President Trump Joins Show + Top 10 Head Coach Rankings
Josh Pate's College Football Show
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4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 714 Josh Pate welcomes President Donald Trump to the show to discuss matters of College Football and beyond. Next up we drop our 2026 College Football head coach rankings. Where do coaches like Kirby Smart at UGA and Ryan Day at Ohio State land? What about Steve Sarkisian at Texas and Kalen DeBoer at Alabama? Does Notre Dame's Marcus Freeman crack the top 5? What do we make of reports teams in the SEC and what are some of the biggest questions around the league heading into spring ball? Josh also discusses which programs could be the next to become elite. 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. |
| 0:19.4 | I feel like I'm in a separate universe. |
| 0:21.4 | Number one, got the president on the show tonight. |
| 0:23.7 | Number two, my instincts are really to talk about Team USA over Canada, per usual, in hockey. |
| 0:30.6 | And yet, we got wall-to-wall college football. |
| 0:33.1 | We're jam-packed. |
| 0:33.8 | We're high atop of chilly downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Sunday night. |
| 0:37.1 | February 22nd, the year of our Lord Nashville, Tennessee on this Sunday night. February 22nd, |
| 0:38.6 | the year of our Lord, 2006. Yeah, I did say we have the president on the show tonight. We will lead |
| 0:44.1 | the show with him, just a couple of minutes from now. But that's not the most controversial part of the |
| 0:48.7 | show. See, everyone's worried that that's going to take the show off the rails. No, that'll be fine. |
| 0:53.1 | I feel firmly in control of that. |
| 0:56.0 | What concerns me is this other piece of paper in front of me that says, we are updating our |
| 1:01.1 | head coaching rankings tonight. So that's what I'll apologize in advance for. We've got big SEC questions |
| 1:08.7 | on the show tonight. We got a lot about scheduling that I |
| 1:11.6 | wanted to get to you on Tuesday, but I had no voice on Tuesday, so we had to postpone. Only the second |
| 1:17.3 | time we postponed a show. The first was the unfortunate food poisoning incident of Jacksonville, |
| 1:23.4 | a city that I still haven't been back to since then. So yeah, the cities they are watching us in |
| 1:28.3 | tonight, Charlotte, North Carolina, Sweetwater, Texas, Everett, Washington, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Thank you |
| 1:34.1 | so much. It's good to be back. We're loaded. Please subscribe to the channel. If you have not already, |
| 1:39.3 | because it's free, it doesn't sign you up for anything. It's a year-round college football. |
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