CFP Chaos Coming + Penn State Latest & Cole Cubelic Joins
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Conference championship week predictions are here as Josh breaks down games like Alabama vs UGA, Indiana vs Ohio State, and BYU vs Texas Tech. Will Kirby Smart and UGA take Alabama and Kalen DeBoer down the second time around? How will Ryan Day and Ohio State look against the best team they’ve seen all year? What will Texas Tech look like against BYU? The CFP rankings were released Tuesday night. Where did the CFP have Notre Dame and Miami? Does Alabama really have to win Saturday to make the CFP? What about the ACC disaster scenario or BYU in the Big12? Is Ole Miss safe? What is the latest on the Penn State coaching search? Will we see CFP chaos in the final week of the College Football season? All that plus Cole Cubelic joins the show
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:26.6 | Kid you not. We've had this beautiful studio for like half a year now, first time I've ever turned to heat on. |
| 0:31.2 | I've just been cold all day. Started the day in New York City. A lot of you saw us do get up this morning. |
| 0:37.1 | Pleasure. Pleasure was all ours to be there. In Nashville now, I've got to go to Atlanta later tonight. |
| 1:29.0 | Got a big day. Got a big weekend in Atlanta. I'm not asking you to feel sorry for me. I'm just asking you to feel a little bit sorry for me. It is Thursday. It is December 4th. The Year of Our Lord, 2025 jam-packed that. Hold on. That is the sound of a stack of papers, the likes of which we could only have in front of us with Conference Championship Weekend and maybe just College Football Playoff Chaos Weekend on the horizon. Yes, college football playoff. It's the talk of the town, Jesse. Have you noticed? Talk of several towns. Albany, Georgia, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, two of the places they're watching this tonight. I'm going to talk about it at a lot of different angles. We're going to have Kublich on later. Of course, we're going to dive back into Ohio State, Indiana. Georgia, Alabama. I've got some swinging theories about the committee itself. But we'll talk about all that. I got a couple of big announcements. It's just it is a monumentally big time around the show. |
| 1:34.8 | We surpass 500 subs the other night on air. Humps to the thunk it. So thank you guys so much. |
| 1:40.3 | Talk about the live show more a little bit later. They're watching us, like I said, in Albany, Georgia, but probably Albany, New York. |
| 1:43.9 | Harrisburg, PA, Flagstaff, Arizona, Katie, Texas. All right. |
| 1:50.2 | Mentioned a big announcement. Lock in on me for a second. There are several big things happening around here, but I would argue none bigger than what we're about to do this Saturday. |
| 1:54.1 | SEC Championship, Georgia versus Alabama, 4 o'clock Eastern Time kickoff there, Mercedes-Benz Stadium. |
| 2:00.1 | In Atlanta, Georgia, carried |
| 2:01.7 | proudly on ABC. |
| 2:04.3 | However, I can proudly announce that if you take that remote control, flip over to ESPN, |
| 2:09.5 | you'll see for the first time ever, yours truly, along with Taylor Luan and Will Compton |
| 2:14.5 | and Harry Douglas, providing you an altcast right there on the field. |
| 2:19.6 | The four of us will be live on Big ESPN, not that there's a small one, but Big ESPN, the four |
| 2:25.5 | letters as big as it gets, mics in hand, live cameras, anything can happen, hopefully a really |
| 2:32.3 | good football game. What a, what an incredible privilege. |
| 2:37.0 | Big, big thanks to Pat McAfee and his folks for making that happen. Big thanks to ESPN for making |
| 2:41.5 | that happen. Now we just have to make it happen. But really, the pressure's not on us. |
| 2:45.8 | Kaelan DeBore, Kirby Smart, are you listening? The pressure is really on you guys. We're just |
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