Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Episodes
Week 14 Feasting Menu: Rivalry Week
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our preview of Week 14, the final week of the regular season, including: * Hook ‘em or gig ‘em? * Can you imagine if Michigan-Ohio State did not g...
Week 13 Hurry-Up: OK, Sooners
24 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A packed but brisk recap of Week 13, including: * Indiana wasn’t up to it, but saw its Playoff chances go UP * Alabama melts down in Norman * Notre ...
When Notre Dame-Army Ruled The World
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comNotre Dame and Army meet at Yankee Stadium in a game with national c...
Week 13 Tasting Menu: Welcome to the Arena
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Split Zone Duo previews Week 13 of the college football season, including: * Can Indiana actually do this? We’re skeptical, but here’s how. * Army...
Week 12 Hurry-Up: Cocked and Loaded
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Recapping Week 12 of the college football season, including: * South Carolina is a whole lot of fun * Georgia lives to fight another day* Oregon is th...
The Big Mess at Kennesaw State
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comKennesaw State fired coach Brian Bohannon, who turned it from an FCS...
Week 12 Tasting Menu: Offensive Line Depth Is Hard
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Split Zone Duo previews Week 12 of the college football season, including:* The problems facing the Georgia Bulldogs* Kansas takes a crack at another ...
Week 11 Hurry-Up: Divine Intervention
10 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A packed but breezy recap of Week 11 of the college football season, with hosts Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, includes: * How Alabama dominated i...
The Eyes List: Post-Napier State of Play
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this episode for paid subscriber: Florida isn’t firing Billy Na...
The Dawn of the 12-Team Playoff Rankings
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe College Football Playoff selection committee ranked teams for th...
Week 11 Tasting Menu: Saturday Night in Death Valley
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our Week 11 college football preview arrives, including:* The keys to Alabama-LSU* Florida’s chances at a Texas upset* Colorado’s road to the Big ...
Week 10 Hurry-Up: Static State
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An information-packed rundown of Week 10 in college football, including: * Ohio State-Penn State goes how it always goes * Indiana is still Indiana (t...
UAB's Dilfer Disaster and The Worst Coach Hires of the Past 15 Years
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSince UAB hired Trent Dilfer before the 2023 season, a once-solid pr...
The Single Wing: Playoff Chaos Math Isn't Hard To Find
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comListen to the Week 10 Tasting Menu and pair it with Godfrey’s Q&A ...
Week 10 Tasting Menu: Penn State's Latest Prove-It Spot
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A preview of the Week 10 college football season, including:* Penn State’s latest chance to level up in the sport, this one against Ohio State in Ha...
Week 9 Hurry-Up: The Gig'em Economy
27 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner recap Week 9 in college football, including:* Texas A&M beats LSU, and Mike Elko makes a point* Texas survives an od...
Single Wing: FSU in '25, Cal's Life After Twitter, and the Ironic Roll Tide
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comA Week 9 subscriber Q&A with Steven Godfrey. He takes questions abou...
The Eyes List: A Soft Launch
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comWelcome back to another year of "The Eyes List,” where Split Zone ...
Week 9 Tasting Menu: Throw Out The Records
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey preview Week 9 of the college football season, with looks ahead at two dozen of the weekend’s games. Including:* Notre Da...
Week 8 Hurry-Up: Hoosier Daddy?
20 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A 30-ish-minute recap of Week 8 in college football, including: * Georgia asserts itself against Texas, but exactly how big is the gap between these t...
How to Stop CFB's Scariest Players (Or Die Trying)
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comCody Alexander of Match Quarters is a defensive coordinator by trade...
Week 8 Tasting Menu: Horn Dawg
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our Week 8 preview. CBS Sports national college football writer Shehan Jeyarajah joins Alex and Richard to break down a huge pile of games, including ...
Week 7 Hurry-Up: The Polish Goal Line
13 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our 30(ish)-minute recap of a wild weekend in college football, including: * Oregon beats Ohio State in a classic. Did the Ducks intentionally deploy ...
The Single Wing: The Kansas Reset, the USC Longview, and the Oregon Moment
11 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn a Week 7 mailbag: Godfrey helps reset expectations for Lance Leip...
Overtime: The most cooked teams in FBS
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comA midseason, pre-coach carousel review of the programs in each FBS c...
Week 7 Tasting Menu: O my goodness
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our preview of Week 7. Ohio State-Oregon is the blockbuster in a loaded week that also features USC-Penn State, Ole Miss-LSU, Colorado-Kansas State, a...
Week 6 Hurry-Up: Down the Commode
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Week 6 Hurry-Up is our recap of everything we found interesting in the college football weekend, delivered in 30(ish) minutes: * Vanderbilt flushe...
Single Wing: Wisconsin's big oops, Louisville's value and the Sac State come-up
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIt’s the latest Split Zone Duo audience Q&A with Steven Godfrey, w...
Overtime: How the SEC and Big Ten could *actually* wreck the regular season
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey wrote for the Washington Post about the SEC and Big Ten’s ...
Week 6 Tasting Menu: Stay woke
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our previews of dozens of games in Week 6. Highlights include: * Things getting bleak at several ACC schools* Navy’s chance to dunk Air Force * A sn...
Week 5 Hurry-Up: Dawg Days
29 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Godfrey lead a 30-minute (ish) recap of the weekend in college football. Alabama beats Georgia in an instant classic. Oklahoma comes back ...
OT: The truth about TV timeouts, plus the state of CFB TV with Bob Thompson
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAre TV timeouts really longer this year? The answer has two parts. S...
Week 5 Tasting Menu: Representations were made
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 5, a schedule led by Georgia-Alabama but with dozens of other interesting games beyond. Plus: What should we m...
Week 4 Hurry-Up: UNCredible
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Week 4 Sunday Hurry-Up! Tennessee handled business against an Oklahoma team with a QB problem. North Carolina’s defense did not defend. BYU put ...
The Single Wing: FSU's actual temperature and UF's actual list
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey's dipping a bit into coach gossip, mainly because Florida St...
Overtime: The Pac-12, MWC, and AAC situations
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comOregon State and Washington State lopped off the top of the Mountain...
Week 4 Tasting Menu: Get Heuped
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 4. Meet some freshman running backs at Baylor and South Alabama. Prepare for the return of Josh Heupel to Okla...
Week 3 Hurry-Up: Bottomless Pitt
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard and Alex give you a loaded but brief recap of everything interesting in college football’s Week 3. West Virginia blows another road Backyard...
The Single Wing: How coaches gossip, Bad Auburn, Better Bowls, and SMOKERS
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey's talking about Hugh Freeze because YOU made him, and we'll ...
Week 3 Tasting Menu: Apple Cup dance
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Week 3 is light on blockbusters but heavy on rivalry games, including the newly relocated Apple Cup, the game formerly known as the Civil War, and the...
Week 2 Hurry-Up: The suck of the Irish
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex and Richard take you through Week 2 of the college football season. NIU wrecks a promising Notre Dame season, Texas State crushes rival UTSA, Iow...
The Single Wing: One-Week Data, Miami's Window, Noticing Nevada, and Learning Grace
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey's going rapid fire over y'all's week one reactions, most of ...
Overtime: Week 1 overreactions and a history of the art form
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe modern Week 1 schedule means that one Sunday night game and one ...
Week 2 Tasting Menu: Go big (red or orange) or go home
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex preview Week 2 of the 2024 college football season (14:10) after discussing one of Week 1’s hot topics: the state of Coll...
Week 1 Hurry-Up: The pluck of the Irish
01 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Split Zone Duo Sunday Hurry-Up returns! Alex and Richard take you on a 30-ish-minute jaunt through everything that was interesting in the first we...
The Single Wing: Bridge Coaches, Billy Napier and Refining Spite
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this show, Godfrey answers questions from SplitZoneDuo.com subscr...
Overtime: CFB depth chart subterfuge
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAuburn lists 37 defensive starters. Georgia won’t release a depth ...
Week 1 Tasting Menu: We're so back
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey take a long, detailed trip through the Week 1 schedule, from NDSU-Colorado to Clemson-UGA to JMU-Charlotte to USC-LSU and b...
2024 kickoff with Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard links up with the godfather of CFB podcasters, Ty Hildenbrandt of The Solid Verbal. Ty has just about seen it all in CFB podcasting, so let’...
The 2024 SZD predictions extravaganza
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAfter previewing all 134 FBS teams for the 2024 season, it’s predi...
The 2024 Pac-12 preview show
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oregon State and Washington State face unprecedented situations, but not exactly the same one on the field in 2024. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex break d...
The 2024 independents preview + Notre Dame with Jessica Smetana
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The ranks of the FBS independent schools are down to three (and still getting smaller). Richard, Godfrey, and Alex talk about UConn and UMass to start...
The 2024 FCS preview and UPSET DRAFT
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join our FCS Upset Draft at www.splitzoneduo.com, and try to pick the correct FCS wins over FBS teams. Craig Haley is the FCS senior editor for Stats ...
The 2024 MAC preview show
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The return of the MAC on Split Zone Duo! We preview the 2024 season, as Miami tries to defend its title and establish itself as something like what To...
The 2024 Sun Belt preview show
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SZD previews the Sun Belt: Appalachian State is the favorite in the East, but Coastal Carolina had a more promising first year under Tim Beck than you...
Single Wing Interview: Doug Lesmerises of 'Kings of the North'
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey sits down with longtime Big Ten and Ohio State writer Doug L...
The 2024 CUSA preview show
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Liberty is a heavy favorite after dominating Conference USA in its first season in the league. So let’s start at the bottom of CUSA and work our way...
The 2024 AAC preview show
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard, Alex, and Godfrey break down the American Athletic Conference ahead of the 2024 season. Memphis (3:00) looks like it’s primed for a run, bu...
Michigan, the NCAA, and how everyone wins
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe NCAA and Michigan have moved to the “leak wars” portion of t...
The 2024 Mountain West preview show
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a Mountain West preview from Richard Johnson, Steven Godfrey, and Alex Kirshner. To start, let’s talk about Utah State firing Blake Anderson ...
The 2024 Big Ten preview show
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 18-team Big Ten gets the SZD preseason preview treatment. What are reasonable expectations for last year’s title game teams, Michigan and Washin...
We asked Substack’s best finance expert to explain this private equity thing
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Doomberg runs the biggest financial newsletter on Substack, explaining money and markets to a quarter-million subscribers every week. Alex Kirshner, a...
The Single Wing: The 2024 Eyes List Begins
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey opens the notebook for an all-coaching carousel mailbag to s...
The state of Florida preview, part 2: South
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThere’s always lots happening in college football in South Florida...
All Bets Paid: Godfrey's Ode To Michigan & The Rose Bowl
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oil and water. The Capulets and the Montagues. Michigan fans and Steven Godfrey. After years of often contentious relations, Godfrey threw down the ga...
The 2024 SEC preview show
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The 2024 SEC season preview from Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, and Steven Godfrey. How could the party be ruined for Georgia, Texas, and Alabama? Is...
The CFB video game field guide and review
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAfter a long week of playing the EA Sports College Football 25 video...
The 2024 Big 12 preview show
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 2024 Big 12 season preview from Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey. Utah enters the league as the favorite, but the gap to ...
The death and life of EA Sports' college football video game
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Haumiller is EA Sports’ principal game designer for college football. He’s here with Godfrey to discuss the long road back for a previously de...
The 2024 ACC preview show
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the 2024 ACC season preview from Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey. Following a discussion of the start of TALKIN’ SEASON (0...
The state of Florida preview, part 1: North
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe Tampa Bay Times' Matt Baker joins Richard to talk all things Flo...
Scheme School: The evolution of Ryan Day’s Ohio State
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIt’s a big year for Ryan Day. He might have the preseason No. 1 te...
The Single Wing: Summer Road Trip Edition
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn this solo show, Steven Godfrey’s got two hours’ worth of foot...
Summer Grab Bag: The toughest stadium is *what*?
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex and Richard take subscriber questions heading into a holiday week. Which Florida school does Billy Napier least want to let beat him? Did UCLA se...
Why (Some of) the Big 12’s Weirdness Works
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Weeks before the Big 12 expands to 16 teams, Godfrey and Alex dive into the unique place the conference currently occupies. It’s not rich like the B...
The FCS lessons for the 12-team Playoff
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comA college football playoff with more than four teams? What will they...
What happens when a college football coach is PRE-fired?
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The rumor mill demands that several coaches be on the hot seat at all times. But what about when the seat gets so hot that a new description—”pre-...
The 2024 Texas college football extravaganza
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comShehan Jeyarajah is national reporter for CBS Sports, host of the Co...
9 CFB Players to Tell Your Friends About for 2024
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner, and Steven Godfrey start to look ahead to the 2024 college football season. The episode opens with some consideration ...
Scheme School: How good is Shedeur Sanders, actually?
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a new episode of Scheme School. Yahoo Sports’ Nate Tice returns to the show to have a completely on-field-focused (we promise) conversati...
The Impending Arrival of College Football 3.0 (3.1?)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comCollege football is about to get a lot different. Alex and Richard t...
Single Wing: New Conference Expectations for Everyone from Texas to Army
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Godfrey's insisting that everyone pick a Sun Belt team to ride and/or die with in '24. Plus, did the NFL kill USC's L.A. vibes? And let's set an expec...
Single Wing: Week 1's High (Big) Noon Showdown and the G5 Playoff Proposal Debunked
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For more episodes like The Single Wing, subscribe at splitzoneduo.com. Godfrey's circling back on TV scheduling tactics for Week 1, explaining San Jos...
College Football's Unwinnable But Righteous TV War With the NFL
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
College football (including its TV partners) usually gets out of the NFL’s way. But when the 12-team Playoff arrives this December, the two levels o...
Single Wing: Clemson's bottom line, UCF's shopping aisle, and a battle with impostor syndrome
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this solo show, Steven Godfrey's trying to figure out why Clemson's O-line can't match its D-line, why BYU was (is?) dirty, if Army/Navy has a Rose...
How golf is college football
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAs a postscript to last week’s newsletter about college football c...
The politics behind Ohio State's ridiculous commencement speech
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comOhio State played host to one of the most bizarre commencement speec...
The Single Wing: UCLA's optimism and Kent State math
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a FREE episode of The Single Wing thanks to our friends at Magic Mind (https://magicmind.com/SPLITZONE20 for 20 percent off). May is Mental...
The other Iowa betting scandal
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIt was huge college sports news in 2023 when dozens of athletes at I...
The Good, The Bad, The Auburn: Rating 11 Teams Post-Spring
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the spring transfer portal window means the beginning of looking ahead in earnest to the 2024 season. With rosters mostly locked, Alex and ...
The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Split Zone Duo crew discusses the results of the NFL Draft through both a college football and “being mean to Steven Godfrey” lens. Georgia’...
Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comMaryland is hiring Brian Ferentz as an analyst, per Bruce Feldman. A...
Why *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comA coaching search where nobody got spurned, everyone got paid, and a...
Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for an offseason check-in with the most watched, most controversial 4-8 team in college football history. Richard, Godfrey, and Alex weigh...
How we drink from the college football firehose
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comWe get a lot of questions about how we keep up with the wide world o...
2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comFor SZD’s annual NFL Draft QB special, Richard is joined by Ben So...
USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
USC reporter Luca Evans of the Orange County Register joins Alex to talk about the many challenges facing the Trojans in the NIL and collective space ...
Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comWelcome to The Single Wing, where Steven Godfrey takes subscriber qu...
How a pro football personnel director sees college football
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard has a conversation with Eric Galko, the director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl. It’s wide-rangin...
The Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comIn 2023, Neal Brown was the industry's most fireable head coach. The...