I think Ohio State has a great year, but Penn State wins the Big Ten championship game.

This means Brian Kelly's going to South Bend.

And I'm like, yep, I'm here for it.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Dabo Sweeney would join Nick Sabin as one of the only coaches to win national championships over different cycles of recruits.

Touchdowns.

These fans are the best of the country.

A day like today is why we love college football.

Hey, welcome in, everybody. Welcome in to the Joel Clash show. I am Joel Clatt. This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton. We thank them for their support. And we have football this week. Let's go. It's finally here. I cannot wake week. Week zero. We're going to have a little prediction episode later in the week. But it's here.

We've done it.

We have gotten through the offseason and now we actually have football.

So here's what I wanted to do is I wanted to give you my bracket predictions.

That's right.

My bracket predictions for college football, this is it.

Rubber meets the road.

And I just want to remind you guys, last year, we did do pretty well in our

preseason bracket prediction. We got six of the eight quarter finalists right, three of the four

semifinalists, right? We got Ohio State, Texas, and Notre Dame. We knocked that out of the park.

And then we did pick Ohio State as the national champ. So listen, for what it's worth, last year was a good year with the picks. Maybe this one will be the same. So let's see what we got. Let's see what we got. As was the case a year ago, what I wanted to do was start with the conference championship games, who I think will be playing in those games and then who will win those games. That's going to inform us a great deal in terms of how we start to seed these teams. And remember, straight seeding this year, it's not the four best champs getting the top four Cs, but we're just going to seed them one through four and then five through 12. All right, so let's get into these conference championship games. This is how I see them. Let's start in the Big Ten. So I've got Penn State and Ohio State playing for the Big Ten title.

Now, I do think Ohio State's likely going to beat Penn State in the shoe earlier in the season.

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