simply the greatest CFB mind currently working today

Best show in sports…and it’s only college football

I’ve been giving 3-star reviews to all my favorite college football podcasts lately. The content is always excellent but the 3 minute ad reads for FanDuel is horrifically longwinded and irrelevant to those of us who aren’t degenerate gamblers.

….but tired of hearing about Ryan Day. I skip all podcasts that he is being interviewed. N E X T..

This is the best college football show out there and it’s not even close.

Listened got a few months and couldn’t take it anymore. You can tell who gives him info and lets him come to practice by how he slobbers all over the same programs and coaches constantly. The know-all attitude and talking about his own rankings like they’re worth something in the sport gets so old.

Nice pick with QuikTrip. Roller grill taquitos + grilled cheese + clean bathrooms = hard to beat

Listening from Ames iowa, mailbag question. Would a 9-3 year be disappointing for Iowa State??

Josh Pate has positioned himself as the king of the college football nerds, and I proudly count myself among his football-nerd subjects. This is by far the best national college football podcast, which is amazing given the fact Josh doesn't even have a co-host to help move the show along. I used to watch parts of the show on YouTube, but now I listen to the whole show in pod form.

Best CFB show in all the land.

Could we see a day where unequal revenue sharing is used to encourage programs to leave a conference rather than stay? Until now the idea of unequal revenue sharing has been used to keep Texas and Oklahoma in the big 12 and has been brought up as a way to keep Clemson and the noles in the acc. However, I wonder if the big 10 or sec could use unequal revenue sharing to encourage unwanted programs to join other conferences. Thank you, from Steven in Savannah

My interest in the show is waning. The takes are well thought out, and the show is great if you are only interested in the top teams in the SEC, Big 10, Clemson and FSU. Perhaps that’s where the ratings are. I have no interest in the so called playoff, and the show is centered on the teams that might qualify. I’ll check in as the season gets closer to see if anything has changed.

If he didn’t beg for likes, subscribers, and 5 star reviews after ever segment I might rate it higher.

This guy loves the game. Straight up. He’s the best I know of who manages to keep bias out of it (except maybe Iowa state lol) but all jokes aside, seriously a great show for any college football lover, Josh is a great host

Josh is one of the best. Smart analysis, not just echoing popular sentiments. Loves the game.

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JP, I only wish you loved Nebraska even half as much as you love USC or “The Game”. 💔 I understand we’ve moved to irrelevancy over the past 10 years (besides our fans and sellout streak) but there is still so much rich history with this program, including some outstanding rivalries that were killed by the evil that is conference realignment. But, I hope you can soon find out that Nebraska Vs Iowa has the hatred of border states that feels like it’s naturally been around for 200 years (I’m a Nebraska fan who lived in central Iowa). Also, Colorado at Nebraska will be a freaking electric game of games this year, there’s a lot of Nebraska fans who are really ticked at our old rival. Also I’m only 20 so I’m bloodthirsty for some good Nebraska football. GBR 🌽🌽🌽

DJU has the best single season performance as a QB since Jameis’s Heisman in 2013 and leads FSU to the National Championship game against Oregon. Love the podcast!

Great Stuff Josh

I know I’m in the minority but please kick us out SEC I’d love to join the sunbelt and dominate it for at least a little while before somehow the curse causes the wheels to fall off (I mean we were finally on the right path and our coach died)

Can’t be trusted. Smooth brain and easily influenced.

10 or more transfer QBs make the playoff. Love the show. Ben K

One of my fav CFB podcasts! Disclaimer: I also submitted this question to the Cover 3 mailbag, but I really want Pate’s take too, because I think it’s fun to think about. Cheers! Mailbag question: With conference expansion and the elimination of divisions there is now potential for there to be three undefeated teams in the same conference heading into conference championship weekend. For example: with 16 teams in the SEC this year Texas, Alabama & Ole Miss don’t play each other in the regular season and could all go undefeated. Obviously the potential goes up as you expand past 16 teams. In such a scenario, how does conference championship participation get decided? Or playoff seeding? Wouldn’t we end up with another FSU-like outrage situation if an undefeated team doesn’t get to play for a first round bye? Would such an event be enough to slow or stop the hunger for future conference expansion? Thanks!

Josh Pate is the most unbiased voice you will find! I look forward to listening to every show! Go Pate State, Go Irish! ☘️ If Josh Pate had a discord community with a monthly subscription or something similar I would gladly sign up! Ps: thanks for always giving us a glimpse of what the college football structure may look like in the future! Josh is a voice of reason during these tumultuous times!

Tried this podcast because I hear Josh’s name a lot. Couldn’t make it through one episode. Just terrible. There are people who are popular that make you scratch your head. This guy is one. There are are many, many better college football podcasts out there than this. Many

The best college football podcast, period! I have named myself a Pate State alumni. I bought the tee shirt. I have even gotten in to meteorology. Late kick acolyte.

Is a great listen. Good football know. The courage of his convictions. Professional courage. He’s not protecting his job with mamby pamby takes. That paper pop gives him the confidence to bravely call out whomstever. 😜

Talks about the same 5-10 teams every week.

Already enjoyed the show but as I drive thru Ga and you helpfully explained to get out of the passing lane unless passing to your fellow Peach Staters you are now my hero in Ohio!

Love the show however for once I have to as an Indiana native take exception to one thing you said. While your point about a random basketball game in January was spot on I have to say you chose a poor example. Even having been away from the state for years I can without a doubt assure you that any time Indiana and Purdue are playing each other there will be a huge viewing audience in the Hoosier state. That rivalry even followed me to Tucson AZ years back and I can’t imagine it’s changed much

He’s doing your mom!

Noticed I never put in a review. 1 star because you played the throat surgeon for TV networks when Florida state got snubbed last season

I’ve been a Pate State homer for several years and evangelized it to numerous friends. But since Saban’s retirement, the podcast has become difficult to wade through. Unless there’s an interview, nearly every B block (behind realignment and reform) is devoted to Bama. I don’t know Josh’s rooting allegiance, but I’ve become convinced he’s a Bama fan since January. It’s almost as if he’s trying to convince the CFB world about kaelin deboer and bama. Deboer could be great—but there’s nothing unique about what’s happened since his hiring. He’s doing the right thing, but nothing to gush over. This is no knock on Bama—they’re the fulcrum of college football for 15-20 years. But Pate devoted far less airtime to them when they were perennial #1 than he has since Saban’s retirement. Get back to what made this podcast great—an evenhanded approach to the entirety of cfb. My four-star rating is based solely on pre-retirement, when it was a five-star podcast. Since then, it’s been a one-star podcast.

Miss Ross has 2 Grammys 13x’s nominated, just like in sports, some people opinion is that if you are a runner up frequently, you’re not a winner.

So first things first, I need to buy an airplane to drive all the way back from there and back home and back home and back to my house… but I can’t afford a car that flies in the air all the time, plus how can I drive a plane under water without having pizza! This is verbatim nonsense but it would be better to just get the money and get it done and get a new plane to go back home to my house instead of buying a new plane ticket and getting the plane ticket oil fried in a oven, but alas, seeing as though the airline industry has gone nuclear, I don’t think it would be worth the enough for me at all to get the flight to the airport and back there for a business trip. So I will just have to do with out the thing that I needed, and go earth eating.

Simply put; Josh Pate is the G.O.A.T. We are witnessing the most talented College Football Analyst of our generation!

Just truly terrible. Don’t know why anyone would listen to this dude.

What a hack

Not worth your time

Best non bias college football reporter out there! Thank you Josh!

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Just another SEC homer

spit the gum out popeye

Fence sitter all the way here. Doesn’t really bring anything to the table.

Great insight and very informative, Go Dawgs!

I like how Josh wears a white tee like he’s Billy Loomis

Throws out any common knowledge then tries to create drama or excitement with pauses or voice tone. Watch paint dry you’ll learn more about sports.

Astounding people listen to this guy about football takes lol.

Josh and the team do such great work. This is the best college football podcast… and it’s not even close.

Definitely entertaining. He has some valuable analysis as well. Claiming that playing the games matter AND that Bama belongs in the playoffs over FSU is the pure essence of a Bama homer - not a college football fan (as the man professes to be).