ESPN Top 25 Rankings Reaction + Spring Intel & Mike Norvell Truth
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
College Football preseason rankings are out courtesy of Bill Connelly’s SP+. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 724 Josh Pate looks at teams like Notre Dame, UGA, Texas, Ohio State, and Oregon. Which team will start the season ranked #1? We also check in on spring practices and get the latest whispers and intel from across the country. The truth teller series is back tonight with a look at Steve Sarkisian trying to win a national title at Texas. The Mood Tracker is also back with a pulse on Mike Elko and Texas A&M. Josh also looks at a possible chaos scenario involving Oregon, Indiana, and Ohio State dipping a bit this season. 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. |
| 0:17.9 | It's a college football show. |
| 0:19.7 | That's what it is. |
| 0:20.3 | That's all it is. That's all it ever will be. It's not a college basketball show. It's what it is. That's all it is. |
| 0:21.1 | That's all it ever will be. It's not a college basketball show. It's never pretended to be. It never will be. But if it were a college basketball show, I would die-lop the Sarah McLaughlin special of a lifetime for Duke tonight. We just witnessed that in the middle of show prep. Right there in front of God and everyone. Jesse, the question has to be asked. |
| 0:39.1 | How big does a lead need to be for Duke to be safe? A lot of people asking that. Not on this show, but just on the streets, a lot of people are asking. It is Sunday, March 29th, the year of our Lord, 26. We're jam-packed, high atop a gorgeous, just picturesque downtown Nashville, Tennessee. And you know what we have? |
| 0:55.7 | You know what I'm holding in my hand right here? Rankings. Imagine people like us free to discuss |
| 1:00.9 | those sorts of things. And it's not even April yet. Thank you, Bill Connolly. And thank you for all |
| 1:06.0 | your SIDs getting the rosters in finally. I've got that. I've got some decisions that we as a people have to make |
| 1:13.1 | about how much we trust Big Ten quarterbacks. Monolithic term now. I'll discuss that on the show |
| 1:19.9 | tonight. Of course, it is a show in the spring, so we got a whole lot of intel from spring camps. |
| 1:25.9 | We've got some scrimmages going on. Nebraska's inexplicably done |
| 1:29.3 | with spring practice already. And I've got a little chaos scenario. And I've got some truth |
| 1:33.9 | that we have to tell about Mike Norville. Florida States, Mike Norvell on the program this |
| 1:40.4 | evening. They're watching us in Norman, Oklahoma, Winchester, Virginia, Spokane, Washington, |
| 1:45.0 | Lebanon, Tennessee. Thank you so much wherever you are. Just do us the one added quick, |
| 1:51.3 | minute favor of subscribing to the channel because it is free for you, which is all you should |
| 1:56.2 | care about. And it helps us out a lot if you care about that sort of thing in addition. |
| 2:03.0 | With that, we waste no time. |
| 2:04.1 | This is pressing. |
| 2:07.7 | Kickoff is like five months away, so we got to get it in right now. |
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