Klatt’s CFP Prediction & National Champion Pick + First Round Picks Against the Spread

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt makes his picks for the First Round of the College Football Playoff before making his full bracket prediction for the CFP including his National Champion Pick. He begins by making his pick in the Friday Night game as Kalen DeBoer’s #9 Alabama team travels to Norman to take on #8 Oklahoma. He then considers if #10 Miami can keep their hot streak going on the road against #7 Texas A&M. Klatt also makes picks against the spread in the matchups between #6 Ole Miss and #11 Tulane as well as #5 Oregon against #12 James Madison as the home teams come in as heavy favorites. Klatt then makes his full College Football Playoff predictions, going game-by-game until making his National Champion Pick - will Ohio State bounce back like they did last year and win it all again or will Kirby Smart’s Georgia team get in the way or is it simply Curt Cignetti and Indiana’s year? Klatt wraps up the show by addressing his hot take about the NCAA Tournament from earlier in the week that drew some criticism from the sports world. 0:00-2:30 Intro2:31-8:40 Alabama vs. Oklahoma8:41-12:53 Miami vs. Texas A&M12:54-15:32 Tulane vs. Ole Miss15:33-19:48 JMU vs. Oregon19:49-22:43 Joel’s CFP bracket prediction22:44-30:03 Klatt on one of the “worst takes of the year” Head to www.eckrich.com/TakeItToTheHouse and enter the time on the clock for your shot at winning tickets & a trip to the 2026 College Football Playoff National Championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.8	I don't know if we truly understand in its infancy of just a 12-team playoff,
0:35.1	what home playoff games actually mean?
0:37.5	How does the Lane Kiffin situation affect Old Miss?
0:40.7	I think it's actually going to bring them closer together.
0:43.2	I think it is eerie how quiet things have been from Eugene.
0:47.9	It's like they've got just something up there brewing for all of us.
0:51.8	I have this take about the NCAA tournament that is a bad take. The
0:57.0	way I said it on Monday morning was so dumb.
1:01.0	Touchdown. These fans are the best of the country. A day like today is why we love college football.
1:20.2	Hey, welcome into the program, everybody.
1:22.1	This is the Joel Clat show.
1:23.2	I'm Joel Clad.
1:23.9	This show is brought to you by Graduate by Hilton, and we thank them for their support, as always. We've got playoffs ready to go, and I cannot wait for it. We've got the first round. It's going to be starting on Friday night, obviously bleeding into Saturday. So I've got those four games. I'm going to give you some picks and previews of the first round of the college football playoff. And I'm also going to go through the bracket and tell you who I think is going to win it all and we'll fill out a bracket right here on this program.
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