Josh Pate on Becoming an Important Voice in College Football
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate, the host of Josh Pate’s College Football Show, joins Bruce and Stew to share his unconventional path from manual laborer to hosting one of college football's most popular shows. Pate reveals how he practiced sports talk in his truck for years before getting his break, and his "GPS approach" to making points. And he shares what he'd fix first if he became college football commissioner.
Bruce and Stew also dive into LSU's messy attempt to avoid paying Brian Kelly's $53 million buyout, and debate whether Lane Kiffin will stay at Ole Miss despite openings at Florida and LSU. The mailbag tackles what you should actually DO with your $12 Trader Joe’s gift card, which NFL coordinators might be a good fit for open college head coaching gigs, and whether the Big Ten has become the villain of college football.
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| 0:00.0 | I think a couple of days ago, November 10th, was the actual midway calendar point between week |
| 0:06.4 | one of the college football season and the national title game. |
| 0:09.5 | 70 days before. |
| 0:11.1 | That's not right. |
| 0:12.4 | It's just crazy. |
| 0:13.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | Playing games that deep into January. |
| 0:19.4 | Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:31.7 | No Ralph Russo today. |
| 0:33.3 | Ralph is on assignment. |
| 0:34.8 | He will be back with us for the weekend show as we hope you are. |
| 0:39.3 | You can join us on Sunday morning at 8.30 a.m. Pacific, 1130 a.m. Eastern on YouTube live |
| 0:47.7 | at Audible show where we will recap all of the weekend's action. We have a really good show today. |
| 0:55.5 | We're going to be joined in a little bit by Josh Pate. |
| 0:59.3 | If you follow college football on YouTube or you just follow college football anywhere. |
| 1:03.9 | You probably know who Josh is. |
| 1:05.0 | He has a massive following. |
| 1:06.5 | We're also going to get to your email questions later in the show as well as touch on some very intriguing coaching carousel news. |
| 1:16.4 | But before we get to a lot of that, Stu, the LSU story with Brian Kelly has been messy for a while. |
| 1:22.9 | It just got even messier. |
| 1:24.5 | So with this lawsuit where they're trying to get out of paying him, $53 or $54 million, as what they owe him, do you think LSU has any chance of winning this lawsuit? |
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