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Steven Godfrey joins Richard and Alex to talk about some stories we’d already planned to mark the halfway point of the season. But first, we’ve got a REALIGNMENT INTERRUPTION, brought to us by James Madison leaving the Sun Belt for the American Conference in 2028. In this episode: 0:26: JMU’s move to the American 9:44: Roster management people and coaches seem to think it’s impossible to find good backup QBs now. Do we agree? And is there a statistical way to see if anything has really changed? (It’s hard because defining a “backup” in a robust statistical way is impossible in modern college football.) 29:09: A change to punt formation rules was supposed to chaos special teams chaos this season. What actually happened? 39:48: Alex expands on FOOTSHOT, his blunt-object stat that elaborates on how often teams shoot themselves in the foot. Hello, Buffs! Producer: Anthony Vito.
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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 cover a bunch of games, some in a lot of detail, some quickly: * 1:41: Manchester City digression * 6:10: JMU at App State * 18:21: Indiana at Michigan * 26:45: LSU at Auburn * 35:40: Rutgers at Northwestern * 39:50: West Virginia at TCU * 46:48: Oregon at Illinois * 50:22: BYU at UCF * 1:04:20: San Diego State at Colorado State * 1:07:09: Virginia Tech at Clemson * 1:10:55: Ole Miss at Texas * 1:13:19: Mike Locksley news breaks mid-show * 1:23:56: Houston at Utah Those are just a handful out of the dozens of games we cover this week. Produced by Anthony Vito. THANKS TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND PARTNERS * Quo, a business phone service! 20% off your first six months using this link * Enter to win a set of Nokian Tyres * Shop for college sports apparel at Homefield
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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 awfully close. We start with BYU’s late escape against Notre Dame and continue through the rest of this historic Week 7 in the following order: * 1:33: Big 12 and Notre Dame, led by BYU 28, Notre Dame 24 * 12:53: SEC, led by Auburn 27, Georgia 24 * 27:58: Big Ten, led by Ohio State 19, Indiana 15 * 36:15: ACC, led by Miami 43, Florida State 35 * 42:40: American, led by Tulane 31, Memphis 17 * 46:04: Pac-12, led by Oregon State 48, Washington State 30 * 47:45: Mountain West, led by Air Force 41, UNLV 31 * 50:20: MAC, led by Western Michigan 21, Central Michigan 14 * 51:54: Sun Belt, led by App State 35, Coastal Carolina 32 * 53:36: Conference USA, led by Jacksonville State 27, FIU 24 THANKS TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND PARTNERS * Quo, a business phone service! 20% off your first six months using this link * 10% off a set of Nokian Tyres with code SPLITZONEDUO * Shop for college sports apparel at Homefield Producer: Anthony Vito
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