Full CFP Reaction + Conference Title Takeaways & Penn State Hires Campbell
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
The College Football Playoff final rankings have been released and first-round matchups are set. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep. 695 Josh reacts to it all. Did the CFP Committee put the right teams in? Should the seeding have been different? Conference championship week reactions are also here as Josh breaks down games like Alabama vs UGA, Indiana vs Ohio State, and BYU vs Texas Tech. How did Kirby Smart and UGA take Alabama and Kalen DeBoer down the second time around? How will Ryan Day and Ohio State look to bounce back after falling to Curt Cignetti and Indiana? Josh also reacts to Penn State hiring Matt Campbell. 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 IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:17.9 | They told us you'd never forget this day, and I'm never going to forget. |
| 0:22.9 | Not a chance. |
| 0:23.9 | People are mad. |
| 0:25.6 | Now, I've been led to believe that people being mad means something's wrong and something |
| 0:29.6 | needs to be fixed, and we will discuss that. |
| 0:31.3 | The playoff rankings have dropped. |
| 0:32.6 | Listen, right? |
| 0:33.4 | Boom. |
| 0:33.9 | In our lap, we are jam-packed at a Sunday, December 7th. |
| 0:36.9 | The year of Our Lord 2025, we're coming to you live way earlier than we normally would because we need to come |
| 0:43.1 | to you live earlier than we normally would. It's a very weird day. Some ways, it's an unprecedented day |
| 0:49.3 | in college football, and those seem to stack up on each other. The rankings just got released |
| 0:54.0 | moments ago. |
| 0:55.1 | I got full reaction to it. I was stunned. I'll tell you why I was stunned. I got conference |
| 1:01.1 | championship game reactions because, yes, football games do still matter around here, and we do |
| 1:05.0 | still talk about them after they occur. I am going to give you some thoughts on these first round |
| 1:09.8 | games in the playoff that we have. |
| 1:11.6 | I know a lot of you have thoughts. |
| 1:13.4 | I've never seen a more broad consensus come together about the structure of the playoff |
| 1:18.7 | and how the playoff views G5 teams than I'm seeing right now. |
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