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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 CFB video game field guide and review
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com After a long week of playing the EA Sports College Football 25 video game…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Big 12 preview show
It’s the 2024 Big 12 season preview from Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey. Utah enters the league as the favorite, but the gap to Kansas…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe death and life of EA Sports' college football video game
Ben Haumiller is EA Sports’ principal game designer for college football. He’s here with Godfrey to discuss the long road back for a previously defunct CFB…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 ACC preview show
It’s the 2024 ACC season preview from Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey. Following a discussion of the start of TALKIN’ SEASON (0:43), the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe state of Florida preview, part 1: North
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The Tampa Bay Times' Matt Baker joins Richard to talk all things Florida…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastScheme School: The evolution of Ryan Day’s Ohio State
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It’s a big year for Ryan Day. He might have the preseason No. 1 team, and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: Summer Road Trip Edition
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In this solo show, Steven Godfrey’s got two hours’ worth of football and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSummer Grab Bag: The toughest stadium is *what*?
Alex and Richard take subscriber questions heading into a holiday week. Which Florida school does Billy Napier least want to let beat him? Did UCLA set up…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy (Some of) the Big 12’s Weirdness Works
Weeks before the Big 12 expands to 16 teams, Godfrey and Alex dive into the unique place the conference currently occupies. It’s not rich like the Big Ten and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe FCS lessons for the 12-team Playoff
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A college football playoff with more than four teams? What will they think…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhat happens when a college football coach is PRE-fired?
The rumor mill demands that several coaches be on the hot seat at all times. But what about when the seat gets so hot that a new…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2024 Texas college football extravaganza
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Shehan Jeyarajah is national reporter for CBS Sports, host of the College…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast9 CFB Players to Tell Your Friends About for 2024
Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey start to look ahead to the 2024 college football season. The episode opens with some consideration of New…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastScheme School: How good is Shedeur Sanders, actually?
Welcome to a new episode of Scheme School. Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice returns to the show to have a completely on-field-focused (we promise) conversation about…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Impending Arrival of College Football 3.0 (3.1?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com College football is about to get a lot different. Alex and Richard talk…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: New Conference Expectations for Everyone from Texas to Army
Godfrey's insisting that everyone pick a Sun Belt team to ride and/or die with in '24. Plus, did the NFL kill USC's L.A. vibes? And let's set an expectation…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Week 1's High (Big) Noon Showdown and the G5 Playoff Proposal Debunked
For more episodes like The Single Wing, subscribe at splitzoneduo.com. Godfrey's circling back on TV scheduling tactics for Week 1, explaining San Jose State’s…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege Football's Unwinnable But Righteous TV War With the NFL
College football (including its TV partners) usually gets out of the NFL’s way. But when the 12-team Playoff arrives this December, the two levels of the sport…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Clemson's bottom line, UCF's shopping aisle, and a battle with impostor syndrome
In this solo show, Steven Godfrey's trying to figure out why Clemson's O-line can't match its D-line, why BYU was (is?) dirty, if Army/Navy has a Rose Bowl…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow golf is college football
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com As a postscript to last week’s newsletter about college football coaches’…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe politics behind Ohio State's ridiculous commencement speech
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Ohio State played host to one of the most bizarre commencement speeches of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: UCLA's optimism and Kent State math
Welcome to a FREE episode of The Single Wing thanks to our friends at Magic Mind (https://magicmind.com/SPLITZONE20 for 20 percent off). May is Mental Health…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe other Iowa betting scandal
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It was huge college sports news in 2023 when dozens of athletes at Iowa and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Good, The Bad, The Auburn: Rating 11 Teams Post-Spring
The end of the spring transfer portal window means the beginning of looking ahead in earnest to the 2024 season. With rosters mostly locked, Alex and Richard…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe only NFL Draft postmortem that matters
The Split Zone Duo crew discusses the results of the NFL Draft through both a college football and “being mean to Steven Godfrey” lens. Georgia’s player…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastEmergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Maryland is hiring Brian Ferentz as an analyst, per Bruce Feldman. Alex went…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A coaching search where nobody got spurned, everyone got paid, and all…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football
It’s time for an offseason check-in with the most watched, most controversial 4-8 team in college football history. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex weigh in on the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow we drink from the college football firehose
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com We get a lot of questions about how we keep up with the wide world of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com For SZD’s annual NFL Draft QB special, Richard is joined by Ben Solak of The…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastUSC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown
USC reporter Luca Evans of the Orange County Register joins Alex to talk about the many challenges facing the Trojans in the NIL and collective space (4:19)…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome to The Single Wing, where Steven Godfrey takes subscriber questions…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow a pro football personnel director sees college football
Richard has a conversation with Eric Galko, the director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl. It’s wide-ranging: Eric…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In 2023, Neal Brown was the industry's most fireable head coach. Then he had…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 of 2024 is ... surprisingly bare. Why?
Week 1 has always had tons of warmup games, but the schedule usually has a big handful of bangers. In 2024, that’s not the case. There are barely any games…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow we fix the rules in college football
Richard has ideas for how to make college football’s on-field rules a little bit better. Alex and Godfrey like some of them and don’t like others. Let’s…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Lane Kiffin speculation never ends. That's the point
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's answering your questions about Lane Kiffin's short- and long-term…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhat in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?
Spring practice is a lot of hype and not a lot of substance, but sometimes we can learn a lot. Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk about what to pay serious…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: Never mind the league network promoting the league
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's answering your questions about SEC Network bias (lol), the Big…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy the 12-team playoff is great for college football
Godfrey looked a bit deeper into how a 12-team playoff system will work in practice, and he ended up feeling ... surprisingly optimistic about the future of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastClemson's absurd yet potentially effective case against the ACC
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Clemson filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference on Tuesday in…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe NFL-ification of college recruiting
College football teams now have "general managers." How did the sport get here? How are they similar to GMs for pro teams, and how are they different? And will…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastNews: SEC/B1G power play, Fox Fridays, and what the Dartmouth vote means
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk out three big news developments over the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSZD Book Club: Dan Wetzel talks "Death to the BCS"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The first installment of the Split Zone Duo Book Club: What's it like to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastMailbag: WVU's extension, Arizona's order of operations, private equity in CFB, and more
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Alex take your questions on a long list of topics, in order…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastJJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDoes a new head coach’s first staff matter?
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastNews: Atlanta coaches, EA video game, and The Return of the Mass
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: It's time for Oregon State to go Full Boise
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's trying to keep the Beavers relevant nationally as the P12-to-P2…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDid Alabama kill the MAC?
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe SZD Super Bowl 58 preview show
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Sometimes, the haters call Split Zone Duo “an NFL podcast.” Today we prove…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastGoing into labor
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhat Auburn is getting in new coordinator DJ Durkin
DJ Durkin continues to get SEC coordinator jobs. In the past few seasons, he’s bounced from Ole Miss to Texas A&M to Auburn as some of the most famous head…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Single Wing: How Louisiana Tech's AD explains the future of college football
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's here to help make TCU better (Why is Kendal Briles still there?)…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2023 time capsule reveal, plus key coach news
Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start the show with a discussion of Sherrone Moore’s elevation to Michigan head coach and Iowa’s maybe-good but definitely-weird…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast"The Blind Side" commentary track with Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Split Zone Duo is proud to present a long-sought-after project: The…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastIs Alabama f****d?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com When Nick Saban retired, Alex wrote a column for the Ringer under the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe SZD Interview: Rodger Sherman's trip 'round the CFB world
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Hurry-Up: Michigan reaches the pinnacle
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…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSplit Zone Duo LIVE in Houston!
Please enjoy this recording of Split Zone Duo Live in Houston, taped the night of 1/6/24 and presented by our friends at Homefield Apparel. We had an amazing…