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Playoff & Bowl Fix REACTIONS + Early Top 25 & Winter Storm Update
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This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed Human. I don't want to throw my paycheck in anyone's face here, but I've worn a new T shirt every show this year so far. Look at, look at this. Look how pristine this thing is. We're jam packed. We're high at top A. Well, as of a couple of hours, a winter storm warned downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Thursday, January 22nd, the year of our Lord 2026. You know, Tuesday night I thought we had one of the better shows we've ever had. That's just me personally. Maybe you thought it sucked. But one thing we did take away is we got like across the board agreement, aside from the canals of the world, about our proposals to overhaul the college football calendar, specifically, how do we stop playing national championship games and January 25th. Yeah, that's what it's scheduled to be this time next year. How do we, how do we save bowl season? You know, do these sorts of things. And we had a lot of proposals and we got a lot of feedback. So I'm going to go over that. We've got a very, very early top 25 for the 2026 season to talk about. The Michigan Mood Tracker. Yes, the Mood Tracker is back in the show tonight. All that plus at the very end, for the first time and probably not the last time, I got to talk about a little bit of weather based matters on the show because some stuff's going to happen, guys, to most of us, if you live in like the eastern half of the United States, it's on it. I don't want to get all scientific on. You didn't use terminology there. It's on and we're on in Tupelo, Mississippi. That's where they're watching us. They're watching us in Prescott, Arizona, Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Abilene, Texas. Thank you so much. Make sure, hey, if you live in Kentucky or you live anywhere else, make sure you subscribe to the channel. Number one, because it's free. Number two, because it doesn't sign you up for anything. Number three, because it makes us feel good inside when you subscribe. So there's no downside, there's only upside to subscribing. And even if you think you are, even if you're listening to me saying, I get so tired of him saying that. I understand. I get tired of saying it too. However, as you're worn out by it, make sure you are subscribed yourself because some of you think you are and you're not. All right, let's Dive into the show tonight. There's been an internal challenge that I cannot complete the show in an hour. Probably right. But I'm gonna. I'm gonna run a little hurry up tonight. Not that we have a heart out, but I'm gonna run a hurry up tonight. If you missed the Tuesday show, we talked about a lot and we tried to do a bunch of stuff about the college football calendar. So we tried to fix a little bit of issue. Like, for instance, I'm not a big fan that we play the national championship game as late as we do January 19th, the other day, January 25th, this upcoming year. So I don't like that. I don't like what's happened to bowl season. That's number two. We tried to offer somewhat of a solution to save bowl season. We thought that we enhanced the very end of the regular season with a solution. We tried to untangle the concept that we have national signing day and the portal overlapping with the season still taking place. Just a bunch of nonsense. We tried to fix it. Now, I'm not going to play the whole thing for you, but if you missed it the other night, I'm going to have Bradley cue up just a very, very quick snippet of like a montage of some of the ideas so that you can be up to speed. Because on the other side of this, I got a lot of feedback from you guys, from people in the media, from coaches, and we're going to dive into it. So here's a brief recap of what we talked about the other night. I think we had a breakthrough today. I think we figured out how to fix the College Football Playoff, how to save bowl season, how to move the national championship game to January 1, how to get the portal wrapped up, and how to get national signing day wrapped up, all by the start of the spring semester. Step one, I would like to move week one to what week zero currently is, which leads to a revolutionary Thanksgiving weekend. It's where step two comes into play. We're going to have conference championship games. We're just going to have them Thanksgiving weekend instead of the week after Thanksgiving. We have a big problem in the sport right now. Bowl season has been rendered largely irrelevant compared to what it used to be. So I'm taking the shock panels, I'm rubbing them together, whatever that gel is in between, putting them on the chest of bowl season clear. Boom. Bowl season's back. I'd like to take six bowls. Don't particularly care which ones they are. Let's just call it the Citrus bowl. And the Pop Tart Bowl, Cheez it bowl, et cetera. Either that Friday after Thanksgiving or that Saturday. You guys can choose. Take all the teams are going to play in conference championship games. Take them off the board. They're already preoccupied. But this is what it would have looked like this year. My Pop Tart bowl is Oregon versus Houston. My Cheez it bowl is Ole Miss versus Michigan. I've got A and M, Arizona. I've got Oklahoma, usc. I've got Texas versus Utah. I've got Notre Dame versus Vanderbilt. These are bowl games. They are also College Football Playoff data points. These games count. You could play yourself into or out of the playoff in many cases in the Pop Tart bowl because the day after that Saturday, that is Selection Sunday, 9am it's an NFL Sunday. We're not scared of the NFL around here, but we're also not going to be stupid and run opposed to them. So we're going to reveal the College Football Playoff rankings and seedings and the bracket 9am that Sunday. And then step five round one happens a week later. Round one of the college Football Playoff on campus is held the first Saturday in December. Round two of the College Football Playoff held on campus is held the second Saturday in December. Round three finally going to kick it to a neutral site only because I think I have to. I don't want to. That's the third Saturday in December and then we break for Christmas in our national championship game is held New Year's Day and we crown a national champion and the season's over. And step six is immediately after that. I don't even care in which order you do this. You have signing day and you have your transfer portal window and wrap that thing up in a couple of weeks and then spring semester is here and everyone can go kick their feet up and take a little vacation, maybe have a junior day. Do whatever you want to do. Everyone's playing 17 to win it all. You got two rounds of on campus playoff games. The bowl games are enhanced in many different ways and you totally resurrect the spirit of bowl season because you maximize the relevance of six of those bowls and you totally reconfigure the importance of them. Also, if we play these games on subsequent Saturdays in December, you're going to have to figure it out with the NFL. You're just going to have to someone's got to walk in the room that has the stones and the relationships and the know how to understand. And hey, here's a bold strategy. If you have to pay the NFL to have the spot. But I love this. I think this could work. And I. I think it could work because it would work. So takeaway number one. This was shockingly well received. Normally, I say the sky's blue on this show and 30% of you disagree with it. So this was shockingly well received. As you can imagine, we got a ton of feedb from people at all levels of college football. So of course, a ton of fans weighed in. A ton of our viewers weighed in. People who rage watched the show, weighed in, and even some of them liked it. But coaches weighed in, ads weighed in. Some very, very influential, powerful people at the media level weighed in. Normal media that just covers college football weighed in. So it was very well received. That doesn't mean there wasn't pushback, there wasn't disagreement. But in general, the tone was, yeah, none of us particularly love the structure right now. It was just. That was almost across the board. And then there were, like, varying levels of. Here's how much I agree with your proposal. Here's what I'd like to change. A lot of you just agreed with it kind of across the board. So nobody likes the current situation. It's just someone has to lead. The single biggest collective piece of feedback that you get in these situations. If you talk to an athletic director or you talk to, like, anybody on the administrative side of the fence, they just say, no one's really leading right now. Everyone's looking out for self interest. I don't even hate on these people. I get it. If you're the commissioner of the Big ten, your job is to look out for the best interest of the Big Ten. You are not your own boss. You answer to the presidents of the universities in your league. I understand that. So I wish that reality was different, and I wish that there were people whose task it was and whose job it was to lead for the greater good of college football. Now, in a dream world, in sort of a utopian world, everyone sort of puts self interest to the side, and then they use the betterment of college football as the North Star. But that doesn't happen right now, at least. So someone has to lead. We're looking to solve problems. We're looking to act. And that was kind of the spirit of the show the other night. So I wanted to go over a lot of the feedback that we got from that because everyone had thoughts on this. I'm sure if you missed the show the other night, you were just listening. You probably talked all throughout that sound bite because it's meant to generate Ideas. It's meant to stimulate conversation. Takeaway number two revolved around the reaction that we got because there's different types of feedback. You probably noticed this in your own personal life. There's idealistic feedback, and then there's realistic feedback. Some of the idealistic feedback I kind of ignored. That's the kind of feedback where because your solution isn't perfect, it sucks. You know, like, because the solution isn't giving me 100% of what I want in my dream world, that means it sucks. Well, this is not an idealistic world, so we have to have a realistic solution. Like, what we have right now. I don't love from a structure standpoint. I love the sport. I love college football from a structure standpoint. I'm not in love with various pieces of it, but I'm also acknowledging the pieces are what they are to an extent, because there is no perfect solution. I just think somewhere between perfect solution and current reality, there's a better solution. All right, so if we're working on the scale there of idealistic and current, I think there are realistic alternatives that fall somewhere in between. So some of the ridiculous pushback that I got on it not from ridiculous people, per se. Remember, Mima always told us casual people rarely say smart things, but smart people sometimes say casual things. Well, in close connection to that age old adage is the fact that some, okay, people say some ridiculous things. Also ridiculous people say ridiculous things. Which brings me to Danny Jeremitrius Cannell, who weighed in. He's pissed off mainly because the sun rose yesterday morning. And so he had a few takeaways. Takeaway number one, he said this is way closer to the Big Ten 24 team playoff than you think. Wrong. I'll address that in a second. Number two, he says you killed rivalry weekend, which is the best weekend of the year. Wrong. I'll get to that in a second. Number three, you can't run unopposed. He's talking about the commissionership. I absolutely can. There are no rules. This is college football, buddy. I got folks coming from the G League and from NBA Europe playing college basketball. There are no rules around here, so of course I could run unopposed. Point number one, he said, this is closer to the Big Ten's 2014 playoff than I think the Big Ten's 2014 playoff concept is an abomination. So we don't want to come anywhere close to that. This is not that. What I'm actually doing is doing what everyone should be trying to do. And if you want playoff expansion, okay, why don't you achieve it in theory by baking as much of that into the regular season as possible. That's what I did. Like that bowl proposal, that 13th data point proposal. That's a 13th regular season game, basically. That's kind of how we baked that in. That was my goal there. And if you don't pick up what I'm putting down, hit rewind and you can listen to the proposal again. Also. Now, I will admit when he says, I'm taking away rivalry weekend, maybe I wasn't clear enough on that. Although, Jesse, I thought I was pretty clear on it. I mean, when you start the season a week earlier, that means you keep everything about the season the same way it would be. It just ends a week earlier. Like, it's not rocket science. I don't think so. Rivalry weekend remains untouched. It just moved a week earlier. Like, it's like your uncle. If he moves across town, he didn't die. He just lives in another house across town. Rivalry weekend is the same as it always was. Ohio State, Michigan's still going to kick off noon eastern time on rivalry weekend. It's just the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Then some people tried to come at me and say, it's sacrilege to move rivalry weekend away from Thanksgiving. First off, it hasn't always been Thanksgiving weekend. Secondly, what in the world is the correlation carved into stone on Mount Sinai, where I was taught growing up that you can't have one without the other? I know for most of our lives, and it's been that way, but I'm as a traditionalist kind of guy as it gets in college football. And you don't really have to wrestle rivalry weekend out of my hands when it comes to marrying it up with Thanksgiving week. Especially if the alternative is having this lineup of games on Thanksgiving week. Your four Power Four Conference championship games and your G5 Conference title games, and those six huge bold data point games. Until we get a better name for those games, we haven't come up with that yet. I would take that alternative. I also heard some other people say, you can't do that. Like, the networks are never gonna come off of rivalry weekend being Thanksgiving weekend. They absolutely would if it made business sense. I can promise you they would. Cause I've spoken to them about it. I've spoken to decision makers about that very matter. Like, they're not nearly as hard and fast on a lot of the things the public assumes they're hard and fast on as you think they are. If you offer a better proposal that makes more business sense, they'll Come off of it in a heartbeat. So that's point one. Another piece of ridiculous feedback we got was from our buddy John Zigler, who said, it's just ridiculous. Jesse. The proposals are just ridiculous. Which I disagree with. All right. But to his credit, he gave specifics. He said, hey, man, I like Josh. But the negative implications on this are laughably bad. First off, college football becomes a summer sport, which starts well before school. I barely even remember what school is at this point. It doesn't become a summer sport in the aggregate. I'm not starting college football a second earlier than it already had been starting. We already have week zero games. All I'm doing is starting the entire sport that weekend. I haven't moved the start of the season up a single second. I just moved the entire start of the season up to the earliest point that we had been playing games. Secondly, he says some of the most important games of the year are to be played over Thanksgiving weekend on six days of scheduling. Notice. That is correct. That's absolutely correct. It's already happening. We already play games on that Thanksgiving weekend on short scheduling. Not short scheduling, short rest. The only change is the scheduling change. Tough. Suck it up and deal with it. I don't know what else to say. When I say there's no idealistic solution. I'm saying that there are things you're going to have to bite the bullet on in my proposal unless you have a better solution that fall somewhere between idealistic and the current format. I'm saying that what I proposed is better than the current format, flaws and all. Third point he made is my proposal ends the Rose Bowl. No, it doesn't. For all I care, the national championship game can be the Rose Bowl. Fourthly, Army, Navy. I'm going to get to that in a second because that is the single greatest hurdle that we could see. We have to clear in the proposal that I laid out. All right, that was some of the ridiculous takeaways that I saw, some of the more substantive takeaways that I saw. Some of the more substantive feedback that I saw was like he said, army, Navy. I don't have an immediate answer for you now. I'll tell you. In my dream world, in my dream scenario, we would have Army Navy on Thanksgiving and it would be an unopposed college football game. Unopposed is TV terminology for there's no other college football game on other than this one. Like Indiana. Miami, for obvious reasons, ran unopposed the other night. Army Navy traditionally runs unopposed. It gets its whole on weekend to run unopposed. If we change up the college football playoff calendar and we're having playoff games in December, especially if they're on a Saturday. Stands to reason. Army Navy has a hard time having an unopposed Saturday. So first question is, does it have to be a Saturday? Second question is, does it have to be that late in December? Like in my dream world, I'd love to have it on Thanksgiving. You got an NFL problem there, obviously. Where the NFL, Jesse, they ran three games this past year. So you got NFL wall to wall on Thanksgiving. Could you run it the Wednesday? Like could you get creative with it? Also do army and Navy consider it a slap in the face at a certain point when you're trying to like shoehorn their game into your fancy playoff structure. A lot of people have suggested play Army Navy before the season starts. I'm not on board with that. That's just me personally when I picture Army Navy, like I got reverence for this game. So I'm not trying to get it out of the way. Like it's not a nuisance or an inconvenience to me. I'm trying to be very respectful of the game. I do not picture Army Navy playing in 90 degree weather. I got to be able to see those guys breath. I got to have cold weather for it. So I don't know. But just because I don't know doesn't mean there's not a solution. You just have to get smart people in the room to agree on a solution there. Bowl logistics was another key piece of feedback. A lot of people said, all right, if you're going to have these six bowl games that happen either the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving, well, those fan bases have a grand total of six days really to plan their travel. How do those teams plan their travel also? I mean, this is the most nightmarish travel week of the entire year in the United States. And you're asking people with six days heads up to travel with the fans. Yes, it's going to be a problem. I will direct your attention back to where I said there is not an ideal solution here. I'm looking at a realistic solution that's better than the current. Do you prefer the current way bowl games work? I'm trying to end opt outs. I am trying to add a critical data point. I'm giving all the incentive in the world for guys to play in the games, take them seriously. Loops those Bulls into the regular season. Basically they become data points like selection Sunday. The playoff rankings are released after these games happen. Not a perfect, not a perfect solution, but a better one than we have. Yes. The logistic piece would be hard for fans, for the teams. It wouldn't, because we already know which bowl games are going to host before the season starts. Like, we know if the Cheez it bowl is going to be a host of one of those six games. It knows. And it already has hotel accommodations blocked off and it already has air travel secured. And all they need to know is whether to go to Ann Arbor, Michigan, or whether to go to Eugene, Oregon or Athens, Georgia, and get the teams. That's all they really need to figure out. So, yes, it's not an ideal situation, but I think it is a realistic situation and it's an okay one. Somebody else said, why do you have to have conference championship games? I don't. I don't. When I say I'm trying to be realistic about my proposal. If you can convince me that the conferences are willing to do away with conference title games, okay, I will take this pin that I stole from Weston. I didn't steal it. I mean, it was in my room. I'm willing to cross it off right now. If we can get Greg Sankey and Tony Petiti on the phone and they say we're. Yeah, conference title games, we could do with or without them. Cool. Cross them out. Cross them out. Gives me a lot more flexibility. Actually, I don't think we can accomplish that. That's why I left conference championship games in the format. I was just trying to, for the sake of getting tangled up in all sorts of arguments for the next six months, just sort of add that in and bake that in. Traveling on short notice for fans. Yeah, that's going to be an issue. Somebody said, though, hey, man, if you're, if you're having the added rounds on campus, because I want the first two rounds of the playoffs on campus, I'd really love the first three rounds on campus. More on that in a second. But if you're going to have the first two rounds on campus, someone said, I mean, you really expect fans from the opposing teams, the road teams, to be able to travel. No, I don't. You don't do it during the regular season. What do you get, like 5,000 tickets? I mean, if Arkansas is in the playoff first off, hats off Ryan Silverfield. And you guys are going to play USC in a game in the Coliseum. You don't get that many tickets anyway. They should have a home field advantage. It should be extremely difficult for you to travel there. So I didn't really get all that hung up on that. As for the home playoff Games. One of the other critical piece of feedback that I got was, why do you have to have neutral site games at all? Yeah, great. You put the first two rounds on home camp. I, plural of campus. Why don't you put the third round there? I'd love to. Again, if you can convince me we can pull it off, I'd love to. I despise neutral site venues. I can't stand them. It's very anticlimactic to me because I spend an entire season, as do most of you guys, attending games on home campuses, and then all of a sudden you're in Glendale, Arizona. This is no knock on the Fiesta Bowl. Like, they do a wonderful job of putting on an event. They're just hamstrung by the venue they have to use. It pales in comparison to even going down the road and having the game in Arizona State Stadium. It just pales in comparison. I mean, there's nothing like a college football venue. So if you can convince me that I could pull that off, I wouldn't have the game in a neutral site until the national title game. And even then it'd probably be like the Rose bowl or somewhere like that. So I'm all for that. And takeaway number four for everyone who just had problems because you had problems with it. Well, what's your solution? I didn't have a single person that, no matter how much they disagreed, I didn't have a single person that came back at me and said, I hate this because I love the way it is currently. Nobody said that. I didn't have a single person say, I love waiting until almost February to play a national title game. This season doesn't drag on at all for me. Hey, I think it's totally cool that we have national signing day and the transfer portal while teams are still playing games. Makes all the sense in the world to me. Hey, I love neutral site venues. Oh, man, forget on campus games. I can't stand that. You know, less, less Tuscaloosa, Alabama and more. Fill in the blank. I don't want to hate on any city. Arlington. I don't want to hate on any city. I didn't hear any of that. So if you disagree with my proposal, you got one better. I'd be happy to listen. I would be happy to listen. But just so everyone knows when a paper popper of a stat. How about this one? As of right now, it is 6:23pm Central Time on January 22nd. Do you realize a year from today we will still be 72 hours from the national championship game. That's how late we're playing that game next year. But by all means, man, let's not try and fix things. That's not the attitude that built Quick Trip, I can tell you that. It's not the attitude that built America and it's not the attitude that built Quick Trip. You know, so they are going to fuel a lot of you this upcoming weekend. In fact, I would, I always encourage you to just go to QuikTrip once or twice a week, period. But many of you are going to be stuck for the foreseeable future due to factors outside your control, weather. So one factor in your control is you can go gas up. I don't think there's any rule, Jesse, about just going and filling 15 cups of cold brew on tap. Now, we don't want to rush on the cold brew. We don't want that. So we don't want cold brew shortages. All of the folks in school taught me about the gas shortages of the 70s. We don't want a cold brew shortage. A quick Trip, okay, those taps can run dry. Be responsible, but be a little aggressive here. Big time winter storm coming in. So you can fuel up, you can caffeine up, you can trail mix up, you know, you can fill the cupboards. There's no harm in having a little bit too much food during a winter storm. There's a ton of harm to the alternative. So Quick Trip. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and say it. It doesn't say it on the piece of paper because the piece of paper never says anything. Your official Winter Storm supply headquarters. Quick Trip. You're welcome, Joe. I routinely do his job for him. You are welcome. Let us move on. Got a lot to talk about. We're jam packed. Just want to say hello to the live chat. There we go. Top 25 is already out. James hit us up from Oklahoma City. He said, did you vote in this preseason on three top 25? If so, explain yourself. I didn't know that it was happening, which is smart because I probably would not have gotten my vote in in time. But it is true that at on three they took, as best we could tell, five or six different contributors and they all submitted their top 25 their way too early. Top 25 for this upcoming year. And then they threw it all in a blender, poured it out and this is what transpired. So someone in the comments and the replies to the tweet, they pointed out that this time last year, the fine folks here at On3, they also did a way too early. Top 25 this time last year, and they were trying to hate on it by saying number 21 versus number 23 ended up being the national title game. I'm like, I don't think that's the flex you think it is. Did you have Indiana and Miami one and number two? I don't think you did. I don't think anyone did. Now, a lot of people will take that to be evidence that there shouldn't be preseason rankings, which is foolish to me, and I'll explain why in a second. So it's always important to state the goal of a top 25. We go over this drill every August. I guess we could do it in January, too. What is your goal? If you're doing a top 25, what is your goal? First thing we got to establish, are you doing power ratings or are you doing rankings? So are you doing, like, neutral field favorability, or are you just ranking them as if you were an AP voter? That's the first thing. This is the latter. This is true rankings. Number two, are you doing a real time. Like, are you ranking Ohio State number one and Oregon number six? Cause that's how you think they'll start the season. Or are you ranking Ohio State number one and Georgia number two because you think that will be the national championship game matchup, and therefore that's how I'm going to have it in the preseason. In other words, are you projecting with your rankings? So you always have to establish that, and there can be differing points of view on that. Like, I don't do the projection thing. If I thought that LSU was going to start the season slow, but really get their act together mid season and then surge towards a national championship, I wouldn't rank them number one to start the year. If I were projecting, I would. So Texas and Notre Dame, Someone had a point to make about that. In fact, several people had points to make about several of these teams. So Brandon hit us up. He said, man, why don't they just. Why do they just inject Texas and Notre Dame into top five spots? They did nothing to deserve that preseason. No one's done anything to deserve anything preseason. Brandon, again, according to the way I view rankings, how could you have done anything to deserve any preseason ranking? To me, there should be no carryover. It's not like you won the world championship belt at SummerSlam, so you still have it on your shoulder at Survivor Series because no one's beaten you for it. You're not defending anything. There's no carryover. Your roster is not the same. Nobody's roster is the same. And even if your roster was the same, there's no carryover. So as long as every team starts 0 and 0 the following season, how have you earned anything? The detractor will listen to me and say you just provided the entire evidence that there shouldn't be preseason rankings. I didn't. I just provided logic behind the fact that what you did last year shouldn't really have a bunch of bearing on how you rank a team this year. So Texas is going to be a loaded roster this year. Arch Manning ended the season very strong. They went hard in the portal. Marcus Freeman's got, first off a workable schedule and secondly, probably his best team to date. Those are the reasons why you may want to put Texas and or Notre Dame top five. That's it. That's, that's the only, that's the only merit you need In January, no one's played a game. What about the Penn State tweet? We saw a lot of feedback on this. For people who don't care about preseason rankings, there was a lot of feedback on this. Someone said this always ages so poorly. See Penn State literally every year I've noticed the folks who use the crying, laughing emoji disproportionately are making bad points. That's what I've noticed in my own replies. Penn State most years has been fairly properly rated. Last year was a glaring outlier. But again, it ages poorly. Only if you're treating preseason rankings as something that has to hold up top to bottom at the end of the year or else you don't know ball. Did anyone, anyone whose opinion you would even fractionally respect, have Penn State outside their top 10 or top 15 at the worst preseason last year I didn't see anyone. Everyone had them up there. They're just going to be outliers every year. Penn State was just an outlier. I mean they had, they had all the metrics that you would think you need to check. They got an extremely experienced, highly paid coaching staff. They got a veteran laden roster. They made a few key additions to the portal. In the one area that you thought was one of the remaining areas they lacked, which was wide receiver. All the indicators were there. They lost the Oregon game and it completely tore the damage. That's really, that was the Penn State story. If anyone claims that they saw that coming, you be my guest. You show me your work. First off, I want to see the work. I want to see your preseason rankings last year. I don't think it aged poorly at all. I just think a college football season happened. You take whoever you think the smartest football mind in the world is, have them write their preseason rankings in January or August, I don't care. And then hold it up to the light in January and look at how frequently you could pick that apart if you wanted to. Which brings me to my next point. Well, not my point. Someone else made a point I just want to react to. Has to do with the B word. Bias. Someone's claiming bias. Rank quote from someone else. Rankings shouldn't start until week six. Rankings dictate so much outcomes in the season, and the bias towards certain programs isn't fair with the transfer portal. It is too hard to know how good teams will be. This in no way invalidates the concept of why you would want preseason rankings. It just means your methodology has to be sound. So take Penn State last year, for example. There's nothing wrong with using your best judgment and using it to rank Penn State number four to start the season. As long as. Here's the important part. As long as you're willing to adjust them on the fly. And as long as you value the results on the field way more than your preconceived notions. Because at that point it really doesn't even matter if bias was involved. It really doesn't matter if you were disproportionately biased towards big name programs and you really did so at the expense of not giving a second look to Indiana. Once Indiana starts winning and once Penn State starts losing, as long as you move them appropriately and as long as you value one football game's outcome more than six months of you sitting around talking and reading magazines, it's fine. What the bad part is, is not everyone feels that way. There are some folks out there who traffic in preseason rankings and then they get married to their preseason ideas, which aren't based in any games that have actually been played. And then they stick to their preseason conceptions in spite of actual evidence on the field to the contrary. Now that's a problem, and those sorts of people aren't to be taken seriously. But as long as you're not that way, I don't really care. As long as you're willing to adjust on the fly, I don't care. So my personal thoughts on this thought. Number one, I'm not ready to put out my preseason top 25 point. Number two, Penn State's number 14. I kind of get it. Some people said they looked overrated. I kind of get it. Their schedule is workable, which shouldn't matter here, but let's be real, a lot of people make it matter. But the Iowa State imports and the fact that I believe in Matt Campbell and the fact that they're not ranked 4th, they're ranked 14th, I'm okay with that. USC looks low to me at 19. If Lincoln Riley is going to make some serious playoff noise at usc, next year will be the year they do it. And I, I think they may start the season off in a really good place. Gary Patterson as a defensive coordinator. I love the hire. We didn't talk a lot about that. I love the hire. So USC I think is kind of low at 19. And look at the start to their season. They get three games. That should be, all due respect to Fresno State, should be fairly good. Tune up games for Ohio. Actually, that's not even scheduled, is it, Jesse? Wait a second, wait a second. Do we know. I hear you. Do we know when they're going to announce the dates? Okay, we should go back to segment one. We got to do better at scheduled releases. I didn't even know that the Big 12 announced their schedule released the other day. It just kind of randomly popped up on a graphic somewhere and I said, wait, did they release their schedule? Come to find out, they did. So I take that back. We don't know when USC is going to play Ohio State. Oh, by the way, January 27th is when it comes out. Okay, so five days from now. Oh, man, we got work to do. Think about the viewpoint of usc. By the way. So USC knows that they're going to go to Penn State, to Rutgers and to Wisconsin. They could be going to Madison, Wisconsin in early September. They could be going to Madison, Wisconsin in late November. They don't really even know. It could be 72 degrees, it could be 12 degrees, and they don't even know. That's tough. Lincoln Riley, do you guys think he lives a cushy life? And he does, but man, that schedule, there's wild fluctuation in the potential outcomes. Anyway, I think USC is a little low at 19, Washington at 18. I have no idea what to expect with the dynamic there. If I had a quarterback who looked me in the eye and said, I'm with you, and then he sprinted towards the door and thrown up the deuces the whole way, yelling, suckers. And then he runs face first into the door and realizes, oh, it's locked. And then he turns back around and tries to come back over here and sit with us like nothing happened. I don't know, man. I just don't think it would be the most fun spring ball period, I've ever been through. So I don't know what the dynamic is going to be there. And there is one team not listed here that I think could be a big time wild card type team this year, and that's the Auburn Tigers. So I'm not saying they should be top 25. I'm just saying that I may place them ahead of a few teams that are in the top 25, which is essentially me saying I think they should be in the top 25. So there you go. You asked, I delivered. Those are my thoughts. They're watching us in Boardman, Ohio. Valdosta, Georgia. Rancho Mirage, California. I think that's near Palm Springs, I think. Let us continue. Got transfer portal intel here and you may be thinking to yourself, how's that possible? The portal's closed. Yes, it is. But there are a lot of names still rattling around in there. Just ask lsu. So big defensive commitments coming off the board. All right. Principal Yaman, Ellen. Very close. Yeah. To lsu. Here's what I do know. I do know they just picked up a premier edge rusher, nine sacks last year, 65245. And they're still in it for other guys. Like LSU is doing a really, really good job in the portal. I told you the other day I was talking to a GM from another big time program and he talked about his team and then he talked about lsu. So LSU is a lot of people are taking notice of what they're doing way too early. Top 15 team. That's the rumor on the street for 2026. So that's happening. Also, Damon Wilson to Miami is official now and this is a big one because you just watched Ruben Bane terrorizing everyone. Hakeem Mazador terrorizing everyone. Well, they're going to be playing their ball on Sundays next year. Who knows, maybe in Miami, but it won't be for the Hurricanes. So they had to backfill and and they were going to be aggressive and they've got Damon Wilson and this is a big, big, big pickup. 64250 was second team all SEC last year. Now great in edge rusher category, Run D. That's probably the one where like you're going to look at it and you're going to say if there's a vulnerability there, then that's something that you keep an eye on. But you've got available what you got available in the portal. So you got him, you got Lightfoot. They got others there. I think Miami has more Than done a good enough job sort of backfilling, losing some premier guys to the NFL. Jordan Seaton watch is still on. Jesse. I don't know since we started the show, if anything's really happened, it doesn't look like it's happened. So, you know, he, he took the visit to LSU and didn't sign with lsu. And anytime you go to LSU and you don't sign, Lane chases you in his plane after you leave. And so in this case, I think Jordan Seaton ended up in Atlanta and he canceled his visit to Oregon, but then Oregon and Dan Lanning hopped down to Atlanta to visit him. Don't know where. And then Lane chased him and then Miami's still in this thing. So you've got a Miami, lsu, Oregon sort of battle. Was looking at Nacos work on on3.com earlier, maybe still edged to LSU, but it's fluid. I guess that's the best way to describe this right now. If LSU gets him, that would be three of the top four guys in the portal rankings. So they're making big moves there. Darian Mensah is in the portal. As we told you the other day, all the legal wrangling at Duke notwithstanding, obviously nobody ever wins a lawsuit. The NCAA never wins lawsuit. So he was going in the portal. He is in the portal. It's brutal for Duke. I hate that it's happening. Miami is in the driver's seat there. He's going to go to Miami. Cooper Barcade, who we think is the last name that we've pronounced right here. What we do know is he was Duke's top receiver, thousand yard guy. That is a guy who's probably following him to Miami. So Miami was in a unique situation because they had to play the national title game, which means they kind of had to delay making a lot of their moves. So now they're making their moves. Dabo may retire, man. Dabo for a long time shirked the portal and I had my thoughts on it and everyone had their thoughts on it. Dabo Swinney has finally dipped his toe into the portal and it's freezing. Like he may jump out and may never even pull his shirt off. He's not going to jump in after experiencing what they have with Luke Forelli. So here's what happened. All right? Tough scene for Clemson as it relates to Luke Forelli. Because you're watching the screen and you're saying, what do you mean Clemson? There's an Ole Miss logo. There wasn't last week. So this dude's an ACC defensive Rookie of the Year at Cal. And then he portals to Clemson. But, hey, man, that was in another world, another time. That was all the way back on January 7th. And then you're walking around on Clemson's campus, and you walk into class, and you may have even seen Luke Forelli, and you're attending some team functions, and you may have even seen him there. He's wearing the orange polo with the tiger paw on it. And then Ole Miss decides, no, we want him. And since there are really no rules or parameters or barriers or guardrails, they just said, we'll go get him. And so they dropped a bag, as you do these days. And Luke Forelli said, you know what? I don't think I'm enrolled here anymore. I don't think I'm a Clemson Tiger anymore. I'm going to Ole Miss. And so I sat there and begged forever for Dabbo to utilize the portal. And he does, and this happens. And I can only imagine his reaction when he finally gets drug kicking and screaming into this thing. And this is one of the first examples of what it's like to dance in the portal. This is tough. Caden Lee, Ole Miss wide receiver, entered yesterday. And so we're keeping a close eye on this. Missouri looks to possibly be the team to beat. Now, keep in mind, it's another one of these legal things with Trinidad Chambliss. He isn't allegedly going to play college football anymore because he's out of eligibility, except that they're trying to legally pursue another year for him. No one knows which way that's going to go. Caden Lee doesn't know which way it's going to go, but he had to get in the portal just in case it didn't go the way he wanted, because he can then follow Austin Simmons to Missouri. So there's a lot of uncertainty as to whether he'll hop back out of the portal. So, yeah, the portal is everything that you would expect it to be this time of year, as is patestatematerial.com now, about, oh, an hour ago, I had a Vince McMahon moment on Prez, because Prez made this fancy new graphic down here in the lower right portion of the screen as I'm looking at it. But it said new merch out. And, like, Vince McMahon was famous back when he was running programming every day for having these little idiosyncrasies, these little phrases he didn't like. Like, he didn't like hospital being said on air. He wanted it to be medical facility. So I never do that. Except I've never been a huge fan of the word merch for our store. I prefer items. So I told Prez with like 10 minutes warning, change that to items. And I just noticed he did it. So never say Jesse thought he couldn't do it. But Jesse always underestimates Prez and Prez always comes through. So there are new Items available@patestatematerial.com like for example, perhaps you've procreated recently and you are a new father. We are happy to celebrate with you. It's a problem that I can see the staff now with this glass in front of me. Pate State Dad. And we got paid State mom in there too. It's just 94% of our audience is male, so I assume there are more fathers than mothers that watch the show. So there's some paint State dad items. Some would call it merch. I would call it an item. Also, the McLaughlin School of Music shirt is moving. It's moving. Happy with that? Boy, what a number in front of me. I didn't plan on talking about this on the show. Let me take a sip of water. I don't talk TV ratings on the show. I think it's dumb because it doesn't concern you, but this one may. Let me take a sip. Hold on just a second. If you're listening to a podcast, I'll be right back. Thank you. Calloway Bluh. Bottled in Harris County, Georgia, by the way. All right, David from Bloomington, Indiana, what are your thoughts on the national title TV ratings and what could be any better? This is a monster number. Now, I'm a nerd for this stuff, but I hate talking about it on air. And I cannot stand when people start throwing around TV ratings numbers a lot because, number one, hardly anyone knows how to properly interpret it. There has been recent Nielsen calibration that probably has given us more proper metrics. But anyway, that's nerd stuff. Number two, and probably more fundamental. And why I've always despised a bunch of fans talking about TV ratings is they don't concern you. Like you like what you like. You should watch what you like. And if a billion people are watching along with you or 10 people are watching along with you, if you enjoy it, you enjoy it. So it never made much sense to me. Having said that, boy, this is a big number. 30.1 million viewers for the national championship game. 33.2 million at the peak. That's what Miami, Indiana did the other night. And if you're wondering, okay, what does that mean in relation to what? It's the most watched national title game since 2014. It is the most viewed non NFL telecast period since 2016. It was up 36% year over year from last year, which was Ohio State, Notre Dame. So I cannot overstate enough how mind boggling this viewership number was. Now, there are many different reasons why, like, I don't even get why people try and figure out why a lot of people watched something almost like you're explaining it away. Whoa. Yeah, but it was a close game. Yeah, duh. We all watched it, man. 30.1 million people. Did we get it? Well, yeah, but Miami and Indiana, that was new blood. Yes. Yeah, you're not explaining anything we don't already get. One of the worst kinds of folks that walks in the room, by the way, is a window licker who thinks he's intellectually just floating at a different level in the room and he's just saying the most obvious stuff possible. Yes, there are a lot of reasons. There are a lot of reasons for anything that happens. But what this proved to me is a few fold. But firstly, unequivocally, Indiana is a huge draw. And I never expected that. So I think we learned a lot about Indiana as a fan base brand university this past year. From a sports standpoint, I did not know how big their alumni base was. And I think outside of Indiana, most people did not know that. So massive alumni base. But even having been armed with that knowledge, I didn't know how much that would translate into viewership, you know, because sometimes you have a big alumni base, but they don't care about sports. Well, Indiana has cared about basketball for a long time. Would they care about football? They care a whole lot about football. They invaded Atlanta for that Peach bowl in a way that would make Sherman look and say, wow, that's a pretty impressive invasion. And then they took over Miami's own building, probably 70, 30, 75, 25. So yeah, they traveled and yeah, they were jacked up and they were excited and they spent a ton of money, but they also watched. And a bunch of non Indiana folks watched Indiana. So Ohio State, Penn State, Oregon, usc, Michigan, like those are big time TV draws. Indiana is a big time TV draw, like a legitimate big time TV draw. And I underestimated that. I knew Miami would have appeal. I didn't know Indiana would have that kind of appeal. All right, the second thing is I love this and I hate this. I love it because it's a ton of people watching college football, which is a great thing across the board. The Only reason I hate it is because it gives people who suck at leadership and who have made a mess of a lot of things in college football, this false ammunition in the way of a big TV rating to fire in people's face and try and claim they're doing a good job. College football is not thriving because of great leadership. It is thriving despite great leadership. And I would argue quite the opposite. I would argue college football is not close to its ceiling. It is thriving in spite of poor structure. And if college football ever gets out of its own way and it's properly structured and it's properly led, it's. It'll explode even more. You look at that number, and that's a huge number. But what you don't know is what the maximum saturation point is. Where is the ceiling? My suspicion, my instinct, and we look at a ton of data on this all year, is if this is a 10 rung ladder, college football is on about rung six or seven. It's just still by far the number two most popular sport in the country because this is a football drunk country. And college football, for some of the same reasons, and for some different reasons than the NFL is great, is also great. But the NFL is run extremely ruthlessly efficiently. College football is not. And yet it still thrives, but it could thrive more. Now, Bradley, do me a favor. Put up the question again. I want to go back to the second part of it for just a second. And also I want to buy myself five seconds to put on some lip balm. All right, there we go. You see this second part? This one piqued my interest a little bit. David said, what could be any better? So Miami and Indiana just did a huge number 30.1. I don't know if this is what David meant, but I took it to mean what, what matchup, like what national championship game matchup could we put on the field currently that would get the biggest TV rating imaginable. And I came up with Texas, usc. I think Texas, USC would blow anything out of the water right now. You would get the Big 10 SEC thing. So you would get culture versus culture. You would get conference versus conference, but also you would get new blood because neither of them have been at that level in about a generation. You would get the nostalgia piece times 10, because they have a history this millennium of playing for a national championship. Probably the best national championship game that we've seen this millennium. You would get massive brands there. And I think the appeal would be off the charts. And I think that thing would hit 35 plus. That's what I think. USC, Texas. And so like you could argue, what about Ohio State, Texas? I think it would be obviously to be a huge draw. I just think there's a lot to be said about the new blood factor that we just got with Miami and Indiana. Like that obviously had massive appeal. And if we got pound for pound, if we got bigger brand names and we still filled those boxes, we checked those boxes, I think that'd be a big number. So you give me usc, Texas right now, it would do an unfathomable number for a college football national championship game. Not that we eat, sleep and breathe ratings, but I mean, Indiana is a huge draw, guys. We can back it up in our internals. Like I was very, very, I was very surprised at the amount of traffic our Indiana videos did this year. And like, you hear that and if you don't live in this world, it's boring. I'm going to move on in 10 seconds. But like, you hear that and you think, oh, that's so obvious. They had a magical Cinderella run this year. It wasn't a Cinderella, but they had a magical run this year. Hey, man, of course a lot of people watched, dude. TCU had a magical run in 2023. TCU numbers were non existent for us. Indiana is a massive, massive brand, massive fan base. And I just didn't know. So I guess we got to be better around here. That's on you, Jesse. Academy Sports and Outdoors. You can buy Indiana gear right there. You can still buy Miami gear there. I mean the sun will rise probably a lot quicker in Miami than it will elsewhere, but sun will rise. And you can go to Academy Sports and outdoors and you get geared up with your favorite teams items. But you can also gear up for spring sports season. Like I've recently purchased a couple of very, very shiny new softball bats. Season's going to be here before you know it. Bradley, keep your Friday nights open and academy.com if you can't get there in person like Academy, they got your cold weather gear. I would highly advise you stocking up tomorrow. Don't wait till Saturday and they've got everything else that you would need. Also big league chew in the checkout line. So Academy has been a partner of ours for quite a while and they will continue to be, God willing and we appreciate them. Let's move on. Very unique question here, but I thought we should mix it in given that it's January 22nd. Nathan from Las Vegas, Nevada hit us up and he said, I heard you say the other Night. You don't do an off season. What can we expect from the show over the next couple of months? It's a great question because I had a bunch of people ask a version of this because we always add a bunch of new viewers per year. So some of you are veterans, you've been around a long time, so you know the answer to this question. Well, I mean, we got hundreds of thousands of new people who just hopped on the bandwagon and enrolled at Penn State this past fall. So no, he's right. We don't stop. Like we are providing programming year round. It's just college football. Except for the very end of this show tonight when I'm going to dabble in some weather. But that's at the very end of the show. So here's the way it goes. We do three live shows per week during the season. Nathan. We back it down to two shows per week during this time of year. We do not use the word off season. It's banned. Actually, it's one of the only banned. We're a free speech campus. Except for that word. We ban that word and a few others. And you know, it's mainly due to people abusing the YouTube chat. So we back it down to two shows per week. But the trade off there is, is we end up doing the spring speaker series, the pent state speaker series, which we haven't been nominated for in terms of like Nobel peace prize, Emmy, et cetera. But that's probably coming. It's only a matter of time that Steve Sarkeesian sit down we did last year, that Ryan Day sit down we did last year. Like that could feed families. That was good stuff. I still go back and watch that. So we'll do that again this year. Like hour plus long sit downs. Really good conversational stuff with head coaches. Side note to any sids out there or head coaches themselves, whatever. I'm in the process of getting started lining that up. So figure out your calendars, figure out your dates. So we'll be doing that all spring. However, this is a new concept and I need your help on this. It's been brought to my attention that people beyond just head coaches want to be featured on the speaker series. I'm talking some football related people, but people beyond the world of just college football, like genuine celebrity types. Now my inclination is to have a really, really thorough filter on who we allow in the speaker series. But what I thought we should do is I thought I should put it out to you guys. Not a vote, but I should put it out and I'm open for feedback. And so just let me know above and beyond head coaches, who would you like to see? Who would it interest you for us to sit down on this show for an hour and just pepper them? Conversation, slash question, back and forth. I got a few. Some of them are big names, some of them are off the wall, but once you heard the name you would go, oh, wow, that'll actually be pretty interesting. But I'm not the audience, you are. So I will be on the lookout for some feedback there. But I do have some ideas. So, yeah, that's the spring and the summer is pretty much the same. And I mean, we'll eventually we'll probably be doing some storm chasing in the spring. I don't know how much of that ends up on this channel. If you follow me on the social feeds, you see a lot of very eclectic stuff from about February through August on my feed at Josh Patecfb. Not to be confused with oshpate_cfb. Pour one out for our little buddy the other day. Flexed so hard, flexed so hard. Flew too close to the sun and he died. He's no longer with us. He is gone. We don't mind parody accounts, everyone. We got a million parody accounts out there. We have fun with them, I interact with them. But imposter accounts, the swift arm of social media justice will be swung on you. Okay? One of our best friends in the world, Elon Musk, little known fact and so he came to our rescue the other day and took out the trash. Took out the trash. And I don't know if that individual is listening. That individual should probably know we know your identity, man. There's one adult in the room, at least in this equation. So I didn't out you, but I know who you are. In fact, I even know what that account used to be before your former entity that you were aligned with dumped you. So we know who you are. It's just. I guess what I'm trying to say is you're welcome. We could have made it a whole lot worse, but you wasted a 45,000 follower count by trying to impersonate someone and it really wasn't me you pissed off. It was Savannah State. So that's really. That's really where you took a wrong turn. Next up, I'm happy to announce that the mood tracker is back. Worth another paper pop. Every year around this time, we start taking the temperature of fan bases. We call it the mood tracker. Tonight I wanted to do Michigan for just a second. Really what we're trying to do here is we're trying to take a slice of the fan base and then we kind of cut off the 10% that are perma positive and the 10% that are perma negative, and we try and take like the middle 80%. What's their general mood? It's a very helpful exercise. With Michigan, I kind of get the sense that there's that mood that the curtain has dropped, or you could say the curtain is raised. But I just think curtains dropping is more dramatic. So around Michigan, it feels like curtains have been up for quite a while. It feels like for the past several years, if you talked about Michigan football even when they were winning, there was always this caveat. If you were a non Michigan fan, or maybe even if you were a Michigan fan, you just wouldn't admit it publicly. There was always this mystery. In one case, it was, what's happening with the Stallion stuff. In the other cases, man, what's happening with the NCAA stuff? Even as recently as this year? Just because the Sherrone Moore stuff took until December to blow up doesn't mean that the rumors weren't out there. So even this year, Harbaugh's gone. The NCAA stuff is allegedly behind us. We are not mentioning Connor Stallions anymore. Well, on this show, we do kind of a friend of the show. But you thought even this year, man, there's just this kind of. There's a curtain up, like, I wonder what's happening behind the scenes. Well, finally, there's really no wondering what's happening behind the scenes anymore. We know that Sharon's gone. We know NCAA investigation's gone. We know we got a new head coach in place and Kyle Whittingham, and we know, like, Bryce Underwood's still here. So we know we may not be preseason ranked number one in the country. We may not be the favorites to win the Big Ten, but at least we know, or we think we know as much as we possibly can about the state status of our football program. And so now we're free to build. Like, we're free to dream. We're free to emotionally invest again without the risk of the fear of getting burned by some headline that randomly drops. Pete Naco just drops the bomb on your forehead on a random Tuesday morning, and you're like, I didn't even know this was a possibility. Hopefully none of that anymore. So if we are to believe that that's the case, and I do, that's why I just said it, then what do we think? Kyle Whittingham is a really solid head coach. Still got a lot of tread on his tires. Michigan's going to be a real talent destination, recruiting and portal. I have all the reason in the world to believe that they'll build that roster the right way. And I don't think it'll take top five recruiting classes to do it. Although it's an added bonus if you do put it together with that kind of talent. But the talent's one thing, the mortar between the bricks or as we would call it, a team, that's another thing. And I think they'll be a hard out up there just in the foreseeable future as long as. As long as the quote a Kyle Whittingham football program, unquote, still means what it has meant. And I got no reason to believe that it won't. You know, there is this, there is this weird possible chapter in Kyle Whittingham's bio that you're reading or watching one day where he has all these years of success at Utah and then you think forever he's going to retire at Utah and he's a Utah lifer. I thought that. And then he's not. And then the final, let's just call it six years of his career are at Michigan and he ends up having the most successful two year stretch or three year stretch of his career at Michigan. You never would have seen that coming. Kyle Whittingham himself, if you showed him that chapter six years ago would have thought you were crazy. Like I'm not leaving here first off because he thought he was free to retire there and then he ended up getting forced out. And you just, who in the world six years ago thought private equity was going to be involved with Utah athletics? So it's a crazy world in which we live, but that could end up being to the benefit of Michigan. And at the very least I just. The mood up there has got to be kind of in line with that. There's no more guessing, there's no more wondering, like for better or for worse, we know what we got now. And as far as I can tell, the fan base has done a pretty good job of selling themselves on the idea that we'll be able to do what we need to do with Kyle Whittingham. I know I've talked to a couple of Big Ten coaches not at Michigan and I can assure you, like it got their attention when they ended up hiring him. And Bryce Underwood's still there and he's second year guy now. So I think there's a lot to look forward to there. And at the very least there's not this constant looking over your shoulder. Man, is there a shoe that's going to drop? Is there a hammer that's going to drop and I'm waiting on it? No. At least as far as I can tell, there's not. So right now if you go to FanDuel, you eventually will be able to bet your opinion on Michigan this upcoming year. Now that's not on the market yet. Michigan win total is not on the market yet. The other night I did get some clarification on this. The other night I pointed out that there were a couple of win totals. There were three win totals that were available at FanDuel. One of them was inexplicably Arkansas. But what I forgotten is FanDuel is either about to be or is available in Arkansas. I know because I recorded a video. So it's about to launch in Arkansas. That's why Arkansas over under a four and a half wins is on the books. Wish it could have gotten timed up a little better where Arkansas was a preseason title Favorite As FanDuel opened in Arkansas, but it was not to be. However, you will have some title favorites and you can be already getting a little action on that. Or if you're just looking ahead to this weekend, I have it on good authority sources are telling me that we've got an NFC and AFC Championship game this weekend and so you've got profit boost on NFL playoffs and I would highly encourage at least considering it because what you don't want is the playoff boost to just come and go and you never took advantage of it. Like if you're there, you might as well take advantage of it.
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Okay, this is the most serious part of the show. If you're a big fan of college football. But weather does not impact your life. You need to tune out because the show's over. But I know good and well weather affects every one of your lives, so none of you need to be turning the show off. Justin, with the most important question of the new year so far from Richmond, Virginia, what is with your fascination with weather? And do you have thoughts on the snowstorm that's going to hit the east coast this weekend? Well, it's not just hitting the east coast. Okay? This is not just a nor'. Easter. Like, I know the east coast likes to think they invented winter weather. No, no. No one did. God did. And God has seen fit to just bury a strip from Oklahoma City to Little Rock to Nashville to Louisville and then up to Richmond and then maybe Boston, maybe Philadelphia. It just depends on which model is right. I think it's going to be a big one, man. Full immunity on this, but I think that folks are going to get crushed. Now, we're in Nashville right now, so we're under a winter storm warning, and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth. The online weather community is beside themselves, and they've been pitted against each other because, like, some people are what we would call GFS truthers, and that's sort of the American model. And then there are Euro truthers. Now, you know as well as I do there are not many things Europe does better than the United States of America, but one of them that they do do better is modeling winter storms. And so I tend to believe in the Euro solution right now, which is horrible news for us in Nashville because That means about 1 or 2 inches of snow and then an ice storm. Now, in the off chance that the GFS solution verifies, then we've got a foot of snow Saturday, which of course you pray for, not that either is ideal. Kind of goes back to our playoff proposals. There is no perfect solution here, but you greatly prefer a foot of snow to an inch of ice. I also want to caution everyone, Jesse, Mitch, Bradley, Prez, those of you who are not bailing tomorrow, like some of us may have contingency plans to do if you're sticking around Nashville or you're in Memphis or Jackson or like, anywhere like that. I know that you probably haven't dealt with something like thundersleet before. Thunderstorms, yes. Thunder, ice. Thundersnow. Thundersleet. No. Now, a lot of you in the north have dealt with thundersnow before, but even some of you don't really understand the concept of thundersleet, and especially Thunder, ice. But the dynamics with this system are so insane just above the surface that it is very possible, nay likely that you're going to be looking at Twitter on Saturday and you're going to be refreshing social media feeds and there is someone randomly in like Hohenwald, Tennessee who posts a vertical video and there is heavy sleet falling out of the sky and there are lightning strikes and, and thunder. Fully expect that to happen. So you can say many things this weekend, but what you cannot say is you were not warned because this is your winter weather headquarters. For about three minutes tonight, this was your winter weather headquarters. I think it's going to be really, really incredible. And then I do want to tell everyone, once you think you're out of the woods, I fully expect to be dealing with this again next weekend. So there's like a little super highway, a very active pattern right now. Give it about six or seven days per and I think we may be dealing with this next weekend. So I'm Magic Johnson on this. I'm not going to be here. I'm running away. But the rest of you who stick around, I wish you the best of luck. I highly doubt we're going to have a Sunday show. I cannot in good conscience make Bradley drive to the studio. And so I would bet no Sunday show Tuesday. Whomst amongst us knows. Okay, our balls are not in our own court on this. So it's totally up to the weather. So just follow on the social feeds. Oshpatecfb but this has been your winter weather update from Pate State. We're keeping a close eye on it. Fingers crossed for the GFS full confidence. It's gonna cave. And the Euro takes the day and major ice storm in Nashville. That's my guess right now. Hold me to it. I mean famously I picked Indiana lose four games this year so I would not like to be held to this. But yeah, a lot of people very on edge here right now. Good show tonight. Did not get it in under an hour, but good show nonetheless. Appreciate you guys. Make sure you are subscribed to the channel. For director Bradley producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate. Take care. Have a great hopefully warm start to your weekend and God bless.
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