Dead Letters: College Football History
Episodes
Extended Interview: Steve Baker on Miami University
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comListen to Alex’s extended-cut interview with Miami University play...
Miami
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Miami University went on an unprecedented run of hiring coaches: Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, and many more: . By 2003, with Ben Roet...
The Southern Conference
21 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe Southern Conference birthed both the SEC and the ACC. Then the l...
Kentucky
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Football wasn't much at Kentucky until Bear Bryant came along. That, it would soon become clear, was exactly how Adolph Rupp liked it. Welcome to Sea...
Sewanee
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Sewanee Tigers had the most dominant program in Southern college football in the late 1800s. Then they became the laughingstock of the SEC, a conf...
Colorado
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe Colorado Buffaloes were a middling Big 8 program until Bill McCa...
Ole Miss
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe Ole Miss Rebels were one of the best programs in a segregated So...
Florida A&M
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Gaither built a college football powerhouse at FAMU in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. The Rattlers towered over their HBCU competition and struck fea...
Arkansas
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIt was the late '50s. Arkansas had rarely fielded good teams. The Ra...
Nebraska
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode traces the ascent of the Nebraska Cornhuskers and the many, many things that came together to unwind the most dominant team of much of t...
Tulane
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Tulane Green Wave were once a contemporary of (and a threat to) LSU in Louisiana college football. Then one university president set about changin...