Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast (Split Zone Duo LLC)

Tulane University built one of the most powerful football programs in the American South. The Green Wave had a spot in the SEC and a history of winning a lot of big games, including against their rivals from Baton Rouge. Then something changed. Alex Kirshner and Steven Godfrey tell the story of Tulane's journey from the upper echelons of the sport to a program scrapping for respectability in the Group of 5. Alex interviews Lenny Vangilder, a Tulane historian, to go deeper into the Wave's story. Production: Anthony Vito. 

Jake Gaither built a college football powerhouse at FAMU in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. The Rattlers towered over their HBCU competition and struck fear in everyone they played. Then the world changed. 

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 1 of Dead Letters, a Split Zone Duo series about what happens when great programs hit the rocks. 

Writing: Alex Kirshner
Production: Anthony Vito
Interviewee: Dr. Derrick White, author of "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Jake Gaither, Florida A&M, and the History of Black College Football"
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Football wasn't much at Kentucky until Bear Bryant came along. That, it would soon become clear, was exactly how Adolph Rupp liked it. 

Welcome to Season 2, Episode 5 of Dead Letters, a Split Zone Duo series about bad things happening to great college football programs. 

Writing: Alex Kirshner
Production: Anthony Vito
Interviewee: Derrick White, University of Kentucky 

The Southern Conference birthed both the SEC and the ACC. Then the league died in everything but name. What happened, and what is still happening? 

Welcome to the finale of Season 2 of Dead Letters, a Split Zone Duo series about what happens when bad things happen to good college football teams (or conferences). 

Writing: Alex Kirshner
Production: Anthony Vito
Interviewee: Matt Brown 

Richard and Alex talk about San Diego State's increasing momentum as a Pac-12 expansion candidate and go over what it means, or doesn't mean, that Michigan is making unusual recruiting inroads in Ohio. Then, a catch-up on the latest set of existential-ish crises facing the NCAA, featuring the magazine reporter who's covered a lot of them and the writer who's now made the big time of congressional subcommittee footnotes. (It's us, haha!) Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes and more at splitzoneduo.com.

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Mr. Emmert went to Washington and came back with a big fat L. Amateurism isn’t dead, but it is most certainly in poor health after a unanimous decision put a chink in the NCAA’s largest amateurism armor. Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey joins the show to discuss what exactly it means for players being paid, and takes your questions via #ASKSZD.

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Godfrey presents Richard and Alex with four decades' worth of MAC head coach firings and hirings to try to figure out if G5 football jobs are on the decline. The answer is messy, but one thing's for sure – coaches have been running to coordinator gigs for a long, long time. Ask Nick Saban. Production: Anthony Vito.

Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, and Steven Godfrey discuss the 2020 census and how certain population shifts might affect college football in the long run, as has happened several times before. Plus a segment about Kansas' pick of Lance Leipold over Jeff Monken, why it happened, and what Buffalo should do next. Then answers to audience questions on TV deals, Maryland, Scot Loeffler, and what happens to Bama's booster culture whenever Nick Saban leaves. 

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Richard, Alex, and Godfrey start this week's show by egging on (most) of the ideas about changing the rules to make games a bit quicker. Then it's time to close out the 2022 conference review season with the Pac-12 and the Mountain West, in detail. Subscribe for bonus episodes on these very topics at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Ed Orgeron visited Notre Dame and told the Irish they’d win a national title. Godfrey explains the long game at play here, which is — we swear — more interesting than you’d think. Steve Sarkisian knocks back a Texas player who commits the grave crime of honesty in public, for reasons that don’t seem to serve Sark at all. Plus, welcome to a new spring football league, which has more “name that guy” value in the coaching ranks than the players. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 40-ish-minute debrief of one of the best weekends of the college football season so far. Georgia stuffed Tennessee into a locker. LSU re-arrived ahead of schedule. Notre Dame annihilated Clemson. And there was plenty more to enjoy in Week 10. Subscribe to our Patreon for more at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Your co-hosts Richard Johnson, Steven Godfrey, and Alex Kirshner talk about the Big Ten/ACC/Pac-12 "alliance" plan. We're skeptical about it and think it's a lot heavier on brandspeak than actual solutions for anything, and we explain why. Then, let's talk about the Week 0 games, the future of "Week 0" as an entity, and Bryan Harsin and Nick Rolovich's recent failures. This show's Patreon page is at splitzoneduo.com, and we'd love to have you there. 

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Alex and Richard take reader questions ahead of a dry week on the schedule. Topics include BYU and Cincinnati’s Playoff paths, Ohio State’s potential problem, Coastal Carolina’s innovative offense, the endless rise in scoring across CFB, the funniest coaching carousel fanfic we can dream up, the possibility of a Northwestern-Indiana Big Ten Championship, and why DJ Durkin is not a victim. 

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Richard and Alex go in depth on Tennessee’s expedient dismissal of Jeremy Pruitt, which feels like a deeply cynical move. Then, season reviews for five FBS conferences: the ACC, Conference USA, the Pac-12, the Mountain West, and the MAC. 

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In a roundup of college football news, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk about Georgia State’s interesting new head coach hire (1:30), Paul Johnson excoriating Geoff Collins (10:35), the upcoming EA Sports College Football game and the payment to players for appearing (25:45), and the reunion of the Mid-American Conference and UMass (30:44). Production: Anthony Vito. 

Welcome to the conference review episode for the 2021 Big Ten and MAC. That covers most of the show, but Godfrey, Richard, and Alex spend the first 25 minutes talking about Jim Harbaugh and the NFL, what Caleb Williams signifies about USC's return to business as it used to done, and a lovely change to the Week 1 schedule. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard and Alex start the show by talking about the recent coach firings at Colorado and Wisconsin. Justin Ferguson, publisher of the Auburn Observer, joins the program to talk about the bizarre last year (even by Auburn standards) on the Plains, how the fanbase is feeling heading into what might be a dramatic weekend, and the state of the Auburn psyche. We take a range of Patreon questions, pick the Red River Shootout, and then get into the Week 6 tasting menu. Subscribe to our Patreon podcasts at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Michigan’s quarterback is the latest national championship winner and draft prospect to kick off a very specific kind of national debate about QB play. Alex and Richard interrogate why players like JJ McCarthy become debate catnip (and then personally make JJ McCarthy into debate catnip, because Alex cannot resist). Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview the Big Ten for 2023. It’s an Ohio State-Michigan-Penn State race at the top. Is Maryland or Michigan State capable of making any noise in the East? Which big ’23 storyline is most compelling between West contenders Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Could Illinois make another run? What should you make of Purdue in a new coach’s first year? And how long will it take Matt Rhule at Nebraska? Plus, is there any reason for optimism at Indiana, Rutgers, or Northwestern? Production: Anthony Vito.

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Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 30-ish-minute trip through the interesting goings-on from college football’s Week 7. Iowa’s loss to Purdue could’ve been worse. Caleb Williams and Oklahoma have it figured out. The Tennessee trash discourse is already exhausting. TCU is done as a defense, a label, and a crew. Florida’s and Texas’s defenses are in shambles. UConn won! Liberty did not! Wisconsin-Army was like a science project. Pitt needs to beat Clemson. Arizona is a bottomless pit of sadness. Rank UTSA, and hey, why not UTEP, and subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Alex and Richard start the show with discussion of LSU cleaning house on the defensive coaching staff, UNC wasting Drake Maye on bad defenses and splitting with Gene Chizik, and Frank Harris’ legendary run at UTSA. Then it’s time to preview the FCS title game between Montana and South Dakota State (13:31) and the Playoff National Championship between Michigan and Washington (22:40). Production: Anthony Vito.

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Hosts Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner bounce around college football with Banner Society's Steven Godfrey. What's behind Jackson State's Deion Sanders move? Is Troy back? Is Miami? Plus audience questions, a trip through Massachusetts FBS football, and a tasting menu for Week 4. This is Split Zone Duo.

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex tackle a few topics this week that deal with how college football is playing with other sports: The NFL plans to encroach further on Black Friday, but has CFB already encroached on college basketball to an extent that can't be unwound? Did Jim Boeheim's exit from Syracuse finally give us a new gold standard in "pushing out" a head coach after FSU/Bobby Bowden? Alex wants to know if SEC athletic departments just don't worry about communications in basketball because they don't think people are paying attention. Godfrey wants to pay more attention to UCLA under Chip Kelly, and Richard wants teams to be more chill about coach firings. Everyone wants the Pac-12 to wrap up a media-rights agreement, except for maybe the Big 12's media consultants. Production: Anthony Vito.

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This episode contains the 2022 conference review episodes, with roses, buds, thorns, and all, for the Big 12 and Conference USA. It also features Godfrey, Richard, and Alex being gobsmacked at one of the most outrageous claims in recruiting history: that Tommy Tuberville had anything to do with Patrick Mahomes getting to Texas Tech. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Richard and Godfrey take a 30ish minute journey through Week 11 including OU’s loss to Baylor, Tennessee scripted the first drive of the game, but not the rest of it, Arkansas won?, Florida “won”, Ohio State WON, one of us begins to think some things about Oklahoma State that are truly terrifying, Cincinnati was fine compared to the last few weeks, our punting king hit a game winner, and UConn covered. 

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Richard and Alex recap the 12th week of the college football season. Washington and Texas win in businesslike fashion, Georgia looks primed for a threepeat, Michigan gets away with one, Ohio State revs it up, James Madison’s dream season has a hiccup, and UNLV continues to astonish. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Alex and guest Steven Godfrey go into detail on why a permanent spring FCS season is a bad idea. Then, Godfrey shares anonymous coach gossip on a bunch of unnamed Power 5 schools, and Alex attempts to match the gossip to a school based on the description. Then, answers to questions on how college football treats LGBTQ people, whether Colorado regrets leaving the Big 12 for the Pac-12, how the industry sees HBCU coaching jobs, and what Jim Harbaugh does all day. 

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Alex and Richard interview Jennifer Abruzzo, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, who wrote the September memo that says college football players in certain situations are employees who should have federal labor protections. They talked about why this piece of paper matters, how it could change college sports, and what would need to happen for this ball to really get rolling. We do lots of these kinds of interviews on our Patreon, which we'd be excited to have you subscribe to at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Steven Godfrey (@38Godfrey), Richard Johnson (@RJ_Writes), and Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) talk through three things in detail: How the LSU-Ed Orgeron relationship collapsed so quickly after such a high, why he wasn’t the only coach in Baton Rouge last Saturday who should soon be out, and what the latest realignment ripple means for both the AAC and the remainders of C-USA. Plus a tasting menu and vested interests. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com.

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Defending FCS Upset Draft champion and Shutdown Fullcast host Jason Kirk joins the podcast to pick FCS winners over FBS opponents for 2022. Then the whole group spends a few minutes running through each of the FBS independents, contemplating questions such as, "Why is Notre Dame interesting and perhaps slightly less villainous these days?" and "How long is Jerry Kill going to hang out at New Mexico State?" Subscribe to our Patreon to participate in the FCS Upset Draft and get lots of bonus shows, at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this week’s show by discussing the savvy maneuvering of Iowa’s new athletic director, Beth Goetz, in announcing the end of Brian Ferentz’s tenure as offensive coordinator. Then let’s group the remaining Playoff possibilities by how their work is cut out for them, and let’s preview a Week 10 slate led by Alabama and LSU. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Richard and Alex take you on a fast but detailed journey through Week 7 in college football. Let’s be specific about which Dan Lanning decision cost Oregon. USC falls apart in South Bend. Deion Sanders does not distinguish himself. UNC looks the part of a major contender. Pitt puts Louisville in a hole. Iowa continues to be a science experiment. Air Force puts on a show, and Boise State might have real trouble. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview the entire Sun Belt and then talk about why this league is such a breath of fresh air in a moment of non-geographic realignment. Starting at Troy and South Alabama, continuing through an East fight between JMU, App State, and Coastal Carolina on down, there's something here for everyone. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 30-ish-minute debrief of one of the best college football Saturdays in memory. Subscribe for bonus episodes and more on Patreon. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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A fast, detailed sprint through all of the interesting things in college football’s Week 8, with Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Penn State and USC weren’t ready for primetime. Marvin Harrison Jr. certainly was. Let’s dissect the ending of that Minnesota-Iowa game. And much more. Production: Anthony Vito.

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The transfer portal is packed. Signing Day is approaching. Colorado might actually portal an offensive line? Nebraska might get the No. 1 QB? And college football sits in a weird in-between. Why is this all happening? A few reasons. Plus what to watch for in the Celebration Bowl, the FCS playoffs, D2 and D3, and some bowls this weekend. Production: Anthony Vito.

Former SB Nation coworker/SZD co-conspirator Rodger Sherman quit his day job before the 2023 season and drove to over 60 (!) college football games across the country. Enjoy the tale of Road Rodge, with a weird bonus moment at the end. Production: Anthony Vito.

College football is in a quiet period, but Split Zone Duo continues apace. Richard and Alex talk about a notable Deion Sanders hire, why Bryan Harsin is starting a podcast to compete with ours, the last embers of SabanFisherGate, how the SEC meetings are now covered like a papal conclave, a 30-year history (at least) of the coaching industry being in crisis over the future of the sport, how much longer Kyle Whittingham will coach at Utah, and how many games D.J. Uiagalelei starts at Clemson in 2022. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito.  

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A 30-minute-ish sprint through the weekend in college football. Alex, Richard, and Banner Society's Steven Godfrey talk through the (big) differences between free-falling Michigan and Penn State. Plus Florida, Ole Miss, South Carolina, the Big 12's coaches, Miami, Virginia Tech, UNC's problematic clash of styles, if USC will ever get to fire Clay Helton. Also: in praise of Cincinnati and Iowa for "running up the score." 

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk about the rapidly speeding-up coaching carousel, hopping from Washington to Virginia Tech to LSU and even down to North Texas. Then a discussion of the inexplicable mess that's unfolded at FIU, which is now a case study in how to mismanage a football program, plus a tasting menu and vested interests. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Florida man Richard Johnson talks with Alex about the underlying factors that might inform Florida's sudden search for Dan Mullen's successor. (The University of Florida has a lot going on.) Plus, a discussion of WKU's instant-pot transfer portal offense, sizing up some of Rivalry Week's big games, and live reactions to James Franklin's new contract at Penn State.

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Notre Dame scheduled a game with Tennessee State, which it very much wants you to think of as purely an HBCU rather than also an FCS team. Alex and Richard play a round of “Fantasy Big 12 Commissioner” and pick out this year’s spring ball optimism teams. During this episode, we mention an audience survey that we would appreciate you filling out, with an eye toward giving you the episodes you want and making our podcast stronger. The link is here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HB3GR8F. Production: Anthony Vito.

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College football is a small sample size sport, so let's take stock of how our impressions of a handful of teams did (and did not) change in Week 1. This episode also has some discussion of the disjointed way Playoff expansion actually came about, some vested interests, and a detailed tasting menu to get you ready for the weekend to come. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito.  

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For about the first 47 minutes of this episode, Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk about the Urban Meyer mess in Jacksonville, what it says about the differences between NFL and college coaching, and why certain types of coaches aren't built for modern CFB or the NFL. Then the group haggles over one team in every FBS conference they can't quite figure out, before hitting up vested interests and a tasting menu for Week 6. Subscribe to SZD's Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Alex, Richard, and Godfrey discuss a new NLRB ruling that might (might!) result in employee status and union organizing for college athletes. Then the group talks about recent worries about college football losing coaches to the NFL. Is this new? Yes and no. Is everything good at UCLA? Production: Anthony Vito. 

Banner Society's Steven Godfrey joins the show to talk about the wild coaching search that's unfolded at Auburn, and what it says about how business is done in college football today. Which "warring factions" make these decisions, and where will Auburn end up? Let's go behind the curtain, and then rank bowl games on a scale from "watchable" to "not watchable." 

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Steven Godfrey and Alex Kirshner start this episode with reminders about some SZD events and a hearty endorsement of your participation in the EDSBS Charity Bowl. Then (16:03) we talk about some college football stories this week: Peacock streaming is pushing deeper into the NFL and, very shortly, into CFB. Also, (30:28), half of the ACC is fighting with the other half and could lose despite theoretically having more clout. For now, can everyone save face? For the long term, the ACC has an issue that even the Pac-12 might not. Production: Anthony Vito.

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A 30ish-minute debriefing on the college football weekend with Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Clemson and TCU continue to get away with it. LSU has the juice. Oregon's offense does what it wants. It's time to make peace with Texas. Ohio State is America's scariest team. Nick Saban owns Mike Leach. Miami should not be this bad. Alex shares coach firing reports with Richard live on the podcast. Cincinnati backs into one. South Alabama decides it wants to be a hurry-up air raid team. Buffalo punks Toledo. And more! Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this episode with an extended discussion of Georgia Tech, a job that says a lot (but also leaves a lot unsaid!) about both Atlanta and college football. After that: LSU and FSU might actually both just be pretty solid. The Pac-12 might be having its best year in a long time. And is 2022 a bad year or a great year for the Group of 5? Plus a history lesson on why the service academies don't score on each other, then a tasting menu for the weekend. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com for bonus episodes and more. Production: Anthony Vito. For the SZD x Homefield NC State Shirts of the Week, go here: https://www.homefieldapparel.com/collections/nc-state-x-szd

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Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey joins Alex and Richard to talk about the week that was: Oklahoma’s survival against Texas, Clemson’s destruction of Miami, UTSA’s promising turn, Houston’s authoritative arrival, what’s wrong with Florida, what’s good about Georgia, why LSU’s defense is a disaster, how the SEC screwed Arkansas, and how the entire Mike Leach timeline has already played out in less than a month of Mississippi State games. 

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Alex, Richard, and a special guest talk about new impressions of the SEC (Ole Miss, Florida, Alabama, Auburn, and Georgia in particular), whether BYU is going undefeated (spoiler: yes), how the Playoff will respond to an undefeated BYU (spoiler: poorly), and whether Army and Baylor are actually good. Plus, audience questions and some business updates.

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Alex and Richard spend a half-hour talking about the national championship, the 2023 Michigan team's place in history, Jim Harbaugh cementing his legacy, and what might be next for Washington. Production: Anthony Vito.

Richard shares observations from on the ground at Texas’ win over Alabama, and then he and Alex run through dozens of other notes from college football’s Week 2. Miami shows one thing, and A&M shows another. Notre Dame might be serious. Baylor and Texas Tech are 0-2, and they probably didn’t even have the worst days in Texas. (Hello, Houston.) Plus a bunch more! Production: Anthony Vito.

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Richard and Alex try their best to sum up what Georgia did to TCU on Monday night. The Dawgs had a great plan, and they also had an otherworldly ability to find a chip on their shoulder. But Alex doesn't even think Georgia fans are the happiest fans of the weekend, because South Dakota State fans also exist. Plus some housekeeping to end our third season as a podcast. Subscribe to our Patreon for much more this offseason at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex spend the first stretch of this episode talking not just about Iowa and Kentucky, but about how we *talk* about Iowa and Kentucky. Then, 10 schools whose coaches either are or aren't demonstrating proof of concept, including: Georgia Tech, NIU, Houston, Temple, Syracuse, Louisville, FAU, UNLV, Troy, and Mississippi State. And finally, vested interests and a Week 7 tasting menu. Subscribe to SZD's Patreon for bonus episodes and more at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard and Alex take you through a packed Week 4 in college football. Ohio State and Notre Dame played a great game with some perplexing coaching decisions. FSU dealt Clemson a blow. Oregon dealt Colorado something else entirely. Dante Moore went into an impossible situation. Wazzu showed out. Iowa’s offense had only a few more yards than you did against Penn State. And much more! Production: Anthony Vito.

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Alex and Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey talk in detail about Mike Norvell’s project at Florida State, how the Noles are currently perceived in the coaching industry, and what needs to change for the program to get back to its mid-2010s stature. Then, a game where we match up vulnerable P5 teams against punchy G5 teams and pick some Week 1 results way ahead of time. Then: some of your questions, answered. Split Zone Duo’s Patreon is at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard, Godfrey, and Alex talk through the Playoff slotting, the committee's performance in 2021, why Cincinnati doesn't disprove anything about the event's treatment of the G5, and the matchups themselves. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard, Godfrey, and Alex are tired of talking about NIL all the time, but fortunately, this mid-May stretch has brought a kernel of 2022 football business to discuss. ABC’s primetime schedule is partially out, and the inner workings of how it was built are interesting. Let’s also talk about the XFL establishing itself as the new alternative pro league and some coach news around Dan Mullen, Chad Morris, and the similarly situated Nick Saban. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Alex, Godfrey, and Richard preview the Playoff semifinals with some scheme and narrative flavor, then move onto the rest of the New Year's six and all the other bowls in the coming week. Find an expanded Playoff Schemecast on Patreon later this week at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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We think this might be the longest episode in SZD history. Conference preview season concludes with college football's Midwestern and "Midwestern" conferences, making an effort to get into detail on every single team in the Big Ten and MAC. Which Big Ten East mega-extension is most likely to look regrettable in four months? What kind of Ohio State season will this be? Is it finally time for a Toledo breakthrough? Does *Maryland* have the Big Ten's second best passing offense? Can NIU maintain its bounce? Is Scott Frost going to do enough? Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner debrief you on the week that was in college football. Adrian Martinez gave Oklahoma a world of hurt. Clemson looked like Clemson. Gene Chizik is still UNC's defensive coordinator. Miami has problems, but FSU might not? Mizzou-Auburn was a science experiment. Minnesota dropped a piano on Michigan State. JMU put the largest comeback of the year on App State. Iowa and Rutgers hit the over. Washington might just be good. Cal scored 49 points. Someone lost a game 98-0. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Alex and Richard take a 30-ish-minute sprint through the interesting happenings in college football this weekend. A&M picked a weird script to take down Bama. Red River was outstanding and heralds a new era of Oklahoma quarterback play. Penn State shoud've just gone to the Wildcat, Georgia's defense gave up a whole 10 points, Coastal is just pummeling teams, the lights are about to go out on Coach O's LSU, don't be fooled by Texas Tech's record, and UTSA: MEEP MEEP. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com.  

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The big stories on this week's episode, though not necessarily in order: Nebraska has already changed (46:48) some significant things under Matt Rhule. Richard lets us know about them. Alex explains why the loss of the only NCAA football team in Canada (34:36) says something troubling about the state of the sport in the U.S. Godfrey thinks Kliff Kingsbury is living the ideal coach life (27:40) by returning to USC instead of going to Saban School. The Big Ten has a new commissioner, Jimbo Fisher has jokes, and the WAC-ASUN football thingy has an official name. Production: Anthony Vito. Subscribe to the Split Zone Duo Patreon at patreon.com/szd. 

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College football is a small-sample size sport, so let’s make it even smaller. Which teams have changed how we see them through two weeks, and which require reserving judgment? Plus, let’s talk about the bizarre, public mess happening right now at Navy, as well as the entirely foreseeable mess at Colorado State. This episode also includes a beefy testing menu and some vested interests. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com.

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Alex, Richard, and Banner Society's Steven Godfrey go over Texas's decision to fire Tom Herman and immediately replace him with Steve Sarkisian. Why now? (Spoiler: There's still a lot we don't know.) Why Sarkisian? And why might he do better at Texas than he did at USC? Plus a quick discussion of Alabama-Notre Dame and a longer talk about how Ohio State mashed Clemson to punch a ticket to the title game. 

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex go through in-depth conference review exercises for both the SEC and the Sun Belt, after 15 minutes running through this week's big stories of coaches (Todd Graham, Kirk Ferentz, Nick Saban) getting involved in various political issues and hot waters. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Conventional wisdom says a coach's second year is when we start to get an idea of how he'll do at a school in the long run. Godfrey, Richard, and Alex go through every second-year FBS head coach and sort out how we're feeling about his tenure and future, on a scale from "good" to "holding" to "uh oh." This show also features a quick news roundup at the beginning, including programs launching their own streaming services and Miami's billionaire donor not *actually* losing a bunch of cash. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Alex, Richard, and Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey start with a 30-minute preview of the MAC, which returns before our next show. Then: Let’s size up the race to be the second best team in the SEC West, which enters a new phase in Week 9. Plus: the Coastal Carolina-Georgia State showdown and what it means for the future of Southern G5 football, what on Earth is happening at Southern Miss, why the AAC might have long-term problems, and what to make of Joe Milton’s breakout.

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Yes, we reserve the first 7:19 for Richard to talk about the Jags (but also about the beauty of football fandom). Then, to humble him, Alex and Godfrey make Richard discuss the NIL collective mess currently unfolding in public view around Florida's recruitment of a five-star quarterback. Next, a talk about the quick, disruptive, and check-cashing Big Ten commissioner tenure of Kevin Warren. Then, conference review season begins with one of our favorite leagues: the Sun Belt. Production: Anthony Vito. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com.

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Alex and Richard go over the situations at several programs that are having a rough time. HOW bad is it at TCU, Baylor, Southern Miss, Indiana, Arkansas, and Minnesota? Then it’s time to go over some marquee Week 7 games and a tasting menu for the week. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Godfrey, Richard, and Alex give you a detailed preview of the best week on the college football calendar. Let's go game-by-game through dozens of games, starting with Michigan-Ohio State and moving on through. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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This week marks the launch of season 2 of "Dead Letters," an SZD Patreon series (patreon.com/szd) about the rises and falls of great college football programs and what happened next. This episode traces the ascent of the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the many, many things that came together to unwind the most dominant team of much of the 20th century. We've changed the format of these shows a little bit for 2023, but we hope you enjoy this sample of the series before diving into the new season. Patreon subscribers: Thank you for making this work possible, and listen now to the first episode of Dead Letters Season 2: Florida A&M. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Alex and Richard run through a whole lot of Week 1 games, from the top of the country to the bottom. We cover everything we found interesting this weekend, except we forgot about Oklahoma and Tulane. Our thoughts on that game are that Oklahoma should have won by more points. This podcast is presented by PrizePicks, and you can subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Penn State plays Ohio State this week, so it’s time to finally assess the many strengths and relative weaknesses of those two teams and the current (slight) conference favorite: Michigan. Then it’s a detailed Week 8 preview from Richard, Godfrey, and Alex. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Godfrey and Alex pick through some recent college football news. Godfrey explains the incentives at work that will get UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati to the Big 12 a year earlier than expected, and why their 2023 move could lead to an absolute blast of a conference for exactly one season. Then it's time for a round of the hot new game "Good Schedule, Bad Schedule," where Alex and Godfrey pick out three teams whose 2022 schedules are perfect fits for what those programs need right now—and three teams that put themselves in the opposite situation. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Alex is out of office so Godfrey immediately hijacked the conference season preview format to talk about cigarettes and media parties. Let's explore the ever-changing world of the American and calm down – or warn – a group of ACC hopefuls about their 2022 season and beyond. Production: Anthony Vito

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The college football season is, somehow, one-sixth going on a quarter complete. After talking about Nebraska for a few minutes to open the show, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex try to separate fact from fiction among some early-season narratives that people could choose to believe in (feat. some Bama, some Clemson, some USC, some Air Force, and more). We draft winless teams who might still turn their seasons around, and WVU and Notre Dame are not among the teams picked. Alex makes the boldest stand of his life and explains why he's picking Auburn to beat Penn State. We offer a big tasting menu for the weekend, too. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com.  

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Old friend and 247Sports expert Bud Elliott joins Richard and Alex for a discussion of how the pandemic interrupted recruiting (hint: severely), what it will mean for the sport over the next few years, and how things are operating now that the longest dead period in recruiting history has ended. Plus, answers to audience questions on dormant rivalries, run blocking, "the Baylor offense," the Memphis Tigers, and the CFB road trip everyone should take. To subscribe to this show's Patreon and get bonus episodes and more, visit splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard and Alex lead you on a detailed sprint through the ninth week of the 2023 college football season, headlined by Kansas’ upset of unbeaten Oklahoma. Plus notes on dozens of other games: USC’s defense remains unserious, UGA remains Florida’s boss, and Oregon makes it clear case as a national title contender. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey joins Alex and Richard for a chat about the career of retiring Wisconsin AD (and former coach) Barry Alvarez: His impact on Wisconsin and why there won’t be many more administrators or coaches like him. Then, the group assesses how much #sources are willing to forgive about the 2020 seasons of Baylor, USF, Michigan State, New Mexico, Wazzu, Penn State, LSU, Houston, Rice, and FAU. Finally, answers to Patron questions on Baylor’s 2021 offense, USC’s outlook, and the jostling between the Sun Belt and Conference USA. This podcast’s new Patreon, with bonus episodes and more, is at splitzoneduo.com.

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After a quick check-in on the state of April recruiting, Alex, Richard, and Godfrey tackle six stories from around college football. 1. Why Frank Solich coming home is good business for Matt Rhule and Nebraska. 2. Trent Dilfer's explanation of his move to UAB is, you know, maybe a little off. 3. Kansas hires Bill Snyder's son. 4. Ken Niumatalolo goes West, and it says something interesting about Chip Kelly. 5. Mike Gundy has an idea. 6. An explosive stadium battle spills into public view between Northwestern and residents of Evanston. Production: Anthony Vito.

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Alex, Richard, and Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey report on how the NCAA’s impending rules changes on name, image, and likeness might affect the future of EA Sports’ college football video games. (It’s about ethics in video game journalism.) Plus: the ramifications of the LSU/Florida COVID postponement, Georgia’s (possibly narrow) path to beating Alabama, what the hell happened to the USF Bulls, and a discussion about hot coaching candidate Billy Napier. And importantly: a discussion of why the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers should've been ranked *even before* they upset Napier's Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns in Week 7. 

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Marcus Freeman's elevation at Notre Dame was smooth, well received, and kind of quiet, so Alex and Richard went back over it amid a week of carousel chaos. Then: breaking out every new FBS coach hire into tiers of, "What is the school trying to accomplish here?" Plus an Army-Navy version of Vested Interests, a non-FBS tasting menu for the weekend, and answers to three questions from Patreon subscribers. Join us at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Steven Godfrey and Richard Johnson are here to disrespect the Tide... of Tulane! The American welcomes a bunch of new schools, and one of them (MEEP MEEP) looks like a more complete program right now than the school that upset USC in the Cotton Bowl eight months ago. Just sayin'. There's also a lot of new head coaches at these new AAC programs, and we'll figure out which one was the dumbest move long-term. That's not true. We already know. It's UAB. You idiots made Tulsa look good. Production: Anthony Vito

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Godfrey subs in to spell Alex and we go from Ohio State to Toledo running through the Week 9 games (that's longer than you'd think): Tennessee's defense, Wake Forest's turnover implosions, the Michigan / MSU tunnel fight and Okie State's total disappearance. Production: Anthony Vito

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Alex, Richard, and Banner Society’s Steven Godfrey preview the Playoff National Championship between Ohio State and Alabama, and plot out what Ohio State needs to do to pull an upset. Then: What is Marshall doing? (It’s incredibly West Virginia.) Dan Mullen to the Jets? Bad idea. Urban Meyer to the Jaguars. Also a bad idea. Plus, let’s read some anonymous DMs from coaches. 

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Alex and Richard take you on an almost entirely realignment-free journey through the Pac-12 and then the Mountain West. Has Utah changed, or has the Pac-12 changed around it? What's fair to ask of USC in Lincoln Riley's first year, and does fairness even matter? Is Utah State primed for another step back after a big year, or not? Is this the year to make judgments about the current state of Boise State? Is Stanford in Trouble with a capital T? Might Arizona overtake ASU even in a bad year? There's a lot more in here, too. Subscribe to our Patreon for more Pac-12 and Mountain West talk this week at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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Alex and Richard take a 30ish-minute journey through the college football weekend: Michigan State showed its mettle, Michigan did too and somehow lost anyway, Houston and SMU played the game of the year, Ohio State had better players, Pitt found an innovative way to lose, and Bowling Green put together an absolute tapestry. Subscribe to our Patreon at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Texas Tech’s hire of Joey McGuire signals something, because as they say: Everything’s bigger in Texas. Midseason coaching changes, Washington weirdness, and MACTION. 

Also: Exactly four minutes and sixteen seconds on the Playoff 

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Alex and Richard set up the season for a 14-team Big 12. Texas should finally do it on its way out the door. Oklahoma might have the next-highest ceiling, but also a low floor. Who has more staying power: Kansas State or TCU? Who ends the year feeling best between Kansas, Texas Tech, and Baylor? Is Oklahoma State or Iowa State closer to getting back to Big 12 contention? Are the new entrants in shape to compete immediately? Is Neal Brown right to be mad about the media picking WVU last? And who gets fired from his current job first: Neal Brown or the man he replaced? Production: Anthony Vito.

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In a special edition of the SZD Hurry-Up, Alex and Richard discuss the Playoff committee's spurning of unbeaten Florida State and then break down the matchups for the New Year's Six.

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After 2023, Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh left, and Alabama and Michigan fans worried a lot about assistant coach hires made by their successors. It got Alex thinking: Do national championship head coaches ace their assistant hires out of the gate? What happens when they mess up the important work of filling out a coaching staff? SZD goes through 25 years of history in a quest to figure out if a coach can win a national championship without acing his first test. Production: Anthony Vito. 

Pro Football Focus’s Seth Galina joins the show and talks in depth about the strengths and weaknesses of every team left in the Playoff discussion (plus Cincinnati, which should be). Why Texas is only Texas because they say they’re Texas, and a deeper dive into Coastal Carolina’s unique spin on the triple option. 

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Steven Godfrey, Alex Kirshner, and Richard Johnson debate Hugh Freeze's idea of staging inter-squad spring games between in-state schools. Is it condescending, a great idea, or both? The Pac-12's efforts to secure a media-rights agreement roll on, and they've reached "mess" territory, we agree. But how much does that change the medium-term outlook for the conference? Do we give conference offices too much credit without giving them enough blame? And why would Big Ten presidents and the Big Ten commissioner want such different things? Production: Anthony Vito. Get bonus episodes and more at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this week's show by addressing the devastating shooting at the University of Virginia for about eight minutes. The group then gets into college football's business of the week, including personnel moves at West Virginia and Charlotte. Then: The big thing we're watching over the last few weeks of the season in every FBS conference, plus a tasting menu for Week 12. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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May is the most boring month on the college football calendar. Why is it so quiet, and what's happening during this period of relative calm? Steven Godfrey joins the program to explain. Additionally, Alex and Godfrey talk about Presbyterian's hire of famed "never punt/always onside kick" high school coach Kevin Kelley, what it suggests about where the sport is moving, and whether the industry will overreact if non-philosophical factors lead Kelley to struggle in that job. Then a discussion of the two similar yet very different programs in the FCS Championship, plus answers to questions on NIL and Congress, what Mike Gundy's eventual exit might look like, Pat Fitzgerald, public vs. private football programs, and Buffalo's hire of Maurice Linguist. 

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Yes, the season is approaching way faster than you think. With 7ish weeks left, Alex, Richard, and Steven Godfrey take a look at some of the most intriguing team over/under bets on the board and do a little bit of Baby’s First Gambling talk (if you’re into that). Plus, answers to a lot of questions. This show’s Patreon is at splitzoneduo.com. 

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Richard and Alex explain how the same undercurrents that fueled a few European soccer clubs’ breakaway gambit might show up in college football realignment in the next few years. (There are a lot of similarities, and we’re not just speculating.) The FCS playoffs are starting, and for a change, North Dakota State is probably going to lose. Plus answers to audience questions on Kirk Ferentz, Georgia State, potential rules changes, and the true cost of a football scholarship.  

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