Credit: Bussin' With The BoysESPN is reportedly planning a new college football show built around Josh Pate and Bussin With The Boys co-hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, airing Friday afternoons from college campuses, according to Front Office Sports Ryan Glasspiegel.The reported show would mark an expansion of ties ESPN has already built with all three hosts. Pate joined the networks Get Up rotation last year, as part of a broader push from content president Burke Magnus, who has said college football is under-covered on ESPNs talk programming relative to how many people actually watch the games. Compton and Lewan started appearing on ESPNs daytime lineup around the same time, following their decision to leave Barstool Sports for a presenting sponsorship with FanDuel.Of course, the show, which sometimes originates from the same city as the next mornings College GameDaybroadcast, also indicates ESPN is looking tofurther lean into a strategy where its top personalities are digital natives. Naturally, the comparisons will be made to Pat McAfees own rise at the Worldwide Leader, given the trios SEC Championship altcast debut on ESPN2 last December an altcast built off the Field Pass template McAfee had already proven out several times over and now a reported Friday show on top of it. If it feels like a coincidence, it isnt. Its more a barometer for whats possible when a network invests in an audience someones already built, according to Pate.I think when you combine that year-round college football being viable and then just sports media as a concept being presented in practice the way Pat has done it, I think that there is no ceiling on what youre allowed to do, what youre capable of doing, Pate told Front Office Sports in July.What Pate, Lewan, and Compton are actually capable of doing wont be clear until games are being played this fall, when ESPN will have to find out whether a Friday show built around three podcast hosts can hold up against the machine it already runs on Saturdays, one anchored by College GameDay and, per Glasspiegels reporting, the same site the new show would sometimes share. On a recent episode of Bussin With The Boys, though, Pate and Lewan laid out a vision for the alleged concept and the specific gap in ESPNs Friday programming they think it can fill.The Friday is the build, Pate said. The Friday is the shaking up of the Saturday Coke bottle. And you can feel the pressure building. People coming into town, families, kids checking out of school early. Lets hit the road. We got to get to the tailgate. We got to go see our friends that we see maybe eight weekends out of the year.'That image fans streaming toward campus a full day out from kickoff is what Pate returned to repeatedly as the center of the idea, per his comments on the podcast, down to wanting the show itself to physically track the countdown toward Saturdays game.I want a show that captures that, Pate said. The vibe of Friday. The vibe of T-minus 24 hours, 21 hours, 17 hours. And it may be all quiet right now, but when that clock hits zero tomorrow, its going to be all-out chaos.As Lewan framed it, the three of them wouldnt be the party the two schools playing Saturday would still hold that title with their job instead being to bottle the anticipation of arriving on campus the day before kickoff and give fans somewhere to spend those final hours before the pandemonium actually starts.Considering the built-in audiences that Pate, Compton, and Lewan already bring to the table, giving them their own show is a fairly low-risk bet for ESPN, especially with the program set to travel to the site of College GameDay on occasion, opening the door to fold the trio into the networks flagship pregame show down the line.The post Josh Pate, Taylor Lewan detail vision for ESPNs reported Friday college football show appeared first on Awful Announcing.