40 FOR 40: The 2025 Rate Bowl

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🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.
Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for asking
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This episode was produced by Michael Ray Surber
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell Powell
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by Matt
DID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s not
Before the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other work
Travel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot exist
Check out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

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0:00.0	Welcome
0:13.0	Welcome
0:15.0	God damn
0:16.0	To the R-A-T-E bowl
0:19.0	I just want to spell it out.
0:20.4	I don't want to say it because it feels really easy to like, you kind of say it vaguely, you know.
0:38.5	It's not a word I feel like saying very quickly. Rattie. Just saying Rattie. It's the Rattie Bowl. The Rattie Bowl. That's the Rattie Bowl. It's once again the old copper and cactus bull, the junior fiesta at the Diamondback Stadium.
0:38.6	Now it's named after a mortgage company that has a whole section. It's once again the old copper and cactus bull, the junior fiesta at the Diamondback Stadium.
0:44.0	Now it's named after a mortgage company that has a whole section on its Wikipedia page about its layoffs.
0:51.6	Among the various mortgage companies that have sponsored bowls, this is the one with like the most scandals on its Wikipedia page.
0:53.8	So it's perfect for Arizona. It's not good, but it's very
0:54.9	2025. Sure. Yeah. Minnesota is once again the very exciting like middlemost team in FBS,
1:02.6	the team that were like, oh, yeah, they're a tough out, even though they get the shit kicked out of
1:06.1	them like three or four times and they like barely beat anybody you know uh like they're they're super fucking
1:12.2	mid man but they try real hard and like that's what you want in a bowl game yeah yeah yeah
1:16.9	like PJ Fleck gives a shit so his team mostly gives a shit this is the one thing you can
1:22.2	constantly say about that man yeah yeah like they they kind of suck but they give a shit the other
1:27.2	side is the main
1:28.5	attraction here new mexico legitimately exciting um the team that most beat their preseason
1:35.5	expectations this season um looked this up last week for the newsletter they were projected to
1:41.4	win about four games they went went nine and three. Probably should
1:44.9	have gotten a shot in the Mountain West title game, but the computers held a grudge against
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