John Mateer Injury Impact, Ranking Top Teams into Tiers & Matt Leinart on USC’s ceiling

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt reacts to the news that Heisman favorite Oklahoma QB John Mateer will be out indefinitely with a hand injury and discusses whether the Sooners can hold onto their season while he’s out. He also responds to the news that Mike Gundy has been let go as Oklahoma State Head Coach. Klatt then ranks teams across the Big Ten, SEC, Big 12, ACC and Group of 6 into tiers based on who he views as the real favorites and contenders in each conference. He then welcomes Heisman Trophy winner and Big Noon Kickoff Analyst Matt Leinart to the show to discuss USC’s perfect start to the season as well how high the Trojans’ ceiling is this season before also getting into the Heisman race now that Mateer will be out for a length of time. 0:00-2:06 Intro2:07-6:09 John Mateer undergoes surgery, out indefinitely6:10-7:45 Oklahoma State fires Mike Gundy7:46-19:16 Big Ten Tiers19:17-26:13 SEC Tiers26:14-30:31 Big 12 Tiers30:32-33:48 ACC Tiers33:49-36:36 Group of 6 Tiers36:47-56:29 Matt Leinart interview Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think they're a playoff team.
0:01.5	My point is, is like Lincoln finally has a quarterback,
0:04.3	kind of like what he had and probably like a baker
0:06.3	and some of those guys in Oklahoma.
0:07.7	Lincoln Riley's superpower at Oklahoma
0:09.5	was that they were such a great running team.
0:11.4	The AP poll is such a joke.
0:15.0	Washington got zero votes in the AP poll.
0:18.1	Are you guys willfully ignorant or just ignorant?
0:26.5	Touchdowns.
0:28.6	These fans are the best of the country.
0:31.1	A day like today is why we love college football.
0:42.8	Yeah. college football. What's up everybody?
0:43.9	Welcome into the Joel Clatt Show.
0:45.2	I'm Joel Clatt.
0:45.8	This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton.
0:47.9	We thank them for their support as always.
0:50.6	All of you who have gotten down into the comments of the YouTube channel, I appreciate it.
0:55.0	I was down there on Monday, kind of chopping it up a little bit, leaving some comments, answering some questions. So if you have not subscribed to the channel, please go do so on YouTube. You can hit the notification button as well, and you'll know when all of our content drops. You can also follow us on social media. as you know, wherever you like to social media.
1:11.5	We are there at Joel Clat Show
1:13.0	and all of our content lives during the week, during the whole year, and so on and so forth. Lots to get into today. We're going to talk with Matt Liner. So Matt's going to join the program a little bit later. And Mattie Ice is going to be talking about this USC team. We've got USC this Saturday.
1:29.3	Big Noon Saturday is going to be live from Champaign, Illinois, as USC goes on the road to face
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