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The Pat McAfee Show

PMS 2.0 1417 - NFL Week 4 Preview/Picks, TNF Recap, Penn State Head Coach James Franklin, Penn State QB Drew Allar, Nick Saban, & AJ Hawk

The Pat McAfee Show

ESPN

Football, Sports

4.918.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

On today's show, Pat is live from State College before tomorrow’s College GameDay ahead of Oregon @ Penn State, while AJ Hawk and the boys are back at the ThunderDome, as they recap last night’s TNF game, look ahead to this weekend’s college slate, give Ryder Cup updates, and preview the entire NFL week 4 slate and make their picks against the spread. Joining the progrum to preview tomorrow’s massive tilt against Oregon is Penn State Head Coach, James Franklin. Later, Penn State QB, Drew Allar joins the progrum to chat about his progression, why he decided to come back to Penn State, and much more. Later, 7x National Champion, panelist on College GameDay, the GOAT, Nick Saban joins the progrum to preview this weekend’s incredible college football slate. Make sure to subscribe to youtube.com/thepatmcafeeshow or watch on ESPN (12-2 EDT), ESPN’s Youtube (12-3 EDT), or ESPN+. We appreciate the hell out of all of you, we’ll see you on Overreaction Monday. Cheers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here we go, Feel Good Friday, September 26th.

0:05.0

I'm AJ Hawks sitting in for Pat.

0:07.0

I believe he's in Happy Valley, about to watch a showdown tomorrow night.

0:12.0

Football!

0:14.0

It's what we do last night to Seattle Seahawks take on the Arizona Cardinals.

0:18.0

The Seahawks win 2320 and somewhat of a barn burner it did turn

0:21.3

into, I guess. Kickoffs are in question. I think this one had a big impact on this game. Late in that game, it was a bit of a rough slog early in the game really picked up the last six, seven minutes. But Pat, I believe you have a beautiful setup over there and Happy Valley. How you doing, buddy? Hey, life is good, Don here. I'm gonna be honest, Beaver Stadium is over my right shoulder here. I'm at the Lash building. I think I said it right there. That's 100% on me, if that is not. Right, it's the practice facility has been for a long time. They got two grass fields out here, a full turf field, full size, everything. And then they obviously have a massive indoor over there with a full field and everything.

0:56.9

And then I think this is where all the offices are. James Franklin's office is literally six feet

1:01.7

to my right right now. It's actually directly behind one half of the hammer.

1:07.7

D. Cowboys, Gumpys. That is James Franklin's door right behind Gumpy right there.

1:14.0

So when you talk about hospitality, I cannot thank these fine folks enough up here in Happy Valley.

1:19.5

And we have a huge one taking place with a whiteout happening.

1:23.6

You know, the night whiteout has been something that has been, you know, obviously a part of the football culture since it started, I think, like 2007 maybe or something like that. I forget the exact A. Q. Shipley was there. He takes credit for it, actually. I think Penn State people should know that A. Q. Shipley, who was on a call last night for the Cardinals, we'll certainly dive into that. He takes credit for this white out becoming a tradition and it is a spectacle. But anytime a whiteout game happens, normally

1:48.2

it's happening at noon for Big Noon kickoff, which is obviously the biggest game of the

1:52.3

Big Ten for each week on Fox. So this is a nighttime, top 10 whiteout game with Oregon coming

1:59.2

in and potentially trying to steal the white out. They're wearing white jerseys. They're potentially trying to steal this whiteout here at Beaver Stadium. And then obviously you got a Penn State team that's experienced that's been around, got a quarterback that's been through some big moments. He'll be joining us on this show today. I cannot wait to chitch out with him because the first couple weeks, obviously they haven't been playing the ball that we would have expected Penn State to play but are they holding things back and are they gearing up for this

2:21.4

game you know they've got some O Gs out there and maybe the big moment is what they've been waiting for

2:25.2

to put on their best display and maybe Oregon's in for it as they come into oh oh oh oh oh it's gonna be pretty crazy I'm going to be pretty crazy.

2:37.6

I'm lucky to be here.

2:38.4

And then last night, Toxic Table at Boston Corner, at Ty Schmidt.

2:42.3

I believe you both were on the Arizona Cardinals because how many people were on the Seattle Seahawks?

2:47.6

And let's go to one half of the hammer.

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