The Joel Klatt Show: A College Football Podcast

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt dives into his big questions in each Power 5 Conference heading into the season. In the Big Ten, Klatt examines the 3-team race in the Big Ten East between Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State and breaks down how each team can come out of that loaded division. He then turns to the SEC and discusses who among Alabama, LSU and Tennessee could take down Georgia this year. Next, he heads to this year’s conference of QBs - the Pac-12 - before detailing the conference’s top teams’ chances of making the Playoff. In the Big 12, it’s about Texas. Will this be the year they finally realize their potential? Finally, Klatt reveals whether we should be buying the Florida State hype and if this is the season they overtake Clemson in the ACC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt unveils his Preseason Top 25 rankings for the upcoming College Football season. Klatt begins with the 2-time defending champion Georgia Bulldogs before revealing how much separation is between Michigan and Ohio State as well as their division rival Penn State. He gets into why he’s higher on Alabama than most before getting into how he stacks a potentially deep group of Playoff contenders including LSU, Florida State, Clemson, USC and another Pac-12 school which he thinks could be better than all of them. Klatt also walks through his process as he went through the annual struggle of deciding where to rank Texas before a season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt shares his thoughts on the next wave of conference expansion, which will likely impact the Pac-12, Big Ten, and Big 12 significantly. Oregon and Washington could leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten on the heels of Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah potentially leaving the Pac-12 to join the Big 12. Florida State is also considering a move, but Joel explains the reasons why they’ll have a hard time leaving the ACC. Finally, Joel explains why these moves are on the table and how they could affect the rest of college football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the final episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt sits down with the new Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference, Tony Petitti. They begin by discussing what the Commissioner hopes to accomplish early in his tenure. Petitti goes into how his background as a TV executive and at Major League Baseball has prepared him to oversee the Big Ten’s $7 Billion media rights deal. He also reflects back on his time at ABC during the creation of the BCS. The two finish by discussing the importance of incentivizing top-level regular season success in the expanded Playoff era. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt provides his reaction to the big news out of Boulder that Colorado will be leaving the Pac-12 and rejoining the Big 12 in 2024. Joel begins by breaking down how we got to this point, specifically how the changes in the TV Media landscape over the last decade have led to this moment. He then gets into the importance of the Big 12 reading that TV landscape well while the Pac-12 is paying the price for failing to do so. Joel dives into the current state of the two conferences and where things go from here for each. He finishes by giving Colorado credit for the best offseason in College Football after hiring Deion Sanders and making this move to the Big 12. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt sits down with Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark in Dallas. The two dive right into the big question surrounding the conference as the Commissioner outlines his criteria for potential expansion. He also details what he feels was his biggest win in his first year in charge of the Big 12. They discuss the current state of NIL and the transfer portal and the Commissioner details why he feels it’s been a “disaster” so far. Finally, Yormark details why he believes he is absolutely the right person to lead the conference going forward – and why he wouldn’t necessarily be a good fit at other conferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week’s episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations features FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt sitting down in Westwood with UCLA Head Coach Chip Kelly. Coach Kelly begins by detailing why he thinks college football is as good as it has ever been and why “there’s no crying on the yacht.” The pair discuss Kelly’s influence at the forefront of offensive schemes in the sport and how that was actually born out of necessity. Coach gets into his concerns about college football becoming too transactional rather than transformational for the players before closing with what he loves most about his job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week’s episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt is in Columbus to sit down with the Head Coach at Ohio State, Ryan Day. The pair discuss how different Day’s job is now from the time he began as Head Coach. They also get into the larger issues facing the sport and how much the NFL should be used as a model for the college game. Coach Day discusses how the expanded playoff will affect top programs like Ohio State. He then gets into how frustrating the targeting rule has become and why common sense needs to be applied more in those situations. They wrap up with a list of coaches that he admires in the game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt heads to Birmingham, Alabama to sit down with SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. In this wide-ranging conversation, the two discuss Sankey’s influence in the landscape of the sport and whether there needs to be an overarching body overseeing CFB. Sankey also gives his thoughts on the future of the College Football Playoff and what areas he feels need to be addressed before the two discuss scheduling in the sport and the challenges that are unique to the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The second episode of The Joel Klatt Show: Big Noon Conversations, features FOX Sports’ lead college football analyst Joel Klatt speaking with Alabama Head Coach Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa. The two discuss what still drives the 7x National Champion coach. They also dive into the challenges of coaching in the modern era of the sport with the transfer portal, opt-outs and NIL. Coach Saban goes into whether the relationship between student-athlete and their university is properly balanced at this moment. They also discuss whether parity is possible in college football before concluding the conversation with a job offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices