Joel Klatt teases possible change in college football hierarchy

Fox Sports’ Joel Klatt teased a possible change in college football’s hierarchy for the 2023 season.

With Alabama, Georgia and Ohio State bound for change this coming fall, Klatt said we could see more craziness like the 2022 season offered. Michigan crashed the party over the last two years for sure, but TCU was the team out of nowhere.

There could be more of that coming and Klatt explained why:

“Thinking about Alabama, this program that has been really the king of the mountain up until Georgia comes along in the last couple of years, and now they’re going to be breaking in to new coordinators and a new quarterback,” Klatt said on his podcast. “Then you start to think to yourself, ‘Man, Georgia is going to have a new quarterback and Todd Monken has been flirting with some job interviews so they may, although not official, may have a new play caller and a new quarterback. 

“And then you look at Ohio State and in my estimation, these are the three programs that are like running college football, because they recruit at the highest end. These are the teams that you’ve got to go through and Ohio State is also going to be breaking in a brand new play caller and a new quarterback. And it just got me thinking to myself listen, if there’s a year where you might get some new blood, like we saw with TCU and to some extent Michigan, even though they were in back to back years, where you might get some just like craziness happened in college football, might this be the year in 2023?”

A change in college football hierarchy?

While change is inevitable, Klatt pumped the brakes on some landmark changes for next season. Someone still has to knock off the big dogs.
“And I think it might be if you’re a fan of the style of season that we had, where Tennessee’s relevant, playing games with with huge playoff implications late,” Klatt said. “Where Michigan is is kind of owning the Big Ten, where USC is playing games with playoff implications, where Kansas State and TCU are playing games with playoff implications. If you enjoyed that, and judging by the ratings people did, then 2023 might be more of the same. 

“Now, am I suggesting that Georgia, Ohio State or Alabama are not going to be good? Absolutely not. I’m not suggesting that at all. And in fact, Georgia has a chance to do something that nobody’s really done in college football history. I mean, winning three straight (National titles), at least not in the modern era of true college football, at least the way that I view it. You think of what they have the opportunity to do, they are building a dynasty. Are they going anywhere? No, someone’s going to have to beat them.”

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Georgia is at the top of the college football hierarchy but it could look drastically different next season or the year after.