Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

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What's Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast about?

An independent college football podcast that eats the whole hog. Plus a newsletter. All with Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, and Alex Kirshner.

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Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast episodes:

04.30.2024
The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters
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’s player development, Washington’s offensive line, Oregon’s way of helping Bo Nix, whether Nick Saban actually...
04.26.2024
Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Maryland is hiring Brian Ferentz as an analyst, per Bruce Feldman. Alex went to Maryland, so Richard forced him to record an emergency show about the whole...
04.25.2024
Why *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com A coaching search where nobody got spurned, everyone got paid, and all parties wound up exactly where they wanted to be all along? How nice. That’s the...
04.24.2024
Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football
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 in on the four different conversations that happen at any given second about Deion Sanders and Colorado:...
04.19.2024
How we drink from the college football firehose
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com We get a lot of questions about how we keep up with the wide world of college football to bring you this podcast. How do we try...
04.18.2024
2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com For SZD’s annual NFL Draft QB special, Richard is joined by Ben Solak of The Ringer and Derrik Klassen of Bleacher Report. We start with the compulsory...
04.16.2024
USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown
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 (4:19). How does a rich school with a blue-blood football history run into difficulty...
04.15.2024
Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Welcome to The Single Wing, where Steven Godfrey takes subscriber questions on a wide range of college football topics. This week, Godfrey's officially issuing a Gangster AD...
04.11.2024
How a pro football personnel director sees college football
Richard has a conversation with Eric Galko, the director of football operations and player personnel for the East-West Shrine Bowl. It’s wide-ranging: Eric shares his 2024 NFL Draft hot takes and QB rankings, then talks about how the NFL views...
04.09.2024
The Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com In 2023, Neal Brown was the industry's most fireable head coach. Then he had a good enough year to get a small contract extension. Who is 2024’s...
04.08.2024
Week 1 of 2024 is ... surprisingly bare. Why?
Week 1 has always had tons of warmup games, but the schedule usually has a big handful of bangers. In 2024, that’s not the case. There are barely any games pitting Power 4 teams against each other and as a...
04.02.2024
How we fix the rules in college football
Richard has ideas for how to make college football’s on-field rules a little bit better. Alex and Godfrey like some of them and don’t like others. Let’s discuss the optimal width for the hashmarks, whether it’s time to shift the...
03.28.2024
Single Wing: Lane Kiffin speculation never ends. That's the point
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's answering your questions about Lane Kiffin's short- and long-term plans now that Bama has hired a Nick Saban replacement who isn't him. Let's also...
03.26.2024
What in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?
Spring practice is a lot of hype and not a lot of substance, but sometimes we can learn a lot. Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk about what to pay serious attention to right now and the five most interesting teams...
03.21.2024
The Single Wing: Never mind the league network promoting the league
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's answering your questions about SEC Network bias (lol), the Big 12's inadvertent but noticeable "be good at basketball" strategy, how effective Ohio State's new AD will...
03.20.2024
Why the 12-team playoff is great for college football
Godfrey looked a bit deeper into how a 12-team playoff system will work in practice, and he ended up feeling ... surprisingly optimistic about the future of the sport? We're just as surprised as you are. He, Alex, and Richard...
03.19.2024
Clemson's absurd yet potentially effective case against the ACC
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Clemson filed a lawsuit against the Atlantic Coast Conference on Tuesday in South Carolina, seeking to free itself from the conference’s grant of rights and set up...
03.13.2024
The NFL-ification of college recruiting
College football teams now have "general managers." How did the sport get here? How are they similar to GMs for pro teams, and how are they different? And will a college GM ever be able to fire a coach? Production:...
03.12.2024
News: SEC/B1G power play, Fox Fridays, and what the Dartmouth vote means
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk out three big news developments over the past week. The Big Ten and SEC continue (3:01) to fight for extra spots and...
03.08.2024
SZD Book Club: Dan Wetzel talks "Death to the BCS"
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The first installment of the Split Zone Duo Book Club: What's it like to write a book-length jeremiad aimed directly at the ruling class of an entire...
03.06.2024
Mailbag: WVU's extension, Arizona's order of operations, private equity in CFB, and more
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Alex take your questions on a long list of topics, in order: Neal Brown’s extension at West Virginia, the literal risks of private equity coming...
03.05.2024
JJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB
Michigan’s quarterback is the latest national championship winner and draft prospect to kick off a very specific kind of national debate about QB play. Alex and Richard interrogate why players like JJ McCarthy become debate catnip (and then personally make...
02.28.2024
Does a new head coach’s first staff matter?
After 2023, Nick Saban and Jim Harbaugh left, and Alabama and Michigan fans worried a lot about assistant coach hires made by their successors. It got Alex thinking: Do national championship head coaches ace their assistant hires out of the...
02.27.2024
News: Atlanta coaches, EA video game, and The Return of the Mass
In a roundup of college football news, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk about Georgia State’s interesting new head coach hire (1:30), Paul Johnson excoriating Geoff Collins (10:35), the upcoming EA Sports College Football game and the payment to players for...
02.22.2024
The Single Wing: It's time for Oregon State to go Full Boise
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's trying to keep the Beavers relevant nationally as the P12-to-P2 era "dawns." We also got questions galore about G5 playoff chances, post-playoff bracket bowls, Mark Stoops'...
02.20.2024
Did Alabama kill the MAC?
Godfrey presents Richard and Alex with four decades' worth of MAC head coach firings and hirings to try to figure out if G5 football jobs are on the decline. The answer is messy, but one thing's for sure – coaches...
02.08.2024
The SZD Super Bowl 58 preview show
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Sometimes, the haters call Split Zone Duo “an NFL podcast.” Today we prove them right by previewing the Super Bowl in our own way. Joining Alex...
02.06.2024
Going into labor
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey discuss a new NLRB ruling that might (might!) result in employee status and union organizing for college athletes. Then the group talks about recent worries about college football losing coaches to the NFL. Is this new?...
02.02.2024
What Auburn is getting in new coordinator DJ Durkin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com DJ Durkin continues to get SEC coordinator jobs. In the past few seasons, he’s bounced from Ole Miss to Texas A&M; to Auburn as some of the...
02.01.2024
The Single Wing: How Louisiana Tech's AD explains the future of college football
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Godfrey's here to help make TCU better (Why is Kendal Briles still there?), talk about how bad D.C.’s NFL stadium is, reflect on Tennessee's lost decades, raise...
01.30.2024
The 2023 time capsule reveal, plus key coach news
Richard, Godfrey, and Alex start the show with a discussion of Sherrone Moore’s elevation to Michigan head coach and Iowa’s maybe-good but definitely-weird hire of Tim Lester as offensive coordinator. Then it’s time to revisit 2023 predictions, talk about what...
01.25.2024
"The Blind Side" commentary track with Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Split Zone Duo is proud to present a long-sought-after project: The feature-length commentary track for The Blind Side (2009). This movie got a Best Picture nomination at...
01.22.2024
Is Alabama f****d?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com When Nick Saban retired, Alex wrote a column for the Ringer under the headline “Nick Saban Made Alabama Too Big to Fail.” The same day, Godfrey argued...
01.15.2024
The SZD Interview: Rodger Sherman's trip 'round the CFB world
Former SB Nation coworker/SZD co-conspirator Rodger Sherman quit his day job before the 2023 season and drove to over 60 (!) college football games across the country. Enjoy the tale of Road Rodge, with a weird bonus moment at the...
01.09.2024
The Hurry-Up: Michigan reaches the pinnacle
Alex and Richard spend a half-hour talking about the national championship, the 2023 Michigan team's place in history, Jim Harbaugh cementing his legacy, and what might be next for Washington. Production: Anthony Vito. This is a public episode. If you’d like to...
01.08.2024
Split Zone Duo LIVE in Houston!
Please enjoy this recording of Split Zone Duo Live in Houston, taped the night of 1/6/24 and presented by our friends at Homefield Apparel. We had an amazing crowd and loved doing a show about the season that was and...
01.04.2024
The national championships arrive. Let’s dig in.
Alex and Richard start the show with discussion of LSU cleaning house on the defensive coaching staff, UNC wasting Drake Maye on bad defenses and splitting with Gene Chizik, and Frank Harris’ legendary run at UTSA. Then it’s time to...
01.02.2024
The post-semis Hurry-Up and a brief natty lookahead
Alex and Richard break down the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl semifinals, with brief previewing of Michigan-Washington baked in throughout. Then some reflections on a trip to Pasadena. Production: Anthony Vito. This is a public episode. If you’d like to...
12.28.2023
Smell some roses and eat some sugar
Richard reports on this year’s big international incident at Playoff semifinal media availabilities. (There’s always one.) Then Richard, Alex, and Godfrey share a few thoughts on bowl season to date before getting into the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. Both...
12.20.2023
NIL danger zones, Signing Day 2024, and national champs
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex go through some high-level recruiting storylines on National Signing Day: Who’s in the NIL danger zone, and who is clearly splashing the cash? Is Florida OK? What is the significance of Dylan Raiola to Nebraska? What...
12.14.2023
The Eyes List: 2023 finale (?)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Richard and Godfrey spin through the highlights of a mostly wrapped-up coach hiring and firing cycle. Some highlights of the discussion: * What the Jon Sumrall...
12.13.2023
An unprecedented moment of CFB roster confusion
The transfer portal is packed. Signing Day is approaching. Colorado might actually portal an offensive line? Nebraska might get the No. 1 QB? And college football sits in a weird in-between. Why is this all happening? A few reasons. Plus...
12.06.2023
The 2023 Split Zone Duo awards special
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey submit awards picks for a very SZD-specific set of honors: Power 5/Group of 5 Team of the Year, Game of the Year, Play of the Year, Coach Proof of Concept of the Year, Best Take/Worst Take,...
12.03.2023
The FSU travesty: Playoff reaction show
In a special edition of the SZD Hurry-Up, Alex and Richard discuss the Playoff committee's spurning of unbeaten Florida State and then break down the matchups for the New Year's Six. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...
11.29.2023
2023 championship weekend preview (and the end of the SEC on CBS)
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey go game-by-game on the most interesting angles surrounding conference championship weekend. Is this the best slate of power conference title games ever? It might be. SMU-Tulane is a stylistic clash. Miami (Ohio) had the best Miami...
11.26.2023
Week 13 Hurry-Up: What a Saturday
Rivalry Weekend! Standings implications! Hot seats and poachings! There’s a lot going on. Alex and Richard recap the final week of the regular season with an eye toward big games and bizarre coaching decisions. Stay tuned at splitzoneduo.com for bonus...
11.21.2023
The Game is the game: Rivalry Weekend arrives
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey break down Ohio State-Michigan and then get into a long list of other juicy games on Rivalry Weekend. It’s that time of year. Production: Anthony Vito. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at...
11.19.2023
Week 12 Hurry-Up: Purple rains
Richard and Alex recap the 12th week of the college football season. Washington and Texas win in businesslike fashion, Georgia looks primed for a threepeat, Michigan gets away with one, Ohio State revs it up, James Madison’s dream season has...
11.15.2023
Why CFB’s second-to-last week is like this (plus Pac-12 drama)
Alex, Richard, and Godfrey talk through the high-stakes, bizarre legal fight unfolding between Oregon State, Washington State, and the rest of the Pac-12. And then we’ve got a Week 12 preview with a different flavor: College football is the rare...
11.12.2023
Week 11 Hurry-Up: The heavyweights separate
Richard and Alex take you on a quick but detailed voyage through Week 11 in college football. Michigan clarifies what it is and what Penn State is. Oklahoma State continues to shock the world. Georgia treats Ole Miss badly. And...

What's Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast episodes:

The only NFL Draft postmortem that matters

Emergency show: So, your school just hired Brian Ferentz

Why *everyone* in the Alabama search got to be a winner

Why talking about Colorado is unlike anything else in college football

How we drink from the college football firehose

2024 NFL Draft QB Tiers Special, with Benjamin Solak and Derrik Klassen

USC’s Cautionary NIL Tale + Spring Portal Window Breakdown

Single Wing: Certifying the Tennessee gangster

How a pro football personnel director sees college football

The Eyes List: Spring sitrep on 2024's most fireable coaches

Week 1 of 2024 is ... surprisingly bare. Why?

How we fix the rules in college football

Single Wing: Lane Kiffin speculation never ends. That's the point

What in 2024 spring practice is worth your attention?

The Single Wing: Never mind the league network promoting the league

Why the 12-team playoff is great for college football

Clemson's absurd yet potentially effective case against the ACC

The NFL-ification of college recruiting

News: SEC/B1G power play, Fox Fridays, and what the Dartmouth vote means

SZD Book Club: Dan Wetzel talks "Death to the BCS"

Mailbag: WVU's extension, Arizona's order of operations, private equity in CFB, and more

JJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB

Does a new head coach’s first staff matter?

News: Atlanta coaches, EA video game, and The Return of the Mass

The Single Wing: It's time for Oregon State to go Full Boise

Did Alabama kill the MAC?

The SZD Super Bowl 58 preview show

Going into labor

What Auburn is getting in new coordinator DJ Durkin

The Single Wing: How Louisiana Tech's AD explains the future of college football

The 2023 time capsule reveal, plus key coach news

"The Blind Side" commentary track with Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni

Is Alabama f****d?

The SZD Interview: Rodger Sherman's trip 'round the CFB world

The Hurry-Up: Michigan reaches the pinnacle

Split Zone Duo LIVE in Houston!

The national championships arrive. Let’s dig in.

The post-semis Hurry-Up and a brief natty lookahead

Smell some roses and eat some sugar

NIL danger zones, Signing Day 2024, and national champs

The Eyes List: 2023 finale (?)

An unprecedented moment of CFB roster confusion

The 2023 Split Zone Duo awards special

The FSU travesty: Playoff reaction show

2023 championship weekend preview (and the end of the SEC on CBS)

Week 13 Hurry-Up: What a Saturday

The Game is the game: Rivalry Weekend arrives

Week 12 Hurry-Up: Purple rains

Why CFB’s second-to-last week is like this (plus Pac-12 drama)

Week 11 Hurry-Up: The heavyweights separate

Why everyone in the Alabama search got to be a winner