Overview
- Front Office Sports reported on Thursday that ESPN is planning a new Friday-afternoon college football show that would pair Josh Pate with Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, and multiple outlets corroborated the account.
- The program is described as a traveling studio that would broadcast from different college campuses and sometimes from the same site as College GameDay the next morning.
- ESPN has not formally confirmed the plan and a network spokesperson declined to comment, leaving the exact time slot and production details unannounced.
- Josh Pate has built a large digital following and made recurring appearances on ESPN’s Get Up, while Compton and Lewan moved their Bussin’ With The Boys podcast away from Barstool and have recently appeared on ESPN studio shows.
- Reporters and industry sources frame the move as part of content president Burke Magnus’s push to increase college-football coverage, a shift that could change Friday programming and redirect resources after the company’s recent layoffs.