CFB Program Rankings + CFP Expansion & Schedule Debate
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 713 Josh Pate ranks the top programs in College Football. How high did Indiana rise? What about mainstays like UGA, Alabama, Texas, Ohio State, and Notre Dame? Will we see College Football Playoff expansion soon after the Big Ten floated their 24-team model? The Mood Tracker segment continues tonight with a look at Dan Lanning and Oregon. What do we make of reports teams in the SEC and Big Ten are looking to adjust their future out-of-conference schedules? Will College Football Playoff selection change as a result of this? Which teams have the biggest spotlight QB battles we need to watch this spring? 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 I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.2 | Those of you in the audience who struggle with like low blood sugar a lot, you know what it feels like when you have low blood sugar. |
| 0:25.6 | But I didn't grow up with blood sugar issues. |
| 0:27.7 | But pretty much everyone has those three or four times per year where you just get lightheaded or you get really hungry. |
| 0:34.6 | And you know, you get a little shaky. |
| 0:36.6 | Ideally, it doesn't happen right before |
| 0:38.4 | you start a show but it happened for me tonight right before we started the show so i had prez run |
| 0:42.7 | into the kitchen it grabbed me a bunch of oreos the uh the blonde oreo kind so i just been inhaling those |
| 0:49.5 | things right before the show very healthy so we're jam packed weed. We're reasonably stuffed, not double-stuffed, |
| 0:55.2 | but reasonably stuffed, high atop a soggy downtown Nashville, Tennessee. On this Sunday night, |
| 1:00.2 | February 15th, the year of our Lord of 26, Hope Valentine's went well for all of you. I don't know. |
| 1:06.5 | I guess the live chat will tell the tale on that one. But there are some big scheduling debates |
| 1:10.6 | happening out there. There are some big scheduling debates happening out there. |
| 1:11.8 | There are some big, I don't know, big's a relative word, |
| 1:15.1 | but there are some sizable, some very loud college football playoff debates happening. |
| 1:20.7 | And I'm going to not be distracted by any of it, |
| 1:23.0 | because this is the night that we had identified to unveil our brand new, up-to-date, |
| 1:29.7 | 2006 college football program rankings. |
| 1:33.6 | They were met with much debate a season ago, and so we're not going to shy away from it, |
| 1:39.4 | but we're also not going to be distracted by the shiny objects here and there, |
| 1:42.8 | although we will talk about said shiny objects later in the show. No, it's time to let you know what the best programs |
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