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Clay Travis Show: Trump’s Lamar Jackson Shoutout Breaks the Internet + Clay’s CFB Picks

The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

October 8, 2026

Clay Travis reacts to President Donald Trump’s surprising shoutout to Lamar Jackson and his mother and explains why he believes politics and identity have distorted the way fans talk about sports.

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Clay Travis (0:00)

Welcome in Clay Travis Show. I hope all of you are having fantastic Wednesdays, wherever you may be across the country. I'm getting ready for the Braves hosting the Dodgers for game four, crushing game three loss last night. I have an important question. Can Ray Kerr hit as well as pitch? Fingers crossed the Braves can take it to a five game series and head back to LA, get it done in game four. A little bit of housekeeping. First of all, thanks for everybody out there who is watching us on YouTube every day. Blown away every single day now, hundreds of thousands of video views. The team is doing a fantastic job. If you haven't already clicked like and subscribed to The Clay Travis Show on YouTube. We're everywhere, by the way, Instagram, TikTok. We're going to be doing more and more to reach out across the social world. But if you haven't already subscribed, I would appreciate if you subscribed on YouTube. And certainly, if you would follow me on Twitter, any other social media platform out there. We've got a lot of topics to dive into.

The Sophie Cunningham fallout continues. I've got my college football picks up as we wait to see whether Georgia-Alabama is going to be able to be played as scheduled based on what the hurricane is going to do down on the Gulf. We've got President Trump giving a shout out to Lamar Jackson and his mother, which has broken a lot of brains out there. It is the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, much less significantly. It is also the 40th anniversary of Double Dare, the Nickelodeon show that many of people my age grew up on, and I was going to give a shout out to that. We have a bunch of different topics to run into, but let's start with the big question that I think is the most significant out there as we get ready for the college football weekend. Is the Georgia-Alabama game going to be able to be played as scheduled in Alabama or not? I am on Alabama to get the win, and I'm on the over as we continue to monitor this. President Trump was just asked whether or not he would be going to the Georgia-Alabama game, and he said obviously he's monitoring the hurricane forecast and whether or not they're going to be able to play in the evening. The latest forecast suggests that possibly the storm will have already moved through Tuscaloosa by the time we get to the evening kickoff of that game. Want to give thanks to President Trump. They also just announced that they are doing an event in Clarksville, Tennessee just outside of Nashville on Saturday before the president flies down to the Georgia-Alabama game. The president's team reached out and said, Hey, would you like to fly on Air Force One and go to the game with us? I said, yes, I would. But unfortunately, I am going to be in New York City, guest hosting the Fox Big Weekend Show on Fox News. And so I had to turn down an offer on Air Force One and an offer to go with the president to the Georgia-Alabama game. So weep for me, everybody out there. That's a tough one. Can we pull up all the college football picks? We have a bunch for all of you. I just said Blood Bank Guarantee this week is the over in the Georgia-Alabama game. A bit apprehensive about the weather there. But I don't think that either offense is going to be able to be restrained by the defenses based on what I have seen. Love this Florida State Louisville over. This is a game that is taking place on Friday night. Do not miss that one like Missouri to take care of Texas A&M and the over to hit.

I've been on Nebraska for big games for a long time. Indiana on the road at Nebraska. I believe that is where Big Noon is going to be with Fox. South Carolina, Florida. I think Florida is going to bounce back from a poor performance against Mizzou and cover and hit the over. I love the under in the Texas Oklahoma game.

In fact, where did that go? That should be there. Did that get left out of the roster? I love the under in this game. I think the Texas is going to beat Oklahoma 20 to six.

And so I'm on the under in that game as well in the neutral site Red River shootout. Georgia-Alabama, I told you the blood bank and the over is my play there. Love the over. UCLA, Oregon. UCLA still undefeated. Oregon looking to follow up on the big win over USC.

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