Week 1 LOCKS: Best Bets For College Football’s Opening Weekend | Texas-Ohio State | LSU-Clemson
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
IT'S TIME! The Cover 3 crew is here with their week 1 locks episode. The boys give their locks for Texas vs. Ohio State, LSU vs. Clemson, Notre Dame vs. Miami and much more!
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(00:00:00) - Intro
(00:00:00) - Cover 3 Pick 'Em
(00:03:30) - Week 0 Recap
(00:09:30) - Thursday Locks
(00:18:00) - Friday Locks
(00:24:40) - Texas-Ohio State
(00:29:40) - Alabama-Florida State
(00:35:30) - LSU-Clemson
(00:40:30) - Notre Dame-Miami
(00:44:00) - TCU-UNC
(00:49:00) - Rest of Week 1 Locks
(01:16:00) - Week 1 Locks Recap
(00:18:20) - Moneyline Sprinkles
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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. |
| 0:30.0 | That's Tom Freneli, that's Bud Elliott, that's Danny Cannell. |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Chip Patterson coming to you live at YouTube.com slash cover 3 |
| 0:35.9 | and everywhere you get your podcast on demand. |
| 0:38.7 | Thanks for hanging out. |
| 0:39.8 | Smash that subscribe, smash that like and come and join us in the chat, |
| 0:43.4 | aka the cover three tailgate where they are rocking and they are rolling and they are ready |
| 0:48.4 | because this is the very best time of the week. |
| 0:51.4 | Not only is it a Thursday, which means that we are getting out our locks, |
| 0:56.4 | but it is the very first one. Week one of the season, a five-day marathon. We are going to be giving |
| 1:01.8 | you locks for the entire run. Now, if you're watching, joining us in the tailgate on YouTube. |
| 1:07.1 | com slash cover three, you notice that right above Tom's head there is a QR code. Now, |
| 1:14.0 | what is that QR code, you may ask? Well, that is an invitation. That is an opportunity for you to come and |
| 1:20.9 | compete against us in the free official cover three college football pickum brought to you by splash every single week of the season you make six picks against the spread one of those is going to be your lock obviously cover three got to have a lock that's going to be worth two times the value now if you want to get picks in for tonight as part of the week one, pick six for the |
| 1:47.5 | Cover 3 podcast, well, then you need to get it in by kickoff. |
| 1:51.3 | All of the games, every single one of them, is going to lock at noon on Saturday. |
| 1:56.3 | So scan the QR code or hit the link in the episode description. |
| 2:00.7 | We have had thousands sign up. |
| 2:04.0 | And we've got a little something special extra for you. If we have more than 5,000 entrance, |
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