CFP Rankings Reaction + Conference Title Predictions & Penn State Coaching Search
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 86 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? What do we make of several new head coaching hires across College Football? Will Stein is headed to Kentucky plus the Lane Kiffin fallout at LSU continues. 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? How is Lane Kiffin fitting into LSU? Will we see CFP chaos in the final week of the College Football season?
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah, you're trying to figure stuff out. I'm trying to figure stuff out. Every time you think you've watched this sport long enough, you've immersed yourself in college football long enough. You just know the ends and out. You know how it works. You've got the committee chair that comes along and sits there and talks to Reese Davis and the playoff rankings reveal show, and he just spins |
| 0:38.6 | your head 360 degrees on your neck. We're jam-packed. We're high atop a frigid downtown Nashville, |
| 0:43.3 | Tennessee. Even Jesse's cold. He grew up in Pennsylvania. More on the happenings in that state later, |
| 0:49.9 | but it is pretty cold down here. It is Tuesday, December 2nd, the year of our Lord, 2025. |
| 0:54.1 | The playoff rankings just got revealed before we went on air. |
| 0:57.4 | And in the words of Stanley Hudson, when I'm asked, do I have something that I want to say about it? |
| 1:02.5 | Oh, yes, I do. |
| 1:04.6 | Conference championship predictions also happening on the show tonight. |
| 1:08.7 | We have got a brand new JP poll on the show tonight. We've got a brand new J.P. Pohl on the show tonight. We've got just |
| 1:14.0 | an abject disaster unfolding. A friend of the program, Ralph Rousseau, said he was going to stop |
| 1:19.4 | short of calling it a disaster today. But I am far less responsible than Ralph Rousseau. It's a disaster. |
| 1:26.8 | And I will explain the latest happenings, |
| 1:29.4 | you know, Kalani Sittaki, he's going to choose Brigham Young to stay at Brigham Young over Penn State. |
| 1:34.3 | So who's going to take the job? You could be offered the Penn State job before the night is done. |
| 1:39.9 | All that plus a huge developing story that we're monitoring that I'm about to show you in just a second. |
| 1:44.8 | Springfield, Illinois is tuned in tonight. Cleveland, Ohio is tuned in. Fairburn, Georgia, Fort Worth, Texas. |
| 1:50.3 | Do you hear those paper pops? I wouldn't do it thrice. Immunity, unless there was something really, really big on the horizon. |
| 1:59.7 | Bradley, show it to him. The drive to 500,000 |
| 2:03.3 | subscribers on this channel has been on since around the time James Franklin was fired, which is about |
| 2:09.0 | when we hit 400K. It looks like the channel may get to 500,000 subs before Penn State has a head |
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