Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

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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

Team of the Week: Charlotte (Let Us Explain)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Subscriber episode! Join us to hear the whole thing. The Charlotte 49ers are quite p

Oct 6
17 min

The Week 5 CFB Hurry-Up: Florida is Not Back

Richard and Rodger Sherman take you on a 30(ish)-minute journey through Week 4 of the college football season. We begin with Missouri beating Florida to a pulp and waltz

Oct 4
45 min

The Sooners and the Senate (Subscriber Mailbag)

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Mailbag time! Alex and Richard answer subscriber questions on three broad topics, whic

Oct 2
12 min

Nine Teams That Stunned Us in the First 33% of the College Football Season

The regular season is somehow one-third finished. Host emeritus Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for a discussion about nine teams that have really surprised us and,

Oct 1
1 h 00 min

The Week 5 CFB Tasting Menu: Florida Back? Iowa vs. Ohio State + Colorado Collapse

Week 5 preview time! Richard and Alex look at dozens of games and also talk about some messes around college football: 6:28: Two good Friday night games (Pitt-Virginia T

Sep 30
1 h 15 min

Team of the Week: At Mississippi State, It Has to Be Now

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com The Mississippi State Bulldogs have the most exciting young QB in college football and

Sep 29
17 min

The Week 4 CFB Hurry-Up: Ducks Fly Together

Richard and Alex take you on a 30(ish)-minute journey through Week 4 of the college football season. We begin with Iowa’s stunning win at the Big House and meander throug

Sep 27
57 min

The Week 4 CFB Tasting Menu: Big SEC Weekend + USC/Oregon + Clash In Kalamazoo

Our big preview of Week 4, with little notes and things to watch in dozens of games that we find interesting. Included but not limited to: Clemson faces a pivotal momen

Sep 24
1 h 20 min

Team of the Week: Arkansas is a Highly Unusual Kind of Mess

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Three games into Ryan Silverfield’s coaching tenure, Arkansas fans are in open revolt

Sep 22
19 min

The Week 3 CFB Hurry-Up: Ole Don’t Miss Him

Richard and Alex recap a busy Week 3 in college football, starting with Ole Miss’ cathartic win over Lane Kiffin’s LSU and continuing through 48 more games. Kentucky expo

Sep 20
54 min

Team of the Week: Oklahoma State Hits Oil Again

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com Rodger Sherman guides Alex through our latest “Team of the Week” episode, featuring th

Sep 17
22 min

The Week 3 CFB Tasting Menu: Apocalypse Lane Kiffin

Richard and Alex preview Week 3 of the college football schedule, headlined by Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford but featuring dozens of matchups. They include: * 11:19 Hou

Sep 16
1 h 23 min

Why Did College GameDay Do *That* Ted Cruz Interview?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com It was the College GameDay interview heard around the world, if only because it was fo

Sep 14
17 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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