Josh Pate’s HONEST BREAKDOWN of the 12-team College Football Playoff message | The Sports Reporters

[@joshuasimmons8160]

Josh Pate rocking the white tee on ESPN😂

[@luttrelltoussaint2624]

Gotta stay on brand!

[@joshuasimmons8160]

@luttrelltoussaint2624 Yessir love that he represents the common folks!

[@bwreavis]

It's proudly from Academy

[@Jaden-m2k]

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[@Scuba4Steve]

Here to rep Pate State

[@SomeChink]

Hope the chalice makes a future appearance

[@JoshPateCFB]

HEYYYYYYY love to see it

[@TechPanther7]

Congrats man! Well deserved. ESPN needs more people like you tbh

[@tyronpouncey5985]

Awesome congratulations man

[@MrJhenry87]

JP and the white tee on ESPN! LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[@HeartlessWon506]

Pate State up in here let’s gooooooo 🔥🔥🔥

[@TheUnderDawg8D9]

☝🏻TRUEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@davidcole2337]

Wow Josh Pate making it to ESPN Impressive..

[@captainspartan04]

Not impressive need him to stay away from them

[@brantphillips9133]

@@captainspartan04why? He’s in bed with the SEC just as much as ESPN is

[@connorlokey107]

Can’t believe I’m watching Pate on this channel! Maybe if they got Josh instead of the insufferable Finebaum I might actually watch more often.

[@noneya3539]

Love Josh Pate’s content! Have him on more often.

[@danielbrown7740]

Look at the suits relying on Pate State for views. Love it! May not always agree with Josh but i always know where he stands. You could learn a lot Elroy and Rece.

[@thahard]

Josh Pate is in the building 🔥

[@frankschaefer8890]

I'm a proud Junior at Pate State!!! Love to see Josh.

[@FSBOAT]

Josh Pate makes my day better every time I hear him speak.

[@tyronpouncey5985]

Josh pate levelin up

[@MrDownsouthgeorgia]

When did Aubrey Plaza start covering CFB?? 🤔

[@SCarolinaX]

That song at the end is atrocious.

[@iramiyahira8301]

Josh. Is. A. Heavyweight. Amongst. These. Middleweights!!!!😂❤😂❤

[@tyronpouncey5985]

Please Josh don’t sign with espn, stay independent, or on cbs

[@Nowledgeman]

He pussed out here... If he signs with them we won't here his anti playoff takes anymore

[@Goeers206]

16 teams, 4 SEC, 4 Big 10, 3 Big 12, 3 ACC, 2 G5, and ND has to get off the pot and join a conference to get in. I think the at large bids are a joke because it's always going to be "The SEC and Big 10 need more" If the 4 best teams from your conferences don't give you a better shot at a nattie than the the rest having 3 or less, you don't need more than that in to be begin with.

[@mcjumic]

Josh Pate is the best, a class act all around, love seeing him on ESPN.

[@BoiseWheeler]

PATE STATE BACK ON ESPN

[@doc8013]

Sportcenter Pate with Finebaum is something I didn't have on my bingo card.

[@antoniowright7879]

Love seeing Pate on ESPN!!! Just stay away from the propaganda and don’t sign a contract with them.

[@EnvirotekCleaningSystems]

It isn't a legitimate playoff because there is a selection committee. A legitimate playoff has a system that doesn't have a committee. A true playoff includes a way that allows ALL the participating teams have one path to the playoffs. Every single player and coach knows EXACTLY what they need to do to qualify for post season action. The path involves winning. Nothing else. There is no ranking that has an effect. There is no vote. Of course, tie breakers must exist, but they must be the same for all and all must know the EXACT mechanisms of the tie breakers before the first practice of the season. You win your way in and as long as you win, you continue on. I can already hear the arguments that this is unfair and to the people who think that way don't have a clue. To those who think winning is only one part of the process, aren't qualified to have an opinion. Winning every game is the ultimate goal of every player, coach and member of the athletic department. Winning your way in is the only thing that should matter. It isn't some aspect that must be judged by people locked in a room using secret votes. If a perceived "lessor" team is included, they won to get there. Games have bona fide winners and losers and losers should be eliminated, even if some gambling website thinks that to get the money bet on both teams to be equal, they would give gamblers 20 points to bet on the winner vs another team that lost. The first round of the playoffs should be the conference championships. The losers are out. How in the world do you expect to have a true national champion if they can't win their own conference. I can already hear the criers talking about how hard some conference schedules are vs others and some undeserving teams might get in, so what? If they suck, they will get eliminated. That is the entire point of a playoff. Crowning a champion isn't a system that pits the teams that win beauty pageants into a tournament. It is a system that allows all of the teams a chance to get in and the best teams eliminate the worst teams by beating them in a game that is actually played. A true playoff does everything college football fans want except keep the importance of the bowls, but you can't say you want to keep the importance of the bowls because of tradition, when we had 16 bowls in 1981 and in 2024 we have 47. That is the tradition that is so important to ensure we protect at all costs? Really? A true win to be in playoff makes the regular season vital by not allowing multiple teams from the same conferences to enter the second round of the playoff. If your only path in, is to be one of the participants of your conference championship game and the only way to proceed, is to win that game makes for a system that checks all the boxes, except for the people who want their favorite team to get a second bite of the apple and I'm a Texas fan.

[@kevinbond8966]

It's literally impossible to do that when you have 9 conferences that are at 3 different levels. In order to implement your idea without destroying college football would be for the Power 2 conferences to break off from the other 7 conferences.

[@EnvirotekCleaningSystems]

@@kevinbond8966 Kevin, you are mistaken. If the other conferences are at a higher level , then they will win the championship. That is what would happen. Do you believe those lessor conferences have teams that would win it all? If so, then those conferences aren't at a different level at all.

[@kevinbond8966]

@@EnvirotekCleaningSystems There is a very small chance an ACC or Big 12 team could win the national championship. That small chance is not enough to pretend the SEC and the Big 12 are on the same level. But maybe I'm wrong and SMU is about to win the Natty!!....or maybe they're gonna get smoked. This playoff will be a good test to see if the ACC and the Big 10 are on the same level.

[@MattBuild4]

@@kevinbond8966 So do you think North Dakota State plays at the same level as Central Connecticut State?

[@kevinbond8966]

@@MattBuild4 I have no idea about small colleges

[@Cahigginbotham]

The reason they did they playoff like they did, is so teams like ASU and Boise could make the CFP given the media Bias. ESPN panders to their audience, which is overwhelming SEC and national brands.

[@MattBuild4]

So in 2026, Boise State will be in the PAC and will play their PAC schedule + at Oregon, vs Memphis, at Louisville, and at Western Michigan. Youre telling me there is no way for Boise State to get a bye? Not even if Oregon won the B10, Louisville won the ACC, Memphis won the AAC, WMU won the MAC and Boise went undefeated? If your gonna penalize Boise State for the conference they play in, why do conferences get to reject programs from their conference for things that have nothing to do competition in football. Competitively speaking over the last 30 years, Boise State has done way more than Purdue, Minnesota, Indiana, Northwestern, Maryland, Rutgers, Miss State, Kentucky, Vandy, South Carolina, Mizzou and A&M. So if your conferences are truly about competition, why does one of the most competitive football programs in the last 3 decades keep getting rejected by the P4?

[@Jweezyization]

Pate State University

[@timonmarshall1172]

I love how most of these comments are in favor of Pate State! Josh is here to steady the ship!

[@LivinRentFreeinUT]

Pate should’ve wore the black away tee

[@williamflattery6019]

Let’s go JP!

[@ExistentialNights]

Yep in my white tee, yep in my white tee. Josh is the dirty south OG espn needs way more of.

[@radbrad969]

Pate State Frieghts!!!!

[@kapla2004]

PATE STATE!!! I watched this in a QuikTrip parking lot

[@JuanVilorio]

Pate State in the building

[@drdoc7508]

Dallas Wilson heading to Gators.. wow.. gators have a juggernaut of a receiving core for next year.. I think Florida now in top 5 recruiting class

[@hayden_walton]

Why is Ryan McGee the only person who realized the most important thing there at the end?

[@skipgumphrey9579]

I’d rather they focus on Pate twice and just ignore Finebum altogether… RTR

[@BobaFett5474]

ESPN 🤝 Pate State

[@luckysevens70905]

Built this brick by brick

[@sw120]

Josh is having to go easy with his thoughts on the playoffs knowing he's on the network that's broadcasting the whole thing 😂

[@Nowledgeman]

Disappointing honestly... He works for CBS. Why should he care? He pussed out just like he did with klatt

[@MattattackW]

Josh cant say ‘expanded playoff’ without throwing up in his mouth

[@JimmyStratton-wc1lk]

Nobody even talks about why Oregon doesn't host a game....why why why... They are The number One seed.... Hello...

[@Matttaylor016]

Paul. Kirby is 2-0 against Notre Dame

[@kentuckyfried9499]

I want to see Uncle Lou on ESPN doing YSIO 😆 🤣. If we going to do youtube personalities now.

[@80smusicproducer]

I gotta gotta gotta I gotta gotta go to Columbus. 😂

[@bobmald13]

The best teams earned a bye. It makes the conference championships more meaningful. Also some of the last games of the regular season. The last thing we want are teams sitting their best players just because they’re a lock. Four extra games are just too many for these kids but this way there is no complaining with team 5-12 because you are lucky to get a shot. Just re-seed after round one.

[@jdstan9650]

Finebaum's definition of "progress" is biased...he lives in Alabama.

[@Nowledgeman]

Josh pussing out again just like with klatt

[@riseoftheexiles]

PATE STATE!

[@ajg8722]

Paid off Pate strikes again

[@Coby_Got]

Why isn’t everyone dressed up n nice? This isn’t respectful of the original, sorry Jeremy.

[@sw120]

Why does it matter what they wear? They're talking about college football not going out on a dinner date

[@naten555]

why is everyone drinking espn koolaid? Everyone of the games is a touchdown spread or more. a 7 point spread is huge in football. 1st round matchups suck. seeding is all fucked up. 4 teams in the playoff have zero top 25 wins in the regular season to which I'd say none of those 4 deserve to be there.

[@MattBuild4]

Clemson made the 2019 playoffs beating 0 top 25 teams...... so why is that acceptable, but now its not?

[@naten555]

@@MattBuild4 Virginia was in the top 25.

[@MattBuild4]

@@naten555 They got that rank for the conference championship game. When Clemson beat them they fell out of the rankings, so its the same as when texas beat A&M this season.

[@John_Hoover]

12 teams is too many. There’s just not THAT many elite programs with a record and top 10 wins to fill a 12 team playoff bracket.

[@SomeChink]

bringing up the spread lol you forgot they play the game on an actual field

[@80smusicproducer]

lol. Yes Nicole if by fantastic games you mean first round blowouts..z

[@JimmyStratton-wc1lk]

Can i call u...i really have a questions here