Upon Further Review: Notre Dame Opts OUT Of Bowl, College Football Playoff Bracket Reaction & More!
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew is back to break down the latest around the college football world. The boys discuss Notre Dame opting out of their bowl game, reaction to the CFP Bracket and more!
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:02:00) - Bowl Game Opt Outs
(00:29:15) - Notable Bowl Games
(00:39:15) - Poll Assassin
(00:49:00) - Upon Further Review
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny Cannell, and Bud Elliott. |
| 0:11.7 | It's your call for the best college football coverage, from National Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:24.9 | And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.9 | That's Tom for Nellie, that's Bud Elliott, that's Danny Canale. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson. |
| 0:33.6 | Coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 and everywhere. |
| 0:36.8 | Get your podcast on demand. Thanks for hanging out hanging out smash that subscribe smash that like and come and join us in the chat aka the cover three tailgate where it looks like evan went through started putting together a cover three dictionary you can scroll up he jumped in the tailgate started throwing out, and he brought back Barton the Bouncer, |
| 1:01.0 | which is some real day one stuff. Barton the Bouncer at the Slayer concert, maybe once we do get into your February's, your March, your April's, we'll get a visit from our own Barton Simmons. |
| 1:06.5 | We'll dive back into the big old bag of mail where Barton the bouncer was launched. But we got |
| 1:10.5 | too much to get through launched but we got too much |
| 1:11.4 | to get through today because we got more reaction to the college football playoff we've got bowl |
| 1:16.1 | games you know just sort of a general who are we looking at what matchups really jump out to us |
| 1:21.8 | maybe a little bit more from the coaching carousel and yes as always upon further review and poll |
| 1:27.1 | assassin our normal monday content |
| 1:29.8 | but in the you know in the spirit of just trying to dive right into the conversation it is not |
| 1:37.4 | necessarily about the playoff matchups it is not necessarily about the bowl game matchups no the |
| 1:42.8 | biggest topic in college football right now is about the teams, |
| 1:47.7 | but really specifically the team that has opted not to participate in the postseason. |
| 1:53.3 | That would be the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. |
| 1:56.0 | Now, Notre Dame is not alone in this. |
| 1:58.1 | We've already Kansas State and Iowa State, as we talked a little bit on Sunday's show, |
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