College Gridiron 365

Clemson is the national champion after an incredible performance over Alabama. We look back at the Tigers win and break down Matt's way too early top 25 rankings.

Along with previewing the college football national title game, we also talk about playoff expansion and some crazy coaching changes over the past couple weeks.

It's a holiday edition of the podcast.

We're going bowling as we look ahead to the college football bowl season and pick out the games we can't wait to see.

We also take a peek at the New Years Day Six bowls and talk about which upset is more likely to occur in the semifinals.

We also look at the latest in college football hires and talk about the most interesting ones to us.

All of this and more on this podcast.

We talk about the news out of Columbus where Urban Meyer has retired as head coach at Ohio State.

We also look into the final playoff rankings and what they got right - and wrong - in picking the college football playoff.

It's a fun one.

With championship weekend looming, we look at the latest college football playoff rankings and talk about who could end up in the final four.

1. Alabama (12-0) 2. Clemson (12-0) 3. Notre Dame (12-0) 4. Georgia (11-1) 5. Oklahoma (11-1) 6. Ohio State (11-1) 7. Michigan (10-2) 8. UCF (11-0) 9. Florida (9-3) 10. LSU (9-3) 11. Washington (9-3) 12. Penn State (9-3) 13. Washington State (10-2) 14. Texas (9-3) 15. Kentucky (9-3)

On this podcast we talk about the latest college football playoff rankings and then breakdown a titillating weekend of rivalry football including UCF-USF, Oklahoma-West Virginia, Auburn-Alabama, Notre Dame-USC, Washington-Washington State and Ohio State-Michigan.

We look at the rankings and discuss what we think of them.

We also peek ahead to the week ahead on the field:

• No. 23 Fresno State (8-1, 5-1 MWC) at Boise State (7-2, 4-1 MWC)
• No. 10 Ohio State (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten) at No. 18 Michigan State (6-3, 4-2 Big Ten)
• Oklahoma State (5-4, 2-4 Big 12) at No. 6 Oklahoma (8-1, 5-1 Big 12)
• No. 16 Mississippi State (6-3, 2-3 SEC) at No. 1 Alabama (9-0, 6-0 SEC)
• No. 8 Washington State (8-1, 5-1 Pac-12) at Colorado (5-4, 2-4 Pac-12)
• No. 2 Clemson (9-0, 6-0 ACC) at No. 17 Boston College (7-2, 4-1 ACC)

Brant and Matt talk about the first playoff rankings and Brant is not happy at all. Can Matt calm him down?

That and we look ahead to this weekend's big slate of games:

No. 6 Georgia (7-1, 5-1 SEC) at No. 9 Kentucky (7-1, 5-1 SEC)

No. 13 West Virginia (6-1, 4-1 Big 12) at No. 17 Texas (6-2, 4-1 Big 12)

No. 14 Penn State (6-2, 3-2 Big Ten) at No. 5 Michigan (7-1, 5-0 Big Ten)

No. 4 Notre Dame (8-0) at Northwestern (5-3, 5-1 Big Ten)

No. 1 Alabama (8-0, 5-0 SEC) at No. 3 LSU (7-1, 4-1 SEC)

Also discussed on this podcast:

• Michigan bests Michigan State and could be the driver's seat for a playoff berth
• Clemson tops NC State — Can anybody beat them the rest of the way?
• Washington State outlasts Oregon and sets up a crazy finish in the Pac-12
• LSU holds serve with Mississippi State, setting up a big game with Alabama on November 3
• We look ahead to this weekend with Florida vs. Georgia the showcase game.

All of these topics and more.

Also discussed on this episode:

• How the playoffs are shaping up and which of the four favorites have the easiest road in
• What were the most shocking losses of the weekend
• And we look ahead to a suddenly intriguing weekend of football with these games:

No. 6 Michigan at No. 24 Michigan State

No. 16 NC State at No. 3 Clemson

No. 22 Mississippi State at No. 5 LSU

No. 12 Oregon at No. 25 Washington State

No. 1 Alabama at Tennessee