Playoff Expansion Fails + Winter Storm Fallout & Portal Wjnners/Losers
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
College Football Playoff expansion is always a hot topic - but for the time being it looks to be tabled. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 709 Josh Pate discussed the fight between the SEC and Big Ten and what it means for the future of the College Football Playoff. With the Transfer Portal closed, which teams were big winners and losers? Tonight we look at LSU and Indiana plus several teams in Texas along with Penn State, Alabama, UGA, and more. What do we think about the current state of College Football and whether the problems are correctable? The Mood Tracker segment continues tonight with a look at Josh Heupel and Tennessee. All that plus a question about whether Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame can win a national title and we take a look at a major winter storm that took aim at the eastern half of the United States. 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. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:17.6 | Look at that. |
| 0:18.6 | Somehow, some way the studio is still here, high atop a still falling downtown Nashville, |
| 0:24.8 | Tennessee on this Thursday, January 29th, the year of Our Lord, 26, everyone lost power. |
| 0:31.3 | Winter storm of the century of the year of the week has left everything in a deep freeze. Bradley went |
| 0:36.4 | without power. Mitch and Prez went without |
| 0:38.7 | power. Jesse, yeah, you were without power. I would have been without power if I didn't leave town. |
| 0:43.7 | And so we're all recovering. We're all kind of victimized here, except if you wanted the college |
| 0:49.5 | football playoff to remain at 12. Turns out those of us, I include myself with you, those of us who wanted to, I don't know, just sit still for a little while, we're not going to be victimized because the college football playoff is not expanding at least in the next five minutes. And I know that news kind of broke last week. I'm not so interested in the what. I want to talk about the why, and I want to do this on the show tonight. I will talk about the winter storm later in the show. I also think with the whole college football panic cycle, |
| 1:14.9 | which gets cranked up around this time of year, it's sort of a February through July, |
| 1:19.7 | sort of sport, that being college football panic. I want to take a little water and just pour it on |
| 1:25.9 | the flames. We're not going to completely douse the flames. |
| 1:28.9 | We just want to damp down the flames a little bit tonight. Probably not as bad as it seems. We've got some portal winners. We got some portal losers. We've got a jam-pack show is what we have. We're back in town. And they're watching us in Bay City, Michigan. Toccoa, Georgia. I played many a baseball tournament in Toccoa. |
| 1:44.9 | Beautiful town. |
| 1:46.0 | Glendale, Arizonaoccoa, Georgia. I played many a baseball tournament in Toccoa. |
| 1:44.9 | Beautiful town. Glendale, Arizona, Santa Cruz, California. The only favor that I really need, |
| 1:51.8 | aside from Rock Salt and whatnot, Hot Coco, is for you to subscribe to the channel. And if you have, |
| 1:57.8 | thank you. That just means I'm not talking to you. But stay tuned because I'll move on in five seconds. But if you haven't subscribed, please do so because there's no string attached. Really, there's no string attached. Most times when people say that they're lying to you, I'm not here. It just helps us. So where should I start the show tonight? I got an idea. |
| 2:21.4 | You might have heard the college football playoff is not expanding next year. |
| 2:24.9 | They couldn't come to an agreement, blah, blah, blah, yada, yada. |
| 2:30.9 | I'm telling you, you got to go to On3.com and read our boy Brett McMurphy on this today. |
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