CFP Expansion Coming? + ESPN Top 25 Reaction
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
College Football Playoff expansion rumors continue to grow. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 730 Josh Pate looks at the possibility of the CFP expanding to 24 teams. The Pate State model has unveiled the strength of schedule rankings head of the 2026 season. Where do teams like Miami, UGA, Notre Dame, USC, and Tennessee stack up? Josh visited Texas earlier today. What were the vibes like as Steve Sarkisian looks to chase a national title in Austin? Does Lincoln Riley have a valid point when he says USC is now in a national title window? 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. |
| 0:18.5 | Really disappoints me, Jesse, that we said on Sunday night show, we were going to have a Tuesday night show. |
| 0:24.2 | And then people saw that we were in Austin this morning. |
| 0:27.1 | And they just figured, well, you can't do a Tuesday night show. |
| 0:30.9 | If you're in Austin Tuesday morning, the blank you can, as Mee-Maw would say. |
| 0:35.2 | Here we are. |
| 0:35.7 | We're jam-packed. |
| 0:36.5 | We're live and high atop a lovely downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Nice to land in sunny, 80-degree weather. Because, buddy, that's not what Austin looked like this morning. Since that time of decade, it rained out there. Tuesday, April 21st, the year of our Lord, 26. Ab abnormally jam-packed show here. |
| 0:54.7 | Why? |
| 0:55.0 | Well, they're talking about expanding the college football playoff. |
| 0:57.5 | You know who hashtag they are, and we will discuss that. |
| 1:00.5 | We've got a brand new post-spring top 25 from our friends over at ESPN. |
| 1:06.6 | Some say we're bought and paid for by ESPN. |
| 1:08.8 | That's a lie. |
| 1:09.4 | But we will. |
| 1:10.4 | We will react to a top 25 if they put it out. But what are we going to put out immunity? We're going to put out our own strength of schedule rankings tonight. We have waited and waited and waited and then Bill Connolly beat us by like six hours. But we're going to put our own strength of schedule rankings out tonight. it's going to upset a lot of you, as the truth often does this time of year. |
| 1:31.3 | But... We're going to put our own strength of schedule rankings out tonight. It's going to upset a lot of you, as the truth often does this time of year. |
| 1:31.1 | But it's truth season, and we will try and dish a fair amount of it tonight. |
| 1:36.4 | Not only that, but I'll re-advocate for why I think that kind of logic belongs in the college football playoff selection process. |
| 1:44.0 | All that, plus I'll give you some behind |
| 1:45.7 | the scenes news nuggets, scoop, et cetera from our trip to Texas earlier today. But they're watching |
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