ESPN is planning a new college football show with Josh Pate and Bussin’ With The Boys cohosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, sources told Front Office Sports.
The show will air on Friday afternoons and take place from college campuses, sometimes (but not always) from the site of College GameDay, sources said. It was not immediately known what the time slot for the program would be. An ESPN spokesperson declined to comment.
Last year, Pate made regular appearances on ESPN’s Get Up throughout the football season. FOS previously reported that ESPN was looking to expand his role this upcoming football season, as the network’s president of content, Burke Magnus, has felt that college football has been under-covered on ESPN talk programming relative to the high ratings the games garner.
Pate hosts his own multiplatform digital show, with partnerships with On3 and Yahoo Sports, and has more than 500,000 subscribers on YouTube. He recently joined FOS editor-in-chief Dan Roberts for a conversation that included general NCAA topics, following the Pat McAfee path at ESPN, and his reaction to the backlash he faced for interviewing President Donald Trump.
The Bussin’ cohosts also started appearing on ESPN studio programming last year, after their popular podcast migrated from Barstool Sports to a presenting sponsorship with FanDuel. The duo also recently launched a show in partnership with NASCAR.
