Title game preview (01/05)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson preview Alabama and Clemson in the College Football Playoff national championship game. As Chip checks in from the scene in California, Barton starts the show off with observations and news from the All-American Bowl in San Antonio (1:45). Then its onto the biggest news of the week with Justin Fields' transfer to Ohio State (7:18) and West Virginia hiring Neal Bown as Dana Holgorsen's replacement (17:20). Then the title game preview (22:55), including a breakdown of the quarterback battle (36:00) and why Nick Saban is already the GOAT even if he doesn't win his seventh title on Monday night (41:55).
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, |
| 0:07.0 | Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. |
| 0:10.0 | It's your call for the best college football coverage. |
| 0:13.0 | From National Signing Day to the National Championship |
| 0:17.0 | and everything in between, CBS Sports Presents, |
| 0:21.0 | the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:26.0 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Bart Simmons, I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:31.0 | I am here in Ray San Jose and we just had the college football playoff |
| 0:37.0 | now for championship game media day back at my hotel. |
| 0:41.0 | We're in Barton Simmons, just got done with his own work, |
| 0:44.0 | doing a little reporting for the All-America Bowl. |
| 0:48.0 | You're in San Antonio. |
| 0:49.0 | How did the game go? |
| 0:51.0 | How was your performance? |
| 0:52.0 | We're always trying to get better, just like the players. |
| 0:55.0 | We're trying to get better every single day. |
| 0:57.0 | So do you feel like you got better today with your reporting duties? |
| 1:01.0 | Man, I got through it, you know, that's all that matters. |
| 1:04.0 | I mean, that was fine, I think it was fine. |
| 1:07.0 | But this is one of those deals where you know, you just, |
| 1:09.0 | you're always just kind of looking to the light of the in a tunnel this week. |
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