The College Football Survivor Show

On this episode of The College Football Playoff Show, the first rankings are out, and the committee putting Alabama at No. 2 and Cincinnati at No. 6 has Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah fired up. First, the guys think about adding Wake Forest and Notre Dame to the playoff discussion, and at the end, they kick out either Iowa or Ole Miss. In between, with the help of the text subscribers, they...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dig into the Big Ten with two matchups that matter for the playoff race looming for the conference this weekend. Plus, is Oregon an anchor for Ohio State or is Ohio State a balloon for Oregon when it comes to playoff rankings? And how often will we start seeing the Good Ducks compared to the Bad Du...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dig in on No. 1 Georgia and the defense that makes the Bulldogs the national title favorite. Is Georgia alone on the top tier of college football, or should a couple other teams join the Bulldogs? And what more did the Georgia defense show last week against Kentucky? Before that, Doug and Shehan ta...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah continue to analyze the playoff contenders following another wild weekend that included Texas A&M's upset of Alabama that Doug maybe kind of sort of thought could happen. But could it happen again? Is there any other real threat on the Tide's regular-season schedule? The guys also welcome one new t...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take a break from examining the best current teams in college football and instead project which current contenders have the best chance to actually make The College Football Playoff at the end of the season. But first, a team needs to be added to the list of contenders, and a team needs to be kick...

On this big Wednesday edition of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are joined by Ben Garrett of The Talk of Champions podcast about Ole Miss football to discuss what the Rebels will have to do to knock off defending national champion Alabama this week. Quarterback Matt Corral and head coach Lake Kiffin might be the right combination to upset the Crimson Tide a...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are back to welcome teams to the discussion, kick teams out of the discussion, and rank all the contenders. First up this week -- should Florida, Michigan or Ole Miss join the group of playoff contenders? The Gators pushed Alabama to the brink, the Wolverines have been steamrolling everyone and Ole...

It's a Wednesday version of The College Football Playoff Show, which means time to add some teams to the pool of playoff contenders and time to kick one out. Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take on that task, with Oregon, Penn State, Ole Miss and Florida the candidates to be welcomed to the list of contenders this week. On the other end, either Ohio State, Notre Dame, Texas A&M or Iowa State...

On this press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah address the breaking news on the firing of USC coach Clay Helton. What led to his dismissal, and who's the right coach to replace him and return the Trojans to regular contender status? Then, Doug and Shehan get to questions from text subscribers. Among them: If Clemson and Ohio State both f...

On this big Wednesday episode, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah think about welcoming some new teams to the discussion, think about kicking some teams out of the discussion, and in between rank all of the real national title contenders in college football. With the help of their text subscribers (you can join the texts for a 14-day free trial at 817-442-6789), Doug and Shehan start by adding a...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are back to answer questions from text subscribers (join the texts for a free trial at 817-442-6789) from Week 1 of the college football season. Several teams offered looks at who they really are (Georgia), while some raised some unexpected questions (Oklahoma). Among the topics broached by the subscribers and answered by the guys: Which teams did they regret p...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah have been talking about the College Football Playoff since the middle of July. Now they'll tell you which four teams they think are going to make it. On this final preseason episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug and Shehan each explain why they chose their four playoff teams, why they left certain teams out, and which team they think is going to wi...

On this Tuesday press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take questions from text subscribers as the college football season kicks off. Among them: Which national contender has the greatest chance to fall short of expectations? Which contender might be hurt most by a COVID-related absence by players? How would a COVID forfeit affect a cont...

On the big ep this week, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah debate whether North Carolina deserves to join the list of College Football Playoff contenders discussed on this podcast. And then they dive into ranking the quarterbacks for all those playoff contenders, from D.J. Uiagalelei at Clemson, to Alabama's Bryce Young, to Oklahoma's Spencer Rattler, to the new young QBs just named starters --...

On this press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dig in on a big topic for a few questions before working their way through other listener questions. The main idea: Is this podcast ruining college football by focusing on the playoff too much? There's a debate about nationalism vs. regionalism in the sport, and the best way to talk about th...

On this episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah once again dissect a team on the edge of the playoff conversation and disagree on whether that team deserves to join the show's playoff conversation. This week, the fight is over Oregon. Do the Ducks belong in the same group with Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, Texas A&M, Iowa State and Notr...

On this press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are once again taking questions from text subscribers. If you'd like to subscribe, get several texts a week about college football in your phone, participate in surveys and get to ask questions on the pod, sign up now for a free trial by texting 817-442-6789. It's only $1 a month after the t...

On this week's main episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah rank the best head coaches among playoff contenders. There isn't much debate about the top two, but how do Ohio State's Ryan Day, Oklahoma's Lincoln Riley, Iowa State's Matt Campbell, Georgia's Kirby Smart and Texas A&M's Jimbo Fisher stack up to each other? That's the second half of the pod. The...

It's another press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, where Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take questions and give answers to the most pressing ... come on, pressing is a mumbo-jumbo word. They just talk about interesting college football stuff. For instance, this week ... Which current college coach has the best chance to come close to legendary coach Bobby Bowden, who...

On this episode of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah debate whether Georgia deserves to join a playoff conversation that currently includes Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Alabama, Texas A&M and Iowa State. The Dawgs have made the playoff once in the 7 years of the playoff, but might this be their year. Georgia expect Brandon Adams of Dawg Nation Daily kindly j...

On this press conference edition of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah once again take questions from subscribers about the playoff and college football. If you'd like to ask questions for this podcast, send a text to 817-442-6789 to sign up for a free trial of texts. It's just $1 a month to keep receiving texts and to be able to send questions to Doug and Sheh...

Welcome back to another episode of The College Football Playoff Show, featuring co-hosts Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah. As always, the main episode each week includes two parts. First is a debate about adding another team to the playoff discussion mix. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Texas A&M are in. Now Doug and Shehan debate whether the Iowa State Cyclones deserve to join that...

Texas and Oklahoma blew up the college football world in recent days, and Shehan Jeyerajah was right in the middle of it. On this press conference episode of The College Football Playoff Show, text subscribers ask questions, but instead of Doug Lesmerises and Shehan taking turns answering, the pod leaned into Shehan's expertise while situated in Texas. Doug still had a few things to say, but it wa...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are back for another press conference on The College Football Playoff Show, taking questions from subscribers. If you'd like to be a subscriber to our texts to get the chance to ask questions on the show for just $1 a month, send a text to 817-442-6789 to sign up for a free trial. On this week's Q&A episode the topics include: Clemson's defense The next non-cha...

The College Football Playoff Show, your new national college football podcast, is back for a second week with hosts Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah. Each week, they discuss a potential playoff contender and whether that team should be added to the mix. Alabama, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Clemson and Texas A&M are the teams currently in the discussion and the pod leads off with Doug and Shehan deba...