"How'd that work out for them?" - Joel Klatt minces no words for SEC teams' performance in cold weather

The Southeastern Conference has dominated the news cycle ever since the final rankings of the college football playoff were released, snubbing the Alabama Crimson Tide out of the 12-team field. During the first round of the college football playoff, the No. 6 Ohio State Buckeyes added fuel to the fire when they beat the No. 7 Tennessee Volunteers 42-17.

While doing the play-by-play for the Holiday Bowl pitting the Syracuse Orange against the Washington State Cougars, analysts Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt had a hilarious exchange throwing shade at SEC teams for losing badly while playing in cold weather.

"It's so exciting to watch this playoff," Gus Johnson said. "I mean, incredible.

"I loved every minute of it," Klatt said. "And listen, home team should win right? I mean like, the better teams got to host, it's tough to win on the road in college football, what did we expect? Everyone making it like an indictment on the losing teams. I tell you though, home teams play great."

"What I loved most about it, I mean SMU-Tennessee, had to go and play in cold weather. SEC teams finally playing a game in cold weather," Johnson said.

"How'd that work out for them?" Klatt said. "I will tell you this though, I knew Ohio State was gonna run them out of the building when they ran out there with that fake toughness with their shirts off and started warming up. I was like, 'Oh, Buckeyes got this.'"

SEC commissioner defends team's cold weather suitability

During an appearance on the "Pat McAfee Show" two weeks ago, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey defended his conference's team's suitability to face Big Ten teams in the cold weather.

“Those guys on the line of scrimmage are going to line up with no sleeves, and it’s going to be a line-of-scrimmage game,” Sankey said (1:00). “Let’s go back to last week, at the end of those eight overtimes it was in the 20s in Athens, I asked. I was at the Egg Bowl, it was cold at the Egg Bowl and a great football game.

“It was a little warm in College Station, it was in the 50s, so that was pleasant. But we had snow in Missouri for Arkansas at Missouri, so it’s happened in this league."

The SEC teams always seem to elicit plenty of discourse from their hogging of places in the college football playoffs to their suitability to travel to Big Ten country for cold playoff games.