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1

What Can World Cup Expansion Tell Us About the CFP?

2

Can These Doomed CFB Coaches Turn It Around?

3

Hopefully the last show we do about Brendan Sorsby

4

What worries you the most about your CFB team in 2026?

5

Our 26 Most Interesting Transfers of 2026

6

Did Brendan Sorsby Just Win? Here's an Expert

7

Congress *Might* Actually Reform College Football

8

2026's Year 2 Coach Vibe Check: Who's Already Heading for Trouble?

9

The Realignment That Wasn't: The Big 12 in 2016

10

Should Black Athletes Boycott SEC Schools?

11

Hot Seats and Hot Grills: CFB Holiday Mailbag

12

Should UCLA Have Your Attention?

13

Lane Kiffin's Insincerity and 24-Team Playoff Game Theory

14

Revisiting "Is Bama Doomed?" Two Years Post-Nick Saban

15

Does the Big 12 Even Want This Sack of Cash?

16

What Returning Production Says about 2026, Feat. Bill Connelly

17

Brendan Sorsby's Gambling Has Texas Tech In Crisis

18

Five Offseason CFB Stories Ranging from Weird to Transformative

19

Bill Barnwell on the NFL's Lack of Improvement in Drafting College Football Players

20

The 2026 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special

21

Utah and the Folly of the Coach-in-Waiting: April CFB Mailbag

22

One of College Football's Biggest Deals Ever (?)

23

Group of 6 Offseason Vibe Check: Memphis, Memphis, Memphis

24

Dabo's Decline and the History of CFB's Guy After the Guy

25

"The Most Interesting Program in CFB in 2026"

26

SEC Offseason Vibe Check: Kiffin Money and Chicken Money

27

Does Baseball Explain CFB's Future? Feat. Joe Sheehan

28

ACC Offseason Vibe Check: Just How Pre-Fired Is Mike Norvell?

29

What Makes a College Town? Lucy Rohden Has Figured It Out

30

Big 12 Offseason Vibe Check: Houston, You Have a Quarterback

31

Lou Holtz (1937-2026)

32

Which of College Basketball's Problems are Its Own, and Which are Football's?

33

Big Ten Offseason Vibe Check: Ohio State's President Makes It Weird

34

The Most Interesting Coordinator Moves (and Non-Moves) of 2026

35

How to Spot a Great (or Terrible) Athletic Director in 2026

36

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2012

37

24 Points to Change College Football Forever

38

The Carousel Spins Again: Mailbag Part 2

39

The Diciest FBS Move Ever Attempted?

40

Lane Kiffin Has to Coach Now: Mailbag Part 1

41

The Many Angles of NDSU's Jump to FBS

42

The Big Ten's Empire Runs into Resistance

43

CFB Time Capsule Review: What We Learned from a Stunning 2025

44

Our 2025 College Football Awards Special

45

End of Season Vibescast: How We're Feeling About CFB

46

National Championship Hurry-Up: Hoosier

47

Scheme School: Miami vs. Indiana, Feat. Michael Felder

48

Miami vs. Indiana: The Big Preview

49

How to Spot the Next Cignetti or Die Trying

50

Indiana and Miami Set a Date with Destiny: Playoff Hurry-Up

51

Institutional Inertia vs. the Playoff Semifinalists

52

CFP Semifinal Preview + the Messiest FCS Championship

53

CFB Playoff Quarterfinal Hurry-Up: A New Day

54

Playoff Quarterfinals Tasting Menu: The Indiana Information Gap

55

Quick Emergency Show: Michigan Hires Kyle Whittingham

56

The 2025 College Football Holiday Mega-Mailbag

57

Are CFB's Bowls Screwed, or Are We Just Old?

58

CFB Playoff Round 1 Hurry-Up: Miami Ice

59

We Figured Out the Perfect Analogy for Curt Cignetti at Indiana

60

Ohio State is Good at Football Again. Surprise!

61

The 2025-26 CFB Coach Carousel Superlatives

62

Georgia Became a Machine Again in Time for the Playoff

63

The College Football Playoff Round 1 Tasting Menu

64

Inside the Brawl of the Wild with Kevin Van Valkenburg

65

How Texas Tech Delivered Return on Investment

66

The Big Thing Oregon Fixed for This Playoff Run

67

Ole Miss' CFB Playoff Run is About to be Absolutely Surreal

68

Can Texas A&M Win the Whole Playoff? The Argument for and Against

69

How Far Can Oklahoma's Defense Drag the Offense in the Playoff?

70

Why We Don't Think Alabama Can Win the Playoff

71

Miami Isn't a Typical Double-Digit Playoff Seed

72

The Michigan Emergency Show: Sherrone Moore's Ouster and What's Next

73

How Tulane Became a Group of 5 Power and Made the Playoff

74

Don't Get Mad at JMU for Making the College Football Playoff

75

How CFB's Calendar Got Like This and How We'd Fix It

76

Coach Carousel Cleanup: The Penn State Aftermath

77

The 2025 CFP Bracket Reaction Show: The Alabama Disagreement

78

Miami or Alabama?

79

The 2025 CFB Championship Weekend Tasting Menu

80

The I-Formation: How to Read a Coaching Search (Mailbag)

81

Black Sunday Blow-by-Blow: Lane Kiffin and the Coach Carousel in Real Time

82

Week 14 CFB Hurry-Up: Iron Sharpens Alabama

83

Week 14 CFB Tasting Menu: The Rivalry Feast

84

The Black Sunday Coaching SitRep, Six Days Out

85

Week 13 CFB Hurry-Up: ACC 3D Chess

86

Week 13 CFB Tasting Menu: Trojan Horse?

87

The Lane Kiffin Standstill and Virginia Tech's James Franklin Swing

88

Overtime: What's It Take to be a Sideline Reporter?

89

Week 12 CFB Hurry-Up: Boom

90

How UMass, the Worst Team in College Football, Got Like This

91

Week 12 Tasting Menu: The Center of the CFB Universe

92

CFB's Six (or Seven?) Actual Title Contenders

93

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Ducks in Puddles

94

Big Coach Carousel Mailbag: The Lincoln Riley Thing

95

Week 11 CFB Tasting Menu: Bear Raid?

96

Auburn Emergency Show: Hugh Freeze Finally Frozen Out

97

Week 10 CFB Hurry-Up: U Gotta Be Kidding

98

Week 10 CFB Tasting Menu: Elimination Game

99

Emergency Show: LSU Kicks Brian Kelly out of the Family

100

Sark, Jimmy Sexton, and the NFL: What the Saturday Statement Actually Means

101

Week 9 CFB Hurry-Up: Death Valley is Aggieland

102

The Job: Colorado State

103

The 34 Coaches Who Will Define CFB's Carousel

104

Week 9 CFB Tasting Menu: Vanderbilt Dynasty

105

Emergency Episode: Florida Fires Billy Napier, Finally

106

Week 8 CFB Hurry-Up: Unbeatens Beaten

107

The Job: Stanford, Oregon State, UAB, Kent State

108

Week 8 CFB Tasting Menu: Seats Are Hot

109

Emergency Show: James Franklin Out at Penn State

110

Week 7 CFB Hurry-Up: Indiana Stones

111

Belichick's UNC Circles The Drain

112

Week 7 CFB Tasting Menu: Get Hardy

113

Overtime: What Now, Penn State?

114

Week 6 CFB Hurry-Up: Trouble is Bruin

115

The Job: Arkansas

116

Week 6 CFB Tasting Menu: The U May Actually Be Back

117

The 8 Tiers of Midseason Coach Firings

118

Week 5 CFB Hurry-Up: A Sad State

119

The 7 Kinds of Interim Coach

120

Week 5 CFB Tasting Menu: If Not Now for Penn State, When?

121

The Job: Oklahoma State

122

The Job: Virginia Tech

123

Week 4 CFB Hurry-Up: Boomer Hoosier

124

The Job: UCLA

125

Week 4 CFB Tasting Menu: I'm Gonna Be Ill

126

Are These Five CFB Teams Doomed?

127

Week 3 CFB Hurry-Up: Dawgs on Rocky Top

128

How to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive

129

Week 3 CFB Tasting Menu: Good Games in Stock

130

Overtime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech

131

Week 2 CFB Hurry-Up: Bullish on USF

132

Week 2 CFB Tasting Menu: Freshman vs. Brent Venables

133

ESPN's Bill C. on His New Book, UNC's Disaster, and Post-Week 1 Risers and Fallers

134

Covering Alabama in the Time of a Meltdown

135

Week 1 CFB Hurry-Up: Florida Statement

136

The 2025 CFB Time Capsule Prediction Special

137

Week 1 CFB Tasting Menu: Time to Eat

138

Which FBS Teams Will Lose FCS Games? Let's Draft.

139

Why, Exactly, Is Arch Manning Good?

140

College Football Previews 2025: SEC

141

College Football Previews 2025: Big Ten

142

The Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends With a Whimper

143

College Football Previews 2025: American

144

Split Zone Duo's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo

145

College Football Previews 2025: Mountain West

146

College Football Previews 2025: The ACC

147

Why Do You Love College Football?

148

An American Identity Crisis

149

College Football Previews 2025: Conference USA

150

The Schemes That Will Define 2025, Feat. Coach Dan Casey

151

Full Interview: Steve Baker on Miami University

152

Dead Letters: Miami University

153

Collectives 1, NCAA 0

154

College Football Previews 2025: Big 12

155

CFB Lunch Break: Why Can't Memphis Get a Realignment Bite?

156

College Football Previews 2025: The MAC

157

College Football Previews 2025: Pac-12 and Independents

158

Why You're Always Bad: ULM

159

College Football Previews 2025: The Sun Belt

160

Picking the Defining Team of Every Decade of College Football

161

The 2025 CFB Coach Firing and Retirement Confidence Ranking

162

Subscriber Q&A: Ben Haumiller on the New EA Sports College Football Game

163

Inside College Football 26 with EA Sports’ Principal Game Designer

164

Will the House Settlement Bring Bagmen Back? Plus More Offseason News

165

CFB Lunch Break: How to Know If Your FBS Transition Has a Chance

166

CFB's Year 2 Coaches for 2025: Who's Good, and Who's Already Dicey?

167

The 25 Most Interesting Non-QB Transfers in College Football

168

So, What Can We Expect From Belichick ON the Field?

169

Can There Be an Ashton Jeanty in 2025?

170

CFB Lunch Break: Off, Wisconsin?

171

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2010

172

How to Build a Modern CFB Front Office

173

CFB Lunch Break: Lincoln Riley, Rivalry Killer?

174

The 8 Ways to Smoke Out a Fake National Title Claim

175

Saban's Presidential Commission + CFB Biz Lightning Round, with Matt Brown

176

Why You're Always Bad: Rice

177

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Mountain West

178

How Big a Deal is Bill Belichick's Mess?

179

Pac-12 and Indy Vibe Checks + The State of Special Teams Development

180

CFB Lunch Break: Shedeur Shunned

181

The Rent Comes Due On 2022's Blockbuster Coaching Cycle

182

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The MAC

183

The 2025 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special

184

CFB Lunch Break: What Does an Ohio State "Down Year" Even Mean?

185

What We Think (And Don't) About Nico Iamaleava

186

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The AAC

187

Unpacking College Sports Business Turmoil with Matt Brown

188

Interview: App State Coach Dowell Loggains on a Unique CFB Job

189

CFB Lunch Break: The Big East is a Window Into the Future

190

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Big Ten

191

Stanford Is a Bad Job Now

192

When The Supreme Court Imploded College Football

193

Did Oregon Just Make Itself Poach-Proof?

194

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: CUSA

195

CFB Lunch Break: ACC Settlement, Eddie George, and More

196

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Big 12

197

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The ACC

198

CFB Lunch Break: Michigan, LSU, Coaching Trees, and More

199

Why You're Always Bad: Kent State

200

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Sun Belt

201

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The SEC

202

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2001

203

An NIL Agent Explains How The Sausage Gets Made

204

Week 1 Helmet Games and the Future of Non-Con (B1G Scared?)

205

The Gump Report: Angst and Opportunity in Alabama

206

LIVE in Atlanta with the Shutdown Fullcast and Homefield

207

Your Guide to the 2025 CFB Offseason

208

The Accountability Episode: What We Learned In 2024

209

Championship Hurry-Up: A Good Day

210

The Xs and Os of Ohio State-Notre Dame

211

National Championship Preview Show Feat. Shehan Jeyarajah

212

The 2024 Split Zone Duo CFB Awards Special

213

Single Wing: Who Let Saban Loose In Heritage Hall?

214

Semifinal Hurry-Up: 83 Yards Through the Heart of Texas

215

So, What Is Up With Penn State?

216

The 2024 Playoff Semifinal Preview Show

217

Your Repeat Coach Hire Probably Won't Work

218

CFP Quarterfinal Hurry-Up: Ohio State Is a War Machine

219

The Playoff Quarterfinal Preview 2024, Plus Bowls

220

The SZD 2024 Holiday Subscriber Mailbag

221

Playoff Hurry-Up: CFB Is a Blowout Sport

222

The Playoff First-Round Preview Show + Weekend Tasting Menu

223

Single Wing: Sumrall and the SEC in '26?

224

Belichick to Carolina, Explained by UNC Football Alum Michael Felder

225

Emergency Episode: Belichick to UNC

226

Observations on 6 CFB Hires: Stay Frosty

227

The State of the Bowls, Feat. Bowl Season's Nick Carparelli

228

The Eyes List: Resolution Sunday

229

The CFB Playoff Bracket Reaction Show

230

The Ryan Day Decision Point

231

Week 15 Tasting Menu: Champs Are Here

232

The Eyes List: Black Sunday SitRep

233

Week 14 Hurry-Up: You Had A Bad Day

234

The Single Wing: Dad Drive Survival Edition, Part 2

235

The Single Wing: Dad Drive Survival Edition, Part 1

236

Week 14 Feasting Menu: Rivalry Week

237

Week 13 Hurry-Up: OK, Sooners

238

When Notre Dame-Army Ruled The World

239

Week 13 Tasting Menu: Welcome to the Arena

240

Week 12 Hurry-Up: Cocked and Loaded

241

The Big Mess at Kennesaw State

242

Week 12 Tasting Menu: Offensive Line Depth Is Hard

243

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Divine Intervention

244

The Eyes List: Post-Napier State of Play

245

The Dawn of the 12-Team Playoff Rankings

246

Week 11 Tasting Menu: Saturday Night in Death Valley

247

Week 10 Hurry-Up: Static State

248

UAB's Dilfer Disaster and The Worst Coach Hires of the Past 15 Years

249

The Single Wing: Playoff Chaos Math Isn't Hard To Find

250

Week 10 Tasting Menu: Penn State's Latest Prove-It Spot

251

Week 9 Hurry-Up: The Gig'em Economy

252

Single Wing: FSU in '25, Cal's Life After Twitter, and the Ironic Roll Tide

253

The Eyes List: A Soft Launch

254

Week 9 Tasting Menu: Throw Out The Records

255

Week 8 Hurry-Up: Hoosier Daddy?

256

How to Stop CFB's Scariest Players (Or Die Trying)

257

Week 8 Tasting Menu: Horn Dawg

258

Week 7 Hurry-Up: The Polish Goal Line

259

The Single Wing: The Kansas Reset, the USC Longview, and the Oregon Moment

260

Overtime: The most cooked teams in FBS

261

Week 7 Tasting Menu: O my goodness

262

Week 6 Hurry-Up: Down the Commode

263

Single Wing: Wisconsin's big oops, Louisville's value and the Sac State come-up

264

Overtime: How the SEC and Big Ten could *actually* wreck the regular season

265

Week 6 Tasting Menu: Stay woke

266

Week 5 Hurry-Up: Dawg Days

267

OT: The truth about TV timeouts, plus the state of CFB TV with Bob Thompson

268

Week 5 Tasting Menu: Representations were made

269

Week 4 Hurry-Up: UNCredible

270

The Single Wing: FSU's actual temperature and UF's actual list

271

Overtime: The Pac-12, MWC, and AAC situations

272

Week 4 Tasting Menu: Get Heuped

273

Week 3 Hurry-Up: Bottomless Pitt

274

The Single Wing: How coaches gossip, Bad Auburn, Better Bowls, and SMOKERS

275

Week 3 Tasting Menu: Apple Cup dance

276

Week 2 Hurry-Up: The suck of the Irish

277

The Single Wing: One-Week Data, Miami's Window, Noticing Nevada, and Learning Grace

278

Overtime: Week 1 overreactions and a history of the art form

279

Week 2 Tasting Menu: Go big (red or orange) or go home

280

Week 1 Hurry-Up: The pluck of the Irish

281

The Single Wing: Bridge Coaches, Billy Napier and Refining Spite

282

Overtime: CFB depth chart subterfuge

283

Week 1 Tasting Menu: We're so back

284

2024 kickoff with Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal

285

The 2024 SZD predictions extravaganza

286

The 2024 Pac-12 preview show

287

The 2024 independents preview + Notre Dame with Jessica Smetana

288

The 2024 FCS preview and UPSET DRAFT

289

The 2024 MAC preview show

290

The 2024 Sun Belt preview show

291

Single Wing Interview: Doug Lesmerises of 'Kings of the North'

292

The 2024 CUSA preview show

293

The 2024 AAC preview show

294

Michigan, the NCAA, and how everyone wins

295

The 2024 Mountain West preview show

296

The 2024 Big Ten preview show

297

We asked Substack’s best finance expert to explain this private equity thing

298

The Single Wing: The 2024 Eyes List Begins

299

The state of Florida preview, part 2: South

300

All Bets Paid: Godfrey's Ode To Michigan & The Rose Bowl

301

The 2024 SEC preview show

302

The CFB video game field guide and review

303

The 2024 Big 12 preview show

304

The death and life of EA Sports' college football video game

305

The 2024 ACC preview show

306

The state of Florida preview, part 1: North

307

Scheme School: The evolution of Ryan Day’s Ohio State

308

The Single Wing: Summer Road Trip Edition

309

Summer Grab Bag: The toughest stadium is *what*?

310

Why (Some of) the Big 12’s Weirdness Works

311

The FCS lessons for the 12-team Playoff

312

What happens when a college football coach is PRE-fired?

313

The 2024 Texas college football extravaganza

314

9 CFB Players to Tell Your Friends About for 2024

315

Scheme School: How good is Shedeur Sanders, actually?

316

The Impending Arrival of College Football 3.0 (3.1?)

317

Single Wing: New Conference Expectations for Everyone from Texas to Army

318

Single Wing: Week 1's High (Big) Noon Showdown and the G5 Playoff Proposal Debunked

319

College Football's Unwinnable But Righteous TV War With the NFL

320

Single Wing: Clemson's bottom line, UCF's shopping aisle, and a battle with impostor syndrome

321

How golf is college football

322

The politics behind Ohio State's ridiculous commencement speech

323

The Single Wing: UCLA's optimism and Kent State math

324

The other Iowa betting scandal

325

The Good, The Bad, The Auburn: Rating 11 Teams Post-Spring

326

The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters

327

Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz

328

Why *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner

329

Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football

330

How we drink from the college football firehose

331

2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen

332

USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown

333

Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster

334

How a pro football personnel director sees college football

335

The Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches

336

Week 1 of 2024 is ... surprisingly bare. Why?

337

How we fix the rules in college football

338

Single Wing: Lane Kiffin speculation never ends. That's the point

339

What in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?

340

The Single Wing: Never mind the league network promoting the league

341

Why the 12-team playoff is great for college football

342

Clemson's absurd yet potentially effective case against the ACC

343

The NFL-ification of college recruiting

344

News: SEC/B1G power play, Fox Fridays, and what the Dartmouth vote means

345

SZD Book Club: Dan Wetzel talks "Death to the BCS"

346

Mailbag: WVU's extension, Arizona's order of operations, private equity in CFB, and more

347

JJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB

348

Does a new head coach’s first staff matter?

349

News: Atlanta coaches, EA video game, and The Return of the Mass

350

The Single Wing: It's time for Oregon State to go Full Boise

351

Did Alabama kill the MAC?

352

The SZD Super Bowl 58 preview show

353

Going into labor

354

What Auburn is getting in new coordinator DJ Durkin

355

The Single Wing: How Louisiana Tech's AD explains the future of college football

356

The 2023 time capsule reveal, plus key coach news

357

"The Blind Side" commentary track with Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni

358

Is Alabama f****d?

359

The SZD Interview: Rodger Sherman's trip 'round the CFB world

360

The Hurry-Up: Michigan reaches the pinnacle

361

Split Zone Duo LIVE in Houston!

362

The national championships arrive. Let’s dig in.

363

The post-semis Hurry-Up and a brief natty lookahead

364

Smell some roses and eat some sugar

365

NIL danger zones, Signing Day 2024, and national champs

366

The Eyes List: 2023 finale (?)

367

An unprecedented moment of CFB roster confusion

368

The 2023 Split Zone Duo awards special

369

The FSU travesty: Playoff reaction show

370

2023 championship weekend preview (and the end of the SEC on CBS)

371

Dissecting the dance between Mark Stoops and Texas A&M

372

Week 13 Hurry-Up: What a Saturday

373

The Game is the game: Rivalry Weekend arrives

374

Week 12 Hurry-Up: Purple rains

375

Why CFB’s second-to-last week is like this (plus Pac-12 drama)

376

Week 11 Hurry-Up: The heavyweights separate

377

Michigan and the Big Ten fight an information war

378

Week 10 Hurry-Up: Anything happened in Bedlam

379

Iowa fires a Ferentz + the state of the Playoff + a big Week 10

380

Week 9 Hurry-Up: Told yOU to be careful

381

The Michigan circus: Reporting, reaction, and what’s next

382

9 teams’ best- and worst-case scenarios

383

Week 8 Hurry-Up: Who’s not serious?

384

The B1G Show finally arrives

385

Week 7 Hurry-Up: Go for it

386

Midseason panic buttons and Week 7 blockbusters

387

Week 6 Hurry-Up: Kneel before Pod

388

What it just means in the SEC

389

Week 5 Hurry-Up: Make the tackle

390

Single Wing: Hugh Freeze might be right (maybe, this one time, but probably not)

391

How the Pac-12 got its groove back

392

Week 4 Hurry-Up: Podcasting for clicks

393

The Deion phenomenon and a massive Week 4

394

Single Wing: Don’t look for 2007; make the best 2023 possible

395

Week 3 Hurry-Up: Sunglasses on

396

What’s next for Texas, Bama, and (differently) Oklahoma

397

Single Wing: Here's An Easy Trick To Remember How Mel Tucker Ruined His Career

398

Week 2 Hurry-Up: They’re baaaaaaack

399

Which Week 1 impressions will actually stick?

400

Week 1 Hurry-Up: Primed for the season

401

Single Wing: When you're rooting for "it was just a weird few years"

402

The Week 1 tasting menu: A mega-preview

403

The big 2023 prediction show (plus the Florida doc and modern sports TV)

404

FCS Upset Draft, Notre Dame, and Army’s big change

405

The Sun Belt 2023 preview show

406

The SEC 2023 preview show

407

The MAC 2023 preview show

408

The Big Ten 2023 preview show

409

The Big 12 2023 preview show

410

The Conference USA 2023 preview show

411

DEAD LETTERS: The SoCon story

412

The AAC 2023 preview show

413

The ACC 2023 preview show

414

The Mountain West 2023 preview show

415

The Pac-12 2023 preview show

416

DEAD LETTERS: Kentucky, the Baron, and the Bear

417

Dilfer's threats, Florida's progress, and the video game's lawsuit

418

The spontaneous season preview, live from DC!

419

Coach contract facts and a CFB mailbag

420

College (sports) heads toward a cliff

421

Dead Letters: A Nebraska Football Story

422

DEAD LETTERS: The Florida A&M Dynasty

423

Big Ten, Big Mad

424

Half of the ACC has heat

425

Gambling, FSU hype, and a big May mailbag

426

The Year 2 coach check-in + ND game theory

427

Deion drama and the draft through a CFB lens

428

Nebraska's different now (plus Jimbo, Canada, and Kliff)

429

Hugh Freeze might be right?

430

Do the Northwestern NIMBYs have a point?

431

Michigan and SDSU: Doing good! The NCAA: Doing bad!

432

We accidentally did basketball

433

SZD did not take public money to record this podcast

434

An offseason six-pack: Texas coaching game theory

435

Rules changes and CFB west of the Rockies

436

The Big 12 and C-USA reviews, plus an all-time lie

437

The Big Ten reviewed, Bama coordinators, and the MAC

438

Schedule fun + ACC and AAC conference reviews

439

The celebrity HBCU coach and SEC 2022 review

440

UF's collective mess, B1G commish, and Sun Belt review

441

How do you put a bow on 65-7?

442

The natty preview and New Year's Six referenda

443

Dead Letters: A Tulane Football Story

444

The Playoff and 13 more bowls, previewed

445

2023 coaching concepts and more bowls

446

How we'll remember Mike Leach

447

SZD's 2022 awards extravaganza

448

Champs Weekend reaction and quick-take bowl previews

449

The Freeze image machine and Champs Weekend

450

The Week 13 Hurry-Up beats all rivals

451

The Thanksgiving tasting menu for Rivalry Week

452

The Week 12 Hurry-Up survives an upset bid

453

The state of the conferences

454

The Week 11 Hurry-Up fights through adversity

455

LSU and Notre Dame revisited, Bama woes, and Roll Wave

456

The Week 10 Hurry-Up wins in the trenches

457

A November megapack of good college football games

458

The Week 9 Hurry Up Had An Incredible Defensive Stat Line

459

A&M, Miami, and the price of perception

460

The Week 8 Hurry-Up keeps a low turnover margin

461

Running the "5-5-2" on good and bad surprises

462

The Week 7 Hurry-Up covers the day of the year

463

The CFB season's biggest week so far, Rhule, and Q&A

464

The Week 6 Hurry-Up would've just thrown a fade

465

Let's frame up what's happening at Auburn

466

The Week 5 Hurry-Up plays up to its recruiting ranking

467

What Georgia Tech says (or doesn't say) about Atlanta

468

The Week 4 Hurry-Up moves at a deliberate pace

469

College Football Show-and-Tell

470

The Week 3 Hurry-Up finishes before 3 a.m.

471

Early narratives: Buyer beware

472

The Week 2 Hurry-Up wears a fashionable Belt

473

A post-Week 1 tone reset on a bunch of teams

474

The Week 1 Hurry-Up, from Ohio State to St. Francis

475

A beefy Week 1 preview and some reactions to the last week

476

The Big Ten and MAC 2022 preview episode

477

The 2022 Pac-12 and Mountain West preview show

478

The 2022 FCS Upset Draft and FBS independents preview

479

The SEC and Sun Belt 2022 preview show

480

American indifference and ACC anxieties: Smoke 'em if you got 'em

481

SZD presents Dead Letters, Episode 1: Tulane

482

The Big 12 & C-USA 2022 preview show

483

Hugh Freeze and Liberty remain perfect for each other

484

The big SZD midsummer mailbag episode

485

The stuff that's interesting in summer recruiting

486

The wonderfully weird 2023 Big 12, good schedules, and bad

487

The Year 2 vibe check on a bunch of head coaches

488

SEC office politics, history rhymes, Utah, and Clemson

489

What every conference should do about divisions (plus Jimbo and Saban)

490

The 2022 primetime schedule takes shape

491

CFB's big, fancy meetings and existential crises

492

The Jordan Addison saga + a CFB lens on the draft

493

Mark Emmert is out, and the draft is a CFB event

494

The Big Ten, pay-for-play, Texas Tech, and a lot of QBs

495

Sark gets mad, O plays a long game, and the USFL plays football?

496

Notre Dame is playing WHOMST? In WHAT?

497

Campbell, Nebraska, and Navy's conference affiliation: The March mega-mailbag

498

Billy Napier and the art of the expectation game

499

The Combine, LSU, and a new way to talk about ageism in coaching

500

College football's bad mess and good mess

501

SZD is not expanding at this time (plus Big 12/C-USA)

502

The Auburn saga concludes (for now) plus ACC and AAC reviews

503

Auburn goes south, and we go west

504

Caleb, Harbaugh, and Big Ten/MAC 2021 reviews

505

The 2021 SEC and Sun Belt, reviewed

506

Stetson Bennett, a 2021 review, and a 2022 preview

507

Previewing the National Championship and the associated existential crisis

508

Build your Playoff narrative

509

Bowling for cord-cutters and CFB's future

510

JSU's coup, Oregon, Clemson, and BOWLS

511

What's The Idea behind each new coach hire?

512

Setting the table for the 2021 Playoff

513

The big coaching carousel mess of 2021

514

Week 13: We picked our hill, and Oklahoma State killed us on it

515

The undercurrents of Florida's coach search

516

Week 12: A great week for UT (SA/ah)

517

LSU, UW, VT, and 2021's spinning carousel

518

Week 11: O no, OU

519

The Texas high school football coach is a proud breed

520

Week 10: Oops I Purdid it again

521

Cincinnati, Gary Patterson, and the Texas coaching carousel

522

Week 9: Sparty party

523

What makes 7 good teams good

524

Week 8: Alex is sorry, Pat Narduzzi

525

College football and the NLRB

526

Orgeron saga, Mullen, and the new AAC

527

Week 7: Bye-owa

528

Iowa, Kentucky, and proof of concept

529

Week 6: The Thrilla in Red Riva

530

Urbanism and college football

531

Week 5: Eat the whole Skyline Chili bowl

532

Who's your ACC bae?

533

Week 4: We told you to short Clemson and Oklahoma

534

How to short Oklahoma and Ohio State (and Clemson too!)

535

Week 3: Penn State's back, Florida's solid, and Fresno rules

536

What 2 weeks say about 8 teams

537

Week 2: OSU and Iowa State *didn't* have the worst losses

538

Week 2 is so good we talked realignment (and UConn)

539

Week 1: Georgia’s beef, Richard eats crow, and the Big Sky reigns

540

The whole-hog Week 1 preview, from Charlotte to Berkeley

541

Fine, let's talk about this absurd "alliance"

542

The 2021 indy preview and FCS Upset Draft show

543

The 2021 ACC and AAC preview show

544

The 2021 SEC, Big 12, and C-USA preview show

545

The SEC realignment and 2021 Sun Belt preview show

546

The 2021 Pac 12 and MWC preview show

547

The 2021 Big Ten and MAC preview show

548

What futures tell you about the CFB season

549

Gameday homes, Dak, and Starkville real estate

550

How the Supreme Court shut out the NCAA

551

Michigan, and how we talk about football coaches

552

The longest dead period is over. Now what?

553

All the hot Power 5 gossip fit to print

554

The incredible demise of South Carolina’s president

555

What happens in CFB while nothing is happening

556

The Grapes of CFB's Wrath

557

An NFL Draft preview for the college football fan

558

The college football Super League

559

It’s April. Let’s talk Week 1 and THE NOLES

560

Barry Alvarez and the end of the AD-coach

561

The state of the HBCUs, with Steven Gaither

562

TEXAS TRIVIA with SZD, Fullcast, and Bomani Jones

563

Vanderbilt: the Fresno of the South?

564

How the American explains America

565

The mess at LSU and Kansas

566

The ides of Texas

567

Gus to Disney + the big FCS spring preview

568

How players get paid

569

It’s in the game

570

Tennessee settles on the Heupe train, and 5 more conference REviews

571

Tennessee and 5 FBS conferences, reviewed

572

Contextualizing Saban’s Alabama

573

Championship preview! Coach carousel reboot!

574

Texas's Tom Herman-Steve Sarkisian swap

575

The Playoff preview, Notre Dame, and coach carousel

576

More Auburn search + plus blind bowl watchability

577

The Playoff committee's crime against the G5

578

Auburn speeds up the 2020 coach carousel

579

Swamp: Drained

580

How every Playoff contender can lose

581

College football runs through Myrtle Beach

582

Let’s talk pools, pipelines, and minority coaches

583

Notre Dame passes a test (and more!)

584

College football's utterly hateful week

585

BONUS: Behind our book, ‘The Sinful Seven’

586

What is the opposite of Bedlam?

587

The coaching carousel starts to spin

588

Fire Jim Harbaugh, not James Franklin

589

Will offense ever not rule CFB? (#AskSZD)

590

No luck, all Irish

591

The World’s Largest Outdoor Pac-12 Preview

592

Why Michigan is now both USCs

593

The only MAC football preview podcast

594

God’s favorite team in Indiana

595

The only Big Ten preview podcast

596

Alabama is just better

597

Rank Coastal Carolina

598

Week 6 Whip-around: The Total Mike Leach Experience

599

Is Tennessee actually gonna do it this time?

600

Week 5 CFB Whip-around: Muschamped

601

BYU is going undefeated. Will it matter?

602

Week 4 CFB Whip-around: Air Raided

603

SZD - Pilot

604

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