College Football Playoff Semifinals Big Game Breakdown, Latest Transfer Portal Buzz & More!
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back with their Big Game Breakdown episode to preview the CFP Semifinals. The boys break down Oregon-Indiana and Ole Miss-Miami before discussing some transfer portal moves and how they might impact the league.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:01:50) - Transfer Portal Buzz
(00:22:20) - Ole Miss-Miami Preview
(00:37:30) - Oregon-Indiana Preview
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:30.1 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Bud Elliott, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and every get your |
| 0:37.0 | podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.4 | Smash that subscribe. Smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:42.8 | aka the cover three tailgate where they are just buzzing about our big game breakdowns. |
| 0:50.0 | That's right. We are going to be going inside the matchup for the college football playoff semifinals. |
| 0:55.9 | Game number one, which will feature Ole Miss and Miami out in the Fiesta Bowl. |
| 1:01.3 | Game number two, which will be Indiana and Oregon, a rematch of the game we saw earlier this year. |
| 1:06.6 | That will be on Friday in the Peach Bowl. |
| 1:09.0 | All of those inside the matchup details, X F X factors and more coming up in just a little bit. |
| 1:15.3 | But I thought that if we did not start where much of the sport is, |
| 1:19.6 | then we would be denying sort of what is one of the busiest items of the moment. |
| 1:24.3 | Because on January 2nd, the transfer portal opened. |
| 1:28.5 | And buddy, we've already got some pieces that are fallen into place. |
| 1:32.5 | So, Mikey, let's jump into that portal. Let's begin with what I believe would be QB1 of this Transfer Portal class. |
| 2:00.2 | That would be Brendan Sorsby, the former Cincinnati |
| 2:03.5 | quarterback that we heard that there was going to be a push from an LSU. We heard that there |
| 2:10.0 | might be a push from a Miami. I do believe there was a push from a Miami, but ultimately, |
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