Inside The Pylon: A Midwest College Football Podcast

Ryan and Clinton welcome Mike Regalado, from Bruin 247 and the What's Bruin Show, back to the show, to help them break down the UCLA Bruins in year one of a new regime. Bob Chesney takes over as head coach for the Bruins, following a 16-game run for previous head coach DeShaun Foster which ended after four games in 2025 and a 5-11 overall record. Chesney, meanwhile, is fresh off a playoff appearan...

Ryan and Clinton welcome Roman Tomashoff back to the show, to help them break down the Washington Huskies. It was an offseason of brief tumult for Jedd Fisch's program. QB Demond Williams attempt to flirt with the transfer portal was thwarted by contracts. Reported updates make the offseason drama seem like water under the bridge ... is this accurate? And how has the QB won back the trust of his t...

Ryan and Clinton welcome Matt Flip from the Roar Lions Roar Blog back to the show, to help them break down the Penn State Nittany Lions heading into a new era. After a season that failed to live up to any of the preseason expectations, out is James Franklin and in comes Matt Campbell, and with him a host of former Iowa State Cyclones. What can we expect from this squad, which will feature a manage...

Ryan and Clinton continue rolling through fall previews, tonight taking on the Minnesota Golden Gophers. To help the guys, Ryan Burns from Gophers Illustrated on the 247 network joins the show. In a conference of prominent freshmen QBs in 2025, Minnesota's Drake Lindsey flew under the radar nationally -- with nearly 2400 passing yards, 18 TDs and only 6 INTs. However, his 5.9 yards per attempt was...

Ryan and Clinton continue their tour through the midwest, tonight breaking down the Maryland Terrapins. To do so, Jeff Erman from Inside MD Sports joins the show to help the guys dig into Mike Locksley's squad. The Terps head coach found himself on a fair share of hot seat lists entering last season. A 4-8 campaign that ended with eight consecutive losses certainly did not quell the noise national...

Ryan and Clinton continue their deep dive into Big Ten previews, tonight discussing the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. To help the guys, Richie O'Leary from Rutgers On3 joins the show. Greg Schiano has now won three or fewer Big Ten games in five of his six seasons back at Rutgers. Despite a breakout performance from RB Antwan Raymond and the passing attack in 2025, the Knights were 2-7 in conference pl...

The guys continue to roll through fall previews. Tonight Ryan and Clinton are breaking down the Purdue Boilermakers, and Jordan Jones from the Boilers and Beyond re-joins the show to help them do so. Year one under Barry Odom did not look too differently on the record sheet than the final season under Ryan Walters did. But he undertook a massive rebuild, even by college football portal era circa 2...

It's not quite summer yet but fall preview season is officially upon us. To better space out shows and to accommodate for some vacation time, we are getting a head start on previews this year. But some things stay the same, and kicking things off for the third straight year, the guys start with the Northwestern Wildcats, and are pleased to once again be joined by Matt Shelton from Wildcat Report o...

Another day another blow to NCAA football as we know it. The guys start the show with a quick take on a Texas judge granting Texas Tech QB Brenden Sorsby a temporary injunction to be eligible for the 2026 CFB season, despite an NCAA suspension for gambling on his own team's games. But for the bulk of the show, the guys take a stab a predicting an All-Big Ten team for the 2026 season, covering offe...

Happy June! We are one month closer to the season, which means we are one month closer to preview content, which means it's time to start thinking about the things that matter most: beating the team you hate. Ohio State/Michigan gets its flowers as the best rivalry in the sport, but what about the other games that get our juices flowing? In this episode, Ryan and Clinton rank their top-5 Big Ten r...

Ryan and Clinton are back, and and with preview season coming down the pipe, they take a look at post-spring win total projections for each Big Ten team, and decide whether they would take the over or the under on that specific number. Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode...

Ryan and Clinton are back, and they are looking ahead to the games of the season. Each co-host ranks his top-five most anticipated matchups in the midwest of the upcoming 2026 college football season. No specific criteria was employed, and each co-host was given free reigns to determine what was most important to them when selecting their games. Did your team have a contest make the cut? Tune in t...

Who loves rankings? You love rankings, and the guys obliged you with this week's episode. Ryan and Clinton go, 1-18, their own personal rankings of the projected starting runnings backs in the Big Ten heading into 2026. Do you agree? Did one of the guys make you mad with their idiotic list? Let us know! Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9...

It's the dog days of summer, officially. Spring ball has concluded, May is here, and we are three months away from preseason camps kicking off. You know what that means: it's time to concoct dumb scenarios that probably aren't going to happen, and decide which is more likely to come to fruition. Ryan and Clinton play a version of "This or That?" Both co-hosts have formulated a handful of hypotheti...

It's draft season! And to honor the occasion Ryan and Clinton are drafting Big Ten positions groups ... but with a twist. In what will be a season-long game, each co-host will draft a team in which each pick is an entire position group (QB, RB, WR/TE, OL, D, ST). To make things more interesting, each position group has been assigned a hypothetical dollar value, ranging between $1 and $5, and each...

Ryan and Clinton are back on the weekly grind with ranking shows and other various musings. This week, the guys talk top defenses in the Big Ten and each ranks their top five. Who came out on top? And what went into each of their rankings? Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the epi...

Ryan and Clinton are back on the weekly grind with ranking shows and other various musings. This week, the guys talk top offenses in the Big Ten and each ranks their top five. Who came out on top? And what went into each of their rankings? Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the epi...

Spring spotlights are over and we are back to once-weekly programming with rankings, debates, and other fun discussions to fill your time and preoccupy your offseason blues. Tonight, Ryan and Clinton discuss their preseason top-5 quarterbacks in the Big Ten conference. Who are the names they are looking at? Are they looking at the same group of players? How do they feel about the position at large...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Wisconsin. After another disappointing year, the Badgers retained head coach Luke Fickell with a promise to invest more heavily in the roster. Mission accomplished -- somewhat -- with 33 incoming transfers. Much of the work was done on the defensive side of the ball. The Badges could be looking at four transfers starting...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Washington. The story of the trenches for Washington in 2026 will be told by an experienced OL, and a young, but talented, DL. The Huskies return for OL starters from last year's team, and bring in 5-star freshman Kodi Greene to compete for the fifth spot. On the DL, added pieces in the portal and will look to several for...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Notre Dame. In 2025, Notre Dame had one of the best runnings games in college football -- ranking 3rd nationally averaging 5.7 yards per carry -- on the strength of a generational backfield in Jeremyiah Love and Jadarian Price. They achieved this (2,046 combined rushing yards, 29 combined rushing TDs) despite below-expect...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking USC. For whatever faults he may have as a head coach, developing QBs and prolific offenses is not one of them for Lincoln Riley. He returns a strong, experience signal caller in 2026 with Jayden Maiava returning after throwing for 3700 yards and 24 TDs a season ago. However, four of USC's top five pass-catchers in terms o...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking UCLA. The Bruins were a train wreck under DeShaun Foster last season, with a brief reprieve upon his firing and the promotion of Tim Skipper to interim head coach. That lasted three games before a five-game losing streak (with only one game being within three scores) saw them finish 3-9. In comes Bob Chesney from James Ma...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Rutgers. Athan Kaliakmanis took a big step forward in year two of Kirk Ciarrocca's offense last season, just in time to jump for the NFL. Replacing him will either be 2025 backup AJ Surace, or Boston College transfer Dylan Lonergan. Surace attempted only two passes against P4 competition last season, while Lonergan had an...

Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Purdue. Year 1 for Barry Odom felt like a step in the right direction for Purdue despite going 2-10. On offense, he relied on part-time 2024 starter (and spring 2025 portal addition) Ryan Browne at QB with mixed results. A strong start to the season (250+ yards in four of Purdue's first five games) ended with him not hitt...