National Championship Prediction + END Monday Title Games & Portal Chaos
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The College Football Playoff national title game is around the corner with Miami vs Indiana set for next Monday night. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 704 Josh Pate offers up his preview and prediction as Mario Cristobal and Curt Cignetti look to bring home their first title. The Transfer Portal continues to cook as we look at the latest whispers and intel with the Portal wide open and big names on the move. Will Alabama fall back to earth or see their Transfer Portal strategy work at Alabama? Where could we see the next out-of-nowhere College Football Playoff contender? All that plus the mailbag is open and we take a look at the future of the SEC vs Big Ten debate. 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 I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:37.7 | Surely not. Is this calendar right, Jesse? It still says we're six days away from the national championship game. It seems like the semifinals two weeks ago. It is Tuesday. It's January 13th. This year of our Lord, 2006. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Or does it? We will talk about that tonight, actually. We're jam-packed. |
| 0:55.5 | High atop of, I don't know, fairly mild downtown Nashville, Tennessee. I'm told through sources it will not last. But this show will. It's year-round college football, after all. National Championship prediction night. Am I terrified? A little bit. And I don't even have to play in the game. But Indiana has made a fool out of me a couple of times this year. Will they do it at least once more? We'll talk about it |
| 1:02.1 | momentarily. The transfer portal continues to be ablaze. Some shady, shady actions today, |
| 1:09.1 | not even by entering the portal, but the manner in which one |
| 1:13.3 | enters the portal, you know, the general rules of thumb, they're all thrown out the window. |
| 1:19.2 | We will discuss, there are some whispers about us in ESPN. |
| 1:23.5 | Yes, I do have the internet. |
| 1:25.2 | I've seen what's out there today. |
| 1:27.1 | Bradley showed me. So I will talk about that towards the end have the internet. I've seen what's out there today. Bradley showed me. So I will talk |
| 1:29.1 | about that towards the end of the show. And somebody pointed out in the mailbag the other day |
| 1:34.9 | that I forgot to get to that it seems like there's a little something off about the playoff. |
| 1:39.8 | Like it's a little, oh, what was the word,iclimactic. And you know what? I don't disagree. |
| 1:45.0 | I have my theories as to why. |
| 1:46.6 | And, of course, on this show, we like to come with the problem and the solution. Maybe I'll offer something up. But yeah, I see where you're going. I agree with it. So we're jam-packed. We've got a lot to get to. They're watching this in St. Augustine, Florida, Buffalo, New York, Conroe, Texas, Calabasas, California, wherever you're |
| 2:03.1 | watching, wherever you're listening, thank you, always thank you, we couldn't do it without you, |
| 2:07.9 | and make sure you are subscribed to the channel. Now, I know most of you are thinking, |
| 2:11.1 | it doesn't apply to me, I already am. Check and make sure. Believe it or not, there are many, |
| 2:16.3 | many people out there, statistics show |
| 2:18.3 | who believe they're subscribed, who are not. So it's free. It doesn't cost you anything, |
| 2:22.9 | doesn't sign you up for anything, just helps us out. Here we go. Last game of the season to |
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