What college football can learn from WrestleMania 36
Josh Pate's College Football Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
College Football Playoff expansion talk has once again picked up as the sport is on hold. Josh Pate reexamines all the reasons this is a terrible idea. WWE decided to hold WrestleMania in an empty arena while the rest of the sporting world was on lockdown and it ended being a major success. What parallels to college football can be drawn from this? Plus we answer plenty of your questions from the Late Kick inbox.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | All right, welcome, and Lake Kick is live. |
| 0:10.0 | It is Thursday night. |
| 0:11.1 | It is April 9th, the year of our Lord, 2020. |
| 0:14.6 | We are very happy, happy to have you with us. |
| 0:17.6 | Yeah, we'll get that out of the way now. |
| 0:18.7 | We've got a lot to get to tonight. |
| 0:19.8 | We're actually going to talk some college football playoff expansion, not because we necessarily want to, |
| 0:25.3 | but because we are more or less being forced to because you've been talking about it a lot. |
| 0:29.1 | So we're going to give you our take on that again. I'm also going to somehow tie in |
| 0:34.4 | WrestleMania 36 and what the WWE just pulled off somehow, some way, to what we may see in college football. |
| 0:43.1 | I know a lot of you guys may not be aware of what they just pulled off because maybe you're like me and you don't watch the modern day product, but really, really, really incredible what they were just able to pull off. |
| 0:53.0 | I'm Josh Payton. This is the late kick. We're happy to have you with us. If you haven't |
| 0:55.7 | already, subscribe to the YouTube channel, click on the bell for notifications. And if you're listening to the podcast, or if you're not, click on the link. And if you are already, please give us a five-star review there and leave us a comment. We would really appreciate that. As I said, we've got a lot to get to tonight. |
| 1:09.2 | I also am going to do some Q&A at the end of the show. |
| 1:12.6 | So we have got a jam-packed show from many, many different angles. However, I wanted to, as I get my notes in order here, I wanted to start, there we go. I wanted to start with a report that's been circulating, a report by Brett McMurphy from Stadium that's been circulating for now a couple of days. |
| 1:28.1 | It looks like he took some time, did Brett McMurphy, and he reached out to a whole bunch, |
| 1:32.7 | about all of them actually, Power 5 and G5. |
| 1:37.2 | Now, for those of you who don't really care about these abbreviations, |
| 1:40.9 | Power 5 is a Power 5 ACC, SEC, SEC, Big 10, Big 12, those athletic directors. And the |
| 1:47.5 | G5 is like your American Athletic Conference, et cetera. And so he reached out to a bunch of ADs across |
| 1:53.1 | all of FBS. And he was asking them about playoff expansion. Now, I want to give you my take, |
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