Week 8 Picks & Previews

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt makes his picks in the biggest games of the weekend. He begins by previewing the crucial Big Ten matchup between Washington and Michigan on FOX as both teams look to make a Playoff push. He then makes his pick in the Top-10 matchup in Athens between #5 Ole Miss and #9 Georgia and USC’s road trip to Notre Dame 20 years after the Bush Push game. Klatt also predicts whether Alabama can continue its strong run against a Tennessee team seeking a major resume builder. He then makes his picks against the spread in the Holy War between #23 Utah and #15 BYU as well as the Top-25 matchup between LSU and Vanderbilt before finishing with his prediction as #7 Texas Tech faces a road test at Arizona State. 0:00-1:15 Intro1:16-4:41 Washington vs. Michigan4:42-7:19 Ole Miss vs. Georgia7:20-9:59 USC vs. Notre Dame10:00-14:23 Tennessee vs. Alabama14:24-18:10 Utah vs. BYU18:11-21:19 LSU vs. Vanderbilt21:20-26:48 Texas Tech vs. Arizona State 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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0:38.6	DeBoer has this team. In many ways, this is the best offense in the country.
0:38.6	DeBoer has this team believing and finding ways to win. You not only need to have Sam
0:43.3	Levitt on the field, but he has to be effective. That is as nasty a rivalry as there is in college football.
0:54.1	Touchdowns. These fans are the best of the country. in college football.
0:54.8	Touchdown.
0:58.6	These fans are the best of the country.
1:02.0	A day like today is why we love college football.
1:18.2	Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome into the Joel Flat Show.. I am Joel Clatt. This show is brought to you by Graduate by Hilton. We thank them for their support as always.
1:24.2	Hey, please subscribe to the show on YouTube. If you haven't done so already, we would very much appreciate that. And then follow us on social media. Wherever you like to social media,
1:27.7	you can do that at Joel Klatshow. Big episode here ready for you, picks and previews,
1:34.4	set for what is, I think, going to be a great weekend of college football. A lot of really good games,
1:38.9	a lot of really important games as we start looking to conference races and the college football
1:43.3	playoffs. So we dive right
1:44.5	into it. Big noon Saturday, Gus Jenny and I will be in the big house as Michigan hosts Washington.
1:51.3	Now, this is a game that is massive for this fourth team in the Big Ten. There's a lot of talk about
1:56.9	what team is going to be the fourth team from the Big Ten that could separate themselves out and make a push to the college football playoff.
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