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The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Why Texas and Alabama are in the Playoff and Florida State is Out + Early Thoughts on CFP Matchups

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt reacts to the College Football Playoff Committee’s Decision to include one-loss Texas and Alabama over undefeated Florida State in the Top 4. He details how this decision came down to the path of least resistance for the committee members when choosing between 3 hard choices. Klatt then goes through how the sport got to this point with the era of the 4-team Playoff format and how it has hurt the sport as a whole. He then gives his early thoughts on the two CFP Semifinals including why Alabama presents a unique problem for Michigan and why the Longhorns ran into their worst matchup among the Top 4 teams when they drew Washington. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today on the Joel Clad Show, we get the most shocking playoff reveal that we've had in its history and people are pissed

0:08.6

College football has never been bad. Interest has never been higher. Believe that we are at the dawn of the Golden Age of College football

0:16.4

It was an epic day of college football. It was just one of those days where you fall in love with the sport all over again

0:24.5

Hey, what's up everybody? I'm Joel Clad. This is the Joel Clad Show. The show is presented by Hampton by Hilton and we obviously have a lot to get into here today as the

0:41.3

College football playoff committee has given us their top four and we've got a playoff set and I have all sorts of thoughts about what they gave us on

0:51.5

Sunday. Hey remember to subscribe to the show wherever you're listening to your podcasts. If you don't watch the show on YouTube

0:59.2

You need to go over there because we always have exclusive content to YouTube over there that's visually based

1:04.4

So go subscribe to the show on YouTube getting awfully close to a 100,000 over there. So that's a cool mark on

1:11.4

social media where wherever you like to social media at Joel Clad Show there and you can follow me my personal Twitter

1:18.7

Or X is at Joel Clad. Okay, let's get right into it and let's start with just what the committee gave us. Here are the top four teams top six really but top four teams

1:29.5

Michigan number one Washington two Texas three and Alabama four with Florida State undefeated ACC champion 13-0 on the outside looking in at number five

1:42.0

And Georgia going from number one all the way to number six after that loss to the crimson tide

1:47.8

They're 12 and one and their sixth in the country. So

1:51.9

As that as that was revealing

1:55.9

I was thinking to myself this is the most unknown and thus will be the most shocking reveal that we've had in the history of the college football playoff

2:05.1

I'm watching it. I was actually on a flight

2:07.2

So I'm on a flight I fly Indianapolis to Houston and then I'm on the Houston back to Orange County League

2:13.9

Of my travels on Sunday morning and I'm watching and I'm sitting there

2:18.3

Inthrolled just enthralled with with the suspense of everything going on on on Sunday morning and

2:26.0

Watching along with you wishing they would just put the graphic up because I'm like if you tell me the graphics guy has it on the vis machine

2:33.3

And then you're waiting 15 more minutes now. I'm just upset about it

2:36.9

But I was being impatient like everybody else

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