Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

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Team of the Week: Toledo Runs the Cignetti Play

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com MACtion is back as of this week, and the Toledo Rockets are once again right there in

Nov 5
15 min

Week 10 Tasting Menu: Every Game Is Good

Become a paid subscriber today to get every SZD episode. Richard and Alex look ahead to one of the juiciest weekend schedules college football has seen in years. First,

Nov 4
1 h 13 min

Playoff Rankings Reaction with Jessica Smetana: Week 10

Guest host Jessica Smetana joins Alex to talk through the first College Football Playoff rankings reveal of the season. This episode first aired as a live stream on YouTu

Nov 4
35 min

“The Job”: An FSU Emergency Episode Breaks Out

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Florida State is open. Richard and Alex give the whole job market an overview but focu

Nov 2
15 min

Week 9 CFB Hurry-Up: Is Ohio State Doing This?

Richard and Alex take you through Week 9, telling you about dozens of interesting games in 30ish minutes. Including but not limited to: USC 30, Ohio State 18 Indiana 2

Nov 1
48 min

Team of the Week: Is This New Mexico’s Moment? Eck Yeah, Brother

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The New Mexico Lobos have a long and mostly bleak football history. A former coach one

Oct 29
19 min

Week 9: Trick or Treat Menu

Alex and Richard break down the Week 9 of the college football season, including Lincoln Riley’s uphill climb against Ohio State, and the Cody Campbell rants that should

Oct 28
1 h 12 min

Is Roster Budget an Excuse?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Cohost emeritus Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex on this episode for a discussion

Oct 27
20 min

Week 8 CFB Hurry-Up: The Big 12 Has the Goods

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 30-ish minute journey through yet another really wild weekend in college football. This episode covers 43 games, including

Oct 25
48 min

Maryland Fires Up the Coach Carousel: What a Terp Thinks About This Job

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Coach firing season is upon us, and the first ouster of the year comes from Maryland,

Oct 22
9 min

Week 8 CFB Tasting Menu: A Coach Gets Fired In the Middle of This Show

Week 8 preview! Richard and Alex start this episode with a quick football digression about Manchester City and then get into the mega-preview of this week in CFB. We cove

Oct 21
1 h 27 min

Team of the Week: Did Utah’s Big Gamble Work?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Utah placed a big, risky bet when it nudged away Kyle Whittingham so that it could ele

Oct 20
20 min

The Week 7: Hurry-Up: One of CFB’s Wildest Weeks Ever + Chompin’ Texas

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner break down one of college football’s wildest weeks ever, in which five of the top seven teams in the country lost and another came awful

Oct 18
55 min

Emergency Subscriber Show: Let’s Process a 24-Team Playoff Together

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com To get this episode, make sure you’re a paid subscriber. Richard and Alex react to th

Oct 15
12 min

Team of the Week: Oregon State Rose from the Ashes

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com College football forgot about Oregon State. But Jesse Legree, Braden Atkinson, and JaM

Oct 15
17 min

The Week 7 CFB Tasting Menu: The Second Wednesday In October

Richard and Alex take you on a preview of Week 7, starting with the weeknight grab bags and continuing through various blockbusters in places like Columbus and Provo. We

Oct 14
1 h 38 min

James Madison is American + CFB’s Backup QB Crisis (?)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex to talk about some stories we’d already planned

Oct 12
24 min

The Week 6 CFB Hurry-Up: Stockton Up

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner guide you through the best college football week yet this year, led by Georgia’s big win in Tuscaloosa and a Red River upset and then bo

Oct 11
44 min

Mailbag: Why Are Lincoln Riley’s Defenses Bad? What Can Penn State Do? Will the Senate Bill End Portal Kings?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Subscriber mailbag, with questions brought to you by the listeners at www.splitzoneduo

Oct 9
25 min

The Week 6 CFB Tasting Menu: Can YOU Afford a Buyout This Week?

Week 6 preview! Richard and Alex talk about what’s interesting to them in the big college football weekend to come, while stopping to cover a handful of big stories along

Oct 7
1 h 32 min

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What listeners say

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I found PAPN as a sophomore in high school. 10 years later, I have a journalism degree and enter my second year working in sports media. This podcast I grew up with helped nudge me toward the career I now pursue. Every iteration continues to put out excellent content. Go Cougs.

bbeast55 · Sep 2025

Still think this is the best CFB pod out there but the most recent epi with Carparelli was bad. Admittedly I did not get through it because I kept waiting for you guys to push back on some of his talking points and when that didn’t happen, I stopped listening. He brought up “what about the character of the players who sit out bowls?” I would ask, if a player gets injured during a bowl game, will an NFL team draft that player in the same spot/sign them to the same $ as an UDFA because their “character” makes up for their torn ACL? Really strong “I walked 8 miles, uphill both ways, in the snow to get to school” vibes from Carparelli on that take. He also stated that “bowls don’t have extra money to pay schools” while also claiming it’s not about the money for the schools…First, bowls have plenty of money, they just pay it out to administrators and PR people, like himself. Who deserves to get paid, the players who risk serious injury and whose participation dictates the quality of the product, or some guy in a funny-colored blazers, whose absence would have no discernible effect on the quality of the game? And I can’t imagine that it’s not about the money for the schools when some teams are playing the day after Christmas and on NYD, instead of being with their families. Call me crazy, but even guys who love the game would probably prefer to play on a different date. Lastly, his complaint that the bowl deals were struck prior to NIL and that the current environment isn’t “what bowls signed up for”…are you kidding me? He’s complaining about no longer being able to take advantage of student-athletes the way they could in the good ol’ days? Coming from a bowl executive, this is laughable, as bowls have become largely obsolete, leeches on the system. I could be persuaded to change my mind on this if someone could please point out one benefit bowls supply to CFB that the networks and schools can’t already provide for themselves. A stadium to play in? When you have bowls in Birmingham and Detroit, and schools already invest heavily in their own stadiums, that’s not it. TV exposure? Conferences already have that with their network deals. The one thing bowls used to have- notoriety, is quickly eroding as we get things like “the Sugar Bowl presented by KFC” or worse “the Beef O’Brady’s bowl”, which used to be something else that wasn’t sponsored but was so forgettable, no one remembers what it was originally called. Really would have liked some more pushback from Alex and Richard in this guys boiler plate talking points.

AS7580 · Dec 2024

Great listen. Smart football talk without being demeaning or shock jock focused.

iscoot317 · Oct 2024

I like how deep the split zone duo crew gets into subjects that other pods seem to skip over. Well educated hosts and well thought out pod.

B3333b · Oct 2024

I tried to listen to this show but I couldn’t get through an episode. They try to be funny and sarcastic but it’s just more annoying than anything and it’s kinda all over the place. I make an effort to give all these different college football podcasts a listen to but unfortunately this one just fell flat. I highly recommend The Joel Klatt Show and Late Kick w/ Josh Pate. I find them to be more knowledgeable and much more enjoyable to listen to so I’m gonna stick with them.

grittyshaker · Aug 2023

This used to be a top notch college football podcast but in the last couple years the duo has really gone down hill. Their sec bias has become untenable and you can just hear the superiors at the athletic who they both work for coming through. Analysis and rhetoric have overtaken everything they used to do and it’s just become unlistenable at this point.

n14t20k11 · Nov 2025

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