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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 national championships arrive. Let’s dig in.
Alex and Richard start the show with discussion of LSU cleaning house on the defensive coaching staff, UNC wasting Drake Maye on bad defenses and splitting…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe post-semis Hurry-Up and a brief natty lookahead
Alex and Richard break down the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinals, with brief previewing of Michigan-Washington baked in throughout. Then some reflections on…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSmell some roses and eat some sugar
Richard reports on this year’s big international incident at Playoff semifinal media availabilities. (There’s always one.) Then Richard, Alex, and Godfrey…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastNIL danger zones, Signing Day 2024, and national champs
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex go through some high-level recruiting storylines on National Signing Day: Who’s in the NIL danger zone, and who is clearly splashing…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Eyes List: 2023 finale (?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Godfrey spin through the highlights of a mostly wrapped-up coach…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastAn unprecedented moment of CFB roster confusion
The transfer portal is packed. Signing Day is approaching. Colorado might actually portal an offensive line? Nebraska might get the No. 1 QB? And college…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe 2023 Split Zone Duo awards special
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey submit awards picks for a very SZD-specific set of honors: Power 5/Group of 5 Team of the Year, Game of the Year, Play of the Year…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe FSU travesty: Playoff reaction show
In a special edition of the SZD Hurry-Up, Alex and Richard discuss the Playoff committee's spurning of unbeaten Florida State and then break down the matchups…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast2023 championship weekend preview (and the end of the SEC on CBS)
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey go game-by-game on the most interesting angles surrounding conference championship weekend. Is this the best slate of power…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDissecting the dance between Mark Stoops and Texas A&M
Texas A&M was on the verge of hiring Mark Stoops away from Kentucky, but the parties came apart. Godfrey walks all of us through A&M’s process and the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 13 Hurry-Up: What a Saturday
Rivalry Weekend! Standings implications! Hot seats and poachings! There’s a lot going on. Alex and Richard recap the final week of the regular season with an…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Game is the game: Rivalry Weekend arrives
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey break down Ohio State-Michigan and then get into a long list of other juicy games on Rivalry Weekend. It’s that time of year…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 12 Hurry-Up: Purple rains
Richard and Alex recap the 12th week of the college football season. Washington and Texas win in businesslike fashion, Georgia looks primed for a threepeat…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhy CFB’s second-to-last week is like this (plus Pac-12 drama)
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk through the high-stakes, bizarre legal fight unfolding between Oregon State, Washington State, and the rest of the Pac-12. And…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 11 Hurry-Up: The heavyweights separate
Richard and Alex take you on a quick but detailed voyage through Week 11 in college football. Michigan clarifies what it is and what Penn State is. Oklahoma…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastMichigan and the Big Ten fight an information war
Richard, who broke the news about other Big Ten schools passing around Michigan’s signs, talks with Alex and Godfrey about how the university and fanbase have…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 10 Hurry-Up: Anything happened in Bedlam
Alex and Richard had a great weekend on the ground at college football stadiums, and they’re back after reviewing the rest of Week 10. Alabama-LSU, Bedlam…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastIowa fires a Ferentz + the state of the Playoff + a big Week 10
Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this week’s show by discussing the savvy maneuvering of Iowa’s new athletic director, Beth Goetz, in announcing the end of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 9 Hurry-Up: Told yOU to be careful
Richard and Alex lead you on a detailed sprint through the ninth week of the 2023 college football season, headlined by Kansas’ upset of unbeaten Oklahoma…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Michigan circus: Reporting, reaction, and what’s next
Richard breaks news in Sports Illustrated about the staffer at the center of the Michigan sign-stealing saga, and he talks about the story with Alex and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast9 teams’ best- and worst-case scenarios
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey take stock of nine teams whose seasons could still go all kinds of different ways, from pretty well (or even very well) to very…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 8 Hurry-Up: Who’s not serious?
A fast, detailed sprint through all of the interesting things in college football’s Week 8, with Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Penn State and USC weren’t…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe B1G Show finally arrives
Penn State plays Ohio State this week, so it’s time to finally assess the many strengths and relative weaknesses of those two teams and the current (slight)…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 7 Hurry-Up: Go for it
Richard and Alex take you on a fast but detailed journey through Week 7 in college football. Let’s be specific about which Dan Lanning decision cost Oregon…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastMidseason panic buttons and Week 7 blockbusters
Alex and Richard go over the situations at several programs that are having a rough time. HOW bad is it at TCU, Baylor, Southern Miss, Indiana, Arkansas, and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 6 Hurry-Up: Kneel before Pod
The college football season Week 6 recap, fast and detailed from Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Oklahoma looks great, Texas still looks fine, and the rest…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhat it just means in the SEC
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex have noted the narrative that the SEC is “down” or “wide open” this year. And maybe! But to figure that out, we’ve got to heat-check…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 5 Hurry-Up: Make the tackle
A detailed but rapid recap of Week 5 in college football from Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Duke gets its heart broken, LSU gets its defense broken, UGA…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Hugh Freeze might be right (maybe, this one time, but probably not)
Godfrey’s enjoying Hugh Freeze’s fact checking session during his weekly presser as much as the next sane CFB fan, but does the Righteous Rev. sorta have a…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastHow the Pac-12 got its groove back
Alex and Richard discuss the common threads in the Pac-12's ironic return to being maybe the best conference in college football, then offer one big thing to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 4 Hurry-Up: Podcasting for clicks
Richard and Alex take you through a packed Week 4 in college football. Ohio State and Notre Dame played a great game with some perplexing coaching decisions…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Deion phenomenon and a massive Week 4
Deion Sanders and Colorado have become the biggest story in college football. We want to unpack why that happened, because we think it goes much deeper than…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Don’t look for 2007; make the best 2023 possible
Steven Godfrey’s back with a solo show to hopefully help y’all receive the wonderful uncertainty of this early CFB year the best way possible- in the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 3 Hurry-Up: Sunglasses on
Richard and Alex talk about a surprisingly wild third week of the college football season. Jay Norvell writes a check and doesn’t cash it against Colorado…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhat’s next for Texas, Bama, and (differently) Oklahoma
Richard, Godfrey, and Alex dive into how good things might get for Texas and how bad they might get for Alabama. Oklahoma had an embarrassing weekend because…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: Here's An Easy Trick To Remember How Mel Tucker Ruined His Career
If you're confused about the unfolding details surrounding Mel Tucker's Title IX investigation, Godfrey's here with a quick and easy way to parse the many…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 2 Hurry-Up: They’re baaaaaaack
Richard shares observations from on the ground at Texas’ win over Alabama, and then he and Alex run through dozens of other notes from college football’s Week…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWhich Week 1 impressions will actually stick?
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex pick through eight interesting cases from Week 1 of the college football season. What do we believe, and what might look like a lie…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastWeek 1 Hurry-Up: Primed for the season
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a details-packed sprint through Week 1 of the college football season. Colorado pulls off a stunner. (So does…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastSingle Wing: When you're rooting for "it was just a weird few years"
Godfrey's exploration of this year's paucity of good kickoff games yielded predictable results – it's yet another weird TV money problem – but maybe we need…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Week 1 tasting menu: A mega-preview
After offering some quick Week 0 impressions, Alex, Godfrey, and Richard preview Week 1 of the 2023 season, highlighting dozens of games from Kent State-UCF to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe big 2023 prediction show (plus the Florida doc and modern sports TV)
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex start the show with an extended talk about Netflix’s Florida doc series, which has come under scrutiny not for what it includes but…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastFCS Upset Draft, Notre Dame, and Army’s big change
Jason Kirk joins Alex and Richard to draft FCS teams that will beat FBS teams this season. Then the group talks about this season’s FBS independent programs…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Sun Belt 2023 preview show
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview the entire Sun Belt and then talk about why this league is such a breath of fresh air in a moment of non-geographic…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe SEC 2023 preview show
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey preview the Southeastern Conference for 2023. Let’s try to figure out a way for Georgia to not make the Playoff again. (It’s hard.)…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe MAC 2023 preview show
Alex, Godfrey, and Richard preview the MAC for 2023. Toledo looks like it’s on firm footing again, but this is an unpredictable league, and Ohio has a serious…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Big Ten 2023 preview show
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview the Big Ten for 2023. It’s an Ohio State-Michigan-Penn State race at the top. Is Maryland or Michigan State capable of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Big 12 2023 preview show
Alex and Richard set up the season for a 14-team Big 12. Texas should finally do it on its way out the door. Oklahoma might have the next-highest ceiling, but…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Conference USA 2023 preview show
Richard and Alex preview the dramatically reshaped CUSA for 2023. Is this league Liberty’s right away, or can WKU (or someone else) keep it in the control of…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDEAD LETTERS: The SoCon story
The Southern Conference birthed both the SEC and the ACC. Then the league died in everything but name. What happened, and what is still happening? Welcome to…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe AAC 2023 preview show
Steven Godfrey and Richard Johnson are here to disrespect the Tide... of Tulane! The American welcomes a bunch of new schools, and one of them (MEEP MEEP)…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe ACC 2023 preview show
Steven Godfrey and Richard Johnson take you on a magical and not-at-all predictable journey through the sport's most predictable conference. Visit the lovely…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Mountain West 2023 preview show
Alex Kirshner and Steven Godfrey have some Mountain West conversations, touching on every team in the league heading into 2023. Has Boise State averted the…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe Pac-12 2023 preview show
Steven Godfrey and Alex Kirshner preview the Pac-12's 2023 season by touching every team in the conference. Which quarterbacks in this league could join Caleb…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDEAD LETTERS: Kentucky, the Baron, and the Bear
Football wasn't much at Kentucky until Bear Bryant came along. That, it would soon become clear, was exactly how Adolph Rupp liked it. Welcome to Season 2…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDilfer's threats, Florida's progress, and the video game's lawsuit
Richard and Alex go through some college football news of the week, starting with some thoughts on a couple of tragic CFB losses this week in Ryan Mallett and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastThe spontaneous season preview, live from DC!
Welcome to our first live show, recorded June 15 in D.C. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. After talking a little bit about D.C.’s merits as a college…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCoach contract facts and a CFB mailbag
Richard shares insights from his extensive dive into the quirkiest clauses in the contracts for 2023's new head coaches. Some of them could be a big deal and…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastCollege (sports) heads toward a cliff
American higher education is about to have a big numbers problem on its hands, and it could affect college football in significant ways (albeit probably not…
Split Zone Duo: College Football PodcastDead Letters: A Nebraska Football Story
This week marks the launch of season 2 of "Dead Letters," an SZD Patreon series (patreon.com/szd) about the rises and falls of great college football programs…