Latest #ncaa Podcast Episodes
Why (Some of) the Big 12’s Weirdness Works
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - June 19, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsWeeks before the Big 12 expands to 16 teams, Godfrey and Alex dive into the unique place the conference currently occupies. It’s not rich like the Big Ten and SEC, but it’s not teetering like the ACC or dead like the old Pac-12. Things are more precarious than they were four years ago but way be...
The FCS lessons for the 12-team Playoff
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - June 13, 2024 13:30 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A college football playoff with more than four teams? What will they think of next? Alex, Richard, and Steven talk through what we can learn about the upcoming Playoff expansion by looking back at decades of the F...
What happens when a college football coach is PRE-fired?
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - June 12, 2024 11:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThe rumor mill demands that several coaches be on the hot seat at all times. But what about when the seat gets so hot that a new description—”pre-fired”—becomes appropriate? With Billy Napier and Sam Pittman headlining the 2024 class of pre-firing candidates, Richard, Steven, and Alex go down me...
The 2024 Texas college football extravaganza
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - June 06, 2024 11:01 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Shehan Jeyarajah is national reporter for CBS Sports, host of the College Football Survivor Show, and knower of the Texas college football scene. He chats with Alex about every FBS program in the state and a big h...
9 CFB Players to Tell Your Friends About for 2024
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - June 04, 2024 21:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsRichard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey start to look ahead to the 2024 college football season. The episode opens with some consideration of New York Knicks fans (it just happened) and then moves (15:45) into a discussion of nine players we’re paying close attention to for 2024. Some...
Scheme School: How good is Shedeur Sanders, actually?
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 31, 2024 19:53 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome to a new episode of Scheme School. Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice returns to the show to have a completely on-field-focused (we promise) conversation about Colorado's already-polarizing QB1. What does he struggle...
The Impending Arrival of College Football 3.0 (3.1?)
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 28, 2024 18:50 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com College football is about to get a lot different. Alex and Richard talk through how changes to player compensation come 2025 will reshape the sport. We think it’s ultimately a winner for both players and fans, but...
Single Wing: New Conference Expectations for Everyone from Texas to Army
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 24, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsGodfrey's insisting that everyone pick a Sun Belt team to ride and/or die with in '24. Plus, did the NFL kill USC's L.A. vibes? And let's set an expectation for every single FBS team changing conferences this season. The Big 12 is a Las Vegas buffet, and it's 3 a.m., baby. Production by Anthony ...
Single Wing: Week 1's High (Big) Noon Showdown and the G5 Playoff Proposal Debunked
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 23, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsFor more episodes like The Single Wing, subscribe at splitzoneduo.com. Godfrey's circling back on TV scheduling tactics for Week 1, explaining San Jose State’s triple-free offense, answering a desperately sad question about Group of 5 feeder programs, waxing emotional about EA NCAA, and teaching...
College Football's Unwinnable But Righteous TV War With the NFL
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 21, 2024 19:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsCollege football (including its TV partners) usually gets out of the NFL’s way. But when the 12-team Playoff arrives this December, the two levels of the sport will be head-to-head in a way they almost never are, especially since college’s powers that be made a tactical retreat from Thursday nig...
Single Wing: Clemson's bottom line, UCF's shopping aisle, and a battle with impostor syndrome
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 17, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsIn this solo show, Steven Godfrey's trying to figure out why Clemson's O-line can't match its D-line, why BYU was (is?) dirty, if Army/Navy has a Rose Bowl mentality, and how NFL markets affect local college teams. Production: Anthony Vito. Magic Mind: https://magicmind.com/splitzone20 This ...
How golf is college football
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 15, 2024 12:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com As a postscript to last week’s newsletter about college football coaches’ golf handicaps, Alex and Richard discuss several football-adjacent golf topics. Has golf supplanted college football as the sport that’s mo...
The politics behind Ohio State's ridiculous commencement speech
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 14, 2024 11:50 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Ohio State played host to one of the most bizarre commencement speeches of all time this month, when alumnus Chris Pan pitched graduates on Bitcoin and attempted to lead the Buckeye crowd in multiple singalongs. D...
The Single Wing: UCLA's optimism and Kent State math
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 10, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsWelcome to a FREE episode of The Single Wing thanks to our friends at Magic Mind (https://magicmind.com/SPLITZONE20 for 20 percent off). May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so let's talk about anxiety, parenting, and the Jimmy Sexton era of agenting. Plus: UCLA, Kent State, Wyoming, and Pearl ...
The other Iowa betting scandal
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 08, 2024 11:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It was huge college sports news in 2023 when dozens of athletes at Iowa and Iowa State became the targets of a state investigation into underage sports betting and wagers originating from the two campuses. It was ...
The Good, The Bad, The Auburn: Rating 11 Teams Post-Spring
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - May 07, 2024 19:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThe end of the spring transfer portal window means the beginning of looking ahead in earnest to the 2024 season. With rosters mostly locked, Alex and Richard share the teams they’re optimistic, pessimistic, and in between about at the halfway point of the offseason. Richard thinks Ohio State wil...
The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 30, 2024 20:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThe Split Zone Duo crew discusses the results of the NFL Draft through both a college football and “being mean to Steven Godfrey” lens. Georgia’s player development, Washington’s offensive line, Oregon’s way of helping Bo Nix, whether Nick Saban actually admitted to a tampering violation on live...
Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 26, 2024 20:46 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Maryland is hiring Brian Ferentz as an analyst, per Bruce Feldman. Alex went to Maryland, so Richard forced him to record an emergency show about the whole thing. We start with Alex fearing the worst, then discuss...
Why *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 25, 2024 11:45 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A coaching search where nobody got spurned, everyone got paid, and all parties wound up exactly where they wanted to be all along? How nice. That’s the semi-official account—from ESPN and many of the people most c...
Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 24, 2024 00:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsIt’s time for an offseason check-in with the most watched, most controversial 4-8 team in college football history. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex weigh in on the four different conversations that happen at any given second about Deion Sanders and Colorado: the one about the actual football team (5:...
How we drink from the college football firehose
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 19, 2024 11:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com We get a lot of questions about how we keep up with the wide world of college football to bring you this podcast. How do we try to figure out where the interesting stories are? How do we keep eyeballs on a sport w...
2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 18, 2024 11:45 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com For SZD’s annual NFL Draft QB special, Richard is joined by Ben Solak of The Ringer and Derrik Klassen of Bleacher Report. We start with the compulsory review of the greatest QB prospect of this century (Jacksonvi...
USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 16, 2024 21:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsUSC reporter Luca Evans of the Orange County Register joins Alex to talk about the many challenges facing the Trojans in the NIL and collective space (4:19). How does a rich school with a blue-blood football history run into difficulty in this new world? USC is the best window into that question...
Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 15, 2024 19:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome to The Single Wing, where Steven Godfrey takes subscriber questions on a wide range of college football topics. This week, Godfrey's officially issuing a Gangster AD badge (Go Vawls), and we're also discus...
How a pro football personnel director sees college football
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 11, 2024 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsRichard has a conversation with Eric Galko, the director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl. It’s wide-ranging: Eric shares his 2024 NFL Draft hot takes and QB rankings, then talks about how the NFL views college players—and how well their programs are deve...
The Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 09, 2024 11:02 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In 2023, Neal Brown was the industry's most fireable head coach. Then he had a good enough year to get a small contract extension. Who is 2024’s most fireable coach? Well, there are a few contenders. Godfrey, Rich...
Week 1 of 2024 is ... surprisingly bare. Why?
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 08, 2024 23:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsWeek 1 has always had tons of warmup games, but the schedule usually has a big handful of bangers. In 2024, that’s not the case. There are barely any games pitting Power 4 teams against each other and as a trickle-down, not many all-Group of 5 matchups of note either. Yes, there are a few blockb...
How we fix the rules in college football
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - April 02, 2024 22:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsRichard has ideas for how to make college football’s on-field rules a little bit better. Alex and Godfrey like some of them and don’t like others. Let’s discuss the optimal width for the hashmarks, whether it’s time to shift the rules around RPOs and linemen downfield, the NFL’s new take on the ...
Single Wing: Lane Kiffin speculation never ends. That's the point
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - March 28, 2024 10:45 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's answering your questions about Lane Kiffin's short- and long-term plans now that Bama has hired a Nick Saban replacement who isn't him. Let's also discuss the vital signs of Year Zero as a concept, plu...
What in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast - March 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 722 ratingsSpring practice is a lot of hype and not a lot of substance, but sometimes we can learn a lot. Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk about what to pay serious attention to right now and the five most interesting teams of spring 2024: Alabama, Michigan, Army, Ohio State, and Texas A&M. Subscr...
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