CFB 2026 Schedule Draft + CFP Expansion Myths
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 735 Josh Pate reacts to coaches and administrators lobbying to expand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams? Who has the best interest of the sport at heart? Will these changes happen? The College Football schedule is out for 2026 and it’s time for Josh Pate to draft the best games each week. Where do matchups like LSU vs Ole Miss, Oregon vs Ohio State, Miami vs Notre Dame, and UGA vs Alabama rank? Bold Prediction season continues tonight as we look at takes viewers are willing to put their name behind. Big Ten job approval ratings are back as we dive into the vibes around Ryan Day at Ohio State, Matt Rhule at Nebraska, and Bret Bielema at Illinois. Be sure to let us know what you think, SUBSCRIBE to the channel, and CLICK THE BELL for notifications as we bring you multiple live shows per week!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:24.3 | Research fresh off the printer. |
| 0:25.5 | The paper is still hot. |
| 0:41.2 | You guys realize on this Mother's Day, happy Mother's Day to everyone, we are, after all, merely sons and daughters of mothers, as Mimau used to say, do you guys realize that the American consumer spent $38 billion on Mother's Day related activities this year? And given the logic that's been thrown around in this sport lately, Jesse, |
| 0:46.1 | I ask, if we're making $38 billion on one Mother's Day, why not expand to three or four Mother's Days? It is, after all, a simple game of revenue, |
| 0:57.7 | right? We can increase the amount of something and never decrease the value of it. That's how it |
| 1:02.6 | works, right? Oh, welcome to this college football show on the Sunday, May 10th, the Year of Our Lord |
| 1:07.3 | 26. We are jam-packed. We are high atop. A sparkling downtown Nashville, |
| 1:13.2 | Tennessee. You know, you may think I'm going to lead off with playoff talk tonight. I am not. |
| 1:18.2 | We're going to bury it deep in this packet of papers, but oh, I do have much more to say. |
| 1:23.2 | And I do think a very important week is upon us in college football, and I will drop some Easter eggs as only I can do in the show tonight. |
| 1:30.6 | But no, friends, we're going to lead off tonight with something that we do around this time every year. |
| 1:36.0 | And boy, it led to much wailing and gnashing of teeth out in, I guess, what we would call the newsroom earlier today. |
| 1:43.2 | The schedule draft is here tonight. |
| 1:46.3 | This is not merely the biggest games of the year. No, there's a lot of molten hot lava |
| 1:51.4 | flowing as strategy in our process. So we'll talk about it. We'll talk about bold predictions. |
| 1:57.0 | We'll talk about a lot of different things on the show tonight that you would normally think |
| 2:02.6 | would constitute a laid-back show in the middle of May, not around here. We're jam-packed. |
| 2:07.0 | They're watching us in Plant City, Florida, Sunset, Texas, Jeffersonville, Indiana, Oklahoma City, |
| 2:13.0 | Oklahoma. Subscribe to the channel. If you have not already, it is free. Thank you so much. We are out of here, |
| 2:20.3 | really as soon as the show ends tonight, we're out of here to hit back-to-back speaker |
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