The College Football Survivor Show

Doug Lesmerises goes around the country again this week to wrap up spring football for some of the most interesting playoff contenders, helped by some of the best football podcasters and reporters around. Here's the rundown this week, with loads of insight that will matter this fall. Alabama with Mike Rodak of AL.com Miami with Adam Lichtenstein of the Sun-Sentinel Ohio State with Nathan Baird of ...

On The College Football Survivor Show this week, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take a spin through some of the most interesting playoff contenders in the country who are done with spring football. More teams will be discussed in the next two weeks as more spring football games are played. But this week, four teams are featured: Texas A&M, with guest Travis Brown Michigan, with guest Aaron M...

Mike Krzyzewski has retired as the head coach of Duke basketball. His closest comparison in the world of college football is Nick Saban at Alabama -- although Saban has been much more dominant. So what will happen when Saban retires? At age 70, with a major contract extension, that doesn't seem to be happening any time soon. But the idea of Alabama football without the man who has won six titles t...

In the 2006-07 season, Florida beat Ohio State in the national title game in both football and men's basketball. Back then, there was no doubt about which two programs had the best football and men's basketball combo in the nation. In 2022, on the edge of the Final Four, that question is a lot more difficult. On this Wednesday edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Sheh...

Who are Shehan Jeyarajah and Doug Lesmerises predicting as their four teams that will make the College Football Playoff in December? It's early, but this is a playoff podcast, and it's good to get a handle on how the thinking for Shehan and Doug evolves over the course of a year. So on this Wednesday episode, both guys give their four teams they're envisioning at playoff teams. There are at least...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah each pick five quarterback battles to focus on this spring. Some will almost certainly influence the playoff race (Texas A&M), some will test new coaches (Oregon), some involve veteran starters (Georgia) and many feature 5-star recruits (Penn State, Texas, Clemson and more). Thanks for listening t...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah each pick three teams they are particularly curious about as spring football gets underway around the country. Can Clemson's defensive line match Georgia's from last year? What will Alabama's receiver room be like? What will the revamping of Ohio State's defense look like? How will the Dan Lanning...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah let you know some of their favorite college players in the 2022 NFL Draft by doing a mock draft. But not a regular mock draft. Here, Doug and Shehan go back and forth drafting two 12-man teams for a passing game they'd like to play in a parking lot. It's six on six. There's a quarterback, running back, tigh...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah discuss why playoff expansion won't happen early, what it all means, and our place in the universe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dive into the issues currently holding up the expansion of the college football playoff. With another meeting scheduled for March, will the conference commissioners work through these areas and get expansion for the 2024 season? Among the topics: Having networks other than ESPN televise the playoff Health a...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah are new athletic directors for Good College Football Program X on this episode of The College Football Survivor Show. The goal? Hire a head coach to lead this team to the College Football Playoff in the next five years. Nick Saban is the obvious top pick here, so he's off the board. Other than that, anyone is available -- not only current college football head...

On this episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah wrap up Wednesday's late national signing day for college football by naming their top three programs both overachieving and underachieving in recruiting. The path to the College Football Playoff starts with recruiting, and there are programs putting themselves in and out of future playoff races right now....

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look at the three regular playoff participants that missed the playoff this season: Ohio State, Clemson and Oklahoma. What will it take for the Buckeyes, Tigers and Sooners to get back in the thick of the playoff mix next season? All three schools underwent major changes this offseason.  Ohio Stat...

On this special free Tuesday edition of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah break down Georgia's win over Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship. How Kirby Smart stuck with Stetson Bennett, how Georgia showed it was the best team from Week 1, how the Bulldogs defense may fill up the NFL over the next few seasons, how close Nick Saban came...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah break down the national title game between Alabama and Georgia with the strengths, worries and most important players for each team. Will Alabama be affected by injuries at corner, receiver and on the offensive line? Does Georgia have any hope of overcoming the psychological and coaching edge of N...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah have been talking about the College Football Playoff since July, and now it's time for them to make their picks for the semifinals in the Orange Bowl and Cotton Bowl. They are joined by Tyler Shoemaker at the start of the show to talk about the betting lines, with Alabama favored by 13.5 over Cincinnati and Georgia favored by 7.5 over Michigan. And then it's on...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look at questions that will help decide the two College Football Playoff semifinals on Friday: Georgia-Michigan in the Orange Bowl and Alabama-Cincinnati in the Cotton Bowl. Among the questions discussed: Which of the four starting quarterbacks will play the best? Which running back will have the...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarjah dive into the playoff semifinal between the Georgia Bulldogs and Michigan Wolverines. Michigan has an edge with its edge rushers, starting with Aidan Hutchinson, but Georgia has an edge at linebacker starting with Nakobe Dean. The two offensive play callers -- Michigan's Josh Gattis and Georgia's T...

On this Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dig deep into the College Football Playoff semifinal in the Cotton Bowl between No. 1 Alabama and No. 4 Cincinnati. Where does each team have a clear edge, with the Bearcats owning at least two obvious advantages? What's a major worry for each team, including a huge injury loss for Alabama? What a...

Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah point out their playoff prediction mistakes and then look at the best and worst of the college football teams that jockeyed at the top of the sport this season on the latest College Football Survivor Show. Where do the misses of Oklahoma and Clemson rank in disappointments? How about the teams that had a shot at Alabama and couldn't vanquish the Tide? How do th...

On this special Sunday version of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah break down the four playoff survivors in the moments after the final four were announced. It's No. 1 Alabama vs. No. 4 Cincinnati in the Cotton Bowl and No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 3 Georgia in the Orange Bowl. Every team earned its spot, and there wasn't much controversy to the final four. But th...

On this Wednesday version of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah look to conference championship weekend and the games that will determine the final college football playoff participants. The topics covered include: Can Michigan win a national title playing the way it knocked off Ohio State? Does Ohio State need to make changes after that loss? What are Alabama...

On the latest College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah take the eight college football playoff contenders remaining and rank them by their quarterbacks. Three of the teams have quarterbacks that can win games for their teams. The other five have quarterbacks they can win with, but not because of. But which QBs have been playing better, which ones can't be trusted and wh...

On the Wednesday episode of The College Football Survivor Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah dissect the answers they got from playoff selection committee chairman Gary Barta on Tuesday night and analyze what those words mean for how the committee is viewing the playoff race. Question 1: Has there been any discussion about ranking Notre Dame ahead of Cincinnati despite the Bearcats' win ov...

On the Wednesday version of The College Football Playoff Show, Doug Lesmerises and Shehan Jeyarajah had a plan to compare and contrast Oklahoma and Ohio State heading into a big month for both. Then the playoff committee on Tuesday night ranked Michigan ahead of Michigan State despite the Spartans beating the Wolverines two weeks ago. That fired them up. They discussed when and why the committee o...