Michigan hires Kyle Whittingham & College Football Playoff Quarterfinal Picks

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt reacts to Michigan’s hiring of Kyle Whittingham to be their new Head Coach. He breaks down why Whittingham makes so much sense for the Wolverines program caught in difficult circumstances and also details the challenges the former Utah coach now has ahead of him. Klatt then makes his picks against the spread for the College Football Playoff Quarterfinals as Ohio State looks to avoid the upset against Miami and Oregon faces off with Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl. He then makes his pick in the Rose Bowl as #1 Indiana looks to continue their magical run under Curt Cignetti against Alabama. Klatt wraps the show with his pick in the Georgia-Ole Miss matchup before revealing the terms of a special giveaway prize. Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/KLATT10 Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Kyle Whittingham, he looks at this as an opportunity to actually go out there and compete for a national championship.
0:07.0	Ohio State, it's time to start talking about them as historically one of the great defenses that we've ever seen in college football.
0:13.0	This Georgia team could absolutely win the national championship.
0:20.0	These fans are the best of the country.
0:23.8	A day like today is why we love college football.
0:34.4	Hey, welcome into the program.
0:36.4	This is a Joel Clatt show.
0:37.4	I'm Joel Clad. This show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton. We thank them for their support. As always, we've got playoff games to talk about once again. We've got this quarterfinal matchups. All four of these games, I'm going to be picking them. I'll be previewing these games in this episode. I also have to react to the Kyle Whittingham hire by Michigan.
0:55.8	They drop a bomb on college football, really, when you think about it, Kyle Whittingham,
1:00.2	headed to Michigan. I'll give you all my thoughts on that. But first, remember, if you have not
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1:25.6	listened to the podcast version. So again,
1:28.5	lots to get into, including a big giveaway at the end of the audio and YouTube product. So if
1:36.0	you're watching this on FS1, get on over to the YouTube channel because at the end of this show,
1:41.2	I'm going to be giving away four Rose Bowl tickets. That's right,
1:44.4	four Rose Bowl tickets to the Bama Indiana game. I'll be given those away, but you've got to
1:48.5	get over to the YouTube product in order to check out how you go about winning those tickets.
1:54.3	So let's get into the content of this week's show. Let's start with Michigan and the hiring of
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