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Notre Dame, UConn, and Pac-12 Previews 2026

2

From the Vault: Anatomy of a Coach Carousel, 2001

3

Story of a College Football Season: 2001

4

The 2026 College Football Fired Coach Draft

5

Why You're Always Bad: Northwestern

6

ACC Preview 2026: Miami and Who?

7

The "Best CFB Games of the Century" Draft, on Hard Mode

8

The EA CFB Revolt, Big 12 Infighting, and Michigan in Limbo

9

'CFB 27' Deep Dive with EA Sports' Principal Game Designer

10

The Worst Head Coach Firings of the 21st Century

11

What Can World Cup Expansion Tell Us About the CFP?

12

Can These Doomed CFB Coaches Turn It Around?

13

Hopefully the last show we do about Brendan Sorsby

14

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

15

Our 26 Most Interesting Transfers of 2026

16

Did Brendan Sorsby Just Win? Here's an Expert

17

Congress *Might* Actually Reform College Football

18

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

19

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

20

Should Black Athletes Boycott SEC Schools?

21

Hot Seats and Hot Grills: CFB Holiday Mailbag

22

Should UCLA Have Your Attention?

23

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

24

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

25

Does the Big 12 Even Want This Sack of Cash?

26

What Returning Production Says about 2026, Feat. Bill Connelly

27

Brendan Sorsby's Gambling Has Texas Tech In Crisis

28

Five Offseason CFB Stories Ranging from Weird to Transformative

29

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

30

The 2026 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special

31

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

32

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

33

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

34

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

35

"The Most Interesting Program in CFB in 2026"

36

SEC Offseason Vibe Check: Kiffin Money and Chicken Money

37

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

38

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

39

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

40

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

41

Lou Holtz (1937-2026)

42

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

43

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

44

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

45

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

46

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2012

47

24 Points to Change College Football Forever

48

The Carousel Spins Again: Mailbag Part 2

49

The Diciest FBS Move Ever Attempted?

50

Lane Kiffin Has to Coach Now: Mailbag Part 1

51

The Many Angles of NDSU's Jump to FBS

52

The Big Ten's Empire Runs into Resistance

53

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

54

Our 2025 College Football Awards Special

55

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

56

National Championship Hurry-Up: Hoosier

57

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

58

Miami vs. Indiana: The Big Preview

59

How to Spot the Next Cignetti or Die Trying

60

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

61

Institutional Inertia vs. the Playoff Semifinalists

62

CFP Semifinal Preview + the Messiest FCS Championship

63

CFB Playoff Quarterfinal Hurry-Up: A New Day

64

Playoff Quarterfinals Tasting Menu: The Indiana Information Gap

65

Quick Emergency Show: Michigan Hires Kyle Whittingham

66

The 2025 College Football Holiday Mega-Mailbag

67

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

68

CFB Playoff Round 1 Hurry-Up: Miami Ice

69

We Figured Out the Perfect Analogy for Curt Cignetti at Indiana

70

Ohio State is Good at Football Again. Surprise!

71

The 2025-26 CFB Coach Carousel Superlatives

72

Georgia Became a Machine Again in Time for the Playoff

73

The College Football Playoff Round 1 Tasting Menu

74

Inside the Brawl of the Wild with Kevin Van Valkenburg

75

How Texas Tech Delivered Return on Investment

76

The Big Thing Oregon Fixed for This Playoff Run

77

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

78

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

79

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

80

Why We Don't Think Alabama Can Win the Playoff

81

Miami Isn't a Typical Double-Digit Playoff Seed

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

Coach Carousel Cleanup: The Penn State Aftermath

87

The 2025 CFP Bracket Reaction Show: The Alabama Disagreement

88

Miami or Alabama?

89

The 2025 CFB Championship Weekend Tasting Menu

90

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

91

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

92

Week 14 CFB Hurry-Up: Iron Sharpens Alabama

93

Week 14 CFB Tasting Menu: The Rivalry Feast

94

The Black Sunday Coaching SitRep, Six Days Out

95

Week 13 CFB Hurry-Up: ACC 3D Chess

96

Week 13 CFB Tasting Menu: Trojan Horse?

97

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

98

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

99

Week 12 CFB Hurry-Up: Boom

100

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

101

Week 12 Tasting Menu: The Center of the CFB Universe

102

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

103

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Ducks in Puddles

104

Big Coach Carousel Mailbag: The Lincoln Riley Thing

105

Week 11 CFB Tasting Menu: Bear Raid?

106

Auburn Emergency Show: Hugh Freeze Finally Frozen Out

107

Week 10 CFB Hurry-Up: U Gotta Be Kidding

108

Week 10 CFB Tasting Menu: Elimination Game

109

Emergency Show: LSU Kicks Brian Kelly out of the Family

110

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

111

Week 9 CFB Hurry-Up: Death Valley is Aggieland

112

The Job: Colorado State

113

The 34 Coaches Who Will Define CFB's Carousel

114

Week 9 CFB Tasting Menu: Vanderbilt Dynasty

115

Emergency Episode: Florida Fires Billy Napier, Finally

116

Week 8 CFB Hurry-Up: Unbeatens Beaten

117

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

118

Week 8 CFB Tasting Menu: Seats Are Hot

119

Emergency Show: James Franklin Out at Penn State

120

Week 7 CFB Hurry-Up: Indiana Stones

121

Belichick's UNC Circles The Drain

122

Week 7 CFB Tasting Menu: Get Hardy

123

Overtime: What Now, Penn State?

124

Week 6 CFB Hurry-Up: Trouble is Bruin

125

The Job: Arkansas

126

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

127

The 8 Tiers of Midseason Coach Firings

128

Week 5 CFB Hurry-Up: A Sad State

129

The 7 Kinds of Interim Coach

130

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

131

The Job: Oklahoma State

132

The Job: Virginia Tech

133

Week 4 CFB Hurry-Up: Boomer Hoosier

134

The Job: UCLA

135

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

136

Are These Five CFB Teams Doomed?

137

Week 3 CFB Hurry-Up: Dawgs on Rocky Top

138

How to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive

139

Week 3 CFB Tasting Menu: Good Games in Stock

140

Overtime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech

141

Week 2 CFB Hurry-Up: Bullish on USF

142

Week 2 CFB Tasting Menu: Freshman vs. Brent Venables

143

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

144

Covering Alabama in the Time of a Meltdown

145

Week 1 CFB Hurry-Up: Florida Statement

146

The 2025 CFB Time Capsule Prediction Special

147

Week 1 CFB Tasting Menu: Time to Eat

148

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

149

Why, Exactly, Is Arch Manning Good?

150

College Football Previews 2025: SEC

151

College Football Previews 2025: Big Ten

152

The Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends With a Whimper

153

College Football Previews 2025: American

154

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

155

College Football Previews 2025: Mountain West

156

College Football Previews 2025: The ACC

157

Why Do You Love College Football?

158

An American Identity Crisis

159

College Football Previews 2025: Conference USA

160

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

161

Full Interview: Steve Baker on Miami University

162

Dead Letters: Miami University

163

Collectives 1, NCAA 0

164

College Football Previews 2025: Big 12

165

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

166

College Football Previews 2025: The MAC

167

College Football Previews 2025: Pac-12 and Independents

168

Why You're Always Bad: ULM

169

College Football Previews 2025: The Sun Belt

170

Picking the Defining Team of Every Decade of College Football

171

The 2025 CFB Coach Firing and Retirement Confidence Ranking

172

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

173

Inside College Football 26 with EA Sports’ Principal Game Designer

174

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

175

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

176

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

177

The 25 Most Interesting Non-QB Transfers in College Football

178

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

179

Can There Be an Ashton Jeanty in 2025?

180

CFB Lunch Break: Off, Wisconsin?

181

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2010

182

How to Build a Modern CFB Front Office

183

CFB Lunch Break: Lincoln Riley, Rivalry Killer?

184

The 8 Ways to Smoke Out a Fake National Title Claim

185

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

186

Why You're Always Bad: Rice

187

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Mountain West

188

How Big a Deal is Bill Belichick's Mess?

189

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

190

CFB Lunch Break: Shedeur Shunned

191

The Rent Comes Due On 2022's Blockbuster Coaching Cycle

192

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The MAC

193

The 2025 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special

194

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

195

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

196

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The AAC

197

Unpacking College Sports Business Turmoil with Matt Brown

198

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

199

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

200

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Big Ten

201

Stanford Is a Bad Job Now

202

When The Supreme Court Imploded College Football

203

Did Oregon Just Make Itself Poach-Proof?

204

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: CUSA

205

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

206

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Big 12

207

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The ACC

208

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

209

Why You're Always Bad: Kent State

210

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The Sun Belt

211

Offseason Vibe Checks 2025: The SEC

212

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2001

213

An NIL Agent Explains How The Sausage Gets Made

214

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

215

The Gump Report: Angst and Opportunity in Alabama

216

LIVE in Atlanta with the Shutdown Fullcast and Homefield

217

Your Guide to the 2025 CFB Offseason

218

The Accountability Episode: What We Learned In 2024

219

Championship Hurry-Up: A Good Day

220

The Xs and Os of Ohio State-Notre Dame

221

National Championship Preview Show Feat. Shehan Jeyarajah

222

The 2024 Split Zone Duo CFB Awards Special

223

Single Wing: Who Let Saban Loose In Heritage Hall?

224

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

225

So, What Is Up With Penn State?

226

The 2024 Playoff Semifinal Preview Show

227

Your Repeat Coach Hire Probably Won't Work

228

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

229

The Playoff Quarterfinal Preview 2024, Plus Bowls

230

The SZD 2024 Holiday Subscriber Mailbag

231

Playoff Hurry-Up: CFB Is a Blowout Sport

232

The Playoff First-Round Preview Show + Weekend Tasting Menu

233

Single Wing: Sumrall and the SEC in '26?

234

Belichick to Carolina, Explained by UNC Football Alum Michael Felder

235

Emergency Episode: Belichick to UNC

236

Observations on 6 CFB Hires: Stay Frosty

237

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

238

The Eyes List: Resolution Sunday

239

The CFB Playoff Bracket Reaction Show

240

The Ryan Day Decision Point

241

Week 15 Tasting Menu: Champs Are Here

242

The Eyes List: Black Sunday SitRep

243

Week 14 Hurry-Up: You Had A Bad Day

244

The Single Wing: Dad Drive Survival Edition, Part 2

245

The Single Wing: Dad Drive Survival Edition, Part 1

246

Week 14 Feasting Menu: Rivalry Week

247

Week 13 Hurry-Up: OK, Sooners

248

When Notre Dame-Army Ruled The World

249

Week 13 Tasting Menu: Welcome to the Arena

250

Week 12 Hurry-Up: Cocked and Loaded

251

The Big Mess at Kennesaw State

252

Week 12 Tasting Menu: Offensive Line Depth Is Hard

253

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Divine Intervention

254

The Eyes List: Post-Napier State of Play

255

The Dawn of the 12-Team Playoff Rankings

256

Week 11 Tasting Menu: Saturday Night in Death Valley

257

Week 10 Hurry-Up: Static State

258

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

259

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

260

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

261

Week 9 Hurry-Up: The Gig'em Economy

262

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

263

The Eyes List: A Soft Launch

264

Week 9 Tasting Menu: Throw Out The Records

265

Week 8 Hurry-Up: Hoosier Daddy?

266

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

267

Week 8 Tasting Menu: Horn Dawg

268

Week 7 Hurry-Up: The Polish Goal Line

269

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

270

Overtime: The most cooked teams in FBS

271

Week 7 Tasting Menu: O my goodness

272

Week 6 Hurry-Up: Down the Commode

273

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

274

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

275

Week 6 Tasting Menu: Stay woke

276

Week 5 Hurry-Up: Dawg Days

277

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

278

Week 5 Tasting Menu: Representations were made

279

Week 4 Hurry-Up: UNCredible

280

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

281

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

282

Week 4 Tasting Menu: Get Heuped

283

Week 3 Hurry-Up: Bottomless Pitt

284

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

285

Week 3 Tasting Menu: Apple Cup dance

286

Week 2 Hurry-Up: The suck of the Irish

287

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

288

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

289

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

290

Week 1 Hurry-Up: The pluck of the Irish

291

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

292

Overtime: CFB depth chart subterfuge

293

Week 1 Tasting Menu: We're so back

294

2024 kickoff with Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal

295

The 2024 SZD predictions extravaganza

296

The 2024 Pac-12 preview show

297

The 2024 independents preview + Notre Dame with Jessica Smetana

298

The 2024 FCS preview and UPSET DRAFT

299

The 2024 MAC preview show

300

The 2024 Sun Belt preview show

301

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

302

The 2024 CUSA preview show

303

The 2024 AAC preview show

304

Michigan, the NCAA, and how everyone wins

305

The 2024 Mountain West preview show

306

The 2024 Big Ten preview show

307

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

308

The Single Wing: The 2024 Eyes List Begins

309

The state of Florida preview, part 2: South

310

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

311

The 2024 SEC preview show

312

The CFB video game field guide and review

313

The 2024 Big 12 preview show

314

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

315

The 2024 ACC preview show

316

The state of Florida preview, part 1: North

317

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

318

The Single Wing: Summer Road Trip Edition

319

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

320

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

321

The FCS lessons for the 12-team Playoff

322

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

323

The 2024 Texas college football extravaganza

324

9 CFB Players to Tell Your Friends About for 2024

325

Scheme School: How good is Shedeur Sanders, actually?

326

The Impending Arrival of College Football 3.0 (3.1?)

327

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

328

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

329

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

330

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

331

How golf is college football

332

The politics behind Ohio State's ridiculous commencement speech

333

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

334

The other Iowa betting scandal

335

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

336

The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters

337

Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz

338

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

339

Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football

340

How we drink from the college football firehose

341

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

342

USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown

343

Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster

344

How a pro football personnel director sees college football

345

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

346

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

347

How we fix the rules in college football

348

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

349

What in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?

350

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

351

Why the 12-team playoff is great for college football

352

Clemson's absurd yet potentially effective case against the ACC

353

The NFL-ification of college recruiting

354

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

355

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

356

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

357

JJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB

358

Does a new head coach’s first staff matter?

359

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

360

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

361

Did Alabama kill the MAC?

362

The SZD Super Bowl 58 preview show

363

Going into labor

364

What Auburn is getting in new coordinator DJ Durkin

365

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

366

The 2023 time capsule reveal, plus key coach news

367

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

368

Is Alabama f****d?

369

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

370

The Hurry-Up: Michigan reaches the pinnacle

371

Split Zone Duo LIVE in Houston!

372

The national championships arrive. Let’s dig in.

373

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

374

Smell some roses and eat some sugar

375

NIL danger zones, Signing Day 2024, and national champs

376

The Eyes List: 2023 finale (?)

377

An unprecedented moment of CFB roster confusion

378

The 2023 Split Zone Duo awards special

379

The FSU travesty: Playoff reaction show

380

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

381

Dissecting the dance between Mark Stoops and Texas A&M

382

Week 13 Hurry-Up: What a Saturday

383

The Game is the game: Rivalry Weekend arrives

384

Week 12 Hurry-Up: Purple rains

385

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

386

Week 11 Hurry-Up: The heavyweights separate

387

Michigan and the Big Ten fight an information war

388

Week 10 Hurry-Up: Anything happened in Bedlam

389

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

390

Week 9 Hurry-Up: Told yOU to be careful

391

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

392

9 teams’ best- and worst-case scenarios

393

Week 8 Hurry-Up: Who’s not serious?

394

The B1G Show finally arrives

395

Week 7 Hurry-Up: Go for it

396

Midseason panic buttons and Week 7 blockbusters

397

Week 6 Hurry-Up: Kneel before Pod

398

What it just means in the SEC

399

Week 5 Hurry-Up: Make the tackle

400

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

401

How the Pac-12 got its groove back

402

Week 4 Hurry-Up: Podcasting for clicks

403

The Deion phenomenon and a massive Week 4

404

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

405

Week 3 Hurry-Up: Sunglasses on

406

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

407

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

408

Week 2 Hurry-Up: They’re baaaaaaack

409

Which Week 1 impressions will actually stick?

410

Week 1 Hurry-Up: Primed for the season

411

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

412

The Week 1 tasting menu: A mega-preview

413

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

414

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

415

The Sun Belt 2023 preview show

416

The SEC 2023 preview show

417

The MAC 2023 preview show

418

The Big Ten 2023 preview show

419

The Big 12 2023 preview show

420

The Conference USA 2023 preview show

421

DEAD LETTERS: The SoCon story

422

The AAC 2023 preview show

423

The ACC 2023 preview show

424

The Mountain West 2023 preview show

425

The Pac-12 2023 preview show

426

DEAD LETTERS: Kentucky, the Baron, and the Bear

427

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

428

The spontaneous season preview, live from DC!

429

Coach contract facts and a CFB mailbag

430

College (sports) heads toward a cliff

431

Dead Letters: A Nebraska Football Story

432

DEAD LETTERS: The Florida A&M Dynasty

433

Big Ten, Big Mad

434

Half of the ACC has heat

435

Gambling, FSU hype, and a big May mailbag

436

The Year 2 coach check-in + ND game theory

437

Deion drama and the draft through a CFB lens

438

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

439

Hugh Freeze might be right?

440

Do the Northwestern NIMBYs have a point?

441

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

442

We accidentally did basketball

443

SZD did not take public money to record this podcast

444

An offseason six-pack: Texas coaching game theory

445

Rules changes and CFB west of the Rockies

446

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

447

The Big Ten reviewed, Bama coordinators, and the MAC

448

Schedule fun + ACC and AAC conference reviews

449

The celebrity HBCU coach and SEC 2022 review

450

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

451

How do you put a bow on 65-7?

452

The natty preview and New Year's Six referenda

453

Dead Letters: A Tulane Football Story

454

The Playoff and 13 more bowls, previewed

455

2023 coaching concepts and more bowls

456

How we'll remember Mike Leach

457

SZD's 2022 awards extravaganza

458

Champs Weekend reaction and quick-take bowl previews

459

The Freeze image machine and Champs Weekend

460

The Week 13 Hurry-Up beats all rivals

461

The Thanksgiving tasting menu for Rivalry Week

462

The Week 12 Hurry-Up survives an upset bid

463

The state of the conferences

464

The Week 11 Hurry-Up fights through adversity

465

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

466

The Week 10 Hurry-Up wins in the trenches

467

A November megapack of good college football games

468

The Week 9 Hurry Up Had An Incredible Defensive Stat Line

469

A&M, Miami, and the price of perception

470

The Week 8 Hurry-Up keeps a low turnover margin

471

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

472

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

473

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

474

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

475

Let's frame up what's happening at Auburn

476

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

477

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

478

The Week 4 Hurry-Up moves at a deliberate pace

479

College Football Show-and-Tell

480

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

481

Early narratives: Buyer beware

482

The Week 2 Hurry-Up wears a fashionable Belt

483

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

484

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

485

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

486

The Big Ten and MAC 2022 preview episode

487

The 2022 Pac-12 and Mountain West preview show

488

The 2022 FCS Upset Draft and FBS independents preview

489

The SEC and Sun Belt 2022 preview show

490

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

491

SZD presents Dead Letters, Episode 1: Tulane

492

The Big 12 & C-USA 2022 preview show

493

Hugh Freeze and Liberty remain perfect for each other

494

The big SZD midsummer mailbag episode

495

The stuff that's interesting in summer recruiting

496

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

497

The Year 2 vibe check on a bunch of head coaches

498

SEC office politics, history rhymes, Utah, and Clemson

499

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

500

The 2022 primetime schedule takes shape

501

CFB's big, fancy meetings and existential crises

502

The Jordan Addison saga + a CFB lens on the draft

503

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

504

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

505

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

506

Notre Dame is playing WHOMST? In WHAT?

507

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

508

Billy Napier and the art of the expectation game

509

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

510

College football's bad mess and good mess

511

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

512

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

513

Auburn goes south, and we go west

514

Caleb, Harbaugh, and Big Ten/MAC 2021 reviews

515

The 2021 SEC and Sun Belt, reviewed

516

Stetson Bennett, a 2021 review, and a 2022 preview

517

Previewing the National Championship and the associated existential crisis

518

Build your Playoff narrative

519

Bowling for cord-cutters and CFB's future

520

JSU's coup, Oregon, Clemson, and BOWLS

521

What's The Idea behind each new coach hire?

522

Setting the table for the 2021 Playoff

523

The big coaching carousel mess of 2021

524

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

525

The undercurrents of Florida's coach search

526

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

527

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

528

Week 11: O no, OU

529

The Texas high school football coach is a proud breed

530

Week 10: Oops I Purdid it again

531

Cincinnati, Gary Patterson, and the Texas coaching carousel

532

Week 9: Sparty party

533

What makes 7 good teams good

534

Week 8: Alex is sorry, Pat Narduzzi

535

College football and the NLRB

536

Orgeron saga, Mullen, and the new AAC

537

Week 7: Bye-owa

538

Iowa, Kentucky, and proof of concept

539

Week 6: The Thrilla in Red Riva

540

Urbanism and college football

541

Week 5: Eat the whole Skyline Chili bowl

542

Who's your ACC bae?

543

Week 4: We told you to short Clemson and Oklahoma

544

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

545

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

546

What 2 weeks say about 8 teams

547

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

548

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

549

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

550

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

551

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

552

The 2021 indy preview and FCS Upset Draft show

553

The 2021 ACC and AAC preview show

554

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

555

The SEC realignment and 2021 Sun Belt preview show

556

The 2021 Pac 12 and MWC preview show

557

The 2021 Big Ten and MAC preview show

558

What futures tell you about the CFB season

559

Gameday homes, Dak, and Starkville real estate

560

How the Supreme Court shut out the NCAA

561

Michigan, and how we talk about football coaches

562

The longest dead period is over. Now what?

563

All the hot Power 5 gossip fit to print

564

The incredible demise of South Carolina’s president

565

What happens in CFB while nothing is happening

566

The Grapes of CFB's Wrath

567

An NFL Draft preview for the college football fan

568

The college football Super League

569

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

570

Barry Alvarez and the end of the AD-coach

571

The state of the HBCUs, with Steven Gaither

572

TEXAS TRIVIA with SZD, Fullcast, and Bomani Jones

573

Vanderbilt: the Fresno of the South?

574

How the American explains America

575

The mess at LSU and Kansas

576

The ides of Texas

577

Gus to Disney + the big FCS spring preview

578

How players get paid

579

It’s in the game

580

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

581

Tennessee and 5 FBS conferences, reviewed

582

Contextualizing Saban’s Alabama

583

Championship preview! Coach carousel reboot!

584

Texas's Tom Herman-Steve Sarkisian swap

585

The Playoff preview, Notre Dame, and coach carousel

586

More Auburn search + plus blind bowl watchability

587

The Playoff committee's crime against the G5

588

Auburn speeds up the 2020 coach carousel

589

Swamp: Drained

590

How every Playoff contender can lose

591

College football runs through Myrtle Beach

592

Let’s talk pools, pipelines, and minority coaches

593

Notre Dame passes a test (and more!)

594

College football's utterly hateful week

595

BONUS: Behind our book, ‘The Sinful Seven’

596

What is the opposite of Bedlam?

597

The coaching carousel starts to spin

598

Fire Jim Harbaugh, not James Franklin

599

Will offense ever not rule CFB? (#AskSZD)

600

No luck, all Irish

601

The World’s Largest Outdoor Pac-12 Preview

602

Why Michigan is now both USCs

603

The only MAC football preview podcast

604

God’s favorite team in Indiana

605

The only Big Ten preview podcast

606

Alabama is just better

607

Rank Coastal Carolina

608

Week 6 Whip-around: The Total Mike Leach Experience

609

Is Tennessee actually gonna do it this time?

610

Week 5 CFB Whip-around: Muschamped

611

BYU is going undefeated. Will it matter?

612

Week 4 CFB Whip-around: Air Raided

613

SZD - Pilot

614

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