Surprise Playoff Contenders + Winter Storm Survival & ESPN’s CFP Monopoly
Josh Pate's College Football Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
College Football has seen tampering go crazy with the recent shots Dabo Swinney and Clemson took at Pete Golding and Ole Miss. On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 708 Josh Pate offers up his feelings about what can be done to curtail the issue. What do we think about surprise CFP contenders this season? Could Alex Golesh and Auburn or Matt Campbell and Penn State make a run? Does ESPN owning the entire College Football Playoff help or hurt the sport overall? Josh also takes a look at UGA under Kirby Smart and discusses whether the program is regressing. All that plus the mailbag is open and we take a look at a major winter storm taking 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. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:19.3 | Man, the haters said we would be able to have a show. |
| 0:22.2 | Honestly, they were right, but this is not our studio. |
| 0:25.2 | This is Columbus, Georgia. |
| 0:26.4 | I fled Nashville. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm a refugee. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm out. |
| 0:29.5 | Nashville has frozen. |
| 0:31.2 | I would say fallen, but Nashville is just frozen. |
| 0:33.4 | We will rebuild, though. |
| 0:34.5 | But in the meantime, it is Tuesday. |
| 0:35.7 | It is January 27th, the Year of Our Lord, 2006. We're going to do something very, very old school here, jam-packed, high atop, as I said, a pretty mild downtown Columbus, Georgia. We're going to kick it back to like the late kick extra era. So back in the day, first off, the show used to be called late kick. And secondly, |
| 0:55.0 | when we got this time of year, sometimes I'd just go full mailbag. And I would just put out the call |
| 0:59.1 | and you guys would submit like a million questions and I would do entire shows of just that. |
| 1:03.5 | That's this entire show. Now, sometimes mailbag episodes sound like mail-in episodes, or in our |
| 1:09.2 | case, it's an emergency backup option. But what we found |
| 1:12.3 | back in the day was the mailbag episodes ended up being our best episodes because in a shocking |
| 1:16.9 | turn of events, you guys know how to write the show better than, not me, better than producer |
| 1:21.8 | Jesse. Let's call it like that. There's a question in the mailbag batch here about producer |
| 1:26.6 | Jesse. So we're going full mailbag. |
| 1:28.5 | I think we'll be back Thursday. I plan on stopping here as soon as we get done recording, |
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