CFP Semifinal Predictions + Portal Chaos & Alabama’s Future
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
College Football Playoff prediction time has arrived as the CFP semifinal round nears .Indiana vs Oregon in the Peach Bowl sees Curt Cignetti trying to extend a magical season while Dan Lanning has his team back where they were a year ago. Miami vs Ole Miss in the Fiesta Bowl features Mario Cristobal and Pete Golding trying to punch their team’s ticket to the national title game. The Transfer Portal continues to cook as we look at the latest whispers and intel with the Portal wide open and big names on the move. What do we make of Kalen DeBoer and Alabama being blown out by Indiana? What moves need to be made in Tuscaloosa? The same questions are being asked about Ryan Day and Ohio State. Did Lane Kiffin make a mistake by taking the LSU job and foregoing his chance to win a title with Ole Miss? 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. |
| 0:19.1 | Yeah, we're storming into 2026 as resilient as ever. |
| 0:22.7 | And the way that you know, this is probably, nay, definitely the most resilient college |
| 0:28.0 | football show this side of, I don't know, pick a planet is there's no way I would show up |
| 0:33.7 | after the picks that I laid out in the quarterfinal round if I wasn't resilient. |
| 0:37.5 | It was just a tough quarterfinal round for your guy here. We had to grow up. A lot of us are |
| 0:42.9 | having to grow up. A lot of us are dealing with some really, really hateful things being said |
| 0:46.6 | about us on the internet. And I have a theory that is, it's a working theory. Partly, I need to |
| 0:53.4 | tell myself this to make myself feel better. |
| 0:56.0 | I've got a sneaking suspicion that no one picked the quarterfinals, right? |
| 1:00.8 | And I am just being treated as an escapegoat, which is even worse than a normal scapegoat. |
| 1:07.0 | And that's the kind of goat that you use, maybe even like a pinata where you just swing at it because the only alternative is to swing at the mirror because the man in the mirror picked wrong as well. |
| 1:19.9 | Again, this may not be true. I'm telling myself this to make myself feel better. We're jam-packed, we're high atop a lovely downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Look at |
| 1:27.5 | that. Sunday, January 4th, the Year of Our Lord, 2026. And as is usually tradition around here, |
| 1:34.5 | I will probably say the wrong year through March. So at least I nailed it tonight on the first |
| 1:39.8 | try. Immunity. It is semi-final prediction night. Homesonst us didn't predict Old Miss versus Miami in the Fiesta Bowl as part of the |
| 1:49.4 | semifinals of the college football playoff way back in August. |
| 1:52.0 | Hoomst amongst us didn't. I certainly remember being at Media Days predicting that. |
| 1:56.9 | The Pete Golding led Ole Miss Rebels. Yes, absolutely, I remember predicting that. So we'll talk about all that. |
| 2:04.2 | Yeah, Oregon, Indiana, they play as well. Portal Chaos. It was not a video game that I played growing up, |
| 2:10.3 | but it is a very, very real thing that we're dealing with now. There are a lot of big names entering the portal. |
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