Lane Kiffin's Insincerity and 24-Team Playoff Game Theory

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast · May 14, 2026 · 1h 2m

Alex and Richard use Richard’s trip to ACC meetings as a window into the big college sports fight of the hour: how many teams will be in the College Football Playoff going forward. Then they sort through the Big Ten/SEC split over 24 teams, Ole Miss’ strange week as a national punching bag in the middle of May, and Nebraska’s first run-in with the new NIL enforcement system, which might be less the end of creative player payments than the start of better paperwork.

In this episode:

* 3:22: What Richard learned at ACC meetings, including the coming ACC tiebreaker puzzle

* 7:24: Why 16 vs. 24…