Our 2025 College Football Awards Special
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What are the highlights of the 2025 college football season?
We're coming, and we ain't backing down. We don't need a bunch of cats in here, meh, looking in the mirror. Everybody just do your job! You understand that? Hey, will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our a** like a** through a tin horn, man. Ha ha!
Thank you, Lee. And thank you to Split Zone Duo listeners and subscribers. Real quick off the top before we get into it. Look, we understand and we know that the world right now feels hard to a lot of people. Things feel extremely heavy, extremely dark. We don't come to offer necessarily levity for that situation, but we will give you about an hour, maybe an hour and a half of respite from it. That's the best we can do. And sometimes that's the best and the most that you need when things feel pretty tough. So I'm going to do what I do every week just about, which is talk about college football with my dear friend, Alex Kirshner. And the thing that we do fairly often, but not every week because we need to be accurate.
We're going to talk about it with Roger Sherman. So Roger Sherman, welcome to the show. Welcome back to the show. Happy new year. Have you been on? since the new year um i think just to discuss uh kurt's daddy's career indiana university and can you still like what is the statute of limitations on happy new year is january 28th are we past happy come on richard it's just an honest question just for the record
You hit February. You hit February. It's over. You got it. Just make it sure that the snap was at the same time that the clock hit zero, but the ref wasn't looking directly at the ball. So yeah, fellas, it's time for our annual award show. It's very big in Hollywood. It's called the split zone duo awards or affectionately known as the zonies or the splitty D's as usual.
No, there's a very clear winner between those two. Again, we're putting options out there. What can I say?
The Zonies are the awards that college football players, teams, coaches most aspire to when they are putting out watch lists before the season and everyone is getting excited. We have done this just about every year that we have had this podcast. We are going to award teams of the year, which is not exactly the same as just picking the best team in the country because, well, that was kind of obvious this year for both the power conferences and the non-power conferences. We're going to pick a moment of the year. We're going to pick a proof of concept of the year for... Perhaps new coaches, perhaps not that new coaches. There will, of course, be the Minority Coach of the Week of the year in an interesting schematic spot.
The Brian Harsin Award for forestalling the inevitable, one of my favorites. And, of course, our favorite players, the Podcasters Player Award, the PPA, coming down the pike at the end. Let's start with our teams of the year in the 2025 Zonies category. Roger, we're going to give you the first pick. Everyone gets to name a winner. So there's really three, three nominee winners for each award. You just did like a whole spiel about how we're not just picking the best team of the year, but like, how could you go through this college football season and see this miracle that Indiana hath wrought and not think of them as the only thing that we need to talk about forever? Like it's, I've covered college football for over a decade now, and you get so used to it being a sport with the same teams, the same names.
And just in one fell swoop, this Indiana team came along and changed so many of the ways we think about the sport. Not just the fact that they won, but the way they won, the way they built their roster. The, it feels like a era shift, but it also feels really cheap for me to pick them as the team of the year because they literally just won the national championship and it's pretty easy call.
I can come up with another. I do. I do feel that a team of the year should not, I feel like team of the year should just not be the national champion. I think it's pretty fair.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the highlights of the 2025 college football season?
0:00–7:36
2
Who won the Power Conference Team of the Year award?
7:36–16:23
3
What was the Non-Power Team of the Year for 2025?
16:23–23:29
4
What memorable moments were highlighted from the season?
23:29–31:37
5
Who received the Proof of Concept of the Year award?
31:37–39:41
6
What is the Minority Coach of the Week of the Year award?
39:41–47:40
7
Who won the Podcaster’s Player Award for 2025?
47:40–54:43
8
What conclusions were drawn about the future of college football?
54:43–1:33:28
Speakers
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