1:01.9 | and the Sugar Bowl between two seed Washington and three seed Texas. |
| 1:06.3 | Also in the chat, you know, including matchup discussions. There's also a, you know, very, you know, just a question that I think a lot of people are talking about right now. |
| 1:16.5 | Was Caleb Williams holding USC back? |
| 1:21.6 | I think that's what college football is talking about right now. |
| 1:24.0 | In the wake of a six touchdown performance from Miller Moss as USC wins 42 to 28. We don't need to go like deep dive on on the ends and |
| 1:36.2 | out of the game unless you've got a specific opinion but decay as we welcome |
| 1:40.6 | you back from your from your travels up to New York you know jumping on the the |
| 1:45.1 | mothership and serving some duties there I mean I guess we walk away way more |
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