Despite being one of college football’s primary voices during the regular season, Joel Klatt found himself sidelined for the first-ever 12-team College Football Playoff.
That’s because the sport’s postseason tournament exclusively belongs to ESPN, which even produced the games that it had leased to Warner Bros. Discovery.The Worldwide Leader is currently set to remain the CFP’s exclusive rightsholder through the remainder of the 2031-32 season, which means that Fox will be on the outside looking in for the foreseeable future. But if there were a way for his employer to get a piece of the CFP, Klatt would unsurprisingly love to see it happen.
“I’d love to be a partner,” the former Colorado quarterback told Barrett Media’s Derek Futterman. “I would love if Fox had some of these playoff games. I would do anything to do one of these playoff games, and I think that the playoff was really good for the sport, incredible for the sport. Think of all the teams that had access to this top end of the sport that would otherwise not have access. You look at Indiana and Arizona State and Boise State, and these teams got to have a playoff run and their time in the sun, and rightly so.
