Top 5 Games that will decide the Big Ten, Schedule Lottery Winners & Losers + Dabo vs Tampering

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt breaks down the Big Ten’s schedule release and gives out his winners and losers of the conference’s “schedule lottery.” He explains which under-the-radar teams’ schedule could propel them to a big season and which schedules will force teams to fight to stay above water. He then ranks his top 5 games for the upcoming season as teams like Ohio State, Michigan, Oregon, Indiana, Penn State and USC all set for key matchups in the conference. Klatt gives his analysis of Ohio State’s hiring of Arthur Smith as the new OC and what it means for Ryan Day and the Buckeye offense as well as USC’s hiring of former TCU Head Coach Gary Patterson to lead the Trojan defense this upcoming season. He wraps up the show by looking at the tampering problem in college football after Miami got Duke QB Darian Mensah at the 11th hour of the Portal window and Dabo Swinney went off on Ole Miss for convincing one of his players to enter the Portal. 0:00-2:58 Intro2:59-7:38 Biggest takeaways from the Big Ten schedule release7:39-14:32 Klatt’s easiest schedules in the Big Ten14:33-25:15 Klatt’s hardest schedules in the Big Ten25:16-32:40 5 games that will decide the Big Ten32:41-38:41 Ohio State hires new offensive coordinator38:42-41:04 USC hires new defensive coordinator41:05-54:17 Dabo Swinney calls out Ole Miss for tampering Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.
0:04.0	Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy?
0:09.0	Oh God.
0:10.0	Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.
0:15.0	Cool, that was close.
0:16.0	You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.
0:19.0	Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on.
0:22.4	Paddy Power.
0:23.3	Valid on selected leagues and markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and C exclusions apply. 18 plus scummelware.org. So the five games that will decide the Big Ten conference, that's a monster game. And it's a really under the radar game because it's not even the best game of the day.
0:37.9	There is a huge difference between there are no rules and... That's a monster game. And it's a really under the radar game because it's not even the best game of the day.
0:37.8	There is a huge difference between there are no rules and the rules are not enforced.
0:43.3	We need more of guys like Dabo to step forward and say, govern us.
0:48.3	This is the second time I've thrown my pen tonight.
0:51.3	Touchdowns! These fans are the best of the country. thrown my pen tonight.
0:54.7	Touchdown.
0:58.4	These fans are the best of the country.
1:01.9	A day like today is why we love college football.
1:10.5	Hey, welcome into the program. This is the Joel Cladts. I'm Joel Glad. This show is brought to you by graduate
1:13.9	by Hilton. We thank them for their support. Welcome back to the program. I know that in the offseason,
1:18.1	we kind of move to once a week, but we are continuing on here. Lots to get to during the course of
1:23.7	this last week here in the offseason in college football, we got the schedule release from
1:27.9	the Big Ten. We've got to get to that, obviously. And as you know in college football with these
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