CFP & Conference Title Picks + Brandon Walker Interview Reaction
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What are the CFP and conference championship predictions for the upcoming season?
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You know what I did yesterday, Jesse? In the span of 12 hours, in the span of eight hours, I appeared publicly with Mack Brown, college football legend, college football Hall of Famer, a saint of an individual, former national champion, and I appeared with Brandon Walker. The extremes of the human condition, never more pronounced than my life, what I experienced yesterday. And I'm going to talk about the latter of which a lot later in the show. We're jam-packed. We're high atop a glowing downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Beautiful sunset underway outside. And look... The reason I got to push all that stuff to later in the show is it's college football playoff prediction time. It's conference championship prediction time.
Last year, I was looking at the calendar. We waited too long. Frankly, I think I got influenced by some things that I heard in August, and that doesn't matter, and so I want to get it out of the way early. And we're going to do it tonight. We're going to do it to lead the show off. Also, the rankings came out today from the coaches. And the coaches are telling you some things without telling you some things. Or either their SIDs who filled the ballot out in their place are telling you some things. There is one of the more egregious teams placed in the top 25 that I ever remember in the modern era. And we all know how far that goes back. I've got a ton of fall camp stuff. Not like practice intel yet because most camps are just opening up or haven't opened up yet.
But I got my eye on a lot of things. We're finally about to put pads on and start figuring out some of this depth chart stuff. All that plus, I will give my own personal recount of my appearance last night, my debut appearance, my hosting duties, basically, on the maiden voyage of the Brandon Walker College Football Show, the second edition. The first one failed. And so this is the second edition of the Brandon Walker College Football Show. They're watching us in Lakeland, Florida. They're watching us in Danville, California, St. Paul, Minnesota, Porter, Texas. Look, we're way over halfway to a million subscribers. Now, I don't know what's going to happen the day we get there, but we got a little ways to go.
And I just want to crank up the community service early. We do a lot of community service on our end. The only service we ask for in return for this free college football show, which we do multiple times per week, is please subscribe to the channel and then... humbly but forcefully steal the phone of five of your friends and family and close relatives and have them do the same thing. With that, we are off. This is a really important show because it's time to pick some winners. It's time to make some predictions. It's time to nail myself down. And it's August 4th. And you know what that means, Jesse? I don't like predictions, frankly, because they set me up for failure. Think DJ Lagway, number one quarterback in SEC circa 2025.
This never works out well for me. I went 0-5, maybe 0-6, picking against Indiana last year. So take this with an entire factory of salt. And so what I'm thinking about doing is a little strategy called hedging. It is early August, and I am going to make predictions tonight. And I'm not writing them in pencil. I'm writing them in dark pencil, but still erasable. Because if I hear some stuff in fall camp, I want to be able to err right before the season starts. So I'm going to give you my conference winners. I'm going to give you my playoff predictions. I'm going to give you my national champion right here in front of God and Bradley and everyone. But I just want to leave myself... A small crack in the exit door over here.
With that in mind... Let's talk conferences first. And in no particular order, the ACC won the draft. And so the ACC is going to go first tonight. Look, there's no reason to break these games down because number one, they may not happen. But number two, even if they do, they're like four months, five months away. But congratulations to Mario Cristobal in Miami.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the CFP and conference championship predictions for the upcoming season?
0:00–12:17
2
Which teams does Josh Pate predict to win each conference?
12:17–24:13
3
How does the Brandon Walker interview shape the show’s debut?
24:13–36:01
4
What impact players from the transfer portal are expected to make a difference?
36:01–46:14
5
Why is the NCAA suspension of Arian Carter controversial?
46:14–59:58
6
What bold predictions does the host make for the national championship?
59:58–1:12:03
7
How can listeners get involved with the design contest and merchandise?
1:12:03–1:22:48
8
Why should listeners subscribe to the podcast and support the show?
1:22:48–1:24:37
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