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Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
An independent college football podcast that covers the whole sport, led by Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner. Free episodes each week (twice per week in season), plus frequent subscriber episodes. Featuring co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey and friends.
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Episodes
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Job: Virginia Tech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Virginia Tech has an incredible fanbase and a history, in this century, as…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 4 CFB Hurry-Up: Boomer Hoosier
That was a heck of a week. Richard and Alex break down a busy Week 4 in college football, highlighting dozens of games of interest. In this order: Oklahoma 24…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Job: UCLA
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome to “The Job,” a new recurring series from Split Zone Duo in which…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 4 CFB Tasting Menu: I'm Gonna Be Ill
The Week 4 college football schedule is loaded with big games that wouldn’t have felt this big in any other year, like Texas Tech-Utah and Illinois-Indiana…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastAre These Five CFB Teams Doomed?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com One quarter of the way through the season, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 3 CFB Hurry-Up: Dawgs on Rocky Top
Richard and Alex break down an excellent Week 3 in college football, with a spotlight on more than three dozen games. We go in this order: Georgia 44…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Subscriber show! Realignment killed off a lot of college football rivalries…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 3 CFB Tasting Menu: Good Games in Stock
The Week 3 Tasting Menu discusses many, many college football games. Here are just a few of them: * Colorado vs. Houston: Deion Sanders makes a QB change…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this week’s SZD Overtime episode for subscribers, we examine two programs…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 2 CFB Hurry-Up: Bullish on USF
Richard and Alex break down the interesting stuff from Week 2 of the college football season, starting with upsets in Starkville and Gainesville and moving on…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 2 CFB Tasting Menu: Freshman vs. Brent Venables
Alex and Richard preview Week 2 of the college football season, which is light on big-time helmet games but heavy on interesting regional matchups. This…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastESPN's Bill C. on His New Book, UNC's Disaster, and Post-Week 1 Risers and Fallers
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com ESPN’s Bill Connelly, author of a new book on the evolution and future of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCovering Alabama in the Time of a Meltdown
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this subscriber special (join us!), Alabama beat writer Matt Stahl of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 CFB Hurry-Up: Florida Statement
The Split Zone Duo Sunday Hurry-Up returns for 2025, still featuring notes on dozens of games delivered in 30-ish (emphasis on “ish”) minutes and now sponsored…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2025 CFB Time Capsule Prediction Special
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com After an offseason and preseason of talking, it’s time to answer: What do we…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 CFB Tasting Menu: Time to Eat
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner preview the first week of the 2025 season, with notes on dozens of games that will make your Week 1 more interesting. A brief…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhich FBS Teams Will Lose FCS Games? Let's Draft.
This season, FBS teams will play 126 games against FCS opponents. Most years, anywhere between five-ish and 10-ish FBS teams will lose those games. The purpose…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy, Exactly, Is Arch Manning Good?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice joins Richard in this new episode of “Scheme…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: SEC
Richard and Alex preview the SEC for the 2025 season: * Texas has everything it needs to make a deep playoff run * Georgia has a few more questions, especially…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: Big Ten
Alex, Richard, and Rodger Sherman preview the Big Ten for 2025. This nearly two-hour episode runs through all 18 teams, in this order: * Penn State faces…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends With a Whimper
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The NCAA’s big decision on Michigan’s sign-stealing operation is here, and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: American
Richard and Godfrey preview 2025 in the newly renamed American Conference. In a recent episode, we touched on this league’s long-term difficulties. In this…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSplit Zone Duo's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo
Our partners at Homefield have seen a lot of you on the road in recent years. They’re getting back on the trail this fall for the Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: Mountain West
Richard and Alex preview the Mountain West in 2025, starting with the same team that’s favored every year and then going in no particular order: * Boise State…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: The ACC
Richard and Alex preview 2025 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, discussing the league in the following order: * Clemson, now with a light sprinkling of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy Do You Love College Football?
Why do you love college football? It's a simple question with a not so simple answer, but we asked it of you, our listeners, as well as some special guests…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastAn American Identity Crisis
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The American Athletic Conference was by far the best non-power conference of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: Conference USA
Richard and Alex preview Conference USA, as the league adds Delaware and Missouri State. In this episode: * Liberty remains the favorite, even with a downgrade…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Schemes That Will Define 2025, Feat. Coach Dan Casey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Dan Casey, coach and founder of the Play Caller’s Club, joins Richard to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastFull Interview: Steve Baker on Miami University
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Listen to Alex’s extended-cut interview with Miami University play-by-play…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDead Letters: Miami University
Miami University went on an unprecedented run of hiring coaches: Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, and many more: . By 2003, with Ben…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollectives 1, NCAA 0
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The House settlement was supposed to create a clear line between…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: Big 12
Shehan Jeyarajah, college football writer for CBS Sports, returns to the show to join Alex and Richard for a meaty preview of the Big 12. You may enjoy…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB Lunch Break: Why Can't Memphis Get a Realignment Bite?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Leave us a voicemail telling us why you love college football. Details are…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: The MAC
Conference previews continue with the MAC. Alex and Richard break down every team in the league, including new entrant UMass: * Toledo still has the best hand…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: Pac-12 and Independents
Split Zone Duo’s conference previews for 2025 keep rolling along with a two-parter: the Pac-12 and the FBS independents, whose ranks have thinned. * Oregon…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy You're Always Bad: ULM
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey joins Alex and Richard for the third installment in our offseason…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football Previews 2025: The Sun Belt
Season previews are back! Richard and Alex go alphabetically through the whole Sun Belt, picking out one rose, one bud, and one thorn for all 14 schools, from…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastPicking the Defining Team of Every Decade of College Football
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com For the Fourth of July, we look all the way back to the founding of ……
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2025 CFB Coach Firing and Retirement Confidence Ranking
Around 20 FBS coaches will retire or get fired by the end of this season, but which ones will they be? Alex and Richard pick out 23 names and rank them from…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSubscriber Q&A: Ben Haumiller on the New EA Sports College Football Game
Part 2 of our conversation with EA Sports College Football principal game designer Ben Haumiller. Ben takes a bunch of subscriber questions on the upcoming CFB…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastInside College Football 26 with EA Sports’ Principal Game Designer
Part 1: EA Sports College Football principal game designer Ben Haumiller joins Alex and Richard for a discussion of the upcoming CFB video game, with a focus…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWill the House Settlement Bring Bagmen Back? Plus More Offseason News
Alex and Richard discuss a handful of offseason stories: * The Pac-12’s expansion efforts are coming to a head, and Texas State—not Sacramento State—appears to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB Lunch Break: How to Know If Your FBS Transition Has a Chance
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Alex take subscriber questions on: * How to assess if a school’s…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB's Year 2 Coaches for 2025: Who's Good, and Who's Already Dicey?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com We believe in an old college football theory: If a coach is going to win at…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 25 Most Interesting Non-QB Transfers in College Football
Fall camp approaches. Let’s talk about the most consequential transfer portal moves of the offseason that weren’t quarterbacks and, in a lot of cases, didn’t…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSo, What Can We Expect From Belichick ON the Field?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Cody Alexander of MatchQuarters joins Richard to discuss how the football…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCan There Be an Ashton Jeanty in 2025?
A running back from Boise State helped define the 2024 season. Does CFB have an RB waiting in the wings to make a similar imprint in 2025? Probably not…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB Lunch Break: Off, Wisconsin?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this week’s CFB Lunch Break, Alex and Richard answer live questions from…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastAnatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2010
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com For live show tickets in Raleigh on 8/23…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow to Build a Modern CFB Front Office
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Split Zone Duo State is the newest startup FBS program. We've got our coach…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB Lunch Break: Lincoln Riley, Rivalry Killer?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Alex take live questions from our Split Zone Duo subscribers…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 8 Ways to Smoke Out a Fake National Title Claim
College football history is loaded with BS national championship claims, as well as some non-consensus claims that AREN’T ridiculous. How do we tell the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSaban's Presidential Commission + CFB Biz Lightning Round, with Matt Brown
Sports Podcast Festival tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/78691649/the-2nd-annual-sports-podcast-festival-raleigh-the-rialto Extra Points publisher Matt…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy You're Always Bad: Rice
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The Rice Owls have had 36 winning seasons since 1914. They once lost 18…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOffseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Mountain West
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner close out SZD’s Offseason Vibe Check series with the Mountain West. How has everything gone for this conference and its teams…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow Big a Deal is Bill Belichick's Mess?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Bill Belichick’s relationship with Jordon Hudson is the stuff of sports…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastPac-12 and Indy Vibe Checks + The State of Special Teams Development
Part 1 of this week’s episode is the continuation of SZD’s “Offseason Vibe Checks” series, checking in on the Pac-12 and the FBS independents. You may be…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCFB Lunch Break: Shedeur Shunned
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this live recording, Alex and Richard answer a handful of subscriber…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Rent Comes Due On 2022's Blockbuster Coaching Cycle
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, and Alex Kirshner check in on how things…