Josh Pate | College Football Insider

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It seems like it still be the big shadow over the sport of college football, even as games are going on so the update. What is the latest with the college football playoff expansion will everybody that they're on the right track with it and a lot of people who you know, came to a head and then walked away from each other in January are back in the same room belt, though the block to find all has been gotten some of the final final goal could be got but will be got and what I say will be arguing over the coming weeks and made you next month or two and you I don't I don't necessarily cover that day-to-day ally. I really like the walk-in of the feet of a lot of our writers do and so I called them all the time about it. But I do want to be update on it and the feel is yet coming, but at the same time you got people in the room right now with each other who know full well conference realignment is not on. You got people in the room who know full well there are member institutions in your conference that are talking to members of the my conference so it is really convoluted, you got everybody with oral special interest and you try to get on the same page. But here's what here's what really sort of calibrate the process and when you start talking about billions would be that kind of calibrate the process to get everyone on board so it will happen and I think it will happen.

I think you'll have an answer on this.

By the time we play this year's national trip he took it to leave when it comes to the realignment and conference is looking so completely different than say even five years ago. What impact does that have on the playoffs but also college football itself. I think a lot of maybe what you grew up on your Savior over 30, much less if you're over 50 or 60 what you grew up on the territoriality of originality that was baked into the fabric of the traditional college football. I think you'll still have that but I think part of it will be bygone in nature. You know the next the next generation of college football documentaries. If you think about it or being lived out right now and we live them out over the past 10 years because really the past 10 years.

As it turned out, were some of the final years of college football County Court" as you knew it, and you don't even have to just look at realignment for that you could talk about what the transfer portals under the sport. You can talk about with an eye out for the sport and so I'm not that all the things about things but they are definitely different things and would conference realignment. I think also what is done and I don't necessarily know that I love this aspect is it is nationalized the sport much like you would see in the NFL in the NFL. It is nothing, if you were to tell me the Chargers are playing the Jets Sunday, but it is a huge deal if you tell me UCLA is playing Rutgers Sunday or Saturday because they are on opposite coasts. This is not like how football normally works or if it does there's very much a novelty aspect of it would be an out of conference game will that match up. I just gave you, Rutgers, UCLA will be a conference matchup in a few years, and so the territoriality that's out of there. You don't and here's the other thing when I say southern football. When I say Big Ten football when I think back to a football right now that means something to you, you get an idea in your mind what the style of football in that region is I don't know what that means five years from now because Bill became coast-to-coast in several of those conferences so it just kind of is football, and then you throw in the and IL and how that impacted college sports, not just football that was primarily football and men's basketball. And you're right, it feels like the wild wild West where anything goes right now. Let's just say you're in the room as a powerbroker where they're trying to decide what the play option look like Josh, what type of a bracket, how many teens would you advocate for all you do will be in that room. I told you I would be terrible for business. They don't look they won't even let me come on network yet talk about this hope and faith I here's what I love. And this is going to sound very very out of left field. I know I'm in the minority here Amy. I don't even really care about post not much in college football. I love bowl season but I don't even I do not center my thought process around who the national champion is going to end up being. I watch the game. I go to the game every year I cover it I love it. I get but our support is so disproportionate to other professional sports in pro football and baseball basketball. Everything is centered around the post season with good reason, because the entire sport is built for that colleges existed long before college football existed then. Some of these places decided that they wanted those extracurriculars attached as an appendage to the school and some of them existed in 1913. Some of popped up in 1960s some copies of have money.

Some don't have academic institutional limitations. Some don't. There is no there is no perfect balance in college football yet it kinda get a hodgepodge that they get kinda crammed in the postseason model where everyone is seemingly supposed to be judged on the same scale and I know the word salad what I'm saying is I love Saturdays and fall. That's what I look I may not live forgoes 12 Saturday to give me. I love it. I do not need to watch Tennessee at LSU this Saturday. I don't need to go to A&M Alabama this Saturday. I don't need what you taught UCLA this Saturday and have someone every 15 minutes, wondering in my ear have an impact playoffs. It is impacting my Saturday that's what I care about and so my answer to you in a very long-winded way is I very much miss the day where it was just kind of that DCF model and a lot of people didn't like that call didn't like the concept of a computer deciding things well, let me say something in that era the phrase bowl opt out never existed. The phrase meaningless regular-season game or meaningless bowl game never existed. That's only been a recent kind of college football era phenomenon. So the answer to a lot of folks when I say this, the answer to them if yeah will so now the cat out of the bag you got expanded so that you can have more meaning on more games and I get that logic, here's my counter. How do you know when you increase the quantity of playoff spot. The value of making the playoffs as it remains. That's right, I don't think I did write to me and operate in every industry in every corner of our world except college football was to be immune to it. So I remain skeptical or were so to spend a few minutes with Josh Pate. He's got the late can't go with Josh paid when we try to reach out to Josh, it seems like his schedule is jammed full. This is a treat for us here in after hours on CBS sports radio Josh in the first let's say five weeks or so when we learned about college football, it seems I get the same teams at the top. You mentioned a few of the matchup that we got it we dive in a conference play. Now what's different though about.

They shared that we didn't have last year. What we did have last year. I kind of started calling it a renaissance even go going in 2021 you were being told stable teams make the playoffs every year and there's there's no competitive balance Bob Loblaw and it was it was the craziest year last year since 2007, 2007. It its own universe.

Nothing will ever top that. But 2021, very, very wild and I I think that people kind of thought that was a one-off one of them. I just did not believe that we were to get that level of crazy this year.

Amy 10 of the top 25 teams, the country lost just last week yeah and it's been happening all year and I know right now it feels like Bama and Ohio State in Georgia and the rest of the pack and I do agree with that for the time being, but Ohio State showed vulnerability of Notre Dame in week one. Bama had bright young go down last week and they still rolled look. They had to survive. Check the Georgia who look as Mema would say average as grits two weeks in a row and so I think that when you get out of that top three years were really fun.

We do our own power ratings, but if you would have a a Vegas oddsmaker someone who set the numbers on the show right now, they would tell you the same thing. Number four through number 30 in college football right now. How are you one of you kind of put them in their there is like a 10 point gap between the famous class.

It is so crazy how balanced the second tier of color football right now so that just means crazy Saturday after Craig, who are a couple of teams, at least right now this point as we launch into October, that you consider to be dark courses or teams that maybe will use this next month to put themselves in that conversation or maybe separate themselves in that package is referenced. I think it's a huge weekend for Utah. I think people were honest with himself. Anyone driving around looking right now. If you're honest with yourself. You watched Utah play Florida in week one and they lost and you probably had watched him again and that's okay. Could you like to live but I don't so I've been walking they are one of three team in America that are top 12 in total often folded okay and you don't think that about them because you kinda cast them off their pack 12 P they lost in week one, you probably said yourself. There goes Utah will know that was never the case. They're playing really good football now know why I say this is a big weekend for them to go on the road.

UCLA team also playing the best football they played undertook Kelly if they can get that one that that that that date next week in Salt Lake City with USC, the and Utah. Unlike the other teams out there there already kind of been wounded animal back against the wall mode because I can't afford to lose again. So I look at them and offer you the most underrated team in the country right now the Mississippi state people are in the pay of any mention because they're in the wrong division of not going to talk Alabama so there there not going to Atlanta and therefore the probably not going to play out a Mississippi state is very very underrated right now. So those are two things I have mild. I always enjoy the Red River rivalry.

Texas and Oklahoma. I know they're not ring to this year. First time in quite a long time but I just remember that atmosphere at the Texas State fair being there for some of their glory days though right because they're getting ready to jump ship. But that rivalry to me a special like a love that getting into the month of of October. We have more and more these games that truly do have a history and bring a incredible element to it. I hope that doesn't go away and not just referring to Texas Oklahoma but that's part of my challenge with conference realignment is to not get upset when we lose some of the great rivalries in the in the sport. Yeah, you know, I went to the game last group 1st time I'd ever been there covering it were the fan and I some of my buddies from back home. I grew up in rural Georgia. So we heard about the Red River game. Growing up, but it was always iron bowl so that and so there's no where they were in high school and middle school. No one moved to my hotel so I'm the only one to get out of the world of experience there for everyone, so that what that game like and they got insulted when I told him.

Oh, it was every bit of what the Hon. Yvonne I love you kneecap and at half time you been there for you know you can walk up that tunnel. I'm in a be at halftime of the game I walked out of the stadium went to the fair and got a corn dog got right back so that was great, absolutely never been to a game like it and I just remember the noise and also the way that the stadium is completely divided where you got half in burnt orange and half in the Crimson and cream are so many things about it that were tremendous. Josh paid is with us after hours on CBS sports radio congratulations on signing a new deal with CBSSports and 24 seven year show is exploded in such amazing ways it so much fun to follow this meteoric rise Josh with your show would mean to you to have not just the job security, but the ability to continue doing what you love the way that you want to.

Well, it means everything and I I sort of came up in viewing people who were responsible enough in high school and college to get in that either multimedia or journalism or broadcast tract go for four years and get pumped out on that assembly line right to a job waiting for him and start working their way up the wrong letter.

I didn't do that I was not the greatest student in the world. I spent a large portion of my early and mid-20s, having no clue what I want to do and where I was going and I remember pretty vividly. Someone told me one day I said this on the show the other night when we made the announcement. They said to me you need to learn that a job doesn't have to be something you hate. There actually are careers at the intersection of your talent and your passion nice and boy that clicked with me, and I admit it didn't happen overnight but I got myself in gear and the fact that in this country. You can get paid to talk about college football all year is mind-boggling.

But yet we can do it and so we have a ton of fun with it and you II Amy I know about the seven years ago. I just didn't think that the overall college football media industry whatever you want to call it was putting out content I like and I didn't think I was alone and so I said well let's do something about it so it's difficult if nothing else is no prose, no politics is not enough to just college football and we have fun with tickets for your product at a great staff bull support of management and its it's been a blessing and I think we've only just begun to quote the carpenters while in considering everything that's happening in college football and the fact that it is changing at light speed is.

I said this is a perfect time to be able to settle in for the long haul so you can find Josh on Twitter at late kick Josh, but the show is called the late kick with Josh paid it live on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, 8 o'clock Eastern time.

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Again, congratulations on being able to get this deal in place but also to have the creative control that's amazing.

I'm so happy for you.

I really appreciate.

I always appreciate being on the last time we talked. I was driving home from the national championship game.

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