Early Returns with Will McBroom

Will is back for another interview! Today we speak with Jackson Posey, sports editor for the Baylor Lariat, touching on the major topics for the Bears and around the Big 12 this year, including Dave Aranda's job security, Sawyer Robertson's future, the injury to Dawson Pendergrass, and whether Will is right about Sonny Dykes.

Thanks for listening! Follow Jackson on X @ByJacksonPosey and check him out at the Baylor Lariat!

We are back with another interview! Today, Will sits down with Michael Stamps of Mizzou SI to discuss the upcoming year for the Tigers, including the quarterback battle, the gap in perception between the show and Vegas on the Tigers, and the future of Eli Drinkwitz.

Thank y'all for listening! Tune in this weekend for a week 0 recap with Will and David, as well as later in the week for a look at the Baylor Bears!

Follow Michael Stamps for more Mizzou coverage on Twitter @msstamps7 and on the All Things Mizzou Podcast!

Will and David are back with a roundup of college football talk from the Florida Gators to the Charlotte 49ers! Along the way, they touch on:

-Media dayzzzzz....

-Sam Pittman being a dead man walking

-Don't forget about Billy Napier

-Mike Gundy/Pat Riley comparisons?

-Will doesn't like Sonny Dykes in case you haven't heard

-Joey McGuire is on a way hotter seat than you may think

-Luke Fickell may be fired on the first half of week 1

-Seriously, who made Wisconsin's schedule?

-Unlikeable coaches

-The 60 million dollar question in Tallahassee

-Skipping Virginia talk for today

-Sad about Syracuse

-David Jarrett's heavy affinity for the Charlotte 49ers

-UAB under?

-Ryan Silverfield corrections

-How many more playbooks will Owen McCown steal?

-Why does Tulane make us so nervous?

-The Sun Belt is a disgusting beautiful mess

-FIU I guess

-The CUSA is just the FCS

-Fade Will's Hilltoppers

-The public is catching up Southern Miss

-"Any interest in Temple?" "Nope."

-Toledo ready to blast off?

-Matt Campbell is never leaving

-Take your pick, Michigan directional teams edition

-Ball State, ugh

-Rashod Dubinion slander is BACK!

-Betting it all on Vegas

-FAU and the Caden Veltkamp experience

-South Florida's scary schedule

-Rays -1.5

-And one absolute shoe-in bet for week one and beyond (Listen to find out)

Thank y'all for listening! Tune in next weekend for another episode and the subsequent interview to follow from the Overtime series! It's almost football season!

In episode 2 of the overtime series, Will is joined by Ranjan Jindal, sports editor of The Chronicle and host of the Blue Devil Beat to discuss Duke football and the rest of the ACC picture. Will also gives brief thoughts on Deion Sanders' announcement, some questionable journalism surrounding North Carolina, and the retirement of Tyrann Mathieu.

Make sure to check out the Blue Devil Beat on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

In our debut episode of our new interview series, Overtime, we talk to the sports editor of the Daily Helmsman, Sam McCormick, who reacts to the recent news surrounding Memphis' attempt to join the Big 12 conference and also previews the Tigers' upcoming season.

Thanks for listening! A reminder that you can follow along with the show on Instagram and X by following Will McBroom, and make sure to check out the most recent episode previewing the Group of Five.

Will and David are back with a full preview of the rest of FBS College Football. In this loaded rundown, they touch on topics such as:

-Can Notre Dame run it back?

-The art of having receivers better than Ben Skowronek

-The statute of limitations on James Madison's murder of North Carolina

-Clay Helton and Butch Jones

-The Texas State Twitter Algorithm

-Brendon Lewis, world's most boring quarterback

-The Sumrall look ahead

-Don't bet on military academies in the preseason

-Do bet against military academies when they play Notre Dame

-Alex Golesh's big expectations in Tampa

-Josh McCown's son is 53 years old

-Are we really betting on Charlotte?

-Ruffin McNeill references

-Will is infatuated with the Florida Atlantic Owls

-The MAC is a beautiful mess of chaotic action

-Parker Navarro! Dequan Finn! Tucker Gleeson!

-Look out for the Zips...

-Pete Limbo is lurking

-No notes on Central Michigan

-Tax crimes at Kent State

-PAWS UP

-What do you want from Gavin Wimsatt?!

-Writing off Tony Sanchez

-Sonny Cumbie Stat of the Day

-UNLV is this year's most fun team by a mile

-Come back, Hawaii!

-Down year for the Lobos

-Bronco Mendenhall

...and more! Thanks for listening, tune back in next week for a news roundup and more preview content as we close in on week zero of the college football season!

Will and David are back with a full Big Ten conference preview, as well as a quick aside turned into an interesting debate: who is the biggest villain in college football?

Along the way, they discuss:

-James Franklin and the art of the intentional safety in a 19-17 loss

-Drew Allar: The Christian Hackenberg of J.J. McCarthys

-Who is running the ball for Ohio State?

-No optimism for Oregon

-Malik Benson, WR1

-How many Uiagalelei's are there?

-Michigan...meh

-Bryce Underwood can make or break the Wolverines' season

-Demond Williams, aka "even smaller Kyler Murray"

-HEISMAN WATCH ALERT

-The Huskies over 7.5 is the rare Vegas giveaway

-Aidan Chiles: Is this the year

-The 2025 Early Returns Fran Brown Award goes to Jonathan Smith

-Dylan Raiola: Future face of college football ire?

-Why does Will not like Matt Rhule?

-Shut up Bret Bielema

-We inflict a terrorist attack on the Illinois hype train

-Welcome to the Big Ten on Paramount+

-Don't talk to me about Luke Altmyer

-Fernando Mendoza and Curt Cignetti will carry the Hoosiers

-Jordon Hudson: CFB's biggest villain?

-Hey Luke Fickell, figure it the f*** out

-Remember those Wisconsin skill guys?

-Yeah, they're gone

-Drake Lindsey, who are you

-Row the boat to Hell

-Minnesota 7-5 per usual

-Maryland SUCKS

-Preston Stone, quietly?

-Purdue is decrepit

-Nico Iamaleava and the death of DeShaun Foster's coaching career before it really even started

-Oh yeah, and some Lincoln Riley slander

-Also, somehow Castellanos and Brock Glenn mentions

-Texas State?

...and more! Tune back in next week for a G5 rundown plus the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame!

Will and David are BACK with part 3/5 of their conference season previews for the upcoming year. They touch on topics around the entire SEC, including:

-Alabama...is...back?!

-...Which could be real bad for our Seminoles...

-The art of madness that was Jalen Milroe

-Ryan Williams being a legal adult

-Will is boarding the Brian Kelly bus

-LSU's receiving corps for a third show in a row

-Former Tennessee Titans linebacker Harold Landry

-The Weeks Brothers

-Gunner Stockton getting no respect

-The interchangeable Micah Morris

-Concern over Georgia's lines of scrimmage

-Daniel Harris libel

-Arch Manning talk (but like the normal kind)

-Ryan Wingo's vision

-Misinterpreting Texas

-John Mateer, X-Factor

-Venables, Freeze, Pittman's last stands?

-Beamer ball in trouble again?

-99 speed

-South Carolina vs. expectations

-The danger of Oscar Adaway carrying the ball more than 8 times

-Florida being purely disrespected

-DJ Lagway's shoulder could decide the entire CFB season

-Free money from the Ozarks

-Gary Pinkel references

-Missouri big money'd Georgia?

-Remember the name: Ahmad Hardy

-Poor LaNorris Sellers

-Has the Lane train hit a fork in the road?

-Another Umanmielen?

-Let's take a collective pause on Austin Simmons

-Josh Heupel is Mark Richt (Complimentary)

-Chris Brazzell, bad football player

-8 wins nonetheless

-Mississippi State will steal a game

-Don't ever schedule Memphis on the road you idiots

-Seriously, stop scheduling Memphis!

-Taylen Green should refuse to take the field

-Remember how Ole Miss just took Arkansas' football team?

-Does Marshall have enough players to even field a roster?

-Oh yeah, and Kentucky still sucks!

Tune back in next week for more CFB previews, as we head to the Midwest/West/Rutgers for a Big Ten preview episode!

Will and David are back with the second conference preview of the preseason with the ACC, as they discuss topics such as:

-The Woodaz Brothers

-The Brohm effect

-Louisville's turnover nightmares

-SMU and Syracuse's frying pan to the face schedule turn

-Carson Beck, Cavinder-free

-Virginia Tech playing South Carolina for no apparent reason

-Whether it's physically possible for Miami's secondary to be worse

-Steve Angeli fandom

-Blind faith in Fran Brown

-The futile pursuit of Buster Faulkner

-Georgia Tech, no longer a ramblin' wreck?

-Don't let Manny Diaz make you look like a fool

-Darian Mensah's week 3 homecoming

-Is Duke football a playoff team?

-Virginia Tech sure isn't

-The Phillip Montgomery Tax

-Brent Pry is dead in the water

-Don't talk to me about Tony Elliott

-Chandler Morris' 17th year of college football

-Is Max Johnson just...allowed to stay forever?

-Boston College's nightmarish special teams from Hell

-Recklessly but committedly doubting Bill O'Brien

-Pitt...who knows?

-The even worse Kurt Roper Tax

-Justifying Florida State

-Berkeley is burning

-Yay, Jake Dickert

-From UCF QB5 to Stanford QB1

-North Carolina could be the worst team ever and go 7-5

-Oregon's season is over

-An Ed Orgeron retrospective

...and more! Thank y'all for listening! Tune back in next week for an SEC preview, where it just means more(?)

Will and David are back for a new season of Early Returns! It's a full barrel of college football talk today, with an emphasis on previewing the Big 12. Along the way, they also will discuss:

-Lincoln Riley, complete loser

-The Big Ten's fake toughness

-Matt Rhule's 7-6 playoff dreams

-Sherrone Moore's funeral for a living man

-Arkansas and Missouri's complete indifference towards each other.

-Long live the War on I-4.

-Temple Owls fun facts

-The Fickell Rules

-Put the oil money on Houston

-Fade Matt Campbell

-Y'all good, Mormon U?

-Back aboard the Aranda pirate ship!

-The baffling decision to pursue a Kansas State receiver

-Pat Shurmur slander

-Scott Frost is your least favorite ex

-The (Alex) Grinch that stole UCF's bowl bid

-Walking the line of Todd Grantham

-Hey, is (insert good player from last year) back at Cincinnati? Nope!

-Sonny Dykes still sucks, signed Will

-Time for y'all to chill out on Illinois

-Remember when Stanford beat Syracuse?

-And Louisville?

-"Lexington would be a terrible place for a playoff game."

-Preston Stone status update

-A Peyton Ramsey retrospective

-Welcome to the CUSA to the Delaware Fighting Flaccos

-Joe Flacco, Hall of Famer, by the way

-Georgia Tech discourse

-Beware of the Tony Muskett game

-Knoxville has fallen

-Hey Mack Brown, remember when your team lost by 800 points to James Madison?

-Here come the Lobos

-Spare me Zach Calzada

-Gavin Wimsatt

-We're in LA

-Bryce Archie shoutout

-The Tucker Gleason legacy game

-2023 Arizona State-Fresno State, aka my favorite game of all time

-Farmageddon: Shamrock edition

-Laremie, Wyoming is a haunted house