The College Football Survivor Show

With a win total of 10.5, is Alabama a prime target for an under bet this season? Someone on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show thinks so as Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah run through their favorite potential win total bets of the offseason. Discussed are teams like Alabama, Georgia, Michigan, Washington, LSU, North Carolina State, Florida State, Illinois, Nebraska, Texas Tec...

What teams from the nine years of the four-team College Football Playoff era would have been most helped -- or potentially drastically changed -- by a 12-team playoff? Could a conference have been saved? Realignment prevented? A coaching career altered? New champions crowned? Other program peaks achieved? On this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises came up with a 1-10 ra...

What's the ideal quarterback development path for a college football team with playoff aspirations? How is it different for teams at the top like Georgia, Alabama and Ohio State, and what's it like for programs just below them looking to make a leap, like Oregon, Washington, Notre Dame, LSU and Florida State? On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, a QB development issue posed by Sh...

From Nick Saban to Jim Harbaugh, from Kirby Smart to Lincoln Riley, it's time to rank the 10 best head coaches in college football on the latest College Football Survivor Show. Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah each come in with their top 10 lists, and there is some disagreement, including a major ranking difference on one coach for a very specific reason. Where is Clemson's Dabo Swinney after...

Dylan Raiola, the No. 1 quarterback in the Class of 2024, committed to Georgia this week, and on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look at what that means for the Bulldogs and the rest of college football. Raiola won't play college football until 2024, the first year of the 12-team playoff, so Doug and Shehan use this chance to look at young c...

How should the 12-team College Football Playoff be scheduled starting in 2024? How should it be discussed? How should it be branded and cultivated and built into a new huge part of sports calendar? On this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are offering advice on that because they think college football needs the help. How many games should be playe...

On this College Football Survivor Show, Shehan Jeyarajah is back to join Doug Lesmerises as they look at everything they've learned from spring football. The assignment of this episode is to rank the top five teams coming out of spring, not based on schedule or conference or playoff path, but just based on how teams looked and what questions they answered or still have lingering coming out of spri...

The Oregon Ducks and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are on this latest edition of The College Football Survivor Show as Doug Lesmerises checks in with two more teams after spring football. Both teams make sense on this pod because they are led by veteran transfer quarterbacks -- Bo Nix at Oregon and Sam Hartman at Notre Dame -- looking to elevate winning programs. James Crepea of OregonLive.com joi...

The Big Ten West is entering its final season as we know it before USC and UCLA join the Big Ten in 2024 and change the conference and college football. With the ACC Coastal and Pac-12 South already gone as weaker college football divisions, and with Georgia strengthening the SEC East, the Big Ten West this season is the last of a dying breed -- a weak division that has a chance to give the winner...

On this College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises is joined by two guests to talk Colorado, Oregon State and Washington in the Pac-12. First, Adam Rittenberg of ESPN.com joins Doug to discuss the massive turnover at Colorado under new coach Deion Sanders. Adam visited Boulder for a story earlier this year and has a view on the nearly 50 transfers to leave Colorado since Sanders took over. Ne...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, the journey through spring football continues. For this show, that means two teams --- Alabama and LSU. To do that, Doug Lesmerises is joined by Mike Rodak of AL.com to run through Alabama's spring game from top to bottom, starting with a QB battle that was uncertain enough to potentially lead the Crimson Tide toward bringing in another quarte...

Four more college powerhouses are up on this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, as Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah talk about how USC, Penn State, Tennessee and Florida State looked in their spring football games, and what shape they are in coming out of spring football. First up (0:30) is USC, which has an explosive passing game and a new-look defense heavy on transfers. Then (26...

A load of College Football Playoff contenders played their spring football games this past Saturday, and Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are here to run through four of them: Georgia, Ohio State, Texas and Clemson. Expect four more teams to be discussed on the second episode this week. For now, the guys start (0:30) with the transfer of Georgia defensive tackle Bear Alexander and whether Doug...

Recruiting is like the draft and the transfer portal in like free agency -- and beyond that, college football is becoming more like the NFL in a lot of other ways. But there still aren't trades. And everyone loves trades in sports. On this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah come up with six trades they wish could be made in college football. They're...

How should college football powerhouses like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Michigan, Florida State, Clemson, Oregon and more use the transfer portal? That's what Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah discuss on the latest episode of The College Football Survivor Show. Among the topics: Transfers from Georgia to Alabama and how they worked out Nick Saban's view of the portal Comparing the portal in...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah draft the 10 sure-thing teams in college football under their points formula, and they revisit the last time they did it. The formula is this: A point for making a conference title game, another point for winning it, a point for making the playoff, and another point for winning it all. Georgia earned four p...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are looking ahead at the 2023 Heisman Trophy race and each drafting a contender from six different categories: Returning starting quarterback New starting quarterback Pass catcher (receiver/tight end) Running back Defensive player Wild card There are some very familiar names in here and some new ones. Check...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are joined by Mike Rodak of AL.com. That's because the discussion centers on powers in college football and college basketball, and how those programs go about trying to be good at the opposite sport. The discussion starts with Alabama and how the Crimson Tide, as a football power, was the No. 1 seed in bas...

Two years ago, the ideas of Lincoln Riley at USC, Brian Kelly at LSU, Luke Fickell at Wisconsin, Mario Cristobal at Miami and Hugh Freeze at Auburn would have been fanciful. Now they're real -- established coaches in new jobs. On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are playing coach swap and putting current coaches in new jobs. Is it a new, inte...

On this episode of the College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah talk about college football head coaches in their primes or about to enter to their primes, and what that means for their programs and the 2023 playoff race. With a look at recent history, Doug and Shehan look for comparisons ranging from Nick Saban to Urban Meyer to Larry Coker to Mack Brown that could mat...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look at the latest 16 seed upset of a No. 1 team in the NCAA basketball tournament and imagine what that would look like in a football context. Two things: It's definitely going to happen soon with a 5-12 game in the College Football Playoff when it expands starting in 2024. When it does happen, it will be...

In this week's episode of NIL Now, Kevin and Lauren assess Nick Saban’s latest NIL comments about collectives paying players to attend their schools. The hosts then discuss whether or not LifeWallet CEO John Ruiz should be considered a “booster,” after he said he’ll file a lawsuit against the NCAA over his mislabeling as a Miami “booster.” Reddit CFB’s Bobak Ha’Eri brings Reddit's comments on Isai...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are comparing the best teams in college football to the best teams in college basketball. After all, this is an episode of a year-round football playoff show during the week the NCAA basketball tournament starts. So what basketball team right now is most like Alabama football? Georgia football? Michigan foo...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are looking at matchups that haven't yet happened in the nine years of the playoff but that we want to see as soon as possible. Alabama, for instance, has faced Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, Michigan State, Washington and Cincinnati in the playoff. What next playoff game for the Crimso...

In this week's episode of NIL Now, Kevin and Lauren preview NCAA president Charlie Baker's first 100 days in office. The hosts then react to LSU gymnast Olivia Dunne's controversial NIL deal with Caktus AI, an artificial intelligence tool that forced LSU to issue a statement. Reddit CFB’s Bobak Ha’Eri brings his thoughts and Reddit's comments on Baker's mission as the NCAA's leader, and what he pr...