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The spontaneous season preview, live from DC!
Welcome to our first live show, recorded June 15 in D.C. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. After talking a little bit about D.C.’s merits as a college football town, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex …
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Coach contract facts and a CFB mailbag
Richard shares insights from his extensive dive into the quirkiest clauses in the contracts for 2023's new head coaches. Some of them could be a big deal and seem to be getting more common in the ind…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
College (sports) heads toward a cliff
American higher education is about to have a big numbers problem on its hands, and it could affect college football in significant ways (albeit probably not for the Ohio States and Alabamas of the wo…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Dead Letters: A Nebraska Football Story
This week marks the launch of season 2 of "Dead Letters," an SZD Patreon series (patreon.com/szd) about the rises and falls of great college football programs and what happened next. This episode tra…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
DEAD LETTERS: The Florida A&M Dynasty
Jake Gaither built a college football powerhouse at FAMU in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. The Rattlers towered over their HBCU competition and struck fear in everyone they played. Then the world changed…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Big Ten, Big Mad
Godfrey, Richard, and Alex talk about college football news of the week: USC and Michigan both let guys resign who shouldn't have had their jobs in the first place. Georgia makes a pivot toward an ev…
Published on 2 years, 6 months ago
Half of the ACC has heat
Steven Godfrey and Alex Kirshner start this episode with reminders about some SZD events and a hearty endorsement of your participation in the EDSBS Charity Bowl. Then (16:03) we talk about some coll…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Gambling, FSU hype, and a big May mailbag
Richard and Alex start this week's show by talking about the very different gambling stories in Alabama and Iowa, and to what extent college sports could be acting differently. Then we take lots of l…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
The Year 2 coach check-in + ND game theory
After Godfrey unloads some college-centric draft notes, Alex wants to talk about Notre Dame's upcoming TV negotiation with NBC and how the Big Ten's new entanglement with the Peacock is a relevant dy…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Deion drama and the draft through a CFB lens
After a quick chat about clock rules changes that are now official, Alex, Richard, and Steven talk about Deion Sanders' roster purge at Colorado. It's intentional, but not all of it, and we have ques…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago