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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 PodcastWeek 12 Tasting Menu: Offensive Line Depth Is Hard
Split Zone Duo previews Week 12 of the college football season, including: * The problems facing the Georgia Bulldogs * Kansas takes a crack at another Big 12…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 11 Hurry-Up: Divine Intervention
A packed but breezy recap of Week 11 of the college football season, with hosts Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, includes: * How Alabama dominated in Death…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Eyes List: Post-Napier State of Play
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this episode for paid subscriber: Florida isn’t firing Billy Napier…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Dawn of the 12-Team Playoff Rankings
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The College Football Playoff selection committee ranked teams for the first…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 11 Tasting Menu: Saturday Night in Death Valley
Our Week 11 college football preview arrives, including: * The keys to Alabama-LSU * Florida’s chances at a Texas upset * Colorado’s road to the Big 12 goes…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 10 Hurry-Up: Static State
An information-packed rundown of Week 10 in college football, including: * Ohio State-Penn State goes how it always goes * Indiana is still Indiana (that’s a…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastUAB's Dilfer Disaster and The Worst Coach Hires of the Past 15 Years
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Since UAB hired Trent Dilfer before the 2023 season, a once-solid program…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: Playoff Chaos Math Isn't Hard To Find
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Listen to the Week 10 Tasting Menu and pair it with Godfrey’s Q&A for…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 10 Tasting Menu: Penn State's Latest Prove-It Spot
A preview of the Week 10 college football season, including: * Penn State’s latest chance to level up in the sport, this one against Ohio State in Happy Valley…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 9 Hurry-Up: The Gig'em Economy
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner recap Week 9 in college football, including: * Texas A&M beats LSU, and Mike Elko makes a point * Texas survives an odd game…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: FSU in '25, Cal's Life After Twitter, and the Ironic Roll Tide
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A Week 9 subscriber Q&A with Steven Godfrey. He takes questions about James…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Eyes List: A Soft Launch
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome back to another year of "The Eyes List,” where Split Zone Duo…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 9 Tasting Menu: Throw Out The Records
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey preview Week 9 of the college football season, with looks ahead at two dozen of the weekend’s games. Including: * Notre Dame-Navy *…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 8 Hurry-Up: Hoosier Daddy?
A 30-ish-minute recap of Week 8 in college football, including: * Georgia asserts itself against Texas, but exactly how big is the gap between these teams if…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow to Stop CFB's Scariest Players (Or Die Trying)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Cody Alexander of Match Quarters is a defensive coordinator by trade. He…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 8 Tasting Menu: Horn Dawg
Our Week 8 preview. CBS Sports national college football writer Shehan Jeyarajah joins Alex and Richard to break down a huge pile of games, including (but not…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 7 Hurry-Up: The Polish Goal Line
Our 30(ish)-minute recap of a wild weekend in college football, including: * Oregon beats Ohio State in a classic. Did the Ducks intentionally deploy an old…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: The Kansas Reset, the USC Longview, and the Oregon Moment
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In a Week 7 mailbag: Godfrey helps reset expectations for Lance Leipold at…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: The most cooked teams in FBS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A midseason, pre-coach carousel review of the programs in each FBS…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 7 Tasting Menu: O my goodness
Our preview of Week 7. Ohio State-Oregon is the blockbuster in a loaded week that also features USC-Penn State, Ole Miss-LSU, Colorado-Kansas State, and a…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 6 Hurry-Up: Down the Commode
The Week 6 Hurry-Up is our recap of everything we found interesting in the college football weekend, delivered in 30(ish) minutes: * Vanderbilt flushes Alabama…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Wisconsin's big oops, Louisville's value and the Sac State come-up
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It’s the latest Split Zone Duo audience Q&A with Steven Godfrey, who got a…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: How the SEC and Big Ten could *actually* wreck the regular season
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey wrote for the Washington Post about the SEC and Big Ten’s effort to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 6 Tasting Menu: Stay woke
Our previews of dozens of games in Week 6. Highlights include: * Things getting bleak at several ACC schools * Navy’s chance to dunk Air Force * A sneaky great…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 5 Hurry-Up: Dawg Days
Richard and Godfrey lead a 30-minute (ish) recap of the weekend in college football. Alabama beats Georgia in an instant classic. Oklahoma comes back on…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOT: The truth about TV timeouts, plus the state of CFB TV with Bob Thompson
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Are TV timeouts really longer this year? The answer has two parts. SZD…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 5 Tasting Menu: Representations were made
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 5, a schedule led by Georgia-Alabama but with dozens of other interesting games beyond. Plus: What should we make of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 4 Hurry-Up: UNCredible
The Week 4 Sunday Hurry-Up! Tennessee handled business against an Oklahoma team with a QB problem. North Carolina’s defense did not defend. BYU put a dominant…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: FSU's actual temperature and UF's actual list
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's dipping a bit into coach gossip, mainly because Florida State is…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: The Pac-12, MWC, and AAC situations
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Oregon State and Washington State lopped off the top of the Mountain West to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 4 Tasting Menu: Get Heuped
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 4. Meet some freshman running backs at Baylor and South Alabama. Prepare for the return of Josh Heupel to Oklahoma…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 3 Hurry-Up: Bottomless Pitt
Richard and Alex give you a loaded but brief recap of everything interesting in college football’s Week 3. West Virginia blows another road Backyard Brawl…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: How coaches gossip, Bad Auburn, Better Bowls, and SMOKERS
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's talking about Hugh Freeze because YOU made him, and we'll check in…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 3 Tasting Menu: Apple Cup dance
Week 3 is light on blockbusters but heavy on rivalry games, including the newly relocated Apple Cup, the game formerly known as the Civil War, and the Backyard…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 2 Hurry-Up: The suck of the Irish
Alex and Richard take you through Week 2 of the college football season. NIU wrecks a promising Notre Dame season, Texas State crushes rival UTSA, Iowa State…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: One-Week Data, Miami's Window, Noticing Nevada, and Learning Grace
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's going rapid fire over y'all's week one reactions, most of which…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: Week 1 overreactions and a history of the art form
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The modern Week 1 schedule means that one Sunday night game and one Monday…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 2 Tasting Menu: Go big (red or orange) or go home
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 2 of the 2024 college football season (14:10) after discussing one of Week 1’s hot topics: the state of College GameDay…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 Hurry-Up: The pluck of the Irish
The Split Zone Duo Sunday Hurry-Up returns! Alex and Richard take you on a 30-ish-minute jaunt through everything that was interesting in the first week of the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: Bridge Coaches, Billy Napier and Refining Spite
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this show, Godfrey answers questions from SplitZoneDuo.com subscribers…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastOvertime: CFB depth chart subterfuge
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Auburn lists 37 defensive starters. Georgia won’t release a depth chart, so…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 Tasting Menu: We're so back
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey take a long, detailed trip through the Week 1 schedule, from NDSU-Colorado to Clemson-UGA to JMU-Charlotte to USC-LSU and beyond…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast2024 kickoff with Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal
Richard links up with the godfather of CFB podcasters, Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal. Ty has just about seen it all in CFB podcasting, so let’s ask him…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 SZD predictions extravaganza
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com After previewing all 134 FBS teams for the 2024 season, it’s predictions…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Pac-12 preview show
Oregon State and Washington State face unprecedented situations, but not exactly the same one on the field in 2024. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex break down the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 independents preview + Notre Dame with Jessica Smetana
The ranks of the FBS independent schools are down to three (and still getting smaller). Richard, Godfrey, and Alex talk about UConn and UMass to start, and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 FCS preview and UPSET DRAFT
Join our FCS Upset Draft at www.splitzoneduo.com, and try to pick the correct FCS wins over FBS teams. Craig Haley is the FCS senior editor for Stats Perform…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 MAC preview show
The return of the MAC on Split Zone Duo! We preview the 2024 season, as Miami tries to defend its title and establish itself as something like what Toledo has…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Sun Belt preview show
SZD previews the Sun Belt: Appalachian State is the favorite in the East, but Coastal Carolina had a more promising first year under Tim Beck than you…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing Interview: Doug Lesmerises of 'Kings of the North'
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey sits down with longtime Big Ten and Ohio State writer Doug…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 CUSA preview show
Liberty is a heavy favorite after dominating Conference USA in its first season in the league. So let’s start at the bottom of CUSA and work our way up. Will…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 AAC preview show
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey break down the American Athletic Conference ahead of the 2024 season. Memphis (3:00) looks like it’s primed for a run, but UTSA and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastMichigan, the NCAA, and how everyone wins
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The NCAA and Michigan have moved to the “leak wars” portion of their fight…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Mountain West preview show
It’s a Mountain West preview from Richard Johnson, Steven Godfrey, and Alex Kirshner. To start, let’s talk about Utah State firing Blake Anderson right before…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Big Ten preview show
The 18-team Big Ten gets the SZD preseason preview treatment. What are reasonable expectations for last year’s title game teams, Michigan and Washington?…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWe asked Substack’s best finance expert to explain this private equity thing
Doomberg runs the biggest financial newsletter on Substack, explaining money and markets to a quarter-million subscribers every week. Alex Kirshner, a skeptic…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: The 2024 Eyes List Begins
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey opens the notebook for an all-coaching carousel mailbag to set the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe state of Florida preview, part 2: South
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com There’s always lots happening in college football in South Florida. Richard…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastAll Bets Paid: Godfrey's Ode To Michigan & The Rose Bowl
Oil and water. The Capulets and the Montagues. Michigan fans and Steven Godfrey. After years of often contentious relations, Godfrey threw down the gauntlet…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 SEC preview show
The 2024 SEC season preview from Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, and Steven Godfrey. How could the party be ruined for Georgia, Texas, and Alabama? Is Ole Miss…