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Josh Pate's College Football Show

CFP Calendar Disaster & Signing Day Nostalgia - Pate State Extra

Josh Pate's College Football Show

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News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Pate State Extra, Josh dives into the current relationship between the NFL and College Football and how it is a disaster for the current CFP calendar, and how National Signing Day has changed from a massive spectacle that the entire season hinged upon to something much different so quickly. Plus, looking back at recently retired Gus Malzahn’s career. 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.

0:19.0

You know, I can't help but think somewhere out there, one of the administrative types, one of the college football sweater vests, has to be thinking themselves.

0:28.2

You know, if the Super Bowl is this weekend, maybe we could make college football's national title game the weekend after that.

0:34.2

What says we can't just play to February.

0:36.9

Hey, why not just bump the national

0:39.0

title game right up against spring football? Why not just play a year-round? And for those of you

0:45.5

who think I'm joking, I think I am. I'm pretty sure I am. But then again, I never know. Yesterday's

0:51.6

jokes become today's reality in college football, as

0:54.3

Memo used to always say. So we got the playoff calendar for the 2020, what, six and 27 seasons

1:01.1

yesterday. And everyone laughed and then they realized, oh, what, this is the real one? Hold up. This

1:07.6

is the real one? Yeah. So we're going to talk about that this morning slash afternoon

1:12.2

slash night. What is this, by the way? This is not a normal show, is it? Doesn't sound like the normal

1:15.8

intro. Well, once upon a time, we started a show called Latekick when I came up here from

1:21.8

Columbus, Georgia, and I was at 24-7 sports at the time, and I was recording three nights a week during the season like we still do.

1:29.7

And then we bumped it down to two nights per week during what a casual would call the offseason.

1:35.0

But we don't believe in like we still do.

1:38.0

And about Monday or Tuesday of every week, I would think to myself, I kind of feel like I got some stuff to say.

1:44.3

I kind of feel like I want to talk to the folks, you know, because that's what we call our audience, the folks.

1:48.9

And I just started recording what we called a Late Kick Extra podcast at the time.

1:54.8

There was really no video component to it.

1:56.7

You can't even find it on the YouTube channel.

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