Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

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

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast is a sports podcast hosted by Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, with 622 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner hosts Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast, a sports show with 622 episodes published.

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  The Realignment That Wasn't: The Big 12 in 2016

  May 28, 202620 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com<br/><br/><p>Host emeritus Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex for a look back at the Big 12’s extremely public flirtation with expansion a full decade ago. It was a strange spring and summer in 2016, as the Big 12 basically put on realignment tryouts for a long list of schools including several (BYU, UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati) who did get into the conference — but not until years later, when others dominoes had fallen. Let’s revisit the summer of realignment that wasn’t, and then let...

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  Should Black Athletes Boycott SEC Schools?

  May 26, 202646 minS0

  <p>Richard is joined by Joel Anderson, host of The Ringer Tailgate and The Press Box podcasts, for a conversation about the NAACP’s Out of Bounds campaign and the bigger question underneath it: What is fair to ask of Black college athletes and recruits at a moment when lawmakers and the courts are attacking Black voting power? They start with HBCUs and PWIs, move through the campaign’s specifics asks, and cover lots of topics from there: political education, NIL incentives, the transfer portal, the limits and power of boycotts, and why college football keeps becoming the platform for this...

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  Hot Seats and Hot Grills: CFB Holiday Mailbag

  May 21, 20261h 1mS0

  <p>Alex, Richard, and host emeritus Steven Godfrey turn a Memorial Day subscriber mailbag into a holiday-travel episode, starting with an either/or question about Steve Sarkisian and Lincoln Riley. From there, they get into G.J. Kinne’s future, Arkansas cutting and then quiickly reinstating a sport, what a 24-team Playoff might do to scheduling, how to talk about Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, and Eli Drinkwitz in 2026, and then the important holiday matters: message boards, soccer pain, cookout tips and tricks, Alex’s recent discovery of beans, and Spotify deep diving.</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>...

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  Should UCLA Have Your Attention?

  May 19, 202620 minS0

  This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com<br/><br/><p>SUBSCRIBER EPISODE: Alex and Richard start with the surprise of UCLA becoming one of the offseason’s best recruiting stories, then Alex brings on Ira Gorawara fromThe Athletic for a campus-level look at Bob Chesney’s first few months in Westwood. This subscriber episode is about whether UCLA’s current burst of money, attention, and salesmanship is the first sign that a program long trapped between Los Angeles indifference and its own underinvestment might finally be changing its shape. </p><p>In thi...

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  Lane Kiffin's Insincerity and 24-Team Playoff Game Theory

  May 14, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>Alex and Richard use Richard’s trip to ACC meetings as a window into the big college sports fight of the hour: how many teams will be in the College Football Playoff going forward. Then they sort through the Big Ten/SEC split over 24 teams, Ole Miss’ strange week as a national punching bag in the middle of May, and Nebraska’s first run-in with the new NIL enforcement system, which might be less the end of creative player payments than the start of better paperwork.</p><p>In this episode:</p><p>* 3:22: What Richard learned at ACC meetings, includ...

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