Hour 2 – Penn State Is Missing James Franklin Already, Chris Fowler
The Dan Patrick Show
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4.5 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Dan is still wondering what Penn State was thinking when they fired HC James Franklin without a real plan to replace him after Kalani Sitake turned down their job and re-signed with BYU. And college football insider Chris Fowler drops by to talk about the latest drama surrounding the College Football Playoff as we await the results of the conference championship games.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | It's our two on this Wednesday. |
| 0:11.1 | Dan and the Dan Nets, Dan and Patrick's show. |
| 0:13.0 | We're fully assembled because Seton is back from his European vacation. |
| 0:19.2 | Thank you, Todd. |
| 0:20.1 | You got it. |
| 0:38.9 | I missed out on the clap the first time. I wasn't going to miss it the second time. So we're fully assembled. Todd is here. Seton's here. Marv, Pauley, yours truly, and the BRGs. And it's a national signing day. Great day for BYU, keeping their coach. Not so good of the day with Penn State. We'll talk to Chris Fowler voice of college football he will join us coming up here in a little bit also this |
| 0:44.1 | Thursday night football game looks really really interesting it feels playoff like you know |
| 0:50.9 | if the Cowboys maybe had one more win, now all of a sudden, now they can |
| 0:55.3 | really get into the playoff picture. The Lions, the Lions concern me here because, you know, |
| 1:02.9 | you keep waiting for, you know, teams, they flip a switch. Well, I think we like to think that |
| 1:07.9 | happens, but it doesn't. I think the Texans may have done that. |
| 1:11.8 | Now they've got the Chiefs coming up this weekend, but the Lions against the Cowboys. |
| 1:15.9 | Now, it's a must win for the Cowboys to keep this story alive. |
| 1:19.4 | It's a must win for the Lions as well, because the Bears have the best record in the NFC. |
| 1:25.5 | And you've got Green Bay, who has, I think, top five odds to win the Super Bowl now, |
| 1:30.8 | and it feels like they're kind of figuring out who they are. |
| 1:34.1 | And Jordan Love has played really well. |
| 1:36.3 | This gets into that must-win situation for the Detroit Lions. |
| 1:40.2 | Yes, Paul? |
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