247 episodes

A podcast that cares about every part of college football. Hosts Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, and Alex Kirshner take you through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the flat-out interesting nuts and bolts of the college football landscape. 

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    • 4.8 • 852 Ratings

A podcast that cares about every part of college football. Hosts Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, and Alex Kirshner take you through the good, the bad, the ugly, and the flat-out interesting nuts and bolts of the college football landscape. 

    The NFL-ification of college recruiting

    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: Anthony Vito.

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    • 52 min
    JJ McCarthy and the art of being a polarizing QB

    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 JJ McCarthy into debate catnip, because Alex cannot resist).

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    • 43 min
    Does a new head coach’s first staff matter?

    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 gate? What happens when they mess up the important work of filling out a coaching staff? SZD goes through 25 years of history in a quest to figure out if a coach can win a national championship without acing his first test. Production: Anthony Vito. 

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

    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 appearing (25:45), and the reunion of the Mid-American Conference and UMass (30:44). Production: Anthony Vito. 

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    • 35 min
    Did Alabama kill the MAC?

    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 have been running to coordinator gigs for a long, long time. Ask Nick Saban. Production: Anthony Vito.

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    • 54 min
    Going into labor

    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? Yes and no. Is everything good at UCLA? Production: Anthony Vito. 

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    • 1 hr 26 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
852 Ratings

852 Ratings

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