Pat McAfee calls out ESPN's social media after latest College Football Playoff ranking reveal

Pat McAfee and crew called out ESPN’s social media following the latest College Football Playoff rankings reveal on Tuesday night.

It was more so about the confusion of the bracket to uninformed viewers when comparing seedings to rankings. Sure, there are numerous ESPN experts such as Heather Dinich who explain the format changes on other programming.

But McAfee called out ESPN’s approach to its own Twitter/X accounts, basically being lazy.

“The ESPN college football X account is helping out,” McAfee said. “Is that the worst account on X … So I go to X, I’m like, alright, what’s going on? Well, let me go to the college football account, you know? Nothing, not a single activity. So then I’m like, why would that be the case? So then ESPN, the actual account puts out the list, puts out the whole thing.

“I’m like, Thank you, ESPN. But shouldn’t the college football account be doing that? Shouldn’t that be just like a one stop shop for everything that’s going on, especially in this brand new time? You would think it’d be the case. So hopefully that takes place. I think people running that have no idea what they’re doing, sure, but hopefully, inevitably, that’ll change.”

McAfee seemingly didn’t like ESPN’s approach to Twitter/X compared to Instagram and Tik Tok. When it comes to sharing written information, highlights and other things regarding college football and the current playoff format, Twitter/X seems to be the place to go.

Of course that just depends upon who you ask. Most media members still use the app, especially on the convenience of their phone, to share information, breaking news, etc.

“I remember that a couple years ago, I was given a full speech by somebody at ESPN about how we’re not using Twitter anymore,” McAfee continued. “Okay, nobody’s on it. They started putting these numbers up. How many people are on YouTube? Like, we can’t just take every (expletive) Google Search number and put that in. Yup, that’s who’s on. Look how many people were on Facebook and Instagram. Okay, so every human that has an account, okay, you’re gonna compete that against Twitter, of course? And look at Tik Tok’s rise, and Elon bought (Twitter)? This thing ain’t gonna exist on Monday, so don’t do it. It’s like, did that one win the presidency? Did this one over here? Did this one? Does this one kind of have a little bit of say, maybe? And do people get all their news from this particular app? I think so.

“So maybe a little bit more activity there from ESPN, especially if you’re gonna own all the rights to the playoffs. If you’re gonna spend billions of dollars on this brand new playoff, maybe there should be a vehicle of information on your phone that people can just go to very easily and see it all. But what would we know? More than those mother (expletive).”