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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 1: Connor O'Gara, The OG Kickoff

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:31.0

The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.

0:39.8

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our One podcast.

0:45.4

This might be college football.

0:47.1

Had voted their support behind a playoff at the max amount of teams participating.

0:57.6

That's likely 24.

0:59.7

Also to discontinue conference championship games and to end the college football playoff by the second week of January.

1:05.8

So what I need to know is, where are you on a 24-team college football play55 242-7285 I am not seeing a lot of people

1:16.7

behind it I am not seeing a lot of people support it there are some Zach Barnetta football

1:21.6

scoops going to join us at 430 he's going to give us his thoughts on maybe how he's changing

1:25.8

his mind and coming on board just a little bit for a 24 team playoff Matt Baker of the Athletic is going to be with us at 3.30. Connor O'Gare coming up in 30 minutes. Do you like it? Do you want it? Can you at least, if you are a contrarian to this, if you're a college football historian, if you don't want things to change, can you at least find some positives, some silver

1:45.0

linings in this? Hit us up. Let us know your thoughts on the college football playoff,

1:50.0

potentially expanding. This is just one more step towards it. These are no definitive here,

1:54.1

but this is one more step towards a 24-team college football playoff, something that in the middle

2:00.2

of the show yesterday,

2:01.9

when we had conversations about Tony Petiti, Big Ten Commissioner and his idea for this,

2:06.6

we still thought was assinine and probably not feasible.

2:11.7

My opinion, the whole thing was he was trying to throw a Hail Mary and he would take a 20-R

2:15.1

completion if he could get it. Maybe go down to 16.

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