Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Anatomy of a Coaching Carousel: 2012

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this subscriber episode, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex revisit 28 he...

24 Points to Change College Football Forever

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Your mission is simple, should you choose to accept it: By awarding or subtracting 24 points from a handful of old college football games, how much ca...

The Carousel Spins Again: Mailbag Part 2

19 Feb 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThis is a subscriber episode of Split Zone Duo, but everyone can lis...

The Diciest FBS Move Ever Attempted?

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex talk about a handful of college football news stories, headlined by Sacramento State’s geographically and financially absurd move t...

Lane Kiffin Has to Coach Now: Mailbag Part 1

13 Feb 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSubscriber episode: Richard and Alex answer questions from our subsc...

The Many Angles of NDSU's Jump to FBS

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The greatest program in FCS is moving to the Mountain West, effective this upcoming season. North Dakota State won 10 of the past 15 FCS national titl...

The Big Ten's Empire Runs into Resistance

02 Feb 2026

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The Big Ten’s commissioner, Tony Petitti, spent much of this season trying to do two things: 1) Expand the Playoff to his liking, and 2) Get his mem...

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

30 Jan 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comBefore the season, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex made a bunch of predic...

Our 2025 College Football Awards Special

29 Jan 2026

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It’s time to review the 2025 college football season, with our annual awards special, the Zonies. Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard to dole out ...

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

22 Jan 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comWelcome to the rest of the college football calendar, the part when ...

National Championship Hurry-Up: Hoosier

20 Jan 2026

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The best turnaround in the history of college football concludes with a 16-0 season and a national championship. Richard and Alex talk about Indiana’...

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

16 Jan 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comTHIS IS A SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Thanks so much to the thousands of peo...

Miami vs. Indiana: The Big Preview

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex look ahead to the College Football Playoff National Championship, with some thoughts on the schematics and then the unique circumstan...

How to Spot the Next Cignetti or Die Trying

14 Jan 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comEvery athletic director and search firm in college sports would love...

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

10 Jan 2026

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The College Football Playoff National Championship is set. Alex and Richard react to a mixed pair of semifinal games, with Miami outlasting Ole Miss a...

Institutional Inertia vs. the Playoff Semifinalists

07 Jan 2026

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Once upon a time, Ole Miss picked segregation an...

CFP Semifinal Preview + the Messiest FCS Championship

06 Jan 2026

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Richard and Alex talk about the absurd FCS Championship that ended with Montana State claiming the national title over Illinois State. Then it’s tim...

CFB Playoff Quarterfinal Hurry-Up: A New Day

02 Jan 2026

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Richard (from the Sugar Bowl) and Alex (from the Rose Bowl) break down the College Football quarterfinal bowl games in this order: * Ole Miss 39, Geor...

Playoff Quarterfinals Tasting Menu: The Indiana Information Gap

30 Dec 2025

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The College Football Playoff quarterfinals are here. Alex, Richard, and guest host Rodger Sherman dive into all of these games: * Miami-Ohio State at ...

Quick Emergency Show: Michigan Hires Kyle Whittingham

26 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAlex and Richard spend 23 minutes talking about Michigan’s holiday...

The 2025 College Football Holiday Mega-Mailbag

24 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comFor your holiday listening, Alex and Richard take on dozens of quest...

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

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

These are difficult times for the college football bowl games that aren’t part of the Playoff system. Player opt-outs were already a thing, and now ...

CFB Playoff Round 1 Hurry-Up: Miami Ice

21 Dec 2025

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Richard and Alex dive into the results from first round of the College Football Playoff, in the following order: Miami over Texas A&M, Alabama over Ok...

We Figured Out the Perfect Analogy for Curt Cignetti at Indiana

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In 2024, Indiana got good at football. In 2025, it got serious as a national championship contender. The Hoosiers enter the Playoff as the best team i...

Ohio State is Good at Football Again. Surprise!

19 Dec 2025

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Ohio State was supposed to be a little bit worse this year. That’s technically true, sort of, as the Buckeyes enter the Playoff at a mere 12-1 after...

The 2025-26 CFB Coach Carousel Superlatives

18 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for an awards sho...

Georgia Became a Machine Again in Time for the Playoff

18 Dec 2025

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For a while, this was a weird UGA season. The quarterback looked shaky, and the defense didn’t look good enough to drag him to a championship. All o...

The College Football Playoff Round 1 Tasting Menu

17 Dec 2025

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The College Football Playoff arrives. Alex and Richard preview the four first-round games, zeroing in on some interesting dynamics to watch and then m...

Inside the Brawl of the Wild with Kevin Van Valkenburg

16 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comEvery rivalry has a story, and the one between Montana and Montana S...

How Texas Tech Delivered Return on Investment

16 Dec 2025

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Texas Tech got a big sack of oil cash and spent it on football players, but there was still work to be done for the Red Raiders to dominate the Big 12...

The Big Thing Oregon Fixed for This Playoff Run

15 Dec 2025

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In this episode of our 2025 College Football Playoff Preview presented by Modelo, we focus on No. 5 Oregon. Last year’s Ducks got blown out by Ohio ...

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

14 Dec 2025

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The weirdest circumstance ever around a College Football Playoff team? That’s probably this year’s Ole Miss Rebels. After Lane Kiffin rolled out o...

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

14 Dec 2025

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Our 2025 College Football Playoff Preview presented by Modelo rolls on with Texas A&M. This is a team that Alex thinks could win the whole tournament ...

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

13 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Oklahoma has taken on the defensive identity of its head coach, Brent Venables. Unfortunately, the offense hasn’t figured things out all season. Can...

Why We Don't Think Alabama Can Win the Playoff

13 Dec 2025

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Next up in our 2025 CFP Preview, presented by Modelo, we’ve got the Alabama Crimson Tide. It’s been a weird year, and neither of us thinks Alabama...

Miami Isn't a Typical Double-Digit Playoff Seed

12 Dec 2025

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Split Zone Duo previews every team in the 2025 College Football Playoff. Next on the list: The No. 10 Miami Hurricanes. Can these guys win a national ...

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

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThere is a lot that we still don’t know about Michigan’s firing ...

CFP Team Previews 2025: Tulane

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Tulane, a program that left the SEC and spent decades in the college football wilderness, has found its way back to the sport’s biggest stage for at...

CFP Team Previews 2025: James Madison

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Split Zone Duo’s College Football Playoff Preview, presented by Modelo. We’re running short previews to get you acquainted with all 12 ...

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

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex start this episode with a discussion of this week’s mostly one-sided war of words between Notre Dame and the ACC after the Irish we...

Coach Carousel Cleanup: The Penn State Aftermath

09 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for a discussion ...

The 2025 CFP Bracket Reaction Show: The Alabama Disagreement

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The College Football Playoff bracket is out. Richard Johnson doesn’t think it’s a big crime that Alabama was included. Alex Kirshner does. The hos...

Miami or Alabama?

07 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Here’s a quick solo episode from Alex, taking you through the big debate on the Playoff selection committee’s hands before Selection Sunday: Alaba...

The 2025 CFB Championship Weekend Tasting Menu

03 Dec 2025

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Championship Weekend! Alex and Richard break down the FBS conference title games, with notes on a few lower-level playoff games as well. Starting with...

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

03 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard got hundreds of questions about this sea...

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

01 Dec 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard spent Sunday on his phone, gathering in...

Week 14 CFB Hurry-Up: Iron Sharpens Alabama

30 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex and Richard recap dozens of Rivalry Weekend college football games, taking you through the most interesting events from Week 14: Texas asserts it...

Week 14 CFB Tasting Menu: The Rivalry Feast

25 Nov 2025

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Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner guide you through the coming Rivalry Week in college football, going through dozens of games with 1) playoff stakes,...

The Black Sunday Coaching SitRep, Six Days Out

24 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE (join here): The coaching carousel is about to re...

Week 13 CFB Hurry-Up: ACC 3D Chess

23 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex and Richard guide you through dozens of Week 13 college football games, from Oregon’s depth-driven win over USC to an all-time ending in the Di...

Week 13 CFB Tasting Menu: Trojan Horse?

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

To join our championship Saturday watch party with Nokian Tyres at Mason Jar in NYC on December 6, please RSVP at this page. Entry is free!Steven Godf...

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

18 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Godfrey is back with Alex and Richard to talk ab...

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

17 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER SHOW: Our Richard Johnson made his debut as a sideline re...

Week 12 CFB Hurry-Up: Boom

16 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex take you through dozens of Week 12 games, sharing their best observations from the third-to-last week of the regular season. The full...

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

14 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe 2025 UMass Minutemen are making a strong case for the title of “...

Week 12 Tasting Menu: The Center of the CFB Universe

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard, Alex, and Rodger Sherman talk through a huge Week 12 in college football, highlighting a few dozen games that should be fun! Among the many t...

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

10 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAlex and Richard take a big handful of subscriber questions after We...

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Ducks in Puddles

09 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex take you through dozens of Week 11 college football games, highlighting the most interesting stuff to get you all caught up:Oregon’...

Big Coach Carousel Mailbag: The Lincoln Riley Thing

07 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard and Alex take a bunch of subscriber ques...

Week 11 CFB Tasting Menu: Bear Raid?

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Week 11. Alex and Richard preview the most interesting games coming up this weekend and also discuss other big CFB developments:* The initi...

Auburn Emergency Show: Hugh Freeze Finally Frozen Out

03 Nov 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comHugh Freeze is out at Auburn and probably done forever as a top-leve...

Week 10 CFB Hurry-Up: U Gotta Be Kidding

02 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rodger Sherman joins Alex for a big ol’ rundown of Week 10 of the college football season. Among dozens of games discussed, we go over: Miami’s fa...

Week 10 CFB Tasting Menu: Elimination Game

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Alex and Richard preview Week 10 of the college football season, with notes, observations, and predictions spanning lots of games. Just a few include:...

Emergency Show: LSU Kicks Brian Kelly out of the Family

27 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comBrian Kelly is out at LSU after three and a half of the odder season...

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

26 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comShortly before Texas kicked off at Mississippi State, The Athletic r...

Week 9 CFB Hurry-Up: Death Valley is Aggieland

26 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Week 9 was light on upsets but big on close games that had a big effect on the national race. In the Sunday Hurry-Up presented by Dad Water, Richard a...

The Job: Colorado State

24 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn the latest episode of “The Job,” our subscriber series about ...

The 34 Coaches Who Will Define CFB's Carousel

23 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER SPECIAL: Godfrey stops by to talk with Richard and Alex a...

Week 9 CFB Tasting Menu: Vanderbilt Dynasty

22 Oct 2025

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Alex and Richard preview Week 9 of the college football season. Among the many games previewed on this episode are:* Not one but TWO major FCS games: ...

Emergency Episode: Florida Fires Billy Napier, Finally

20 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER SPECIAL: More than a year after he first looked doomed to...

Week 8 CFB Hurry-Up: Unbeatens Beaten

19 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Week 8 Sunday Hurry-Up, presented by Dad Water! Rodger Sherman joins Richard to share notes and observations on all the games that caug...

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

16 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe latest episode of THE JOB, our subscriber series about the ins a...

Week 8 CFB Tasting Menu: Seats Are Hot

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Week 8 college football schedule features tests for a handful of coaches who sure look like they need a win to keep their jobs for the long term. ...

Emergency Show: James Franklin Out at Penn State

13 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: The first proper emergency show of the 2025 coac...

Week 7 CFB Hurry-Up: Indiana Stones

12 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the Week 7 Sunday Hurry-Up, presented by Dad Water! This week, Alex and Richard start with Indiana’s statement win at Oregon and move fro...

Belichick's UNC Circles The Drain

09 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard spent a lot of this week making calls ab...

Week 7 CFB Tasting Menu: Get Hardy

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our college football Week 7 preview, with notes on a bunch of games as the season hits its halfway point. Just a few of the games in here:* USF at Nor...

Overtime: What Now, Penn State?

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comPenn State just took one of the worst losses any team has taken in y...

Week 6 CFB Hurry-Up: Trouble is Bruin

05 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the Week 6 Sunday Hurry-Up presented by Dad Water, Richard and Alex break down a college football weekend that turned out to have a bit of everythi...

The Job: Arkansas

03 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comOur subscriber series on open FBS coaching jobs visits Fayetteville....

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

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Week 6 college football schedule is light on blockbusters, but that only makes the Split Zone Duo Tasting Menu’s job more important. Lets’ tal...

The 8 Tiers of Midseason Coach Firings

01 Oct 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comDespite a busy few weeks in 2025, college football teams fire fewer ...

Week 5 CFB Hurry-Up: A Sad State

28 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In THE SUNDAY HURRY-UP PRESENTED BY DAD WATER, Richard and Alex discuss Week 5 of the college football season: Oregon 30, Penn State 24Ohio State 24,...

The 7 Kinds of Interim Coach

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe interim head coach is a feature of every college football season...

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

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our overview of the Week 5 college football schedule, with notes, questions, and some predictions on dozens of games. Here’s a non-exhaustive list o...

The Job: Oklahoma State

24 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER SERIES: Oklahoma State finally cut ties with Mike Gundy. ...

The Job: Virginia Tech

22 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comVirginia Tech has an incredible fanbase and a history, in this centu...

Week 4 CFB Hurry-Up: Boomer Hoosier

21 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

That was a heck of a week. Richard and Alex break down a busy Week 4 in college football, highlighting dozens of games of interest. In this order: Okl...

The Job: UCLA

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comWelcome to “The Job,” a new recurring series from Split Zone Duo...

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

17 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Week 4 college football schedule is loaded with big games that wouldn’t have felt this big in any other year, like Texas Tech-Utah and Illinois-...

Are These Five CFB Teams Doomed?

16 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comOne quarter of the way through the season, Godfrey, Richard, and Ale...

Week 3 CFB Hurry-Up: Dawgs on Rocky Top

14 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Richard and Alex break down an excellent Week 3 in college football, with a spotlight on more than three dozen games. We go in this order:Georgia 44, ...

How to Keep a Revived Rivalry Alive

11 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSubscriber show! Realignment killed off a lot of college football ri...

Week 3 CFB Tasting Menu: Good Games in Stock

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Week 3 Tasting Menu discusses many, many college football games. Here are just a few of them:* Colorado vs. Houston: Deion Sanders makes a QB chan...

Overtime: Bleak Situations at Florida and Virginia Tech

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this week’s SZD Overtime episode for subscribers, we examine tw...

Week 2 CFB Hurry-Up: Bullish on USF

07 Sep 2025

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Richard and Alex break down the interesting stuff from Week 2 of the college football season, starting with upsets in Starkville and Gainesville and m...

Week 2 CFB Tasting Menu: Freshman vs. Brent Venables

03 Sep 2025

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Alex and Richard preview Week 2 of the college football season, which is light on big-time helmet games but heavy on interesting regional matchups. Th...

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

02 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comESPN’s Bill Connelly, author of a new book on the evolution and fu...

Covering Alabama in the Time of a Meltdown

01 Sep 2025

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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this subscriber special (join us!), Alabama beat writer Matt Stah...

Week 1 CFB Hurry-Up: Florida Statement

31 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Split Zone Duo Sunday Hurry-Up returns for 2025, still featuring notes on dozens of games delivered in 30-ish (emphasis on “ish”) minutes and ...