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Richard Johnson joins Holly, Spencer, and Jason to preview the Purple Division and the Assorted Division, because no, we weren't organized enough to avoid having a grab bag division where the teams don't wear the same colors. That one has BYU, Hawaii, Miami, Michigan State, Ohio State, and Oregon, while the Purple Division has Clemson, Kansas State, LSU, Northwestern, TCU, and Washington. If our arbitrary conference setup did not include your school, it means they're either:

a) terrible and going to be trash this year or

b) secretly amazing but we're betting lots of money on them and don't want the secret to get out

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Podcast newbie Steven Godfrey joins Holly, Spencer, and Ryan to preview the Orange Division and the Fake Orange Division. The former includes Auburn, Florida, Oklahoma State, Syracuse, Tennessee, and Texas; the latter brings you Arizona State (sort of), Boston College, Iowa State, USC, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. Maybe you're thinking some of those schools aren't orange at all, to which we will remind you that red and yellow mixed together MAKE orange. That's Colors 101, sucker.

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After this episode, we're now 60% of the way through previewing ever-well, ok SOME of this year's college football teams. This is the Conference Yellow, aka the Piss 12, and it includes Appalachian State, Army, Cal, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Iowa, Michigan, Mizzou, Purdue, Toledo, UCF, and West Virginia. This is also the episode where Spencer does one of the worst things he's ever done on this show, and we're sorry but we cannot control him.

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Our super dumb season preview continues with THE BLUE CONFERENCE, home to Boise State, Buffalo, Georgia Southern, Kentucky, Memphis, and Penn State in one division and Arizona, Navy, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Pitt, and UCLA in the other. Holly and Spencer were out for this one, so we brought on special guest Alex Kirshner and person who is on the show all the time Brian Floyd. Does that mean we talked about football and not nonsense? Friend, no. No, it does not.

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It's season preview time, and this year we're realigning all* of college football by the only system that matters to us: uniform color! We begin with THE RED CONFERENCE, a twelve team league consisting of Alabama, Minnesota, Mississippi State, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, and Washington Statein one division and Georgia, Nebraska, NC State, Stanford, Utah, and Wisconsin in the other. Who will reign supreme? How will we even decide that? What Bill C. secrets will we reveal, changing your whole understanding of this show? Listen to find out!

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As the capper to our 2019 Charity Bowl, we headed up to Ann Arbor for a live show on the most sensible day to stay inside possible: the summer solstice, with amazing weather. And because this was a Michigan show, we had to do Michigan things, like:

- War trivia

- Auditing the business departments of the Big Ten

- War fan fiction

- Explaining how all of football owes its existence to Michigan

- Generally feeling superior to Michigan State in all things

Special thanks to the Ann Arbor District Library and the squad at MGoBlog helping make this show possible. (Unless you hate it, in which case they had nothing to do with it.)

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No team wants to catch a beatdown, but wanting can only get you so far in life, as it turns out. Usually, that beatdown comes at the hands of a powerhouse, like the USWNT, or Oklahoma, or UConn Football. In every case, a beatdown is something to be beheld and regarded, like a freak accident or a zoo animal that gets stuck on the roof of a skyscraper. We will not shame those who deliver beatdowns in this home. We will seek them out and remind you that they are real, and that they can happen at any level, at any time. Especially if you're at a Rutgers game.

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The world's only college football podcast always makes the most logical choice, and that is why this episode is about SPOOKY STORIES TO TELL AROUND THE CAMPFIRE. Topics include:

- Which coach’s head is secretly held on to his body by a velvet ribbon?

- Ryan is not in this show because every terrible story you ever heard about New York came true at once, in his bloodstream

- A great deal of time is spent in Indiana without properly taunting Indiana, and for that we apologize in advance

- Also a lot of freshwater ecology talk, for some reason

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The Blood Week History Series turns its gory eye to Bowl Season, (No, bowl season is not a week, but all measures of time are human constructs anyways.) Though many candidates were worthy of consideration for the bloodiest bowl season, only one included:

- A beloved postseason donnybrook

- Former SWC powerhouses squaring off 

- Persistent Boise State doubt, somehow

- Well-regarded Mississippi teams (plural!)

- Disrespected Ohio State

BLOOD WEEK HISTORY! THE ONLY COURSE CREDIT IS DOOM!

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Look, it's the incredibly rare bird known as An Offseason Fullcast Episode About Football! As we start counting down to the start of the 2019 season, we want you to feel fully informed about the news in our fair sport, including:

- Rule changes!

- Video game changes!

- Coaching changes! In the XFL!

- Beer changes!

- Hockey! For real, hockey!

On a more serious note, we want to send our condolences to the friends and family of Auburn radio announcer Rod Bramblett and Paula Bramblett, who died in a car accident over Memorial Day weekend. If you're interested in participating in the fundraiser for their children, the link's below.

https://www.gofundme.com/rod-and-paula-bramblett-family-memorial-fund

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