The Solid Verbal College Football

What's the one thing your college football team just can't figure out? In this episode, we work through listener submissions on the recurring issues that haunt fan bases year after year. From Arkansas's defensive drought to Mizzou's glass ceiling under Eli Drinkwitz, from Florida's institutional lag, to Oregon's quest to close out the biggest games. Plus, what gnaws at Texas, Michigan, Georgia, and USC fans despite all the talent those programs have stockpiled. We also riff on Iowa, Wisconsin, Alabama, and whether some coaches are simply hardwired to win one specific way.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
8:18 - Arkansas
16:43 - Georgia Tech
22:42 - Missouri
30:02 - Florida
40:08 - Oregon
48:07 - Texas
53:46 - Michigan
58:45 - Georgia
1:03:12 - USC
1:07:44 - Wisconsin
1:09:33 - Rapid Fire (Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Iowa, Alabama)
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March Madness has a way of bringing old feelings back to the surface, and for college football fans, there's plenty of unresolved heartbreak left over from the 2025 season. In this college football episode, we introduce the Wiggum Scale, a Ralph Wiggum-inspired framework for rating the most devastating losses and collapses of the year. From Penn State's season-breaking double overtime loss to Oregon at a packed Beaver Stadium, to a South Carolina team that watched a 30-3 halftime lead against Texas A&M completely evaporate, to a botched extra point hold that may have cost Notre Dame a playoff berth, we make peace with more than a dozen moments that some fans may never want to feel again.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
7:43 - Omar Cooper Jr.'s catch
13:14 - Oregon derails Penn State's season
18:55 - West Virginia wins the Backyard Brawl
23:28 - Tyler Buchner's botched hold
30:54 - South Carolina gives away a 27-point lead
37:57 - Ole Miss falls just short against Miami
46:09 - Utah breaks Chris Klieman
51:27 - The 4th quarter of UNLV vs Air Force
53:40 - Georgia comes back on Tennessee
59:56 - Cal upsets SMU
1:04:13 - Rapid Fire: New Mexico beats SDSU, Montana State's wild FCS title, the Iron Bowl & the CFP National Championship
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In this episode, we each picked eight transfers — four on offense, four on defense, one quarterback max — that we find most interesting heading into the 2026 season. Why these guys? It comes down to situation, scheme fit, prior production, and in some cases, just a gut feeling that something's about to click at the next stop.
We get into the players following their coaches to new destinations, the quarterback pickups nobody saw coming, the edge rushers changing conferences, and the linebackers ready to take over defenses. The big themes keep coming up: how much does coaching familiarity actually matter, can G5 numbers translate to a Power 4 schedule, and what happens when a proven producer lands in a more stable situation?
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
5:33 - Caleb Hawkins (Oklahoma State)
11:48 - Adam Mohammed (Cal)
19:06 - Ian Strong (Cal)
22:05 - Omarion Miller (Arizona State)
26:45 - Cutter Boley (Arizona State)
31:19 - Aaron Philo (Florida)
36:39 - JJ Buchanan (Michigan)
43:29 - Ben Brahmer (Penn State)
46:52 - Damon Wilson (Miami)
50:29 - Chaz Coleman (Tennessee)
53:44 - Devan Thompkins (Alabama)
56:39 - Austin Romaine (Texas Tech)
59:44 - Sammy Omosigho (UCLA)
1:03:53 - Cade Uluave (BYU)
1:05:49 - Jontez Williams (USC)
1:08:32 - DJ McKinney (Notre Dame)
1:10:26 - Kenny Minchey, DJ Lagway, Anthony Colandrea, Darian Mensah & Colton Joseph
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Last week, win totals dropped for every Power 4 team. We did the responsible thing and polled the Verballerhood for it's initial response. In this episode, and hundreds of votes later, we broke down the totals that the community found most interesting and picked the side of the bet that we'd back now... in mid-March.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
4:02 - Let's Play Over/Under
6:47 - Alabama
15:22 - Ohio State
23:30 - Texas Tech
29:32 - Clemson
35:02 - Florida State
36:36 - Ole Miss
44:11 - Penn State
51:30 - BYU
57:56 - LSU
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The second part of our Mega March Q&A is here, and we're going deep on the questions that (apparently) matter most to the Verballerhood ahead of the 2026 season. Which teams could make a surprising playoff run? Where will college football's inertia be broken next season? Has the rapid pace of change in the sport diminished our love for it? When will the NCAA stop begging for help from Congress? Plus, the greatest "big back" of all time, college football figure skating pairings, football power plays and more.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
2:53 - Surprise Playoff Draft
15:03 - Breaking CFB Inertia
25:05 - Still Love CFB?
31:39 - Players As Employees?
38:33 - Favorite Big Back?
43:41 - CFB Docs?
49:03 - CFB Figure Skating Pairings
51:33 - Power Plays?
52:55 - G5 Contenders?
55:04 - QB Development?
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