The Carla and Crappy Show

Are you for real? Carla and Crappy are, we assure you. But we're not as certain about a whole mess of college football teams — so we're going to take a look at a bunch of them, speed-round style, in this week's show. But before we dig into this weekend’s packed slate, we look back at the fun from last weekend. Carla’s still reveling in her Nittany Lions’ beat down at Jordan-Hare, while Crappy atte...

t’s Week 3 of the college football season. AJ’s singing a Sunny little tune, Crappy’s writing haikus, and Carla’s looking for more coffee. Yep. That sounds about right. The 2022 season is the gift that just keeps on giving, as the Sun Belt grabbed the national spotlight last Saturday in one of the most wild weekends in college football that we can remember. After recapping the craziness, AJ takes...

It’s Week 2 of the college football season, and we’re still recovering from what was an insanely good long weekend of games. We mean it. It was nuts, from start to finish. From an incredible opening Thursday night slate of games to chaos in the Carolinas … Georgia looking scary good, Florida looking surprisingly good … and special teams mattering a whole heck of a lot in the Superdome. And those a...

Boys and girls, it's time. Week 0 was fun and all, but this weekend gives us the gift of *counts on fingers* five consecutive days of college football. Whee! Before we dive into all the goodness that this weekend holds, Carla and Crappy take a look back at Week 0, including Nebraska's second half meltdown and Vandy's offensive prowess. (No, we can't believe we wrote that sentence, either.) And, of...

Boys and girls, it's finally here. Welcome to Week 0 of the college football season, and welcome to the official start of the 11th season here at the Carla and Crappy Show. As is tradition, the whole gang is here as Carla, Crappy, and AJ dive into the Big Ten's big media rights deal and make preseason picks for the College Football Playoff. Here's a hint: We all agree on three playoff teams. That...

Howdy, boys and girls ... we're back! In what has now apparently become an annual tradition, we're opening Season 11 (gulp!) of the #CnCShow with a special episode to discuss — you guessed it — conference realignment and the blockbuster moves of USC and UCLA to our beloved Big Ten. As such, the whole gang's here. And not surprisingly, Crappy, Carla, and AJ have lots of thoughts on the matter. So m...

We’re down to the official end of the 2021 college football season – that would be Monday’s national championship game between Alabama and Georgia – which also means we’re wrapping up the 10th season of the Carla and Crappy Show. And in spite of a few late glitches because of omicron, we were able to enjoy an entertaining bowl season –- although Crappy probably wouldn’t use the word “entertaining”...

We’re getting down to the end of the 2021 college football season, and Carla and Crappy are ready to discuss the New Year’s Six bowl games – including the two semifinal games featuring Cincy vs. Bama and Georgia vs. the, uh, Big Ten representative – but first, we’ve gotta throw it back.   How far back? All the way back to last season, when COVID decimated college football schedules from coast to c...

It’s college football bowl season, and around these parts, that means one thing: It’s Bowlapalooza time!   Not familiar with the drill? It’s pretty simple. A few years back, Carla and Crappy thought it would be fun to dedicate a show to the bowl games that don’t get the same kind of attention as the New Year’s Six games or BCS/CFP games. And that’s a shame, because that’s where most of season’s fu...

It’s Week 14 of the college football season, and Carla, Crappy and AJ are ready to dissect all 10 conference championship games coming up this weekend -- well, actually, Carla and AJ are ready; Crappy seems to be in a bad mood, perhaps because he’s still stewing over Ohio State’s loss to TTUN last Saturday. But there’s no crying in college football, and all three dive into the insane coaching caro...

It’s Week 13 of the college football season, and that’s significant for a whole bunch of reasons. The most important one? We’re getting the band back together -- that’s right, Carla returns live for the first time since Miss Ellie showed up earlier in the fall, and we’re hoping we get to keep her for the rest of the season. Carla, we mean. Well, Ellie too. The other reasons? Wivalwies. A ton of th...

It’s Week 12 of the college football season, and most programs have just two weeks remaining in their regular season -- and, in many cases, one more game before Wivalwy Week (brought to you by Elmer Fudd). So that’s why we’re not winding down at #CnCShow Central -- we’re getting ready for the real fun to begin.   AJ returns to discuss the things that made him happy last weekend, the things that ma...

It’s Week 11 of the college football season, and the games are getting bigger and bigger -- even the littlest of them. To help us navigate one of the best little rivalries, we welcome back Kim Daboo, a #CnCShow veteran who holds a degree from Oregon but was nice enough not to hold that over Crappy’s head. But Kim did manage to set off Crappy’s college football anxieties almost immediately by bring...

It’s Week 10 of the college football season, and we have the season’s initial College Football Playoff rankings. And even though we taped the day before they came out, guest host Braden Gall is ready to dive in, with a discussion about the state of Ohio State and the rest of the B1G East, why Cincinnati wouldn’t be in the initial Final Four and who will be a huge CFP wild card as the season progre...

It’s Week Nine of the college football season, and one of our favorite weeks of the year for Carla and Crappy -- the week we get to preview Penn State-Ohio State. But wait -- no Carla, right? No worries -- this week’s guest host is more than qualified to sit in as the designated Penn State fan. Kelly Krieg is not only the biggest Penn State fan we know, but she is the reason that Crappy has seen t...

It’s Week Eight of the college football season, and we’ve had a remarkable stroke of timing, as far as this week’s guest host is concerned: Crappy’s former colleague Tyler Batiste, now the managing editor for The Athletic’s NBA team, is a proud graduate of THE Louisiana State University -- so naturally, we start with the news that Ed Orgeron will be done in Baton Rouge at the end of the current se...

It’s Week Seven of the college football season, and our very own AJ is back as guest host, this time for his favorite show of the season: The All After-Dark (Even If It’s Not Actually Dark Yet) Edition; that’s when AJ has free reign to talk about his beloved Group of Five games as much as he wants, not that he doesn’t do that as a matter of course anyway. So following a brief look back -- AJ loved...

It’s Week Six of the college football season, and our guest host rotation -- Hi, Ellie! Let Carla get a little sleep, OK? -- continues this week and next with the Ken Jennings of the Carla and Crappy Show: Our very own A.J. Kuftic. (How did we get so fortunate to get A.J. as a guest host for two weeks in a row? It has to do with Crappy not knowing how to work a calendar.) After a quick look back a...

It’s Week Five of the college football season, and while we spend a good bit of time discussing Notre Dame, we need to begin by acknowledging the newest member of the #CnCShow team: BabyFox -- you can call her Ellie -- has arrived. Carla and David are both doing well, with the exception of the not-much-sleeping thing, and we’re hopeful that Ellie will be picking games by the end of the season. The...

It’s Week 4 of the college football season, and things are a little different around here. Crappy’s still filled with angst about the starts of his Bobcats and Buckeyes. AJ still wants you to watch the fun games. And Jimmy Harbaugh still makes us giggle (even though Michigan might actually be improved). No, things have a different feel starting this week because Carla has begun her maternity leave...

It's Week 3 of the college football season ... and we'd just like to point out that this little show, now in its 10th season, has featured unplanned cat appearances long before the one that made national headlines last weekend at Hard Rock Stadium. And we start there, because we've already reached the (usually) annual episode when Crappy hates college football. Needless to say, in our look-back on...

It's Week 2 of the college football season and, well, we'll be honest. This weekend isn't loaded with marquee matchups like our five-day opening holiday bonanza was. So, Carla and Crappy take this opportunity to do one of their most favorite things, which is to make very broad generalizations based on a very limited amount of data. Welcome to the first overreaction episode of the 2021 season. We l...

It's here. The 2021 college football season is upon us, and Carla and Crappy are just a wee bit excited to get things underway. (And no, that's not just because we're celebrating a big anniversary of this here show, but that certainly doesn't hurt.) Our first "official" show of the season kicks off with a discussion on conference expansion and this thing called the "Alliance," which sounds officia...

Apparently, we've decided that kicking off a new season of this here podcast in late July is going to be a new tradition. For the second year in a row, Carla and Crappy are back with an offseason update, although we promise this one won't be nearly as depressing as last year's pandemic preview. Instead, what better way to begin our 10th anniversary season (yes, we've officially been doing this now...

Well, somehow, someway ... we made it. We're here. A national title is on the line ... maybe on Monday night? Yes, the "we-have-no-idea"-ness of 2020 continues even into the new year. So before we get into the final game, we take time to look back at the best and worst of this crazy season, including conversations on the emergence of the Group of Five (or, as Crappy calls it, "the year of the Kuft...