THE HERD - Hour 3 - Breaking down Notre Dame being left out of the College Football Playoff
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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College football analyst Josh Pate joins the show breaking down Notre Dame’s exclusion from the College Football Playoff and why Indiana is a real championship contender with QB Fernando Mendoza
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| 0:29.7 | Let's switch to college football. |
| 0:31.3 | I think the best young voice in the sport is Josh Pate's got his own YouTube channel. |
| 0:35.1 | We think he's fantastic covering the sport for 15 years now. And Josh is joining us. So I saw this story this morning. This is fun. So Ivan Maisel is a wonderful guy. No-Niner for a long time. He's on the selection committee. So he wrote a book on Frank Leahy, the great Notre Dame coach. He was supposed to sign. He was going to South Bend to have a book signing |
| 0:55.8 | at the Notre Dame bookstore, Josh. And Notre Dame canceled it because he's on the selection |
| 1:00.7 | committee. It's ridiculously petty. Are you surprised by this academic powerhouse being this |
| 1:08.0 | ridiculously petty? |
| 1:17.6 | No, I guess, with what I've seen over the past days slash week, no. |
| 1:22.2 | Ivan Mazel got 10 book purchases for me because of this headline, though. |
| 1:23.9 | So I think he may end up all right. Is that not the kind of stupidity that you normally see like an election season, |
| 1:28.5 | the collateral damage of politics? Like, I know who your dad worked for, so I'm not going to |
| 1:33.1 | buy the cookies from your Girl Scout troop. I just thought, I thought we could keep it out, |
| 1:38.1 | but apparently we can't keep it out of college football. Listen, I thought, Josh, and you're a |
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