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Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, & SI’s Ross Dellenger have a big slate of games to pick for Week 3 of the college football season. Cal visits Notre Dame, #12 ranked BYU faces off with #25 Oregon, #22 Penn State is up against an orange-out in Auburn, Mississippi State & LSU square off in Death Valley and #13 Miami travels to College Station to play #24 Texas A&M. Plus, there are three big cases that ne...

Dan Wetzel and SI's Pat Forde have a big show in store today. Texas A&M is coming off of a midnight yell controversy and has to face #13 ranked Miami. Penn State and Auburn face off to see if Bryan Harsin can continue to coach the Tigers. Notre Dame faced more bad luck with the news of starting quarterback Tyler Buchner needing surgery on his shoulder. There is a new college football trolling tact...

Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, and SI’s Ross Dellenger have a lot to discuss on today’s podcast: Nebraska finally said goodbye to Scott Frost, while there were major upsets in college football including Marshall over Notre Dame, Appalachian State over Texas A&M and Washington State taking down Wisconsin. The hosts also dive into what to make of Texas losing in close fashion to Alabama. Finally, the c...

Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, & SI’s Ross Dellenger make their picks for Week 2 of the college football season. The fellas choose their winners against the spread in #1 ranked Alabama @ Texas, Tennessee @ Pittsburgh, Iowa State @ Iowa in the Cy-Hawk rivalry game, Kentucky @ Florida, Baylor @ BYU and as always give their locks of the week. 1:40 Alabama @ Texas 15:30 Tennessee @ #17 PITT 20:45 Iowa St...

Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, & SI’s Ross Dellenger join together to discuss one of the biggest college football storylines to date: the CFP expansion to 12 teams. They detail who this impacts the most, the benefits of non-neutral site playoff games, and what happens to the bowls after the expansion takes place. Additionally, Knockout Dragout is back, along with another installment of People’s Court...

Dan Wetzel, SI’s Pat Forde, & SI’s Ross Dellenger join together to break down all of the college football Week 1 madness. The returning champs, Georgia, looked very impressive, Ohio State had a tough win against Notre Dame, Utah was upset by the Florida Gators & Michigan’s QB derby may be nearing an end. Plus we touch on the CFP expansion announcement, and give our small sample Heisman candidates....

Dan Wetzel, SI's Ross Dellenger, and SI’s Pat Forde make their picks for College Football Week 1: Race For The Case. This weekend’s slate of spreads include powerhouse matchups #11 Oregon at #3 Georgia, Cincinnati facing a hungry Razorbacks team, Utah heads to the swamp in Florida, #5 Notre Dame looking to make a statement against #2 Ohio State, and an unranked battle in the Superdome between FSU...

Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger on the eve of Week 1 college football action. The guys spend most of the episode discussing their most anticipated storylines from week 1, including the pressure on Ryan Day & Marcus Freeman to earn wins in the key matchup between Ohio State and Notre Dame on Saturday. They also discuss some storylines coming out of Utah/Florida, Oregon/Georg...

Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to react to Nebraska's nail-biting loss to Northwestern in the Week 0 kickoff game in Dublin, Ireland. With things already headed south for the Cornhuskers, could Frost be out of a job by October? The guys also talk about the Michigan Wolverines settling on a two-QB plan for Weeks 1-2, the battle for QB1 at Texas A&M and Auburn firing their a...

Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to kick off Week 0 by zeroing in on the Cornhusker state. With Nebraska & Northwestern set to kick off college football action in Dublin, Ireland this weekend, the guys have a long chat about where things have gone wrong with Scott Frost's Nebraska team, and why even a lukewarm 8-win season could save his job come December. Later in the show...

Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to rehash the story of Manti Te'o and Lennay Kekua nearly one decade after the bizarre college football story elevated the Notre Dame linebacker into the national conversation. On the heels of Netflix's documentary Untold , the guys discuss how the media should have handled the reporting differently, what it was like covering Te'o at the time...

What was widely reported last week is now official . The Big Ten announced a new media rights deal with FOX, CBS & NBC worth a reported $7 billion that will air its three marquee games on the broadcast networks at the 12pm, 3:30pm and 7:30pm window, respectively. Dan Wetzel is joined as always by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to break down what this huge contract means for the future of conferen...

We are less than two weeks away from some actual real college football action. On today's podcast, Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to draft the 18 non-conference games they're looking forward to most. From a selection of Notre Dame games (because every Notre Dame game has the special distinction of being technically non-conference) to the rebirth of an old rivalry to Coach...

It's okay, mommy & daddy still love you, but ESPN will be living with someone else for right now. Yes, the shocking split that no one (or everyone) saw coming– the Big Ten and ESPN are reportedly calling it quits , with the conference's Saturday slate reportedly to be split three ways between FOX, CBS and NBC by time-slot. Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to dive deep into t...

The first coaches poll of the preseason dropped Monday morning and at first, there weren't many surprises. Alabama, Ohio State & Georgia make a lot of sense 1-2-3. But then you move further down the list and Texas is at 18!? Dan Wetzel is joined by SI's Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger to investigate the ridiculousness at the bottom of the AFCA's latest poll & which suspicious characters could most like...

The College Football Enquirer welcomes a late transfer onto the squad, just in time for the football season. SI's Ross Dellenger joins the pod full time and will be your third voice of reason (or anarchy) through the year. Ross joins Dan Wetzel & SI's Pat Forde today and kicks off with a piece of original reporting from Washington, D.C. on former Auburn coach and current U.S. Senator Tommy Tubervi...

Dan Wetzel & SI's Pat Forde kick off this Sunday night podcast rehashing last week's press conference from Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff, who defiantly attempted to beat back the Big 12 with the proclamation, “No Pac-12 team is joining the Big 12." The guys break down the commissioner's intransigent words from the podium as the vultures seem to be circling for top schools like Washington an...

Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis were a change of tone for commissioner Kevin Warren, who had a shaky first two years on the job, but now is doing a victory lap following the conference's acquisition of USC and UCLA. Dan Wetzel & SI's Pat Forde react to the commissioner's statements from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana & Warren's suggestion that a 16-team playoff may be in consideration. Later in t...

What a tough day to be a Vol. Tennessee was hit with a notice of allegations late last week in regards to 18 supposed recruiting violations under former coach Jeremy Pruitt. Dan Wetzel & SI's Pat Forde kick off the podcast recapping the claims in Knoxville and run through the list of fine eastern Tennessee eateries that Pruitt allegedly hosted recruits to (plus the one aquarium). Later in the podc...

SEC Media Days wrapped up in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon and there was one common theme: the coaches don't like NIL. Nick Saban called it, "a competitive balance issue." Kirby Smart (with a fresh 10-year, $112 million extension) worried that young athletes may be getting too much money, too fast. Overall it was more of the same posturing from superstar coaches, but the train on NIL has left the...

Don't say don't spill our blood, sweat, tears and cough droplets into this podcast. As SEC Media Days kick off in Atlanta, we proudly bring you Pat Forde's flu-game in podcast form. Dan Wetzel joins Pat to react to Monday's opening session of SEC Media Days. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey spoke to the press, exuded confidence about the SEC's acquisitions vs. the Big Ten's & signaled what the SEC may...

SI's Pat Forde joins the pod fresh off of Big 12 media days to break it all down with Dan Wetzel. The message out of Dallas? The conference may not be done expanding. Who will they target next? California Governor Gavin Newsom is a little hurt that UCLA did not reach out before the move to the Big Ten and is "looking into it." What can the state do? We also say goodbye to our producer, Sully, who...

The dust has settled on the earth-shattering move of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten. Dan Wetzel and SI's Pat Forde take this break in the action to pick out winners and losers from around the college football landscape. Does the Big 12 look better now than a month ago? What about national powers Clemson and the ACC? Pat and Dan also look into buying some unique Indiana real estate before diving into...

Dan Wetzel and SI's Pat Forde have the latest from the conference realignment front. Will the ACC and Pac-12 form an alliance of their own? What about the rumors surrounding ACC powers?  The guys also play another round of "Would you Eat It?" before tipping a cap to a comic book writer from Bama...  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Subscribe to the College Football Enquir...

Notre Dame to the SEC? ACC? Big 12? What is the one way the Pac-12 can survive? Dan Wetzel and SI's Pat Forde spoke to the power brokers in college football over the weekend and give you the latest on conference realignment. What is the very next move? We also have two wild stories to cap the podcast... one involving a Florida man spending time in jail for murdering a neighbor's chicken. See acast...