College Football Playoff National Championship: Best bets, picks for Alabama-Ohio State (01/07)
Cover 3 College Football
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🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Point spread, total and prop bets and storylines for Alabama-Ohio State. First, what to make of reported COVID issues at Ohio State and whether the game will be played on Jan. 11 as scheduled (1:30) then the game breakdown begins with a look at the betting line of Alabama favored by more than a touchdowns (11:01) and the Buckeyes' offense ability to kick in the backdoor even in a Crimson Tide win (20:40). Then, with Nick Saban's legacy mostly cemented, what a win would mean for Ryan Day (29:00). Plus, tackling the total (34:00) and offering some first quarter plays along with a gameplan for player props (46:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host Danny Canal, Chip Anderson, |
| 0:09.3 | Barton Simmons, and Tom Fonelli. It's your call for the best college football coverage |
| 0:15.4 | from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.9 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Danny Canal, that's Tom Fonelli. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm Chip Patterson, College Football Playoff, National Championship Game Super Preview. We are going |
| 0:37.6 | into sort of the matchups to watch. We're going to talk about some of the storylines, big picture |
| 0:42.9 | narratives, what this would mean, a win would mean for Ohio State, what a win means for Nick Saban |
| 0:47.6 | and Alabama, and of course, because you always count on us to provide locks for you anytime there |
| 0:53.3 | is college football going on, whether it is Mac locks in the middle of the week or whether it is a |
| 0:58.6 | regular old Saturday when we're laying out the card, we are going to give you at least one lock |
| 1:04.7 | a piece. Sources tell me that Tom Fonelli has three and that's not even including props. So we've |
| 1:11.5 | got a lot of different ways to break this game down. We've had one day, we're recording this |
| 1:17.2 | Thursday morning, we've had one day of virtual availability. The next will be tomorrow. We had |
| 1:25.1 | like a scare, right? Is this game going to happen? Do we have COVID issues at Ohio State? Is it |
| 1:32.2 | going to get pushed back? I saw all of the key players who were scheduled to speak yesterday for |
| 1:38.1 | Ohio State. They did speak and I, you know, maybe they were speaking from quarantining situations, |
| 1:44.4 | but so far I have not seen too much to alert me to that. So I guess the beginning of the conversation |
| 1:51.7 | is are you expecting this game to be played on Monday and are you expecting Ohio State to mostly |
| 1:58.2 | be full strength, at least at some of the key positions for handicap and trying to preview the game. |
| 2:06.6 | Expecting? Yeah. Assuming no. Because I mean, it's the report that came out a couple days ago |
| 2:13.5 | at saying you know, they they could postpone it. Like that's just the situation that we're in |
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