Kennesaw State fired coach Brian Bohannon, who turned it from an FCS startup team into a playoff team and then into an FBS program. We discuss:

* How Kennesaw trapped itself

* The shambolic handling of the announcement

* The history of FBS transition programs firing coaches

* Why Bohannon’s firing was bound to get messy

* What happens when a program jumps before it’s ready

* Whether the firing was actually a bad idea

Hosts: Steven Godfrey, Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner

Producer: Anthony Vito

Split Zone Duo previews Week 12 of the college football season, including:

* The problems facing the Georgia Bulldogs

* Kansas takes a crack at another Big 12 contender

* Texas and Arkansas take us back to the SWC, even though Texas really does not want to consider Arkansas a rival

* Tulane’s emergence as a maybe-Playoff contender

* Could Utah derail Colorado?

* A darkhorse Colorado State rides in the Mountain West

* A pair of enormous FCS games

* Baylor and West Virginia in a medicated Anxiety Bowl

* Wisconsin’s latest chance to restore a fading reputation

And more!

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Hosts: Richard Johnson, Steven Godfrey, Alex Kirshner

Producer: Anthony Vito

A packed but breezy recap of Week 11 of the college football season, with hosts Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, includes:

* How Alabama dominated in Death Valley

* The fake tiger thing, explained

* Why Ole Miss spent all that money

* Oklahoma’s latest calamity

* Indiana’s reality check in a W

* Miami’s faceplant in Atlanta

* Pitt’s continued fall from grace

* BYU’s fortunate finish in Salt Lake

* The Utah AD’s postgame crying

* Colorado’s impressive run

* A sea change in the Big Sky

* The troops continue marching

* A bananas ending in CUSA

* The wide-open state of the MAC

And more.

Producer: Anthony Vito.

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In this episode for paid subscriber: Florida isn’t firing Billy Napier. Godfrey made several phone calls Thursday night and opens up his notebook here with notes on the Gators, Auburn, Purdue, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, ECU, Central Michigan, UAB, and more.

Host: Steven Godfrey

Producer: Anthony Vito

The College Football Playoff selection committee ranked teams for the first time in the era of an expanded field. We discuss:

* The possibility of a Big 12 doomsday scenario

* Whether the Group of 5 might have an actual breakthrough this year

* How the committee’s philosophy appears to have shifted (and not shifted) now that it’s gone from ranking for a four-team field to a 12-team field

* The weirdest outcomes that remain on the table

Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, Steven GodfreyProducer: Anthony Vito

Our Week 11 college football preview arrives, including:

* The keys to Alabama-LSU

* Florida’s chances at a Texas upset

* Colorado’s road to the Big 12 goes through Lubbock

* Army and Boise continue marching

* An injury-laden Clemson-Virginia Tech meeting

* The Big 12 middle class sorting itself out

* The Holy War gets a twist

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Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson, Steven GodfreyProducer: Anthony Vito

An information-packed rundown of Week 10 in college football, including:

* Ohio State-Penn State goes how it always goes

* Indiana is still Indiana (that’s a compliment now)

* South Carolina shows up big against A&M

* SMU has its biggest night in 40 years

* Army stays on course, but Navy doesn’t

* Memphis falls apart in a key spot

* Virginia Tech can’t win close games

* The Big 12 contenders converge on each other

* Tahj Brooks, Ashton Jeanty, and more great running

* Baylor might be back

* A Florida recruiting fight gets testy

* The Libs get owned against Jacksonville State

And a lot more!

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Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard JohnsonProducer: Anthony Vito

Since UAB hired Trent Dilfer before the 2023 season, a once-solid program has become one of college football’s worst teams. Rodger Sherman, who wrote an excellent feature about the flawed ideology behind the hire, joins Richard, Godfrey, and Alex to discuss how UAB set itself up to fail with a hire that made no strategic or cultural sense. Then, Rodger and the SZD hosts hold a three-round draft of the worst coaching hires of the past 15 years. It’s a walk down memory lane not just of hires who didn’t win, but of hires that were unwise at the time they were made. Let’s see what lessons we can learn.

Read Rodger's Dilfer story and more at Read Rodge: https://rodgersherman.substack.com/p/the-dilfer-debacle-or-a-case-study

Producer: Anthony Vito