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The Valenti Show

Taking Your Calls On If You'll Be Watching CFB Pregame Shows

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico hear from a couple of the people on the CFB pregame show conversation.

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0:00.0

All right, we're going to get to a pressure index at 3 o'clock.

0:03.0

Have some fun. Four coaches. Two of them are head coaches, two of them are coordinators, all local. And I need to know who's under the most pressure. I don't want to say pressure or not or hot a seat. We're not doing that, but the most pressure to perform. We opened with a conversation about college football pregame. Big Noon game day. Obviously, McAfee hired a couple of years ago, Portnoy hired this year.

0:25.8

Is it bringing you more in the mix or are you just out? And look, hey man, the meetings that

0:33.2

take place and how you're going to be able to gather an audience, you got to do something because the pregame show is kind of a bygone thing. So I totally understand the why, whether it's going to work or not, I have no idea. I know it's not for me. I do not watch. First of all, first of all, there's no reason to watch for me. But second of all, like, if you're not a fan of U of M, you're not watching Big New,

0:55.0

there's no point. And if you're not an SEC fan, there's probably not a point to watch ESPN.

1:01.8

So you end up in a very weird space. So I just, I needed to hear from those who do, but maybe

1:07.9

nobody does. What's your favorite moment of the Alex Cobb era?

1:15.3

Well, I will say this.

1:17.7

Probably maybe the best thing that ESPN did to try to improve their show was bringing Nick Sabin on.

1:24.0

Other than that, because at least he talks football, at least he's respected.

1:28.9

At least, you know, when he says something, I care.

1:31.6

Other than that, I really don't care about what anybody else says.

1:35.2

David, go ahead, buddy.

1:36.9

I love the ritual of college game day.

1:39.4

Sounds, the crowd, hearing Reese, McAfee is just the mascot.

1:43.7

I give anything to have boring Pollock back.

1:46.1

That is from James.

1:47.3

Okay.

1:48.3

Greg from Sincey says, definitely prefer Game Day, but both programs are background noise to me now.

1:55.5

Unless Game Day is at a cool campus like Cal, I won't really pay attention.

1:59.7

See, that used to be the thing for me was when Game Day was on the road and they were somewhere

2:04.3

new.

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