TNR 12/16/25 - Hour 2 | Alabama vs. Oklahoma Preview & Other Bowl Game News!

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🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The Alabama Crimson Tide is in action Friday night at the Oklahoma Sooners in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. Alabama Football remains a 1.5-point favorite over Oklahoma Football for the game in Norman. How healthy is Alabama QB Ty Simpson going into the Alabama-Oklahoma game? The Crimson Tide signal caller tells us. How important is it to potentially have tight end Josh Cuevas back? The Miami-Texas A&M winner will face Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on New Year’s Eve. JMU-Oregon winner faces Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl, Alabama-Oklahoma winner against Indiana in the Rose Bowl, Tulane-Ole Miss winner faces Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. Outkick founder Clay Travis joins the show to talk college football Our daily 4 Downs! SUBSCRIBE: @NextRoundLive - / @nextroundlive FOLLOW TNR ON RUMBLE: https://rumble.com/c/c-7759604 FOLLOW TNR ON SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/7zlofzLZht7dYxjNcBNpWN FOLLOW TNR ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-next-round/id1797862560 WEBSITE: https://nextroundlive.com/ MOBILE APP: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/the-next-round/id1580807480 SHOP THE NEXT ROUND STORE: https://nextround.store/ Like TNR on Facebook: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Twitter: / nextroundlive Follow TNR on Instagram: / nextroundlive Follow everyone from the show on Twitter: Jim Dunaway: / jimdunaway Ryan Brown: / ryanbrownlive Lance Taylor: / thelancetaylor Scott Forester: / scottforestertv Tyler Johns: /TylerJohnsTNR Sponsor the show: sales@nextroundlive.com #SEC #Alabama #Auburn #secfootball #collegefootball #cfb #cfp #football #sports #alabamafootball #alabamabasketball #auburnbasketball #auburnfootball #rolltide #wareagle #alabamacrimsontide #auburntigers #nfl #sportsnews #footballnews Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown, live from the Birmingham Racecourse Casino Studios.
0:10.3	The next round, presented by Bud Light, is on now.
0:18.4	Hour 2 gets us to Clay Travis, brought to you today by our friends at Alabama Power.
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0:56.6	joins us now on the Alexander Shinar trial attorney's hotline. Welcome in, Clay. How are you today?
1:02.6	I'm good. How are you all? Doing awesome. Thanks a lot. I guess we could start you with the same
1:07.4	question we were discussing earlier is do you see one of these first round
1:11.6	games where a team could make a deep run we asked clatt yesterday he said no maybe Oregon
1:17.0	do you see either texasana miami omis alabama oklahoma or oregon being able to make some
1:24.7	noise in this playoff if they can get out of this first game this weekend.
1:28.9	I don't think for Oklahoma or Alabama that they can because I just don't think the offenses are good enough right now.
1:38.0	Based on what I've seen in the last four or five weeks of the season,
1:42.0	and I don't think you can just flip a switch and suddenly be something much better than
1:47.2	you have been against a much better quality of team.
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