Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

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.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

Richard Johnson, Steven Godfrey, and Alex Kirshner go through some news of the week in college football. The Pac-12 closes in, probably, on a TV deal. UNC adds fuel to the fire of an ACC fight. Is it possible that Texas might pull off the Ewers-Manning thing without drama, or not? Why did a state auditor try to get Iowa's AD fired in exchange for using public money in the latest settlement related to Hawkeye athletics? And what do we make of Nick Saban getting publicly angry about the SEC's impending schedule decision? Production: Anthony Vito. Subscribe to our Patreon for more at splitzoneduo.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

Godfrey and Alex have six short stories to tell you this week about college football-related stories that have caught their eye over the last week or two. 1) The significance of Rice hiring a big-time high school coach, 2) The college-to-NFL coaching trend that isn't, 3) The limits of football consumption, 4) Is the MAC being crowded out on weeknights? 5) Mike London is now the cradle of offensive innovation, and 6) Some conference squabbling in the Pac-12 and ACC. Production: Anthony Vito. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes at splitzoneduo.com. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

Richard, Alex, and Godfrey start this week's show with some discussion of Alabama's wholesale coordinator changeover, Texas and Oklahoma being stuck in a Big 12 that doesn't want them, and the end of the Jaden Rashada recruitment saga. Then it's conference review time with the Big Ten and MAC's 2022 seasons put under a microscope. Subscribe for bonus episodes at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

Richard and Alex talk through some notable nuggets from recent conference schedule drops for 2023, before going back in time and reviewing the 2022 seasons in both the Atlantic Coast and American Athletic Conferences. Subscribe to our Patreon for more at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

Richard, Godfrey, and Alex talk through Ed Reed becoming, then un-becoming, the head coach at Bethune-Cookman, and how the entire situation fits with a Deion Sanders-led mini-trend of big-name, inexperienced coaches taking jobs at historically Black universities. Then it's time for the SEC season review, with roses, buds, and thorns for the season abounding. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes at splitzoneduo.com. Production: Anthony Vito. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe