College Football Playoff Party Crashers: Who could be this year’s surprise Playoff teams?

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt makes his picks for the teams that could be this season’s Indiana, Arizona State or SMU and surprise everyone by making the College Football Playoff. Klatt lists candidates from the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 and ACC and picks a team from each conference. In the Big Ten, he considers the cases for teams like Nebraska, USC and Washington to make a deep run this season. He details which SEC team he believes could take advantage of a favorable schedule to reach the CFP before making his pick out of a Big 12 Conference that has proven to be ripe for surprises. Klatt also explains why his ACC pick has a huge opportunity to gain momentum in Week 1 against a high-profile opponent. Klatt also recaps his Big Noon Conversation with the GOAT Tom Brady with some behind-the-scenes stories from their sit-down. 0:00-1:39 Intro1:40-4:39 Teams that can crash the 2025 cfp party4:40-12:28 Big ten cfp party crashers12:29-19:53 SEC cfp party crashers19:54-28:02 Big 12 party crashers28:03-34:29 ACC party crashers34:30-40:14 Reflecting on Tom Brady’s Big Noon Conversation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The product on the field has never been better.
0:02.3	The parody has never been greater.
0:04.1	Washington's got something cooking with Jed Fish.
0:07.6	They hit the schedule lottery in the SEC.
0:10.3	When nobody is talking about them, that is when they're at their most dangerous.
0:14.4	Michigan builds from within.
0:15.8	Ohio State built from within.
0:17.3	Someone's going to the playoff that we're not talking about.
0:23.0	Touchdown. Touchdowns.
0:25.3	These fans are the best of the country.
0:27.6	A day like today is why we love college football.
0:40.5	Hey, welcome into the program.
0:41.4	This is Joel Clatt Show.
0:42.3	I am Joel Clatt.
0:45.4	And this show, as always, is brought to you by Graduate by Hilton.
0:47.5	We thank them for their support as always.
0:50.4	And we cannot wait to get the season started.
0:52.0	It's been a great month so far.
0:56.6	And by the way, just if you didn't go watch it,
1:02.5	you got to go watch it. Just earlier this week, we dropped our Tom Brady Big Noon conversation.
1:08.0	It was awesome. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've been obviously a huge fan of Tom for a long time. And ever since he came over to Fox as our lead NFL analyst, I've wanted to have an opportunity to sit down and chat with him right here on this program for you.
1:17.1	And we got that chance.
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