{"id":246328,"date":"2025-09-22T12:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:47:15","slug":"joel-klatts-national-championship-prediction-already-looks-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246328\/","title":{"rendered":"Joel Klatt’s national championship prediction already looks wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt’s national championship pick is already looking wrong. Klatt picked the Clemson Tigers<\/a> to win the national championship vs. Ohio State, but with Clemson<\/a> already going 1-3 and 0-2 in ACC conference play, the Tigers are unlikely to make the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n

Klatt picked Clemson to win the national championship<\/a> against Ohio State because of Clemson’s high upside and Ohio State’s loss of talent in the 2025 NFL draft. Ohio State lost a nation-leading 14 players<\/a> in the NFL draft last year. Clemson also has three players that Klatt believed would be the top players in the nation, although he doesn’t list them.<\/p>\n

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Clemson has not played like a national championship contender at all. In Week 1, the Clemson Tigers lost to the LSU Tigers<\/a> at home. Week 2 saw Clemson suffer a 16-3 deficit to the Troy Trojans, but the Tigers came back and won the game 27-16. In Week 3, Georgia Tech beat the Tigers to officially knock them out of the top 25, and this past week, Syracuse dominated the Tigers at home 34-21.<\/p>\n

It’s rare to see a national champion contender at the beginning of the season look this bad. It speaks to the nature of college football that a team like Clemson can fall this far. Clemson has been among the nation’s most disappointing teams.<\/p>\n

Georgia Bulldogs<\/a> fans are hoping that Joel Klatt’s prediction on the Bulldogs’ playoff fate is wrong the other way.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on UGA Wire: Joel Klatt’s national championship prediction is looking terrible<\/a><\/p>\n