Sep 10, 2026 · 28 min
Klatt weighs playoff stakes in Week 2’s biggest games
Week 2 College Football Picks: Ohio St-Texas, Oklahoma-Michigan & more!
The picks turn early-season matchups into tests of playoff positioning, home-field advantage, revenge and conference stakes.
- 1Ohio State–Texas carries top-five weight and potential College Football Playoff consequences.
- 2BYU’s home-field advantage and last season’s double-overtime drama shape the Arizona pick.
- 3Klatt extends his against-the-spread analysis across Alabama–Kentucky, Arizona State–Texas A&M and Memphis–Boise State.
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Klatt’s BYU–Arizona preview connects last season’s double-overtime drama with the difficulty of playing in Provo.
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Joel Klatt opens on Ohio State–Texas, a top-five matchup whose result could influence both teams’ College Football Playoff paths and the broader Group of Six picture.
The preview weighs Texas’s stakes against Ohio State’s profile, with Arch Manning and the Longhorns central to the conversation around the heavyweight matchup.
BYU–Arizona brings a different edge: last season’s dramatic double-overtime meeting and BYU’s home-field advantage in Provo complicate the against-the-spread call.
Klatt then applies the same situational lens to Alabama–Kentucky, Arizona State–Texas A&M and Memphis–Boise State, emphasizing conference stakes and venue.
The episode’s through line is that Week 2 picks depend less on rankings alone than on revenge, location and the pressure attached to each game.