Joel Klatt’s Way-Too-Early Top 10 for the 2026 Season

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt provides his Way-Too-Early Top 10 for the upcoming 2026 season, ranking the teams he believes should go into next year as the favorites in the sport. Klatt considers where to rank the defending champion Indiana Hoosiers as they begin their question for a repeat title under Curt Cignetti. Will a Big Ten team be #1 as the conference seeks its 4th straight National Championship with teams like Ohio State, Oregon and even Michigan looking to reload for 2026? Will it be Texas or Georgia as the highest ranked SEC team as Arch Manning returning to Austin surrounded by new weapons from the Transfer Portal? Is Miami's resurgence here to stay - did they make the cut in Klatt's Top 10? 0:00-2:10 Intro2:11-3:59 Joel Klatt’s way-too-early top 104:00-5:59 Texas Tech6:00-8:52 Michigan8:53-10:51 LSU10:52-14:29 Miami14:30-16:59 Texas17:00-18:55 Notre Dame18:56-21:11 Ohio State21:12-23:33 Indiana23:34-24:56 Georgia24:57-27:43 Oregon27:44-30:51 Almost top 10 teams Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.1	going to have 44 new incoming players, you still have Julian Sayan and Jeremiah Smith. That's a lot.
0:47.6	Indiana is going to be right back at the top of college football again. He's operated out of
0:52.4	the transfer portal every year anyways. So the fact
0:57.2	that he's bringing in 35 transfers doesn't scare me at all. Touchdowns. These fans are the best
1:07.9	of the country. A day like today is why we love college football.
1:19.6	Hey, welcome into the Joel Platt show.
1:21.6	I'm Joel Glad.
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1:24.7	We thank them for their support.
1:26.6	And we are now an off-season content.
1:29.2	Can you believe it? Can you believe that we are now finally through the college football season?
1:35.0	Wild. I cannot believe it. Here's what we've got for you today. This is our way too early,
1:40.8	top 10 list rankings for next year. So we already are looking towards next year.
1:46.3	And I'm telling you, there's going to be some really good teams and there's going to be
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