CFP Expansion IS NOT Inevitable + Bold Prediction Season

Josh Pate's College Football Show

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🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 736 Josh Pate reacts to coaches and administrators lobbying to expand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams? Who has the best interest of the sport at heart? Will these changes happen? Bold Prediction season continues tonight as we look at takes viewers are willing to put their name behind. Could Tennessee lose 6 games and fire Josh Heupel? What about Indiana and Notre Dame making it further in the CFP than any SEC team? What do we make of LSU’s athletic director taking shots at Brian Kelly? Big Ten job approval ratings are back as we dive into the vibes around Lincoln Riley at USC, Dan Lanning at Oregon, Luke Fickell at Wisconsin, and PJ Fleck at Minnesota All that plus CFP Executive Director Rich Clark joins the show. 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.
0:02.3	Guaranteed human.
0:20.5	Spiritual experience, life-changing Nobel Peace Prize word.
0:27.0	I'm just reading some of the feedback on our Kurt Signetti sit down from the other day.
0:30.7	What a week it was for the speaker series.
0:33.6	We're jam-packed high atop a glowing downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
0:37.0	It's Thursday.
0:58.9	It's May 14th, the year of Our Lord, 2026. And yes, it was a big week on the road. And yes, it's been a big week on the internet. Jesse, I don't know if you've paid attention this week, if your Wi-Fi connection has been strong, but there's been a lot of talk. You know, there's been, I'll go as far as to say, a lot of perceived momentum swings in the college football playoff expansion conversation.
1:05.9	And I don't know, I just want to maybe humbly suggest that none of it matters tonight.
1:14.6	Dare I? Yes, I do. So we'll talk about that. I got bold predictions on the show tonight. I'm going to give you a really solid behind the scenes look at our Indiana trip.
1:27.4	Some at this point predictable comments from the LSU athletic director about the now departed Brian Kelly. All that plus, we don't do this very often, but I figured this is the week to do it. The executive director
1:29.1	of the college football playoff is going to stop by. In fact, he already did. We recorded the
1:33.9	sit down. And it is lengthy. And there is a lot that we addressed with Rich Clark that I basically
1:40.6	asked on your behalf, because I imagine a lot of what I asked him is a lot of what you would ask him if you were sitting right here.
1:46.9	So if you want some answers instead of just a bunch of speculation and questions, actually we'll do a healthy amount of all that on the show tonight.
1:52.9	They're watching us in Cincinnati, Ohio, Rome, Georgia, Elk Grove, California, Spokane, Washington is tuned in.
2:00.6	Please make sure you subscribe to the channel.
2:02.7	We've had a ton of subs over the past month or so, and it's just May, guys, but it's year-round.
2:10.4	We do not take an off-season around here, and therefore, it's college football wall-to-wall.
2:16.7	Let's dive into the show tonight, shall we?
2:20.4	Stop me if you've heard this before.
2:23.0	2014 playoff, it's just inevitable.
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