CFB’d Noon Kickoff Crisis + Playoff Drama & Michigan NCAA Update
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 632 features Josh Pate admitting College Football may have a Big Noon problem. Despite his personal love for noon kickoffs, is it time to address the issue being caused by Big Ten teams continuing to be denied primetime kickoffs in their biggest games? Also tonight Josh is discussing College Football officials taking a look at a 16-team College Football Playoff model and major pushback they’re receiving from leagues and coaches. Josh’s personal rankings following spring ball have created a ton of pushback. Where do teams like UGA, Ohio State, Texas, Auburn, Alabama, Penn State, Notre Dame, Oregon, and LSU fall? Bold prediction season has returned with you calling your shot. Tonight we take a look at the latest batch. That plus a revisiting of comments on this show about Michigan’s ongoing NCAA investigation and where things could be headed
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | All right. I'm looking. I'm doing this so you can tell how much paper's in my hand. I'm looking at the paper in my hand. |
| 0:24.5 | We've got issues, you know, some stuff more of an issue than others, but there's some things, you know, here and there, that some on the college football streets are talking about as being a problem. |
| 0:34.7 | But I do want to tell you, as much as I'm going to talk about some of those tonight, it is always refreshing when we get to go out on the road during the week |
| 0:41.6 | this time of year and we get to go on various camp eye, plural of campus. If you could just be around |
| 0:47.1 | that, if you could just be around summer workouts, if you could just watch guys in the weight room, |
| 0:51.8 | you could just be on college campuses every day, you would probably have a lot of this remove itself from your mind. |
| 0:59.0 | You just have yourself replenished with the vibe of what college football is supposed to be, |
| 1:04.0 | which is what we try and do on the campus of Pate State. |
| 1:06.3 | It is, what day is it? |
| 1:07.5 | Thursday, May 15th, the Year of Our Lord, 2025. |
| 1:10.6 | So we're jam-packed. We're high atop |
| 1:12.0 | a very weather-aware downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Don't sleep on the early morning threat tomorrow. |
| 1:20.0 | Could have a midday threat, could have a late-night threat. I may be on the road, storm chasing |
| 1:25.1 | tomorrow. Humpst amongst us knows. But in the meantime, we've got a crisis, multiple crises facing the sport. |
| 1:33.0 | But one of them is what time we kick these games off? |
| 1:36.4 | And I don't know that we've ever let a show with something this simple. |
| 1:40.9 | It seems so simple. |
| 1:42.0 | The solution is right there in front of us. |
| 1:43.8 | And yet, here we are. Just budding heads over it, noon kickoffs. Yes, I do have to discuss that with you. I put out my top 20 last week, ignorantly. And I don't ever rank teams on the show. And I found out why. So I got a lot of blowback on it. I will address it tonight. I heard a lot of the criticism. |
| 2:02.1 | Just like I heard, and I'm not making this quote up, somebody in the radio world labeled me a, |
| 2:11.4 | a, what was it, a Michigan boot liquor. Of all the phrases I thought would be thrown at me, |
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