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Josh Pate's College Football Show

Real National Title Contenders + Lincoln Riley Doubt & Hardest Schedules

Josh Pate's College Football Show

iHeartPodcasts

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.43.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 712 Josh Pate looked at how big the College Football Playoff and national title contender pool is this year. Will teams like UGA and Alabama be in the mix? What about Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, and Indiana? Will we see Texas or USC make a move? The Mood Tracker segment continues tonight with a look at Steve Sarkisian and Texas. Next, Josh looks at the toughest schedules in College Football this season. Will Lincoln Riley end up winning big at USC? Can the Trojans contend for the Big Ten title and a CFP spot? Josh also gives some early thoughts on the NFL Draft and discusses a College Football story nobody is talking about. All that plus advice for getting a career in sports media. 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 IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed human.

0:24.3

Look, let's be real.

0:25.7

Meemaw taught me everything I know.

0:39.5

But one of the key things she taught me is in times like these, when you look around and you look on your favorite team site message board, or you look at your social feeds, or you look at the headlines on On3 dot com or esPN dot com and you don't see chaos and you don't see crazy stuff happening in college football

0:44.0

those are the most dangerous times because those times normally precede something coming out of

0:50.6

nowhere and i'll tell you what it was last year not that i'm trying to manifest this into being again but you remember last year jesse we had gotten out of nowhere. And I'll tell you what it was last year. Not that I'm trying to manifest this into being again, but you remember last year, Jesse, we had gotten out of Spring Ball and we were actually talking, excuse me, Jesse was talking internally about taking a vacation. I was going to go get married and then get right back on the job. But nevertheless, the Nico Iamaleava stuff just got dropped on us out of nowhere. We didn't even know that was possible.

1:11.8

We didn't even know it was possible to leave after Springball. Well, we didn't know that a guy that high profile was going to do it. So I don't know where it's going to come from, but I am telling you, like Sean Michaels at WrestleMania 12, there's someone getting wired up up in the ceiling and they're about to slide down. What are those things called?

1:26.7

On one of those, you know, like the zip lines,

1:30.2

trouble's going to come via the zip lines. feeling and they're about to slide down. What are those things called on one of those, you know,

1:28.6

like the zip lines. Trouble's going to come via the zip line. College football zip line. We're jam-packed.

1:34.0

We're high atop of sunny downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Hey, weather, all finally not an issue around here.

1:40.5

Love it. Title contenders. Who are they? How big is that bubble? In fact, what would you do

1:46.4

if I told you? I'm just going to introduce an entire new concept, an entire new game, an entire new

1:51.5

way of life to the show tonight. We're going to do it in just two minutes or so. I don't know how

1:57.1

it's going to turn out, but we're going to introduce it. I've also got some stuff to talk to you about

2:00.6

with Lincoln Riley, the Texas mood tracker is tonight. There is a question from the mailbag about a story that nobody's talking about. And I am happy that it got asked because it gives us an excuse to talk about it on the show tonight. So we're jam-packed, as we should be any time of year because it's college football year-round. They're watching us in Tempe, Arizona, Ocala, Florida, Billings, Montana. Greensboro, North Carolina, do me a favor in Greensboro and Ocala and Billings and Tempe in anywhere above and beyond and in between. Check and see if you're subscribed to the channel. And if you are, thank you so much. And if you think you are, go ahead and check.

2:35.6

And if you're not, if you're in either of the final two categories, please subscribe because it's free for you. And it helps us out. So it's like a win, win, win. It's the best of scenarios. Tonight, it's an important night on the show. Here we go.

2:55.0

We've got an entirely new game that I would like to introduce for this year and years to come.

3:00.5

Tentatively, we're going to call this college football survivor bubble in lieu of a better name,

3:04.2

and I'm open to a better name, but so far I'm just ready to give you the concept.

3:12.6

And you can play this with your buddies. You probably need three or more. We're probably going to do it as a staff. You can do it anywhere. But you need to get people who are all in on college football. So some of you do betting pools. Some of you

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