You’ve Got to See This: Josh Pate Sends Georgia Fans Into a Frenzy with Bold New College Football Rankings.
It started like any other Thursday evening on Late Kick Live—Josh Pate seated in front of his signature backlit screen, the smell of fall football thick in the air, his followers tuning in by the thousands. But then came the moment that would ignite a firestorm across the South and beyond.
Pate leaned forward, eyes narrowing. “Tonight,” he said, voice steady with calculated drama, “I’m shaking up the world of college football rankings.”
Cue the collective breath-hold of Dawg Nation.
The screen flashed: 1. Georgia Bulldogs.
Twitter exploded. X. Threads. Discord servers. Georgia fans from Athens to Augusta began flooding timelines with barking GIFs, red-and-black confetti, and the rallying cry: “Back on Top, Baby!”
What made Pate’s take so shocking wasn’t just the top spot—it was how he justified it.
“Kirby Smart has built a team that’s not just deep—they’re dangerous,” Pate said. “They’re not the sexy pick anymore, but they are the right one. And this defense? It’s the closest thing to a medieval war machine college football has seen in decades.”
He pointed to stats like a general pointing to battle plans: a front seven holding opponents to under 2.5 yards per carry, a secondary allowing less than 150 passing yards per game, and a quarterback—Carson Beck—who’d gone from question mark to exclamation point.
“You want bold?” Pate challenged. “I’m taking Georgia over Michigan. Over Ohio State. Over the Caleb Williams experiment at USC. Over Saban’s final stand in Tuscaloosa.”
That did it.
Within minutes, ESPN’s College Football Live picked it up. SEC Network had an emergency panel discussion. Even Kirk Herbstreit tweeted, “Pate’s not wrong… Georgia is SCARY good.”
Meanwhile, Athens was electric. Students poured out of dorms, storming Milledge Avenue as if the Dawgs had just clinched another national title. Inside The Varsity, fans were ordering chili dogs like they were victory cigars.
At a smoky basement bar just off Lumpkin Street, 63-year-old diehard Larry “Big Dawg” Mahoney stood atop a barstool, holding his vintage 1980 championship helmet. “I haven’t seen this town this lit since Herschel Walker ran through Tennessee!” he shouted.
But not everyone was thrilled. Alabama forums lit up with fury. A clip of a Bama fan smashing his TV with a cowbell went viral. Michigan fans called it “clickbait.” USC fans accused Pate of SEC bias.
Pate, unshaken, logged back onto Twitter/X that night and doubled down:
> “Bold doesn’t mean reckless. Georgia’s the best team in America—and I’d bet Sanford’s hedges on it.”
By morning, #PateKnew was trending nationwide.
No one knows how the season will end. But on that night, one man with a mic and a fearless take sent shockwaves through the college football universe—and Georgia fans? They howled with pride.
After all, in the South, football isn’t just a sport. It’s scripture. And on this night, Josh Pate wrote a new gospel.
And Georgia sat at the throne.
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