Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Listen to the Week 10 Tasting Menu and pair it with Godfrey’s Q&A for subscribers. He’s on one this week. We start our journey with a repeat format of Question Randomization, but this time around we end up smack dab in the middle of a big mess with the coming 12-team bracket weekly rankings and a series of inconveni...

A preview of the Week 10 college football season, including: * Penn State’s latest chance to level up in the sport, this one against Ohio State in Happy Valley in what should be one of 2024’s best games * Marquee QB matchups have been duds. Why? * Army’s latest offensive evolution, and why this season has been such a bleak one for Air Force * What kind of Florida-Georgia will this one be? * Indian...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner recap Week 9 in college football, including: * Texas A&M beats LSU, and Mike Elko makes a point * Texas survives an odd game against Vanderbilt * Miami gets a breakthrough, and FSU flirts with history * BYU, Pitt, and Indiana all remain unbeaten * Kansas still can’t beat Kansas State * A classic MSU-UM game * UNLV misses an opportunity * The MAC and Sun Belt races...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A Week 9 subscriber Q&A with Steven Godfrey. He takes questions about James Madison, Florida State, BYU, Cincinnati, Georgia and a buncha other schools and things in the fun and never-sane world of CFB. Also, yes, the smoker is assembled. Finally. Host: Steven Godfrey Producer: Anthony Vito

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome back to another year of "The Eyes List,” where Split Zone Duo discusses coaching situations that we’ve got our eyes on. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex discuss the first two in-season head coach firings of 2024: ECU’s Mike Houston and Southern Miss’ Will Hall. Plus, Oklahoma fires Seth Littrell and puts the first...

Richard, Alex, and Godfrey preview Week 9 of the college football season, with looks ahead at two dozen of the weekend’s games. Including: * Notre Dame-Navy * A&M-LSU * Mizzou-Alabama * Boise State-UNLV * Tulane-North Texas * Illinois-Oregon * Washington-Indiana * Syracuse-Pitt * Oklahoma-Ole Miss * FSU-Miami * Wazzu-San Diego State And a lot more. SPLIT ZONE DUO GOES TO NASHVILLE WITH NOKIAN TYRE...

A 30-ish-minute recap of Week 8 in college football, including: * Georgia asserts itself against Texas, but exactly how big is the gap between these teams if they meet again? We still don’t know * Tennessee wins a slog against a Bama offense that has one thing * NDSU finally takes back the Dakota Marker * Indiana is Good with a capital G * Mario Cristobal makes a good game management move * BYU co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Cody Alexander of Match Quarters is a defensive coordinator by trade. He joins Richard and Alex for a discussion of five of the best players and offenses in college football right now. What can a defense do to stop them? Sometimes the answer is nothing, but here are some ideas, as well as explanations of why these g...

Our Week 8 preview. CBS Sports national college football writer Shehan Jeyarajah joins Alex and Richard to break down a huge pile of games, including (but not only): * A UGA-Texas blockbuster * A Bama-Tennessee matchup that has lost some luster * The FCS Game of the Century * Duke’s chance to finally beat FSU * A Nebraska-Indiana game with playoff stakes * Missouri’s lack of explosive plays * Miam...

Our 30(ish)-minute recap of a wild weekend in college football, including: * Oregon beats Ohio State in a classic. Did the Ducks intentionally deploy an old Buddy Ryan trick to seal the game? * LSU keeps firing until it finally hits Ole Miss * Billy Napier almost pulls it off in Knoxville, then doesn’t * Pitt and BYU are 6-0 * Iowa State, Kansas State, and a juicy Big 12 race that doesn’t even inc...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In a Week 7 mailbag: Godfrey helps reset expectations for Lance Leipold at Kansas, talks about his first ever CFB game (hint: it's a match-up this weekend), debates himself on the state of play with Lincoln Riley and USC, and then just talks about Halloween spooky movies.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A midseason, pre-coach carousel review of the programs in each FBS conference that are falling flat on their faces in 2024. Why have things gone so badly? What is the definition of “cooked,” and which Carolinas ACC school meets it the most? Are things as grim as they appear at Purdue? Was Jeff Lebby’s Mississippi St...

Our preview of Week 7. Ohio State-Oregon is the blockbuster in a loaded week that also features USC-Penn State, Ole Miss-LSU, Colorado-Kansas State, and a bunch of solid matchups all around the country. Let’s get into it. Production: Anthony Vito . SPLIT ZONE DUO GOES TO NASHVILLE WITH NOKIAN TYRES : On Friday, 10/25 and Saturday, 10/26, we’ll join our friends for two events: a 5 p.m. Friday meetu...

The Week 6 Hurry-Up is our recap of everything we found interesting in the college football weekend, delivered in 30(ish) minutes: * Vanderbilt flushes Alabama * The call Cal should really be mad about * Michigan does not have the pieces * Army and Navy continue to bulldoze * Iowa State continues to rise * TCU sullies itself against Houston * Tulane shows no mercy * CHARLOTTE?? And much more! Prod...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It’s the latest Split Zone Duo audience Q&A with Steven Godfrey, who got a LOT of Phil Longo- and Sconnie-related angst in the inbox, so let's do that. Also, are we set up for more and better non-con games in this weird reality? Also, Godfrey is ON BOARD for Friday Night Green Lantern Lights. Producer: Anthony Vito...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey wrote for the Washington Post about the SEC and Big Ten’s effort to monopolize more of the College Football Playoff. In this episode, he and Richard discuss the Power 2’s latest leverage play, which may not even help those two leagues at all but could hurt a lot of teams (including their TV partners). Produc...

Our previews of dozens of games in Week 6. Highlights include: * Things getting bleak at several ACC schools * Navy’s chance to dunk Air Force * A sneaky great SMU-Louisville matchup * Indiana is still happening * Go get ‘em, App State * Could Auburn-UGA not be a blowout? * OKST’s impending turnaround * The G5 Hipster Game of the Week * Clemson has FSU on a tee * Ashton Jeanty Heisman Watch * “The...

Richard and Godfrey lead a 30-minute (ish) recap of the weekend in college football. Alabama beats Georgia in an instant classic. Oklahoma comes back on Auburn. Kansas State establishes itself as the Big 12 favorite. Tulane crushes USF. Ashton Jeanty and Travis Hunter keep making Heisman arguments. And much, much more from a busy Week 5. Programming note: We will be conducting a comprehensive inve...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Are TV timeouts really longer this year? The answer has two parts. SZD obtained years of documents outlining how media timeouts work in SEC games on ESPN. There’s been no short-term change. (That LSU-South Carolina game was just a weird one, our analysis shows.) But the long-term trend tells its own story about view...

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 5, a schedule led by Georgia-Alabama but with dozens of other interesting games beyond. Plus: What should we make of undefeated UNLV’s QB leaving the program amid a payment dispute? There hasn’t been anything quite like this in the history of the sport. Let’s also talk more about Mack Brown’s bizarre week at UNC heading into a rivalry game. Producer: Anthony...

The Week 4 Sunday Hurry-Up! Tennessee handled business against an Oklahoma team with a QB problem. North Carolina’s defense did not defend. BYU put a dominant showing on Kansas State. Miami and Clemson flexed their muscles in the ACC. Colorado delivered a psychic blow to Dave Aranda. Appalachian State and the MAC are both in a world of pain, while Southern Miss looks like a matter of time. Plus an...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's dipping a bit into coach gossip, mainly because Florida State is winless and Florida's even worse. But let's poke around on a few other places, including Arkansas, of course, before stress-testing the narrative on bowl sites for playoff rounds and extolling the virtues of physical media. Producer: Anthony...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Oregon State and Washington State lopped off the top of the Mountain West to create the beginnings of a new conference. The move has marginal benefits, but we’re skeptical it will change much about the pecking order outside the power conferences. Meanwhile, the Mountain West has limited options, and the American Ath...

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 4. Meet some freshman running backs at Baylor and South Alabama. Prepare for the return of Josh Heupel to Oklahoma. Consider USC beating Michigan by multiple scores. Marvel at how ridiculous a Friday night Stanford-Syracuse conference game is. And try to figure out a big question: What happened to Oklahoma State’s running game? The Pokes need to figure it ou...

Richard and Alex give you a loaded but brief recap of everything interesting in college football’s Week 3. West Virginia blows another road Backyard Brawl, Washington State delivers some justice, FSU’s misery continues, LSU and South Carolina play a wild (and long) one, South Alabama scores 87 points, and notes from dozens more games over the weekend. Producer: Anthony Vito. THE NOKIAN TYRES ROAD...