Urban Meyer on Ohio State-Texas, Big Ten vs SEC & Klatt’s Best Value Bets for the Season

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Fox Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt is joined by Urban Meyer to break down the huge Week 1 matchup between #3 Ohio State and #1 Texas. Coach discusses the challenges of trying to repeat as National Champion and explains what he would be asking of Arch Manning and Julian Sayin in this opening game. The two also discuss how the gap between the Big Ten and SEC has shifted since Coach Meyer’s days winning titles at Florida and Ohio State. Klatt then reacts to the news that Michigan True Freshman Bryce Underwood will be their starting QB this season and what will be expected of him. He then gives out his best value bets for the upcoming season including his favorite Heisman bets. Chapters 0:00-1:50 Intro1:51-2:55 Urban Meyer joins the show!2:56-5:25 What are the biggest keys in the matchup between Texas and Ohio State?5:26-7:51 Julian Sayin will be making his first career start vs. Arch Manning & Longhorns7:52-14:05 Urban Meyer’s advice to QBs14:06-15:31 Will Arch Manning live up to the immense hype?15:32-17:29 Expectations for Steve Sarkisian and the longhorns this season?17:30-22:52 Which conference has the edge in college football?22:53-30:18 the challenges of trying to repeat as a national champion30:19-35:38 Michigan names Bryce Underwood as starting QB35:39- Klatt’s best value bets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you ever going to replace Marvin Harrison? Bang. You know, how are you going to replace
0:03.2	Garrett Wilson? Bang. How are you going to replace a mecca? You know, it just sits nonstop.
0:07.2	This battle between Lincoln Keynotes and Julian Sand has reminded them of the Haskins Borough battle.
0:16.2	I'm hearing the word placement. I'm hearing the word national champion first pick over on.
0:20.1	Archmanian hasn't done a thing yet. I think the big
0:22.4	one has much improved and
0:24.6	certainly has taken over the top conference in college
0:26.8	football.
0:30.4	Touchdowns.
0:32.6	These fans are the best of the country.
0:34.9	A day like today is
0:36.7	why we love college football.
0:45.4	Welcome into the program.
0:46.7	This is the Joel Clatt show.
0:48.0	I am Joel Clatt.
0:48.7	This show, as always, is brought to you by the graduate by Hilton.
0:51.7	We thank them for their support, as always.
0:55.8	We've got a huge show for you here today. We've got a great guess and then some news that we're coming off of over the first
1:00.9	couple of days of the week, including a little bit of a mailbag here. We got a question coming
1:05.2	in on the mailbag and some exciting things I want to touch on in the mailbag. Before we get
1:10.1	into this interview, though, remember go and subscribe on the YouTube channel. That's where you're going to find all of our content. That's where our best content is. So subscribe. You're going to know when everything drops right there. Leave a comment below and we can get into a conversation during the course of the week. And then wherever you like to social media, we're there. You can follow all of our content all season long right there at Joel Clat Show wherever you like the social media, we're there. You can follow all of our content all season long right
1:28.6	there at Joel Klatt Show wherever you like the social media. We are there. So in preparation for
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