Big Changes This Week? + Truth About CFB Officiating & Bama QB Intel
Josh Pate's College Football Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 622 features Josh Pate looking at what it would take to get College Football Playoff changed this season along with the impact of the impending House settlement decision. Will we see the auto-bid structure change? What about new rule structures in things like NIL and the Transfer Portal? We also touch on the truth about some of the biggest topics in the sport. Tonight College Football officiating is in the spotlight. Josh looks at Alabama and USC and discusses what Kalen DeBoer and Lincoln Riley will need to do to make things happen in 2025. A similar question is posed about Steve Sarkisian and Texas. Josh also shares the story behind his recent engagement.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | Hard to know what's true and what's not true these days. |
| 0:21.4 | One thing that's true, Jesse and Colin can attest to this. |
| 0:23.9 | Anyone in Nashville can attest to this. |
| 0:25.6 | This sunburn could not have come from Nashville, Tennessee, in the past week, because we are jam-packed. |
| 0:30.8 | We are high-at-topped, what do we want to call it? |
| 0:33.2 | A water-logged downtown Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:36.1 | Sunday night, April 6th, the year of our Lord, |
| 0:38.0 | 2025, but presented by Academy Sports and Outdoors, Check, jam-packed, checked. |
| 0:43.8 | There's a lot coming up this week in college football. Most of it will bore you, but it does |
| 0:48.2 | pertain to you. It pertains to me. It pertains to what we actually love. A lot of the minutiae, a lot of the garbage surrounding |
| 0:55.7 | it. So we're going to take a giant pusher broom. We're just going to sweep all that to the side |
| 0:59.8 | tonight. Briefly, I'm going to explain to you what I think's happening, what I think's going to happen, |
| 1:04.9 | what I hope happens, and we'll just move on. I'm certainly not wasting everyone's time tonight on those kinds of issues. I got some |
| 1:13.2 | USC stuff. Someone's asking if Southern Cow is even relevant as a brand, not a team, a brand anymore. |
| 1:19.6 | Texas, bam, I got you tonight. We need to tell the truth about everything. General rule of thumb, |
| 1:27.3 | but specifically college football officiating |
| 1:29.8 | tonight. You know, we've been doing our truth teller series. I think this first time I've used |
| 1:33.8 | that particular phrasing. Jesse, check the trademark, the truth teller series, college football |
| 1:39.2 | officiating. I got problems with it. Most of you do. Maybe we align. Maybe I have some different problems. Who knows? We're just going to air all the grievances out tonight. I'm also engaged. Yes, I am. So at the very, very, very tail end of the show, as private as I may be, I will share some details. It's exclusive. Delinger didn't break it. Thamble didn't break it. Zinnitz didn't break it. |
| 2:02.6 | We are breaking on the show that I'm engaged. And good for us, I think as a staff, |
| 2:07.5 | collectively, good for us for not letting that leak and having exclusive rights to that story. |
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