Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex dive into the rehabilitation of Hugh Freeze's public image, and how Freeze's camp, Liberty, Auburn, and helpful media helped land him the big chair at Auburn. Then, let's talk about every conference championship game. Does an injured Utah have the firepower for USC? Are you aware of what UNT QB Austin Aune is doing? How much more can Toledo fans (or Ohio fans, for that m...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you through the longest 30 minutes of your week: A debriefing on college football's Rivalry Week, including news and notes on the biggest games (Michigan-Ohio State, hello), the weirdest ones (NMSU-Liberty, what's up), and the ones that set up conference championship games. Subscribe to the SZD Patreon at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Pri...

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex give you a detailed preview of the best week on the college football calendar. Let's go game-by-game through dozens of games, starting with Michigan-Ohio State and moving on through. Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a public episode. If you'd...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner lead you on a 30-ish-minute debriefing from college football Week 12, which featured one big upset, a bunch of almost-big-upsets, and plenty of moving and shaking in conference races. Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a public episode....

Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this week's show by addressing the devastating shooting at the University of Virginia for about eight minutes. The group then gets into college football's business of the week, including personnel moves at West Virginia and Charlotte. Then: The big thing we're watching over the last few weeks of the season in every FBS conference, plus a tasting menu for Week 12. P...

Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson debrief you on a packed college football weekend, from the Washington-Oregon and TCU-Texas blockbusters to UConn beating Liberty and Jim Mora Jr. somehow being a coach of the year candidate. Production: Anthony Vito See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a public epis...

The Brian Kelly-Marcus Freeman coaching musical chairs game in late 2021 was one of the biggest carousel stories ever. After some shakiness for LSU and some worse-than-shakiness for Notre Dame, both are looking great. How much can we take away from what we've seen from the two of them in the new jobs to date? Plus: Alabama is clearly not Alabama. Let's argue about why. Tulane hosts UCF in what cou...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 40-ish-minute debrief of one of the best weekends of the college football season so far. Georgia stuffed Tennessee into a locker. LSU re-arrived ahead of schedule. Notre Dame annihilated Clemson. And there was plenty more to enjoy in Week 10. Subscribe to our Patreon for more at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at htt...

Richard, Alex, and Godfrey bounce around on a number of topics (a Utah TV dustup, Michigan/Michigan State, and the Big 12's TV deal) before talking about the Tennessee-Georgia Game of the Year and then launching into an expanded tasting menu, with thoughts on about two dozen of this weekend's games. Subscribe to our Patreon at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at ht...

Godfrey subs in to spell Alex and we go from Ohio State to Toledo running through the Week 9 games (that's longer than you'd think): Tennessee's defense, Wake Forest's turnover implosions, the Michigan / MSU tunnel fight and Okie State's total disappearance. Production: Anthony Vito See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex aim for a levelheaded discussion about what's wrong with Texas A&M on the field, and whether there's any way to fix it off the field after signing over the university to Jimbo Fisher. Miami is also having a brutal year, and something Mario Cristobal said this week brings up an interesting point about what's possible when you're coaching Miami. Oregon, on the other ha...

A 30ish-minute debriefing on the college football weekend with Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson. Clemson and TCU continue to get away with it. LSU has the juice. Oregon's offense does what it wants. It's time to make peace with Texas. Ohio State is America's scariest team. Nick Saban owns Mike Leach. Miami should not be this bad. Alex shares coach firing reports with Richard live on the podcast....

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex pick out some teams doing really well, then some teams doing poorly, and talk about them through a short-term, medium-term, and long-term lens. What do their next five weeks look like? What about the next five months? And what about the next two years? Who's in danger of buying high, who has it good, and who is arriving at a weird tension point? (Teams: TCU, Syracuse, Ol...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 30-ish-minute debrief of one of the best college football Saturdays in memory. Subscribe for bonus episodes and more on Patreon. Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other...

BOXOFFICE is the code for the Homefield sale mentioned in this show (linked down below). Week 7 is full of blockbusters on the college football schedule. Alex and Richard pick apart what they're looking for in six huge games, then take some questions, make some picks, and run through a tasting menu for the rest of the weekend. This episode also includes a selection from Godfrey's Q&A this week...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 35-ish-minute journey through the college football weekend, with observations, minutiae, and numbers on dozens of games. Get bonus episodes and more on our Patreon at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a...

Richard and Alex start the show by talking about the recent coach firings at Colorado and Wisconsin. Justin Ferguson, publisher of the Auburn Observer, joins the program to talk about the bizarre last year (even by Auburn standards) on the Plains, how the fanbase is feeling heading into what might be a dramatic weekend, and the state of the Auburn psyche. We take a range of Patreon questions, pick...

Alex Kirshner and Richard Johnson shuttle you through a packed weekend in college football in a roughly 40-minute debrief. Subscribe to our Patreon for more episodes, including a potential Auburn coach firing show, at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This i...

Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start this episode with an extended discussion of Georgia Tech, a job that says a lot (but also leaves a lot unsaid!) about both Atlanta and college football. After that: LSU and FSU might actually both just be pretty solid. The Pac-12 might be having its best year in a long time. And is 2022 a bad year or a  great  year for the Group of 5? Plus a history lesson on why t...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner debrief you on the week that was in college football. Adrian Martinez gave Oklahoma a world of hurt. Clemson looked like Clemson. Gene Chizik is still UNC's defensive coordinator. Miami has problems, but FSU might not? Mizzou-Auburn was a science experiment. Minnesota dropped a piano on Michigan State. JMU put the largest comeback of the year on App State. Iowa an...

It's a big show this week to commemorate SZD's second birthday. This show starts with some talk about the Arizona State coach search to come, then continues with "College Football Show-and-Tell" on Washington, Stanford, and various teams that are rapidly changing their on-field identities. Then we take a lot of questions from listeners, make picks on what might be the lowest over/under in modern h...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a roughly 40-minute sprint through another packed weekend in college football, with observations and analysis on dozens of games. Subscribe to our Patreon at  splitzoneduo.com . Production: Anthony Vito.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info . This is a public epi...

The college football season is, somehow, one-sixth going on a quarter complete. After talking about Nebraska for a few minutes to open the show, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex try to separate fact from fiction among some early-season narratives that people could choose to believe in (feat. some Bama, some Clemson, some USC, some Air Force, and more). We draft winless teams who might still turn their s...

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 44-minute, detail-packed trip through a loaded Week 2 in college football. This show starts with some blockbusters in the Sun Belt and ripples out from there. Marshall is not a regular Group of 5 program. App State dominated A&M, but situationally. Georgia Southern just learned the forward pass, and Nebraska still couldn't stop it. Texas showed s...

College football is a small sample size sport, so let's take stock of how our impressions of a handful of teams did (and did not) change in Week 1. This episode also has some discussion of the disjointed way Playoff expansion actually came about, some vested interests, and a detailed tasting menu to get you ready for the weekend to come. Subscribe to our Patreon for bonus episodes at  splitzoneduo...