Video taking off 23x its usual first day

Josh Pate's college picks run Bussin' With The Boys twenty times past usual

Will Compton and Taylor Lewan's Week 5 college football Locker Room opened far ahead of the channel's NFL picks show, and the comments keep asking for one missing graphic.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 83,152 views a day, 23 times a normal first day on this channel (3,678).

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College football pulled the crowd. The Week 5 college picks episode from Will Compton and Taylor Lewan, with Josh Pate as the third voice, drew about 83,000 views in its first day. That is more than twenty times a usual first day for the channel.

Pate is one of the best-known voices in college football media. His appearance turns the hosts' weekly Locker Room show into a full card of games. The episode runs past an hour and a half. It opens on Lincoln Riley's future at USC after Oregon's blowout win, with Alabama's Kalen DeBoer named in the debate as a possible replacement. From there the three work through Florida at Missouri, where the description says comparisons to LSU's 2019 team are heating up around running back Jadan Baugh. They also take on Miami's chance to end Dabo Swinney's era at Clemson, which the title says Pate loves, and Mississippi State's Kamario Taylor against Alabama. Near the end come a Michigan-Iowa recap and a Nebraska-Maryland preview. Those are the two hosts' old schools, Lewan at Michigan and Compton at Nebraska.

The channel's NFL Week 4 picks show, with Clay Matthews and Delanie Walker, went up a day later and has drawn well under half as many views so far.

In the comments, the most popular joke is how long viewers had waited for this one. A steady chorus asks for an on-screen graphic of the hosts' picks leaderboard, so they can see the scores. One viewer writes in from Luton, England, where no channel shows college football at all.

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What viewers say

  • This video was promised to me 3000 years ago
  • Speaking for Pate State University here…don’t appreciate the face you gave Josh in the thumbnail 😂
    @payne_yt7665See it on YouTube
  • Need a ford leaderboard graphic that shows the scores

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The facts
Subscribers
733,000
Channel views, pace per day
649,426
Video published
September 30, 2026
Video views so far
94,985 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day
63,104

The numbers

The figures show a first day that ran far beyond this show's normal pace, even for a channel this size.

the video's first day
usual first day here
3,678
this video
83,152
subscribers
733,000
total views
503,004,463
views per day
649,426
the video
views
94,985
likes
1,378
comments
382
days online
2
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Parker Pannell
849,000
The Fellas
830,000
The Other Channel
829,000
Film Courage
802,000
Anything Goes With James …
802,000
Bussin' With The Boys
733,000
As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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