The College Football Survivor Show

 On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are setting their playoff picks now so they can see how their thinking on the playoff evolves between now and the start of the season. The show starts by looking back at what they said when Doug and Shehan did this last March -- where was their playoff thinking right and where was it totally off track? The...

On this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are running you through the most important and intriguing quarterback battles of spring for the College Football Playoff race in the fall. Of the top 26 teams, who are returning QB starters? Who has a new starter who is locked in? And how many true battles are there? Right at the top of the sport, we know t...

On this edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are drafting two 11-man defenses from the 36 teams that made the College Football Playoff over the last nine years. From Alabama to Ohio State, from Georgia to Michigan, from Cincinnati to Washington, Doug and Shehan are going through playoff teams and finding the very best defensive linemen, linebackers an...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are talking about the football futures of the ACC and Pac-12. The last two weeks, they looked at what the 16-team leagues of the SEC and Big Ten will look like in 2024. With some recent news, things are more uncertain for the ACC and Pac-12. First, what does it mean that the Florida State athletic director...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are once again looking a year ahead. This time it's for the Big Ten, as they rank the programs 1 through 16 of what the new Big Ten will be when USC and UCLA arrive after one more season. Last week, they did the same for the new-look SEC of 2024 with Oklahoma and Texas, and these Big Ten moves are just as i...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah discuss some of the proposed rule changes that might speed up college football games. But at what cost? Would the games lose too much football? Then Doug and Shehan discuss other things they might change about college football gamedays, from targeting calls to pass interference to naming rights and advertis...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are each drafting an offensive team from all the players and teams of the nine-year College Football Playoff era from 2014 to this season. For this exercise, Doug and Shehan each pick a 12-man team: 2 quarterbacks, 1 running back, 2 receivers, 1 tight end, 1 tight end/receiver flex, 2 tackles, 2 guards and...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show (which now has two free episodes per week), Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are ranking the new SEC, which officially will add Oklahoma and Texas for the 2024 season. When that season arrives, which football programs will be the strongest in the SEC and which will be the weakest? How many of the programs will be playoff contenders at their...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah each pick their five top combinations of offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator in major college football. That includes teams contending for national titles, and some teams a tier down who happen to have two top guys running their offense and defense. Part of that discussion? Alabama's Nick Saban...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are using the final National Signing Day for the 2023 recruiting class to jump ahead to the 2025 College Football Playoff race. First, they discuss potential changes to the recruiting calendar and ask why one big change could work. Then they look at the best recruiting classes from 2020 and discuss which te...

On this edition of the The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah have maybe their most intense disagreement yet. One of them wants to move the Heisman Trophy to vote and hand out the award after the playoff, and one of them wants to keep it just as it is. That breaks this pod down into three parts: The 5 ½ reasons for moving it Revoting this season and would Caleb Wi...

On this last episode of the 2022 college football season, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah wrap up Georgia's domination of TCU in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game. After quarterbacking back-to-back national titles, how does Georgia's Stetson Bennett compare to the best quarterbacks of the last 25 years? How different is he than Tim Tebow or Tommie Frazier or other great...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are making their picks for the College Football Playoff National Championship Game on Monday night on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show. First, they look at the recent history of college football and decide when the last time was that the sport had a champ as unlikely as TCU would be. Then, it's a breakdown of the TCU offense vs. the Georgia de...

On this episode of the College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah make their picks for the playoff semifinals -- No. 1 Georgia vs. No. 4 Ohio State and No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 TCU. Will Michigan run all over TCU? Or could TCU receiver Quentin Johnston go wild against the Wolverines' secondary? Can Ohio State get Geogia into a high-scoring contest? If so, will Bulldogs' Q...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, it's time to dig into the College Football Playoff semifinal between the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs and the No. 4 Ohio State Buckeyes. Plus, there's a look at Alabama, because Bama still matters. First, Brandon Adams of Dawg Nation Daily joins Doug Lesmerises to examine Georgia, what the Dawgs do best and where there might be some concerns for the...

On this episode of the College Football Survivor Show, a special guest joins Doug Lesmerises to give advice about the college bowl season, which kicks off on Friday. Tyler Shoemaker has his own college football ratings system which he uses to analyze games, and he talks with Doug about the bowls in which you should feel the most confident of the winners this season. Why? Well, because you might wa...

 On this College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are reacting to the field of Georgia, Michigan, TCU and Ohio State moments after the College Football Playoff announcement Sunday afternoon. Among the topics: Was the case for No. 5 Alabama ever real? Was the idea of a Michigan-Ohio State semifinal rematch reasonable? Georgia and Michigan are opening as big favorites --...

On this edition of the College Football Survivor Show, Shehan Jeyarajah is having flashbacks to 2014 when his soul was sucked from his body by the College Football Playoff Selection Committe, and Doug Lesmerises is having so much trouble with committee thinking, he's talking like British royalty. It's not great. But Shehan and Doug are diving in on the playoff stakes for No. 3 TCU, No. 4 USC and N...

On this edition of The College Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are looking at the two most important games in the College Football Playoff race: Ohio State-Michigan and Notre-Dame USC. First, they whittle down the field of playoff contenders to seven, and discuss which team at No. 5 is most ready to walk through the door if one of the four most likely playoff teams stumbles. Th...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dive into the two playoff contenders that are most in the mix and that we maybe have thought the least about -- Michigan and USC. Both teams know exactly who they are in very different ways, but will their schemes work at the highest level? To start the pod, though, Doug and Shehan need to narrow the field...

On this College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are looking at destiny after the release of the second playoff rankings on Tuesday night. Which teams truly are in a situation of making the playoff if they win out, and why are there so many of them? Doug and Shehan rank those contenders and discuss the chances of it happening, from the SEC to the Big Ten to the Pac-12....

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dive right into a discussion of the first College Football Playoff rankings released Tuesday night. What made Shehan and Doug the most angry? Where was the committee right? What mattered the most for the long-term playoff picture? Then Doug and Shehan discuss the Tennessee-Georgia matchup on Saturday and ma...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look at what a 12-team playoff would look like this season. What would be the best first-round matchups? Alabama would have a chance to host a great game. Which teams could spring a playoff upset? Wake Forest might have a shot. And how have conferences seemingly grown into the idea of 12 teams getting in th...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show there's a lot of action after a wild college football weekend: One team from the Saturday losers of Oklahoma State, Alabama, Penn State and USC is booted from the playoff discussion. Undefeated teams TCU, Ole Miss and Syracuse are all considered as additions to the playoff mix. Tennessee gets a deep dive after its win over Alabama. Is the Vols'...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are breaking down four major games Saturday that will affect the college football playoff race. It's Alabama-Tennessee, Penn State-Michigan, Oklahoma State-TCU and USC-Utah that will have ramifications on the playoff mix. Seven of those eight teams were among Doug and Shehan's playoff contenders entering th...