x

75% of people globally want unbiased news (Pew Research) but are concerned they're not getting that.

Get balanced coverage with Symby. See how stories are covered across diverse outlets and spot when one side covers a story the other skips.

PODCAST

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

An independent college football podcast that covers the whole sport, led by Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner. Free episodes each week (twice per week in season), plus frequent subscriber episodes. Featuring co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey and friends. www.splitzoneduo.com

sports football

All Episodes

7:39

The Michigan Sign-Stealing Scandal Ends With a Whimper

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/15

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe NCAA’s big decision on Michigan’s sign-stealing operation is here, and it is a nothingburger. To explain what happened and get a Michigan perspective on it (because it is very funny), Alex welcomes Jane Coaston, Crooked Media podcaster and Michigan fan, to discuss it. You can read the full infractions decision here if you would like some light PDF reading on your Friday. Can reasonable people finally agree on

en

60:47

College Football Previews 2025: American

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/12

Richard and Godfrey preview 2025 in the newly renamed American Conference. In a recent episode, we touched on this league’s long-term difficulties. In this one, we talk about the season to come, previewing all 14 teams. The episode wraps with preseason award nominees from the hosts for the SZD Dude of the Year, the Low-Key Cool Game of the Year, the Minority Coach of the Week In an Interesting Schematic Spot (of the Year), and the Coach Who’s Not Gonna Be Here Next Year. Producer: Anthony Vito.Catch

en

8:57

Split Zone Duo's Guide to the 2025 Homefield Can't...

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/09

Our partners at Homefield have seen a lot of you on the road in recent years. They’re getting back on the trail this fall for the Homefield Can't Miss Kickoff Tour, presented by Modelo, and we’re sharing news of the first three stops on the tour in Tallahassee (weekend of 8/30), Philadelphia (weekend of 9/13), and Bloomington (weekend of 9/20). You can get much, much more information on this tour here and get the rest of the reveal from our friends’ shows, the Shutdown Fullcast and Phantom Island.

en

55:45

College Football Previews 2025: Mountain West

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/06

Richard and Alex preview the Mountain West in 2025, starting with the same team that’s favored every year and then going in no particular order: * Boise State still looks like the class of the league * San Jose State has leveled up, but now Ken Niumatalolo confronts life without an All-American receiver* UNLV is the apple of Richard’s eye with Dan Mullen in charge * Colorado State made strides last year, but were they real, or were they just the result of a lousy schedule? Does it matter? * Fresno

en

87:12

College Football Previews 2025: The ACC

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/04

Richard and Alex preview 2025 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, discussing the league in the following order: * Clemson, now with a light sprinkling of transfers, has every ingredient * Miami’s defense should finally arrive, but will Mario Cristobal come through on the margins? * Louisville has both of us excited * SMU is graded on a different curve now, and on that curve, it has work to do* Georgia Tech is in its best spot since we started podcasting * Duke might be a better team … with a worse

en

112:07

Why Do You Love College Football?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/08/01

Why do you love college football? It's a simple question with a not so simple answer, but we asked it of you, our listeners, as well as some special guests. And you delivered. Sit back and enjoy an audio love letter to the game that fills us with delight, disappointment, thrills, and frustrations.Producer: Anthony Vito.Thanks to everyone who contributed, including our partners: www.nokiantyres.com/szdwww.homefieldapparel.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other

en

29:39

An American Identity Crisis

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/31

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe American Athletic Conference was by far the best non-power conference of the early College Football Playoff era. Its best teams were nationally relevant. Many programs were on the rise, and so were the league’s coaches, who went on to Power Five jobs and then got replaced by coaches who often did the same.Lately, things have not gone as well. The American lost its best teams to the Big 12, and the programs that

en

68:39

College Football Previews 2025: Conference USA

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/30

Richard and Alex preview Conference USA, as the league adds Delaware and Missouri State. In this episode:* Liberty remains the favorite, even with a downgrade at QB* Sam Houston is primed for regression after 10 wins and a coaching change* WKU goes back to a strategy that has worked time and again: portaling an entire offense from a lower-level program* UTEP might have a bit of juice under Scotty Walden* Jacksonville State slams the reset button after winning the league and seeing Rich Rodriguez

en

16:27

The Schemes That Will Define 2025, Feat. Coach Dan Casey

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/29

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comDan Casey, coach and founder of the Play Caller’s Club, joins Richard to discuss the Xs and Os trends that are percolating across college football ahead of the 2025 season. Weird alignments, formations into the boundary, running backs out of the backfield, and the use of two-QB systems so that teams don’t have to leave NIL dollars sitting on the bench. Plus, a defensive response led by the Michigan-Ravens tree and a

en

18:06

Full Interview: Steve Baker on Miami University

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/28

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comListen to Alex’s extended-cut interview with Miami University play-by-play announcer Steve Baker, for Split Zone Duo subscribers. Listen to the full “Dead Letters” episode about Miami and the Cradle of Coaches here.

en

40:56

Dead Letters: Miami University

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/28

Miami University went on an unprecedented run of hiring coaches: Woody Hayes, Ara Parseghian, Bo Schembechler, and many more: . By 2003, with Ben Roethlisberger behind center, the RedHawks were the best program outside the power conference. Then trouble hit, both for Miami and the MAC. Split Zone Duo’s paid subscribers can listen to an extended cut of our interview with Steve Baker, the longtime voice of the RedHawks. Subscribe now.Listen to all 10 episodes of Dead Letters There’s now a standalone

en

11:27

Collectives 1, NCAA 0

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/25

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe House settlement was supposed to create a clear line between “legitimate” NIL deals and so-called “pay for play” from NIL collectives. It took three weeks for the NCAA to make a major concession. Front Office Sports reporter Amanda Christovich joins Alex for a quick subscriber episode explaining how the House settlement lawyers and the NCAA are already changing the way college football’s new economy will work. The

en

120:54

College Football Previews 2025: Big 12

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/24

Shehan Jeyarajah, college football writer for CBS Sports, returns to the show to join Alex and Richard for a meaty preview of the Big 12. You may enjoy Shehan’s recent report on the details behind Texas Tech’s NIL boom. In this preview:* Arizona State loses Cam Skattebo but still has so much returning from a team that nearly made the playoff semifinals* Iowa State has questions … and probably answers* Cincinnati likely has its best team under Scott Satterfield, which isn’t saying a ton but could

en

19:18

CFB Lunch Break: Why Can't Memphis Get a Realignment...

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/23

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comLeave us a voicemail telling us why you love college football. Details are at www.splitzoneduo.com. In this show, Alex and Richard take a bunch of subscriber questions in the run-up to the season, with an early focus on realignment matters:* The Athletic reported that despite a desperate financial offer, Memphis has not gotten traction in its effort to join the Big 12. Why not?* Why was Louisiana Tech, which isn’t very

en

70:47

College Football Previews 2025: The MAC

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/22

Conference previews continue with the MAC. Alex and Richard break down every team in the league, including new entrant UMass:* Toledo still has the best hand* Miami is poised to contend (again) after getting portal-raided (again)* Buffalo is in a great place after the first year of Pete Lembo* Ohio defends its first MAC championship in decades and enters the season with one of the most fun QBs in college football, Parker Navarro* NIU loses pretty much everything ahead of its last year in the

en

39:56

College Football Previews 2025: Pac-12 and Independents

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/14

Split Zone Duo’s conference previews for 2025 keep rolling along with a two-parter: the Pac-12 and the FBS independents, whose ranks have thinned.* Oregon State might finally (finally!) be poised for stability and growth* Washington State faces a similar crisis to the one OSU faced last year, although the Cougs have a few reasons for optimism as they prepare to take a big chunk of the best program in FCS and import it to FBS* Jim Mora has the UConn Huskies in just about the best place possible* Why

en

32:35

Why You're Always Bad: ULM

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/11

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comGodfrey joins Alex and Richard for the third installment in our offseason series, “Why You’re Always Bad.” This episode is about ULM, formerly known as Northeast Louisiana State. The Warhawks are perhaps the most consistently bad team in the top division of college football, which raises the question of why they’re at that level in the first place. It turns out there’s an answer. In this episode, the Split Zone Duo

en

71:15

College Football Previews 2025: The Sun Belt

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/09

Season previews are back! Richard and Alex go alphabetically through the whole Sun Belt, picking out one rose, one bud, and one thorn for all 14 schools, from Appalachian State to Troy. In this episode:* App State hits the reset button* Coastal Carolina should be feeling some urgency* Georgia Southern extended Clay Helton and kept its roster together, so why aren’t we feeling so good about the Eagles?* Georgia State’s recruiting growth under Dell McGee is in bloom* JMU has every chance to contend

en

22:47

Picking the Defining Team of Every Decade of College...

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comFor the Fourth of July, we look all the way back to the founding of … college football. Richard and Alex pick and debate the defining teams of each decade of the sport’s history, starting with one year of the 1860s and rolling through the 2010s. Remember that “defining team” is usually complimentary, but not always. Without spoiling any of the discussion, this show features: * Rutgers vs. Princeton for the crown of the

en

63:26

The 2025 CFB Coach Firing and Retirement Confidence...

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Around 20 FBS coaches will retire or get fired by the end of this season, but which ones will they be? Alex and Richard pick out 23 names and rank them from least to most likely to be entering their last season on the job. Then we talk about the context, especially in the handful of cases with big differences in our rankings. Plus, everyone gets buyer’s remorse at least once.This episode is free for all. For the most part, however, we release our discussions of the coach carousel for our

en

523 results

Similar Podcasts

Keeping Karlsson Fantasy Hockey Podcast

Elan Dubrofsky and Brian Kom

Daily Fantasy Sports by Ship It Nation

Ship It Nation

Fantasy Football Today

CBS Sports, Fantasy Football, FFT, NFL,...

Bring The Pain

Heat00veride

ESPN SportsCenter Update

ESPN