Why the Big Ten wants to schedule the SEC & Klatt’s 10 favorite matchups he wants to see

The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

Fox Sports

Sports, Football

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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FOX Sports’ lead College Football analyst Joel Klatt recaps his time at the Big Ten Spring Meetings and gives his biggest takeaways from what he learned this week including a potential Big Ten-SEC scheduling agreement if the Playoff expands to 24 teams - and he explains why the coaches in the Big Ten want that opportunity. Klatt then lists his 10 favorite Big Ten/SEC future matchups that he wants to see in this potential format – from Ohio State traveling to Tennessee to Lane Kiffin returning to Los Angeles to face USC and more. Klatt also reacts to the news that Ed Orgeron is back at LSU, joining up with Kiffin once again - this time in the NIL recruiting world. 0:00-1:09 Klatt’s takeaways from Big Ten spring meetings1:10-6:40 Big Ten conference is 100% supportive of 24-team CFP6:41-11:01 24-team CFP would lead to big ten/SEC scheduling agreement11:02-13:28 Will the SEC join the big ten in support of the 24-team playoff?13:29-16:39 concern among big ten coaches about unsustainability of current landscape16:40-20:07 How would a federal bill impact college football?20:08-25:48 Big Ten-SEC matchups Klatt wants to see25:49-28:28 Lane Kiffin brings back Ed Orgeron to LSU staff Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:18.2	90% of the coaches in the SEC favor a 24-team playoff expansion.
0:22.8	We get this mindset that these coaches don't want to play tough games,
0:26.4	and yet all of them were telling me the exact opposite.
0:28.8	Please give us this scheduling agreement because it would be great.
0:31.6	It would be great for fans.
0:32.9	It would be great for college football.
0:34.4	Back then, we used to walk through the back door with the cash.
0:39.2	Just outward, outward.
0:46.0	Hey, welcome into the show. This is the Joel Clad show. I'm Joel Clad, and this show is brought to you by graduate by Hilton.
0:51.3	We thank them for their support as always.
0:59.1	Hey, listen, we roll on here in the offseason. Last week, I was at the Teranea in Palis Verdes,
1:04.4	just south of Los Angeles for the Big Ten Spring meetings. And so what I wanted to do is just come here and tell you what I was hearing and what I learned at those meetings, because I
1:08.6	thought that there was some profound things that I learned that I didn't really know going in.
1:13.5	So I know that you guys will be interested in that as well.
1:16.6	So these are kind of like my top things that I learned during the course of the week, the spring meetings for the Big Ten.
1:21.8	Number one, and I think this is the one that everyone knows and it got the most publicity.
1:26.1	But it is absolutely true.
1:28.0	The conference is 100% every coach that I talk to, every athletic director that I talk to,
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