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Josh Pate's College Football Show

CFP Predictions + Michigan Coaching Search & Heisman Reaction

Josh Pate's College Football Show

iHeartPodcasts

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

College Football Playoff week has arrived and on Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 698 we dive into Alabama vs Oklahoma and Miami vs Texas A&M. Will Kalen DeBoer finally get over the Oklahoma hump or will Brent Venables make it 3-0 vs Alabama? Can Mario Cristobal take Miami to the 2nd round or will Mike Elko have Texas A&M coming out swinging? Michigan has fired Sherrone Moore and the College Football world is buzzing. Where will the coaching search turn? Could Kalen DeBoer or Kenny Dillingham get the call? Fernando Mendoza win the Heisman Trophy in a runaway vote Saturday night. Should Diego Pavia have gotten more love? We also dive back into the bag of WORST bold predictions and more. 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

Yeah, we don't talk a lot about Heisman on the show because I'm not a Heisman voter, but I'm not angry about it at all.

0:24.9

Trust me.

0:25.3

But I've got some theories on what happened to the Heisman issue.

0:28.1

We're not going to leave the show with it, but it's just been workshop and a theory today.

0:31.9

I'll see if you agree with me.

0:33.1

We're jam-packed high atop a frozen solid downtown Nashville, Tennessee, Sunday, December 14th.

0:40.7

The Year of Our Lord, yet is the 14th, 2025, high of 22 in Nashville today.

0:45.0

It's been miserable here.

0:46.3

It is that time.

0:47.8

It is Sunday night.

0:48.8

It is college football playoff prediction time, at least the first round games.

0:53.9

Now, on Tuesday night, I'll do the full bracket, but I'm going to do the games tonight because it would be very anticlimactic for the first round predictions if we did the bracket where you could already see who I'm picking. So yeah, this is a very convoluted way of saying, make sure you're also here Tuesday night. Now, that'll be the last show we do of the week, by the way, because the playoff start on Friday. The Michigan coaching search continues. There have been some statements

1:16.0

put out today. There have been some rumors. And we're just here to separate fact from possibly fact.

1:22.5

Heisman, as I said, I've got some thoughts. We, of course, are going to continue the age-old December tradition of

1:28.5

worst predictions in the history of the show. That's the name of the segment. And we will do that

1:34.0

at your expense, not mine. I'm the butt of the joke 11 months out of the year around here,

1:38.3

but one month, the season of mercy, as they call it in December, you people have to tote the load, not me.

1:46.3

In reality, we do it together.

1:48.2

Spokane, Washington is tuned in, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Freeport, Florida, Elizabeth Town,

1:53.1

PA, the drive to one million continues.

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