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Joel Klatt Talks Alabama, Coach Firings, and Why LSU Isn’t Winning | The Next Round

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4.9890 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt joins The Next Round to talk all things college football — from Alabama’s rivalry win over Tennessee and the Crimson Tide’s red-hot play since the season-opening loss to Florida State, to the biggest storylines shaping the national picture. Joel breaks down what’s driving Ty Simpson and Ryan Grubb’s Alabama offense, why Brian Kelly’s LSU team isn’t winning more despite its talent, Vanderbilt's ascension in the rankings, and whether the sport has reached an epidemic level of head coach firings. Plus, we discuss what’s next for top contenders in the SEC, Big Ten, and College Football Playoff race. If you love college football analysis, hit LIKE, drop a COMMENT with your thoughts on this weekend’s biggest games, and SUBSCRIBE to The Next Round on YouTube for weekly interviews with the biggest names in the sport. #JoelKlatt #CollegeFootball #AlabamaFootball #RollTide #LSUFootball #SECFootball #CFB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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College football on Fox, UCLA at Indiana their game on Saturday. What is up, Clatt? How are you?

1:09.0

I'm great. How are you guys doing? Doing fantastic. Thank you. I mean, there's a lot of ways we can start this thing. Yeah. I'll start with that. Another great weekend. It was another fantastic weekend. Another fantastic weekend. We've got more coach firings. Another one that has maybe staved off the execution. We'll get to all that. I do want to start with Alabama, though. Yeah. You know, Alabama won that game in a lot of ways with their defense, which is kind of scary, I guess, if you're an Alabama opponent, as good as their offense has been. That was maybe their best defensive performance. I thought so, too. I mean, Tennessee came in as basically the best, you know, scoring offense in the

1:46.3

country and did come in as, as that. And Bama's defense played really well. I just like the more

1:54.3

I watch them, the more it's very obvious, like that's a title contending team. That is a team that could win a national championship.

2:03.6

Partly because I don't think that there are too many, like, great teams this year.

2:08.6

There's a lot of good teams, but there's a lot of flawed teams.

2:10.6

I think you guys would agree with that.

2:12.6

I think we're kind of done with like the super team era,

2:14.6

where it's just like we know exactly what, you know,

2:16.6

these two or three

2:18.1

teams are and no one can beat them because even bam as good as they've been over the last four weeks

2:23.1

you know there's there's pockets where you're like well you know they were vulnerable maybe

2:26.9

for a stretch against vandy and georgia almost had a chance in that game but i i would just

2:33.8

credit alabama the way that they looked week one and the way they look now is drastic almost had a chance in that game. But I would just credit Alabama.

2:35.5

The way that they looked week one and the way they look now is drastically different.

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