Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods do the unthinkable, they talk about Pac-12 basketball! Both of the POC hosts were in Las Vegas for the Pac-12 basketball tournament so the guys give their thoughts on how the top teams looked including the three teams that made it to March Madness, Arizona (No. 1 seed), UCLA (No. 4 seed) and USC (No. 7 seed). Can the Conference of Champions make another run to the Final Four and maybe even cut down the nets for the first time since 1997? We shall see starting on Thursday when the first round of the NCAA Tournament kicks off.

They also talk about former Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels deciding to go to LSU from the NCAA Transfer Portal. Daniels won't walk into Batten Rouge as the clear starter, but he will have the opportunity to compete for the job and play a very tough SEC schedule down there. Ryan thinks Daniels has a shot to be the man at LSU after the change in scenery while Dave thinks he won't start a game for his new squad.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods give their thoughts on Phil Steele's prediction of the preseason AP Poll top-10 that included both Utah and Oregon and not USC. Spinning off of that, the guys take their prediction game one step further as they take a crack at what they think the media will pick for the order of the Pac-12 North and South division races. Both guys agree with the teams at the top and the bottom of the each division, picking Oregon to win the North and USC to win the South, with Stanford pulling up the rear in the North and Colorado finishing at the bottom of the South.

They also touch on some of the assistant coach movement drama with Vic So'oto leaving Colorado after two months and heading to California and what head coach Karl Dorrell had to say about the move followed by So'oto's rebuttal. Lastly they discuss the details of UCLA head coach Chip Kelly's contract extension and Arizona head coach Jedd Fisch's positive one-on-one interview with 247Sports.

The POC Pac-12 Tournament meet-up is at the "BetMGM Sportsbook & Bar" in Park MGM casino on Thursday, March 10, 2022 starting at 2pm PT. 

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods don't even record at the same time, dropping separate segments due to scheduling conflicts. The guys discuss the decision to not expand the CFP and what's going on with NIL money.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods don't really have much to talk about after finishing off their off-season reports for all of the Pac-12 football programs over the past three weeks. Luckily, superfan Shane provided us with a topic to discuss this week, his list of post-season top-10 POC listeners (which instantly becomes the official Podcast of Champions list since both Ryan and Dave certainly don't remember who writes into the show every week). Once again Shane did a nice job composing the most notable people to take part in the show in 2021, tabulating all of the data and presenting it with colorful prose so the two hosts don't have to do anything but read it.

The guys also discuss the pending B1G television rights deal that, according to reports, will surpass the $1 billion mark for a single year (remember Larry Scott was proud of $3 billion over 12 years before), the status of UCLA's defensive coordinator vacancy, a big name in the NCAA Transfer Portal and even a little about the upcoming Pac-12 basketball tournament (not long though, no worries).

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods finish with their off-season report series by discussing the two Northern California and two Southern California Pac-12 football programs. They first welcome in Jackson Moore who publishes the Stanford and California 247Sports sites, breaking down what the Cardinal and Golden Bears did during the off-season. Neither program changed head coaches or coordinators despite posting losing seasons and Moore gets into the personnel turnover for each team.

They end the series talking about the two programs they cover, USC and UCLA. The Trojans made some major off-season moves bringing in Lincoln Riley, an almost entirely new coaching staff and 13 players from the NCAA Transfer Portal including star quarterback Caleb Williams. The Bruins extended head coach Chip Kelly and are still looking to fill both coordinator roles, but with Dorian Thompson-Robinson returning UCLA should once again be a factor in the South.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods welcome in several experts on the show to provide actual information for our POC listeners. We are continuing our off-season reports for all of the football programs in the Pac-12, going over the various coaching changes and of course the significant roster turnover with recruiting, graduations, NFL defections and most importantly the NCAA Transfer Portal. This week we are getting updates on the Oregon and Washington schools starting with Angie Machado talking about Oregon State's off-season, Chris Fetters breaking down everything going on with Washington, Matt Prehm giving us the lowdown on all things Oregon and Jamey Vinnick getting us up to speed on what Washington State has been doing.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods welcome in several experts on the show to provide actual information for our POC listeners. We are beginning our off-season reports for all of the football programs in the Pac-12, going over the various coaching changes and of course the significant roster turnover with recruiting, graduations, NFL defections and most importantly the NCAA Transfer Portal. This week we are getting updates on the Desert and Mountain schools starting with Jason Scheer talking about Arizona's off-season, Chris Karpman breaking down everything going on with Arizona State, Dan Sorensen giving us the lowdown on all things Utah and our man Adam Munsterteiger getting us up to speed on what Colorado has been doing.

Utah is the class of the group, coming off a conference championship and Rose Bowl appearance, and the good news is most of that team and coaching staff is coming back for another run at Pasadena or maybe even the playoffs. Arizona was 1-11 but they are winning the off-season with great staff additions, amazing recruiting and home runs in the transfer portal. Arizona State is in a bit of wait-and-see mode with a decision from the NCAA coming potentially in the next few months and Colorado made some good staff additions but has lost a lot of players to the transfer portal this cycle.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to the studio to bring fans of the Conference of Champions up to speed on all the latest news and notes from the Pac-12 including some significant roster turnover (both good and bad) at several programs. The guys start the show discussing Dan Lanning (or Lan Danning as Dave likes to say) heading to Eugene after winning a national championship as Georgia's defensive coordinator. They then switch to some UCLA news including head coach Chip Kelly reportedly working with the school for a contract extension and quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson announcing the he would be returning to Westwood to finish out his collegiate career.

Speaking of quarterback news, Arizona head coach Jedd Fisch continues to make waves in the conference, this time by pilfering Washington State quarterback Jayden de Laura and bringing him to Tucson. The Wildcats have made the most improvements to their roster so far, with a top-20 recruiting class plus tons of bluechip additions through the NCAA Transfer Portal. The guys also discuss USC's situation with Jaxson Dart entering the portal and whether star Oklahoma quarterback Caleb Williams will replace him for the Trojans.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are back for the first POC episode of the New Year, recapping how the Conference of Champions did in the bowl season (spoiler: it was not good). For the second year in a row the Pac-12 failed to secure a bowl game victory, going 0-5 in 2021 (after an 0-2 2020) including Washington State failing to score in the first half against Central Michigan as a 7.5-point favorite. The Utes also appeared to have the Rose Bowl secured, with multiple 14-point leads over the Ohio State Buckeyes, but the defense wasn't able to come up with many stops and a late field goal put Utah away, sending the Pac-12 home yet again without a bowl win.

The guys also talk about UCLA cancelling the Holiday Bowl at the last minute, Washington State finding a replacement after Miami dropped out of the Sun Bowl due to COVID-19 concerns, what Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff thought about the disappointing bowl record and what programs need to do going forward to have better results in football plus Arizona State apparently getting ready to self-sanction ahead of any NCAA decision on their investigation into illegal recruiting during the lockdown.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are together again for a Pac-12 bowl preview show, going over the upcoming five bowl games featuring teams from the Conference of Champions. The Pac-12 bowl season started out a bit rocky with Oregon State falling to Utah State in the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl, but there is optimism going forward for Utah in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State plus Washington State, UCLA, Arizona State and Oregon in their postseason match-ups.

The guys also go over some of the news and notes from around the conference including a couple of big name quarterback transfers into the Pac-12, some good roster news for the Utes who want try and repeat as Pac-12 Champions, a few key opt-outs for the Cougars in their bowl game and the potential for more bowl cancellations that could impact Pac-12 teams.

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