Fighting Irish Wired

Week nine in college football brought some big time upsets and huge games we react to.  

Does Oklahoma losing at K-State officially eliminate the Sooners from the CFP?

What does Notre Dame have left to play for and is Michigan suddenly a threat to upset Ohio State in a month?

What is Brian Kelly's legacy after another rout away from home?

And can a defensive player win the Heisman Trophy?  Pete Fiutak and Nick Shepkowski discuss why Chase Young very easily could be the best player in college football but why the storm isn't close to perfect enough for him to actually win.

All of that and conference championship game predictions a month out on this week's Power 5. 

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We're back with the week nine preview edition of the College Football News Podcast as Pete Fiutak and Nick Shepkowski break down the Wisconsin upset and some of the other takeaways from last weekend including what Oregon and Utah's wins meant out west.

The guys then get into previewing week nine and three huge games as Wisconsin travels to the Horseshoe to take on Ohio State, Auburn travels to take on LSU and Michigan hosts Notre Dame.  Nick and Pete offers thoughts on each of these three games and share thoughts on the state of various other teams including Penn State and Minnesota's undefeated starts and what hasn't looked right for Georgia going on a couple of weeks now.

The episode closes with the weekly "Power 5" segment where ACC awfulness, a potential Big Ten upset, Big XII CFP chances and Jim Harbaugh gets compared to another highly paid coach who also doesn't have any huge wins at his current school.  Check it all out right now on the Week Nine episode of the CFN Pod!

Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back again for another episode of the College Football News Podcast.  Week 8 is upon us so the guys look at the four biggest games of the week while they try to find a potential Georgia-like upset.  In-depth previews are given to Michigan at Penn State, Florida at South Carolina, Oregon at Washington and Arizona State vs. Utah.

The show then continues with potential coaching changes, hot seats and who the perfect replacements for certain jobs may be.

Week 5 provided a scare in seeing Clemson have to stop North Carolina's two point conversion attempt in order to stay unbeaten, but great games, or at least highly anticipated ones were few and far between.  Week 6 sees that change with Florida hosting Auburn, Michigan trying to salvage it's season as it hosts #14 Iowa and perhaps the most impressive team to date, #4 Ohio State playing a tough defense in #25 Michigan State.

Ahead of week 5 we share with you part 2 of our conversation with Steve Greenberg of the Chicago Sun-Times as the Big Ten as a whole gets discussed at length here.  Find out how long it will be until Nebraska is back to their great ways under Scott Frost, what exactly is wrong with the likes of Northwestern, Michigan and others in the conference and how great the divide from Ohio State and the rest of the conference in 2019 really is.

Week 4 was a fun one for pretty much anyone who isn't a Michigan fan.  Nick Shepkowski and Pete FIutak are back on this Monday night to recap the week 4 that was and share their grandest of takeaways after a month of games have been completed.

John U Bacon is the author of the newly released, "Overtime" a book that goes into detail about the 2018 Michigan Wolverines and how one of the traditional college power houses operates, but also gets into how there is a divide in teams that "do it right" and the ones that "do anything to win".  

Week 3 didn't have any huge upsets but it was an entertaining week.  Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back with the latest episode of the College Football News Podcast and recap that before getting into previewing a Week 4 of college football that should excite most college football fans.

Week two was a damn thriller in college football with LSU getting a road win in Austin, Texas and Trevor Lawrence and company looking all the part of the #1 team in the nation as they easily got by Texas A&M.  Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back for another episode of the College Football News Podcast and discuss all of that.