ESPN has officially expanded its partnership with two prominent independent creators.<\/p>\n
The network announced that Bussin\u2019 & Pate on Campus will air Fridays at 2 p.m. ET throughout the 2026-27 college football season, with the debut set for Sept. 4 in Baton Rouge ahead of Clemson-LSU on ESPN2, followed by a Sept. 11 stop in Ann Arbor for Oklahoma-Michigan on ESPN.<\/p>\n
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\u2018Bussin\u2019 & Pate on Campus\u2019 will air Fridays at 2p ET on ESPN during the \u201926-\u201927 college football season \ud83c\udfc8<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udccd Sept. 4 | Baton Rouge, La. (Clemson-LSU) | ESPN2
\ud83d\udccd Sept. 11 | Ann Arbor, Mich. (Oklahoma-Michigan) | ESPN<\/p>\nMore locations to come! pic.twitter.com\/RSfzTeX3qD<\/a><\/p>\n
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The show has been an open secret<\/a> since Front Office Sports\u2019 Ryan Glasspiegel first reported<\/a> the concept in late July, detailing a Friday afternoon program built around Josh Pate and Bussin\u2019 With The Boys co-hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, broadcasting from campus sites that would sometimes, but not always, double as that week\u2019s College GameDay location.<\/p>\n
Glasspiegel noted that the show\u2019s launch coincided with ESPN content president Burke Magnus expressing feelings that his network undercovers college football relative to the size of the television audience that games attract. By viewership, college football is the second-most-popular sport in the country behind only the NFL. The show also marks an expansion of ESPN\u2019s partnership with both Pate and the Bussin\u2018 duo. Last year, Pate began making regular appearances on\u00a0Get Up to talk college football. Compton and Lewan would similarly appear across ESPN\u2019s daytime lineup throughout football season.<\/p>\n
That expansion has been building steadily toward something bigger<\/a> than guest appearances. And now so is this Friday afternoon show, which Pate insists isn\u2019t meant to preview Saturday\u2019s game<\/a> so much as capture the mounting anticipation of the night before kickoff.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Friday is the build,\u201d Pate said. \u201cThe Friday is the shaking up of the Saturday Coke bottle.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the program traveling to the site of\u00a0College GameDay on occasion, the door is open for the network to fold the trio into its flagship pregame show down the line, if it decides that\u2019s worth doing.<\/p>\n
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