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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

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45:39

Week 14 CFB Hurry-Up: Iron Sharpens Alabama

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2025/11/30

Alex and Richard recap dozens of Rivalry Weekend college football games, taking you through the most interesting events from Week 14: Texas asserts itself as the big brother An absolutely box-office Iron BowlOhio State flips The Game back in its favorOle Miss fights through “distractions” Duke makes the ACC Championship with FIVE losses Vanderbilt finishes an incredible season in styleGeorgia and Oklahoma grit their way into the postseason, but man, it was not pretty NC State sends UNC into the

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90:46

Week 14 CFB Tasting Menu: The Rivalry Feast

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2025/11/25

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner guide you through the coming Rivalry Week in college football, going through dozens of games with 1) playoff stakes, 2) conference championship stakes, and 3) none of those stakes at all, because many of these week’s games don’t need them to be fascinating. Among the many, many games that we discuss on this episode: * The Egg Bowl: “Distractions” shouldn’t matter here. Right? * Georgia vs. Georgia Tech: Why we’re not discounting the Yellow Jackets, despite their

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23:01

The Black Sunday Coaching SitRep, Six Days Out

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2025/11/24

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE (join here): The coaching carousel is about to reach max velocity. Richard leads Alex and Rodger through a broad overview of the state of play six days before “Black Sunday,” starting with the Lane Kiffin extended universe and moving outward from there. Among the topics discussed here:* The media apparatus behind Lane Kiffin and Jimmy Sexton’s moves, plus Rodger’s grand idea to finally reveal what’s

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33:20

Week 13 CFB Hurry-Up: ACC 3D Chess

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2025/11/23

Alex and Richard guide you through dozens of Week 13 college football games, from Oregon’s depth-driven win over USC to an all-time ending in the Division II playoffs. Just a few of the games covered in here include: Oregon 42, USC 27: Depth and special teams matter Pitt 42, Georgia Tech 28: Pat Narduzzi really did it this time Oklahoma 17, Missouri 6: Speaking of special teams mattering! Utah 51, Kansas State 47: A ground-game exhibition for the ages Duke 32, North Carolina 25: Have you ever seen a

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90:13

Week 13 CFB Tasting Menu: Trojan Horse?

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2025/11/19

To join our championship Saturday watch party with Nokian Tyres at Mason Jar in NYC on December 6, please RSVP at this page. Entry is free!Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, and Alex Kirshner discuss the penultimate week of the 2025 regular season. This week has very few premium FBS matchups but does have arguably the most important Harvard-Yale game ever, a critical edition of the Brawl of the Wild, and plenty of College Football Playoff stakes even as most of the SEC takes off for SoCon Saturday:*

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14:12

The Lane Kiffin Standstill and Virginia Tech's James...

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2025/11/18

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Godfrey is back with Alex and Richard to talk about this moment in the coach carousel. Lane Kiffin continues to make Ole Miss wait, and the rest of the SEC is right there with the Rebels. In this episode: Kiffin didn’t think his family’s private plane tourism around the SEC would go unnoticed, did he?The possibility of a coach leaving a team not just in the midst of a playoff race, but right before

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18:03

Overtime: What's It Take to be a Sideline Reporter?

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2025/11/17

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER SHOW: Our Richard Johnson made his debut as a sideline reporter for CBS Sports on Saturday, interviewing players and coaches and providing insight from the field during the Air Force vs. UConn game. In this bonus episode for subscribers, Richard goes solo to talk about what he learned: how the prep works and what it’s like to do the job. If you wanna know what the job entails, we hope you enjoy a BTS.This is

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54:38

Week 12 CFB Hurry-Up: Boom

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2025/11/16

Richard and Alex take you through dozens of Week 12 games, sharing their best observations from the third-to-last week of the regular season. The full list: Oklahoma 23, Alabama 21Georgia 35, Texas 10Texas A&M 31, South Carolina 30Ole Miss 34, Florida 24LSU 23, Arkansas 22Kentucky 42, Tennessee Tech 10USC 26, Iowa 21Michigan 24, Northwestern 22Ohio State a lot, UCLA very fewIndiana 31, Wisconsin 7Penn State 28, Michigan State 10Oregon 42, Minnesota 13 (Friday)Notre Dame 37, Pitt 15UVA 34, Duke

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20:03

How UMass, the Worst Team in College Football, Got...

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2025/11/14

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comThe 2025 UMass Minutemen are making a strong case for the title of “worst FBS team in modern history.” You might THINK that’s because the Minutemen don’t have any money, but you’d be wrong. Rodger Sherman and Alex Kirshner interview Michael Traini, publisher of UMass 247Sports site Fight Massachusetts, about how UMass got to this point. How did this team go from an FCS national champ to an FBS wanderer with no clear

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104:31

Week 12 Tasting Menu: The Center of the CFB Universe

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2025/11/12

Richard, Alex, and Rodger Sherman talk through a huge Week 12 in college football, highlighting a few dozen games that should be fun! Among the many topics discussed on this episode: * Texas-Georgia, the real push-comes-to-shove spot for Arch Manning* Iowa-USC, the ultimate test of what Lincoln Riley is building in L.A. * Oklahoma-Alabama, where we think the Sooners have a good shot * UVA-Duke, in which a backup QB stands in the way of Duke mounting a serious playoff push and creating a doomsday

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12:35

CFB's Six (or Seven?) Actual Title Contenders

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2025/11/10

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comAlex and Richard take a big handful of subscriber questions after Week 11, starting with actual football and then moving to coach business: * Which plausible title contenders are most overrated, and which are most overlooked? (This part of the episode is the free preview that all can hear.) * Is Notre Dame’s ACC relationship helping ND more than it helps the league?* How sustainable is Virginia’s surge—real progress or

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45:09

Week 11 Hurry-Up: Ducks in Puddles

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2025/11/09

Richard and Alex take you through dozens of Week 11 college football games, highlighting the most interesting stuff to get you all caught up:Oregon’s grits out a win at Kinnick Stadium after Iowa pulled the Ducks down into a literal puddle and threatened to keep them thereOmar Cooper makes a historic catch at Penn State, which Alex says has a case for the best of all time and Richard is just trying to tear downTexas Tech sits on BYU, making clear that the Red Raiders are the best team in the Big

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11:19

Big Coach Carousel Mailbag: The Lincoln Riley Thing

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2025/11/07

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comSUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Richard and Alex take a bunch of subscriber questions about the state of the coach carousel, about three weeks before things start to come to a head. Among the questions covered here: * Should you actually keep an eye on Lincoln Riley at USC? We’ve got a bit of disagreement here, but anything is possible * Could Lane Kiffin be waiting for the USC? Would that be possible anyway? * What’s up with

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85:12

Week 11 CFB Tasting Menu: Bear Raid?

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2025/11/05

Welcome to Week 11. Alex and Richard preview the most interesting games coming up this weekend and also discuss other big CFB developments: * The initial playoff rankings release * The ESPN-YouTube TV standoff and what people are getting wrong about Disney’s motivations * The American race heats up, with UTSA-USF and Tulane-Memphis on tap before we even get to Saturday action * Is this the end of Deion Sanders at Colorado? Good luck guessing * Indiana-Penn State and Ohio State-Purdue won’t be close

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10:00

Auburn Emergency Show: Hugh Freeze Finally Frozen Out

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2025/11/03

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comHugh Freeze is out at Auburn and probably done forever as a top-level college football coach. Richard and Alex do a postmortem on his Auburn tenure and his broader career, then discuss what Auburn could and should do next:* The brief good times Freeze had at Ole Miss, and how we’d remember him if not for the recruiting class that later got him into trouble* A weird dude whose firing wasn’t weird at all* Failures of QB

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53:42

Week 10 CFB Hurry-Up: U Gotta Be Kidding

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2025/11/02

Rodger Sherman joins Alex for a big ol’ rundown of Week 10 of the college football season. Among dozens of games discussed, we go over: Miami’s faceplant at SMU, which keeps the Canes out of playoff contention unless something really drastic happensOklahoma’s kicker-led victory in KnoxvilleUtah manhandling Cincinnati in just the way we expectedNC State knocking Georgia Tech from the land of the unbeatenSomething cool that Rodger noticed about the MSU-Minnesota endingUSC’s huge win in Lincoln, with

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77:12

Week 10 CFB Tasting Menu: Elimination Game

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2025/10/29

Alex and Richard preview Week 10 of the college football season, with notes, observations, and predictions spanning lots of games. Just a few include: * Tulane at UTSA: The Green Wave are playoff contenders and their coach is one of the hottest candidates of the cycle. Are they actually good? * UNC at Syracuse: Are the Tar Heels about to experience just a little bit of joy, finally? * Navy at North Texas: Is this just one of those years when Navy has a special QB and thus a special season? Or can

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9:09

Emergency Show: LSU Kicks Brian Kelly out of the Family

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2025/10/27

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comBrian Kelly is out at LSU after three and a half of the odder seasons in recent memory. Alex and Richard discuss his ouster and LSU’s future options:* The $54 million buyout is probably not a $54 million buyout* Kelly was an awkward cultural fit for LSU. Did that affect his ability to do his job, or did it just speed up his downfall once he was flailing?* Speaking of that: Why couldn’t the winningest coach in Notre

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5:23

Sark, Jimmy Sexton, and the NFL: What the Saturday...

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2025/10/26

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.comShortly before Texas kicked off at Mississippi State, The Athletic reported that Steve Sarkisian’s reps had “let NFL decision-makers know” that Sark would be interested in NFL jobs. Sarkisian and his agents were mad enough about the report that Jimmy Sexton and Ed Marynowitz issued a denial on official letterhead. Richard wants to talk about everything that’s happening here.This is an episode of Split Zone Duo

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47:06

Week 9 CFB Hurry-Up: Death Valley is Aggieland

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2025/10/26

Week 9 was light on upsets but big on close games that had a big effect on the national race. In the Sunday Hurry-Up presented by Dad Water, Richard and Alex discuss approximately 43 college football games, from Memphis' comeback over USF to Utah's destruction of Colorado. Producer: Anthony Vito Thanks to our partners and subscribers20% off Dad Water: https://drinkdadwater.com/discount/SZDVisit Homefield at https://www.homefieldapparel.com/Enter to win airfare and lodging for a trip to New York City

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