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Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks
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🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Tom Fornelli and Chip Patterson hop on CBS Sports Network to break down the latest news around the college football world. The boys start off with Some CFP storylines to watch out for before transitioning to discussing Virginia Tech hiring James Franklin and much More.
(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:30) - CFP Storylines To Watch
(00:16:20) - Coaching Carousel
(00:29:00) - Oregon-USC Preview
(00:38:15) - Bowl or NO Bowl
(00:43:30) - Player To Watch
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| 0:00.0 | And welcome back to the cover three podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:15.0 | That's Tom for Nelly. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live on CBS Sports Network, fired up to talk a little college football |
| 0:22.2 | with you over the course of the next hour, where we will take a look inside one of the biggest |
| 0:27.8 | games of the entire Big Ten season. That's right, the showdown between Oregon and USC, a game |
| 0:35.0 | that you can watch on CBS and stream on Paramount Plus, that is going to be |
| 0:39.1 | center stage. We're going to take you inside the matchup, big game breakdown style, keys to the |
| 0:44.5 | game, X factors, and so much more. We are also going to be reacting to the news from the coaching |
| 0:50.7 | carousel. James Franklin, former Penn State head coach, will be introduced |
| 0:55.0 | as the next head coach of Virginia Tech on Wednesday. We will also play a little bit of everyone's |
| 1:01.1 | favorite game, bowl or no bowl, no anxiety whatsoever for teams that are still not bowl eligible |
| 1:07.3 | going into the final two weeks of the regular season. But we're going to start with the present. |
| 1:12.0 | We're going to start with Tuesday night as we will get the next batch of college |
| 1:16.6 | football playoff selection committee rankings, the rankings that will set the stage |
| 1:21.3 | for the final weeks of the college football playoff race. |
| 1:24.3 | So as we start, Tom, to look ahead to tonight. And of course, you know, |
| 1:29.1 | join us live on YouTube.com slash cover three, where we will be reacting to these rankings live. |
| 1:35.6 | We're going to get started about 8.45 p.m. Eastern time. They'll be announcing the rankings |
| 1:40.3 | between two college basketball games. So aside from the basketball, aside from rooting for good, clean finishes and no |
| 1:48.2 | overtimes, Tom, what are you looking forward to here on Tuesday night from the new rankings? |
| 1:54.0 | I think, like you just said, the thing I'm most looking forward to is a good, clean end. |
| 1:57.5 | I hope it's a blowout, and we're not extending the game for an extra 10 minutes |
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