The Beat of Sports

Nathan Kalman-Lamb of Duke University explains what the NCAA really did yesterday and why they really did nothing.

Ed Feng of The Power Rank takes a statistical look inside the top teams in CFB and how the playoff committee's first rankings might look after this weekend.

Josh Robbins of The Athletic joins the show to talk about how the Orlando Magic have looked through the first week of the regular season. He and Marc talk about the play of Jonathan Isaac who has even been deployed as a center. Then they discuss the troubling slow starts the team has dealt with.

After years off avoiding it the NCAA is finally going to let student athletes make money on their likeness and image. Wait that isn't what they really said yesterday? Marc explains what the NCAA actually did and why so many in the media got the story wrong.

Remember a few years back when Bryan Colangelo the then GM of the Philadelphia 76ers was caught running several burner Twitter accounts? Well it would appear as though there is another similar situation going on with Jason Licht of the Buccaneers possibly running a pro-Jameis Winston Twitter account. The investigation work by several websites makes it seem pretty obvious but who knows...

Owen Good joins the show with the story of the planned return of the video game EA Sports College Football in 2015 and what went wrong.

Coming up the biggest college football match up will be Alabama-LSU. It seems like a foregone conclusion that whichever teams wins will have an easy path to the College Football Playoff. But this has led Marc to wonder something, when you look at how this season has gone, does Alabama have a signature win this year?

The longtime broadcaster Paul Kennedy joins the show and looks back at the many great FSU-UM games of the past. He and Marc discuss the origins of FSU games being televised across the state and more.

This weekend Bill Belichick won his 300th overall victory, regular season and postseason. He now sits for 47 wins behind Don Shula for the all-time record. Marc and Scott debate whether or not the hoodie will stick around long enough to go for the record if it means coaching for 5 more seasons.

Things still aren't going well for Scott Frost in Nebraska. Marc talks about the rumblings that are coming out of Lincoln after Frost called out his team for wearing hoodies. Then Marc talks about the hard decisions Frost will have to make if he wants to try and right the ship on defense.