National Championship Reaction + Fixing CFP & Bowl Games
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Indiana and Curt Cignetti have won the national championship over Mario Cristobal and Miami, and College Football may never be the same again. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 706 Josh Pate offers up his feelings about Mario Cristobal and Curt Cignetti as their programs both made a statement in different ways this season. The Transfer Portal continues to cook as we look at the latest whispers and intel with the Portal now closed but big names on the move. What do we make of the early 2027 CFP title odds? Can Alabama, LSU, UGA, Texas, or Texas A&M get the SEC back in the mix? How do we go about fixing the College Football calendar? 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. |
| 0:20.0 | You might think it's a terrible night for me. |
| 0:22.3 | You might think it's going to be a horrible, torturous show for me because of the fact that I whiffed on Indiana again. |
| 0:28.5 | And it will be those things. |
| 0:30.4 | But it's also going to be, as I wrote on this piece of paper, an extremely important groundbreaking show. We have a major announcement |
| 0:38.7 | on the show. And I single-handedly all by myself with no help whatsoever from the staff, |
| 0:43.9 | including producer Jesse, walked into the building today and I fixed bowl season and I fixed |
| 0:48.8 | the playoff. Me, I did all that. It's amazing what one can do when he sets his mind to it. We are jam-packed. |
| 0:57.7 | We are high atop a frozen downtown Nashville, Tennessee, which pales in comparison to what our great city will look like this weekend. |
| 1:05.9 | Prayers in advance would be appreciated. Check the forecast. If you don't know what I mean. |
| 1:10.7 | But we have to look back, |
| 1:12.4 | not forward tonight. We have to look back on what Indiana did to Miami last night. We have to |
| 1:17.3 | look back on what Indiana did to college football this year, both in victimizing opponents |
| 1:22.9 | and also in opening the door, at least theoretically, for a lot of coaches and a lot of players |
| 1:28.7 | and a lot of programs and a lot of fans out there to dream. |
| 1:31.5 | Dream big. |
| 1:32.9 | Why not? |
| 1:33.8 | We did. |
| 1:34.4 | We made our own show. |
| 1:35.7 | We dreamed so big. |
| 1:36.8 | So if Minnesota wants to win a national championship, Indiana is your Roger Bannister. |
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