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Josh Pate's College Football Show

CFB’s Big 2025 What-Ifs + Spring Game Debate & Ryan Day Truth

Josh Pate's College Football Show

iHeartPodcasts

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 623 features Josh Pate looking at the biggest what-ifs in College Football this season. Arch Manning’s time has come at Texas. What if he shines? What if he fails? Could we see the SEC national title drought continue? Can Dabo Swinney and Clemson return to their old ways of competing for national titles? How do we fix the College Football calendar to create interesting tidbits year-round? Tonight Ohio State head coach Ryan Day is in the spotlight. What is the truth about the Buckeye head man after Ohio State’s national title win? Josh also talks about Notre Dame plus how we will continue to develop the show.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:20.6

Truth telling, try and do that this time of year and forever but also what if season

0:27.9

which is preceding bold prediction season we've got a lot of seasonal stuff around here here

0:34.9

at pate state on this particular, I don't care what they do

0:38.1

on other camp. I, on this campus, we believe in tradition. We do the same things the same time

0:42.9

every year. For instance, tonight we're jam-packed, high atop, what do we call in it today,

0:47.2

sun-drenched downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Tuesday, April 8th, the year of our Lord

0:52.5

2025, proudly brought to you by Academy,

0:56.0

Sports and Outdoors. Around this time every year, I put out the question, just as I did earlier

1:00.7

today, I put it out there, I ask you guys, what are the biggest what-ifs in college football

1:05.7

this year? In other words, the kind of things that if it goes one way versus if it goes the other

1:10.2

way could totally change the trajectory of the season, not just for one team, but maybe as a whole.

1:16.2

We're going to start with Arch Manning in just a second.

1:18.7

Like, think about the difference in how the entire season could go for everyone if Arch is

1:24.5

great versus if he's terrible.

1:26.6

Could probably be somewhere in between, but you get the drift.

1:29.2

The spring game debate, which we talked about a couple of weeks ago,

1:33.3

I'm not going to do that whole thing again, should we have real spring games or not.

1:37.8

But somebody, and you're not going to believe this, but sarcastically,

1:42.1

started to show themselves in the inbox today. And they started to kind of

1:48.2

poke at those of us who do enjoy the concept of spring games. And they did it in what I find to be a

1:55.6

growingly common, or growingly common way, whatever combination of words I try to use there. And it's one of

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