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Josh Pate's College Football Show

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Will the College Football Playoff feature more of the same in 2026 or will we see darkhorse contenders rise up to grab spots? On Josh Pate’s College Football Show Ep 717 Josh Pate looks at whether Ohio Stqte, UGA, Oregon, Texas, and Indiana can make it back to the CFP along with teams that could punch their ticket for the first time. What has happened to the ACC? With Miami playing for a national title the Hurricanes figure to be in the mix every season. Where have Clemson and FSU gone? With Lou Holtz passing away this week we take time tonight to remember a legendary man and career. Josh also breaks down Austin Mack vs Keelon Russell in the Alabama quarterback battle along with naming his favorite College Football stadiums. Where does Neyland Stadium rank in comparison to The Big House, Autzen Stadium, Bryant-Denny, and more? 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.
0:20.1	I've seen the live chat as we're coming on air.
0:22.3	Old Wet Blanket 77 in there said we should go to Stillwater and interview Eric Morris for the speaker series.
0:28.4	We had two big commitments for the speaker series today, hoops I can't reveal yet, but two newbies on the speaker series.
0:35.0	So maybe Eric Morris will be the third.
0:36.6	I don't know.
0:37.1	We're jam-packed.
0:37.7	We're high atop very refreshingly warm downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Thursday,
0:42.9	March 5th, the Year of Our Lord, 2006.
0:45.5	I have, well, I have the toughest places to play in college football listed in front of me.
0:50.3	He was very suspicious that our friends down the street over at Bustin with the boys came out with theirs a little while earlier, even right as we had revealed the show title for tonight and revealed that we were going to talk about. That's not an allegation. You know, it's just a coincidence. How many of these playoff teams from last year are going to be repeat playoff teams this year? I'm just going to throw the over under out at six and a half. Someone asked us that earlier today. I'm going to answer that tonight.
1:16.3	I am also going to just ask the question. Anyone who has a good theory can answer me, why is
1:23.4	the ACC the way it is? Why has the ACC been the way it is? They'll be telling me, the
1:29.5	ACC went to the national championship game last year. It really didn't. Miami did. Miami almost
1:35.3	feels independent of the ACC at this point. So I'm going to talk a little bit about it later.
1:40.7	And then there's a wild theory floating around by one of our brethren in the
1:45.0	college football media space that I'm going to react to. I have to. I can't pretend like I haven't
1:49.4	seen it or heard it. So I'm going to react to it. We'll talk about Lou Holtz. Lou Holtz passed
1:54.0	away yesterday. I'll just give you my viewpoint on Lou Holtz. Not one of those whacked out of my mind
1:59.7	Keith Oberman takes, like a legit just human beings take on Lou Holtz, not one of those whacked out of my mind Keith Oberman takes, like a legit,
2:01.7	just human beings take on Lou Holtz, legend, icon, for many different reasons to many
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