Predicting 2026’s Wildest Headlines + Big Ten Coaching Rankings
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What is the opening premise of today’s College Football Show?
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promise you, I feel really comfortable saying this. I promise you, you could search the entire world. I don't think there's an audience like ours. I'm not even saying it's the biggest audience in the world. I'm just saying there's not one like ours. Jesse, did you see the guy in the delivery room wearing the Pate State shirt with the newborn? And his first thought was, I got to make sure everyone sees I'm wearing a Pate State shirt in the delivery room. Congrats, by the way. But that's not even what I was going to talk about. That just popped in my mind. We're jam-packed. We're high atop a scorching downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Thursday, June 25th, the year of our Lord, 2026. Now, here's what's unique about our audience.
So the other day, we're kind of thinking, what are we going to talk about on the Thursday show? Jesse, of all people, Jesse comes up with the idea to just ask folks what they think the wildest headline will be in this season if they were to teleport back from January. You've seen the whole season play out. What's the wildest headline you can give us? And the audience delivered. Truthfully, I can't put most of it on the air. That's how thoroughly you delivered, but we can put many of them on air. And we are going to, because these take us down all sorts of roads that really just make the mind start doing backflips and whatnot. and yet every season is crazy. So this stuff's insane, but it also could happen.
So we're going to talk about that. I'm going to rank the top 10 Big Ten coaches right now. I got the truth about Joey McGuire, my truth at least, and people are asking about vague tweets. So I'll discuss as thoroughly as I can tonight. They're watching us in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Jefferson City, Missouri, Ventura, California, Talbotton, Georgia. Thank you so much. Please make sure whether you're in Ventura or Jefferson City or anywhere from sea to shining sea and beyond, that you are subscribed to the channel. And if you are, thank you. And if you think you are, just make sure you are. It's college football, guys. That's all we do. All due respect to the Knicks. I haven't mentioned them once because all we do is cover college football.
We do it year round. And when you're subscribed, it helps us do it free of charge with an ad read here and there. That's the price you pay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So let's dive in. If I were to tell you, you get to go all the way ahead to the end of the college football season. You get to see everything that's going to happen this year. And then you've got to come back and you've got to give me the wildest headline. What would you say? That was the tweet I put out the other day. You just returned from January 2027. You shared the wildest college football headline from this season. What would it be? Now, here's my general policy on this before I show you some of your submissions, which I will grant you guys were pretty insane.
I don't think we can ever dismiss any prediction in June or July or August for that matter. And the reason I say that is think back to any given college football season, even the tamest of college football seasons. If you were to have predicted in July the five craziest things that ended up happening in that season, you would have been laughed out of the building. Take James Franklin last year. That's just a very recent example. If I were to have told you as Penn State was preseason top five and Franklin and Penn State are coming off a national championship, they're knocking on the door of the national championship game, and they've got all these returning starters and whatnot, and It's like playoff or bust.
If I were to tell you he's going to be fired before Halloween, that would have been crazy. But yet it was reality. So any given year, you know insanity is going to happen. What we're trying to do here, it's kind of like trying to pick the 15 over the 2 or maybe the ever so occasional 16 over the 1 in March Madness. You're blindfolding yourself and you're throwing the dart.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening premise of today’s College Football Show?
0:00–4:03
2
What wild headline did listeners imagine for the 2026 season?
4:03–9:53
3
Which bold predictions did the host share for Notre Dame and Texas Tech?
9:53–1:00:03
4
How does the host introduce the Big Ten head‑coach rankings?
1:00:03–1:04:28
5
Who are the top three Big Ten coaches according to the ranking?
1:04:28–1:16:22
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from Josh Pate's College Football Show
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SEC Head Coaches Ranked + Darkhorse Teams & Tornado Story