Josh Pate On CFB Creating New Rivalries (Late Kick Cut)

College Football teams are gearing up for the 2024 season and on Late Kick Live Ep 512 Josh Pate responded to a viewer question about how to get more rivalries in the sport. Is there a path to a new scheduling model with conferences realigning? Could the new structure of the College Football Playoff work all this out? Let us know what you think in the comments below and be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the channel and CLICK THE BELL for notifications as we bring you multiple live shows per week!
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[captainspartan]

Can’t wait for usc vs Michigan st. The Trojans vs the Spartans

[georgelucas]

The best rivalry was the PAC 10 vs Big 10 in the Rose Bowl. It’s a shame that the PAC no longer exists and that the Rose Bowl is now permanently part of the playoffs. All that tradition gone.

[Cifer]

New Rivalries would be great, but I HATE FORCED RIVALRIES.
You can't just decide that two teams become rivals, it needs to come from frequent competition, with some drama involved. It's gonna take time to build up.

[cxucxsixn]

uga vs fsu since keon wanted to talk all that stuff after opting out of the game himself 😭🤣

[CDSparks]

OU v LSU will probably develop into a big one, replacing Okie St for OU.

[Tm-htuk]

There are to many teams for this to happen if there was 140 teams in the nfl you wouldn’t see Pittsburg vs San Francisco to often

[KlangerV]

Oregon-Ohio St will be fun to watch for years. That rivalry has already been brewing for a decade plus at this point.

[robertd]

I like Josh's idea of playing the, let's say, less challenging teams (creampuffs) in a spring game that doesn't count. Both teams get real game experience and the smaller school gets a payday to help their program. Then play only the better teams in the fall. 2020 was an all SEC schedule and it was great.

[charlesivey]

Alabama going out west to play anyone....

[landon]

Longhorns vs Tigers….Sooners vs Tigers….as an LSU fan I can’t wait

[KD-eqch]

Sec should play the Big 12 non conference

Big 10 plays the ACC.

[TifosiGambler]

ND is the wildcard they have the flexibility to play a variety of teams from different conferences. Would love to see ND vs Mich annually much like SC game.
Texas vs A&M or Arkansas would be another historic rivalry revived

[SuperSirianRigel]

The SEC needs to split its non-conference games between the ACC and the Big 12. Since several of the schools in the SEC already have natural rivalries in those conferences.

[jpDragna]

I think the committee has proven for decades now that strength of schedule doesn't matter. SEC teams making it in is purely based off of their strength of schedule relative to SEC teams being ranked. It happens every year. ESPN's way too early top 25 (as well as many others), includes early season top 25 SEC teams such as 7-6 Kentucky, 7-6 Texas A&M who arguably had worse finishes to their season than GaTech and VaTech with similar records. Or a Tennessee sitting close to the top 15 when in reality they didn't beat a single ranked team in the regular season (I'm of the opinion that any bowl game outside of the playoffs these days is no more important than a spring game). They were even competitive, losing their three ranked match-ups by a combined 108-37, yet still provided each of those teams a "shocking" blowout victory over a ranked team.

All that to say that the SEC then uses that to basically schedule nobody. Texas A&M and LSU lost the conference's two tougher matchups, everyone else maxed out their FCS games, and found some G5 cakes to pad around "SEC tough" schedules. I'm still of the opinion that it's going to be really fun watching the SEC match up against Oklahoma and Texas all season long, and even more fun to watch B1G teams face going to the West coast for a marquee match-up for like the first time ever (9 times out of 10 those Pac 12 games are at "neutral" sites somewhere in the midwest or southeast). The season should be interesting, but I feel like teams in those two conferences are going to use this perception as a means of scheduling fewer meaningful out of conference games. There's also a lack of incentive for them to do so. Why give the ACC or Big 12 any access to the eyeballs B1G and SEC teams regularly get nationally? Florida - Miami feels like it's going to be the last of an outlier of matchups. Going forward if there are going to be OOC games, it'll maybe be B1G vs SEC, and even those will be minimal because why bother risking that when you already have Ohio State vs Oregon on the conference schedule?

[zakkreiser]

As a Penn State fan the rivalry I want (in conference or out) is Penn State USC or Penn State Notre Dame of olden days, but as a CFB fan some good rivalries that idk how it would work, but I’d like to see and think would be fun to watch is, FSU/ Bama, Michigan/ Ole Miss, Georgia/ Ohio State

[jimno]

This is a huge reason why USC been down they play 11 power 5 games every year while the SEC only plays 9. That’s a major disadvantage over the long term

[AZBuckeye]

Wouldn’t increasing the number of conference games accomplish this as well (for the SEC, it would also be what increases their payout from ESPN). For the BIG, it helps (just a bit) with concerns over the size of the conference.