Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are together again for a Pac-12 bowl preview show, going over the upcoming five bowl games featuring teams from the Conference of Champions. The Pac-12 bowl season started out a bit rocky with Oregon State falling to Utah State in the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl, but there is optimism going forward for Utah in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham is joined by special guest Brandon Huffman to break down how the Pac-12 conference did during the 2022 Early Signing Period. Huffman is the 247Sports National Recruiting Editor and knows West Coast high school football better than anyone. They discuss Stanford's surprise No. 1 class in the Pac-12, go over the struggles by teams like Washington, USC...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back in studio breaking down Utah's dominating victory over Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship game, showcasing the great new venue for the conference title at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Ryan was there in person and talks about the much improved atmosphere for the game and discussed what commissioner George Kliavkoff had to...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to recap the final week of the regular Pac-12 football season that ended up with the Oregon Ducks winning the North thanks to their victory in the game formerly known as the Civil War and Utah winning the South thanks to the rest of the Pac-12 being fairly terrible. The guys also dive into all of the Pac-12 head coaching news...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back together in studio breaking down what turned into an absolute beatdown week in the Pac-12, with Utah, California, UCLA, Oregon State and Washington State all winning by at least two touchdowns (and most of them by far more than that). By taking down Oregon in bloodthirsty fashion the Utes have vaulted themselves to the top...

This week Podcast of Champions host Ryan Abraham goes solo talking about the biggest news in the Pac-12 with Washington head coach Jimmy Lake being fired one week after he was suspended by the school. UW now joins USC and Washington State as the Pac-12 programs that have fired their head coaches midseason in 2021, setting up what should be a very interesting Apple Cup next week (host David Woods c...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods get to talk about something that they haven't been able to in over two years, a win on the football field for the Arizona Wildcats! Sure it took half of Cal's team being out of commission due to a COVID-19 outbreak, but Jedd Fisch got his first win as a college head coach and there is no place to go but up from here for the Cats! Sp...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods came back down to earth with their picks against the spread and continue to be baffled by the up and down nature of this crazy Conference of Champions. For the 5th week in row our No. 1 team in the POC Power Rankings lost, this time Oregon State to a 2-5 California squad. Dave and Ryan breakdown what was a crazy mess of week 9 games...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back with a little pep in their step after combining to go 9-3 in their picks against the spread last week (Ryan 5-1, Dave 4-2). Can the guys keep that momentum going into a full week 9 slate of games with no Pac-12 programs on BYE weeks? Most likely not, but they will for sure give it the minimal effort per usual. Dave and Ryan...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back at it discussing the breaking news that Washington State has fired head coach Nick Rolovich and four of his assistant coaches for cause because they failed to follow the state mandate and get vaccinated. They discuss where this Cougars program goes from here and how Rolovich's conspiracy brain won out over logic and common...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are licking their wounds after going a collective 1-7 picking Pac-12 games against the spread, with Dave coming in at a perfect 0-4. Each week the Conference of Champions makes less and less sense, with teams looking great one week and terrible the next. Both Ryan and Dave breakdown the four games in the Pac-12 that featured another...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in back in studio once again trying to make sense of the Pac-12 conference, with the top-two teams from our Pac-12 Power Rankings losing. Looking up and down both divisions, it appears that any program is capable of beating any other program (OK maybe not Colorado or Arizona) and that will likely means the chaos continues for th...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio discussing the first full weekend of Pac-12 conference play, going over the good, the bad and the ugly. Unfortunately there was plenty of ugly to go around including Arizona going two calendar years without a win on the football field, Colorado going 24-straight possessions without scoring a point (a Pac-12 record) and...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio breaking down what was an extremely rough Saturday night for the Pac-12, with the Pac-12 South losing all five of its out of conference games, dropping the conferences OOC record to a putrid 23-27. The Conference of Champions only has one undefeated team remaining heading into the meat of conference play, the Oregon Du...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio trying to make sense of this crazy conference that is the Pac-12. In week 1 the North crashed and burned and in week 2, with UCLA on a BYE, the South followed suit and fell flat on its face. The Ducks got another signature win for the conference, but another College Football Playoff contender USC got blasted by Stanfor...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are in studio once again breaking down what was an incredible week one in the Pac-12, at least if you are a fan of the UCLA Bruins. Pac-12 North fans most likely had a bad taste in their collective mouths with the division going 1-5 and the lone win was a 4th quarterback Oregon comeback over Fresno State. The Pac-12 South fared much...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back in studio gearing up for the first real week of college football here in the Pac-12, with 12 games played over 3 days for week 1 in the conference plus an opportunity to recap the lone week 0 Pac-12 game, a UCLA blowout win over Todd Graham's Hawaii squad. The guys go through each and every game and make their picks against...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham is solo with David Woods out because he is in a "protocol" according to his publicist. The show must go on however, so Ryan dives into all of the juicy Pac-12 football news and notes that Dave despises so much, including starting quarterback news at Utah and Arizona, The Alliance that formed between the Pac-12, Big 10 and ACC, the Pac-12 deciding n...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to preview the 2021 college football season for the six Pac-12 South teams: USC, Arizona State, Utah, UCLA, Colorado and Arizona. Will the Trojans win the conference or is this finally the year that Clay Helton is fired? Can Arizona State block out the distractions and bust through to win the division? Can Utah...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to preview the 2021 college football season for the six Pac-12 North teams: Oregon, Washington, California, Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State. Will the Ducks three-peat as Pac-12 Champions? Can Washington overtake Oregon? Will Chase Garbers lead Cal to the promised land? Can Stanford build on their sur...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to discuss the recent meeting between Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff and Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby  and what it could mean for the Conference of Champions going forward. Could there be a merger between the two conferences? Maybe something as simple as a scheduling agreement between the two conference...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to breakdown all of the interesting news and notes from Pac-12 Media Day 2021. It started off with new conference commissioner George Kliavkoff addressing the media 30 minutes after Texas and Oklahoma announced they had officially asked to join the SEC. Things got more interesting when Washington State head coac...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to discuss the breaking news that Washington State head coach Nick Rolovich will not be attending Pac-12 Media Day in person because he has not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The guys were going through the Pac-12 Media Day release right after it was sent to the media and noticed that there was a note indicating that Rolov...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods celebrate the end of an era that went on far, far too long as Larry Scott is finally out as the Pac-12 commissioner. New Conference of Champions boss George Kliavkoff will have plenty of damage to assess from the work of his predecessor and Pac-12 fans are hoping he will be able to push the right buttons to get the conference back o...

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods discuss the Pac-12 athletic directors meeting with incoming commissioner George Kliavkoff and how the future of college football scheduling strategy could change with the likely expansion of the College Football Playoff from 4 to 12 teams. The ADs are considering a couple of options to help optimize the Pac-12's chances of making an...