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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Week 5 College Football Picks: Oregon-Penn St, Alabama-Georgia, Ohio St-Washington & More!

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt makes his picks for the biggest games of the college football weekend. He begins by breaking down his game on Big Noon Saturday on FOX as #21 USC faces #23 Illinois before making his pick in the Top-10 matchup in Happy Valley as #3 Penn State looks for a signature win against #6 Oregon. Klatt also makes his pick in the Alabama-Georgia game as the Crimson Tide look to end the nation’s longest home winning streak. He also considers whether #1 Ohio State should be on upset alert as they face their first road test of the season in Husky Stadium against Washington. Klatt then makes his picks in two other big SEC matchups as #4 LSU faces #13 Ole Miss on the road and Auburn looks to bounce back from their loss to Oklahoma by upsetting #9 Texas A&M at Kyle Field. 0:00-1:18 Intro1:19-5:44 USC vs. Illinois5:45-9:50 Oregon vs. Penn State9:51-14:33 Alabama vs. Georgia14:34-18:33 Ohio State vs. Washington18:34-22:14 LSU vs Ole Miss22:15-27:53 Auburn vs. Texas A&M Use my code for 10% off your next SeatGeek order*: https://seatgeek.onelink.me/RrnK/KLATT10Sponsored by SeatGeek. *Restrictions apply. Max $20 discount Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

If someone invited you to a wedding this week, politely declined. Right back, absolutely not. If you are making a short list right now for the Heisman Trophy, I do think he would have to be on it. Dante Moore is going to be going into an environment that really he hasn't seen before. I think Dante Moore is going to be built for this. Do I think Alabama is all of a sudden go between the hedges and beat what I think is the ACE SEC favorite in Georgia?

0:23.6

No.

0:24.1

And now Lane Kiffin has some motivation.

0:26.5

The opposing linebacker is dating his daughter.

0:31.7

Touchdown.

0:34.1

These fans are the best of the country.

0:36.5

A day like today is why we love college football.

0:44.3

Hey, what's up everybody?

0:48.3

Welcome into the Joel Clatt show. I'm Joel Clad.

0:50.3

This show, as always, is brought to you by Graduate by Hilton.

0:53.3

We thank them for their support as always. Picks and previews for week five here in college football. We've got a lot

0:59.4

to get to here in this week. We are three and one last week against the spread. Eight and

1:04.8

12, slow start to the year against the spread so far on the season. But if you are just taking

1:10.1

the picks outright that I make, Moneyline, if you will, I'm 12 and 8 on the season. But if you are just taking the picks outright that I make,

1:29.9

Moneyline, if you will, I'm 12 and 8 on the year, just to kind of keep you up to date on what we've been doing so far in the picks. Let's get into it right away. Lots to cover. So let's go with the game. I'll be at Big Noon Saturday. USC goes on the road to face Illinois. USC is a six and a half point favorite in this one.

1:29.9

I'm really encouraged by USC. Saturday, USC goes on the road to face Illinois. USC is a six and a half point favorite in this one.

1:35.1

I'm really encouraged by USC's run game. I've constantly said over the course of the offseason,

1:39.7

as you know, if you've been watching this program, that I think that Lincoln Riley is always at his best when they are dominant on the ground run on the football. That's what was the case at

1:44.4

OU. And that has been the case this year with Wayman, Jordan at running back and others,

1:49.5

by the way, stable of backs there, and an offensive line that is clearly a lot better,

1:54.2

bigger, and more physical than what USC has had over the last couple of years. This

1:58.5

offense looks a lot more like the Lincoln Riley offenses that we saw at Oklahoma.

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