New CFP Criteria Concerns + Portal Intel & Final Nico Thoughts
Josh Pate's College Football Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 626 features Josh Pate looking at upcoming changes to the College Football Playoff along with the idea TV ratings could actually factor into how many auto-bids leagues like the SEC or Big Ten could receive any given year. We’re also reacting to the news out of Knoxville as Nico Iamaleava and Tennessee have parted ways only to see Nico wind up at UCLA and UCLA’s QB to wind up at Tennessee. Tonight we also look at the latest Transfer Portal intel elsewhere in College Football. What are some of the most underrated matchups across the country this fall? With Miami’s Cam Ward being the likely #1 overall pick in Thursday’s NFL Draft we look back on his time with the Canes as Josh shares behind the scenes stories. The truth-teller series continues as we put Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian in the spotlight tonight.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | I suppose we do need to talk about it. |
| 0:20.5 | This happens, oh, about once or twice a year on average now. |
| 0:24.5 | Don't take the bait. |
| 0:25.8 | Don't fall for it. |
| 0:27.6 | It's happening. |
| 0:28.4 | The thing that they do, the powers that should be, not the powers that be because no one's really a power right now. |
| 0:35.2 | Powers that should be. |
| 0:36.1 | They're doing that thing where they dangle, they dangle the dollar bill in front of you, and they're trying to hoodwink you into thinking they're about to do you a favor. They're not about to really do you a favor. Unless, of course, you like that sort of thing, unless, of course, you like the path they've taken you down, in which case you'll be very pleased with what's to come. You will be pleased that we're jam-packed tonight, high atop a jubilant downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Tuesday night, |
| 0:59.3 | April 22nd, the Year of Our Lord, 2025, proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. |
| 1:05.4 | Yes, friends, I saw the report. Did you see the report? Follow-up question? I saw the report about potentially |
| 1:12.3 | college football television ratings playing a part in how the college football playoff |
| 1:19.4 | is seated. Sounds controversial, doesn't it? Perhaps it is. I will discuss. We haven't spoken, |
| 1:26.3 | you and I, since that story dropped because it's |
| 1:29.0 | 48 hours old now. The Nico, Tennessee, UCLA, Nico's brother, whole deal has subsided now. |
| 1:37.5 | And since everything is settled and everyone has settled where they're going to go, |
| 1:41.4 | I have some final thoughts on this whole thing. This has been one of the big, unforeseen |
| 1:46.1 | stories that just got dropped in our lap. That's unbelievable the amount of oxygen that's taken |
| 1:50.7 | up in the sporting world, not just the college football world. Everyone's had an opinion on it, |
| 1:55.1 | a take on it. We've been no different. I got some final thoughts on it. And then, you know, |
| 1:59.6 | with both hands clasped and eyes trained towards the air, thank you. We can move on from this. I've got portal intel, because that's still churning away. There's a couple of teams that have made really, really big, not under the radar moves, but since everyone's been paying attention to Nico, I don't know that everyone's noticed who's made big moves, but that's what this show is for, we'll tell you. |
| 2:20.9 | And I've got some stories for you guys. |
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