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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 2: Joe Rexrode, The Athletic

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Joe Rexrode from the Athletic joins the show to talk about what is broken with college football. Plus more of your phone calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:10.0

This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Hour 2 podcast.

0:15.5

This might be college football.

0:17.1

And the second hour has arrived.

0:20.3

We thank all of you for being a part of it.

0:22.8

Joe Rex Road will join us a little bit later on with a different take on how bad things are with college football.

0:30.6

Adrian is up next.

0:32.6

Good afternoon.

0:34.9

Hey there.

0:37.0

Hi. Are we going to start having to move to acceptance that, you know, like

0:41.7

you go through your five stages of grief that like we just need to accept that like the

0:46.3

horse is out of the barn, the tail is on fire, but we're trying to put toothpaste back

0:51.7

in a tube to fix this.

0:53.2

And I, unless we professionalize this and kind of take an NFL approach,

0:57.5

which is becoming easier and more fun to watch,

1:00.9

I don't see, I mean, everybody can wax eloquently on what the problems are.

1:04.8

We sit around and define the problems all the time.

1:07.0

But we're already here.

1:08.9

And the one thing that I will say is to kind of get back from,

1:12.7

kind of pull back from the hyperbole is watching what Signetti has done,

1:17.3

he's taken two and three star players.

1:20.3

And because these are not the guys that came in already with expectations,

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