Living in a Golden Era of College Football (12/2)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson react to the College Football Playoff and highlight the best bowls for the 2018-19 postseason. First, why our eyes, and the eye test can't be trusted (1:00), the most enticing bowl matchups (13:01), takeaways from Alabama's epic comeback against Georgia (23:30) and Oklahoma's revenge win against Texas (35:58). Plus, thoughts on Clemson and reasons to believe we are experiencing a golden era in college football (48:20).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 Podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:10.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:14.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between, CBS Sports |
| 0:21.0 | Presents, the Cover 3 Podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 Podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Barton Simmons, I'm Chip Patterson. We've got our entire full schedule set. |
| 0:33.0 | It's been an exhausting weekend, but we have made it to this moment and after all of the insanity |
| 0:41.0 | and our many thanks to those of you who watched on CBS Sports HQ, those of you who came into the live blog, |
| 0:47.0 | we've been humming basically. It feels like through the entire weekend, but our post season is set. |
| 0:52.0 | Week 14 in the books. So Barton Simmons, who's your national champion? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah, yeah, we've already been asked for our picks. |
| 1:04.0 | Right. |
| 1:05.0 | It's not going to be any pod. |
| 1:07.0 | No, no, no. |
| 1:08.0 | Now that we're setting the agenda for this show, I'm going to pass on making any predictions for playoffs or national championships. |
| 1:18.0 | Because I don't want you to make me double down on it for four. |
| 1:22.0 | I won't believe it anymore. |
| 1:25.0 | How about this? All right, can we open up the conversation? |
| 1:29.0 | I'm going to use a quote that you used on CBS Sports HQ that I think is important when looking at the college football playoff. |
| 1:38.0 | And if you have been living under a rock through Sunday and you're listening to this Monday morning, |
| 1:42.0 | and you don't know, it is Alabama one, it is Clemson two, it is Notre Dame three, it is Oklahoma four, |
| 1:48.0 | it is Georgia number five, Ohio State, and then UCF. |
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