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Joel Klatt: Ohio State in a Tier of Its Own? | Who is LSU's Next Coach? | Ranking the SEC's Elite

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4.9890 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

🔥 Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt joins The Next Round to break down everything happening across college football! From playoff debates to coaching rumors, this conversation has it all. 🏈 Topics include: If Vanderbilt and Notre Dame both go 10-2, who would make the College Football Playoff? How wide is the gap between #1 Ohio State and #4 Alabama? Who will take over at LSU after the firing of Brian Kelly — and could Dan Lanning leave Oregon for Baton Rouge? Joel Klatt’s predicted finish for the top teams in the SEC and his thoughts on the playoff race. If you love college football, Joel Klatt analysis, and SEC talk, this is the interview you don’t want to miss! 👇 Don’t forget to LIKE the video, SUBSCRIBE to The Next Round YouTube channel, and turn on notifications for the best interviews and analysis in college football every week. #CollegeFootball #JoelKlatt #CFBPlayoff #OhioState #AlabamaFootball #LSU #OregonFootball #SEC #NotreDame #Vanderbilt #TheNextRound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Finally, the game we've waited on all year, Penn State and Ohio State, big noon kickoff this week.

0:07.4

Boy, in the preseason, this one looked like a honey. Joel Clat will be there.

0:12.0

Clad, I mean, in the preseason, this is one we circle like you. Boy, you're going to want to watch this one.

0:16.5

Big Ten implications. National championship. Number one, number two.

0:20.0

Everybody one, too.

0:23.6

Guys, how Penn State screwed that up for you guys?

0:26.9

Man, how fast everything changes in this sport.

0:34.6

You know, it was, it was, I think it was 15 days from the time Penn State jogs on the field in the double overtime with a chance to win the game.

0:36.8

Their offense is jogging on the field, a chance to win the game against Oregon in the whiteout. Fifteen days later, James Franklin is fired. You know, think about LSU beating Clemson. I know that's a longer period, but all the way back to week one, and LSU is like, oh, man, this is a top five team. This is it.

0:54.3

Brian Kelly's National Championship caliber team.

0:57.1

They lose three of their last four.

0:59.4

He's fired.

1:00.5

You know, I mean, it just happens so.

1:03.0

Life comes at you fast.

1:04.5

It does.

1:05.5

In college football, it is going faster than ever.

1:10.0

And so, yeah, this is obviously a game that we thought was going to have a lot more implications.

1:15.3

But I will say, and the games that some of these teams have lost, specifically Penn State, like against UCLA, I've said this.

1:24.8

I continue to say this.

1:26.6

I think that the average and even like poor teams in

1:30.3

college football have more talent than they used to in the past, which may, which makes every game a bit

1:36.2

more precarious for the top end teams, which we've seen at times and some of these games that

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