Rodger Sherman joins Alex to talk about the most hyped Year 1 head coach in the history of college football, who is currently 0-3 against ranked teams. The LSU Tigers are our TEAM OF THE WEEK, and we have a lot to talk about:

4:03: Why Lane Kiffin doesn’t get a grace period

15:53: Remembering Tyrann Mathieu and the very important Rohan Davey

23:02: How Nick Saban woke the sleeping giant

32:32: Is the portal model wrong for LSU?

43:30: What happens if LSU misses the playoff?

NOTE: This episode includes a totally uncalled-for Yellowstone spoiler.

Producer: Anthony Vito

Richard and Alex preview Week 11, making a few stops to talk about tough coaching situations at Michigan, Cal, Tulane, and Georgia Tech. We do that while going through a couple dozen fun games, including these:

* 6:39: Illinois at UCLA

* 10:59: Duke at Miami

* 18:12: Syracuse at NC State

* 21:42: Wake Forest at SMU

* 24:15: Georgia Tech at Clemson

* 27:02: Alabama at Vanderbilt

* 34:37: Baylor at BYU

* 37:37: California at Virginia

* 43:19: Michigan at Oregon

* 50:03: USC at Indiana

* 56:22: Ole Miss at Oklahoma

* 59:55: Oregon State at Boise State

* 1:06:20: Texas at LSU

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Guest host Jessica Smetana joins Alex to talk through the second College Football Playoff rankings reveal of the season. This episode first aired as a live stream on YouTube and has been spruced up lightly by our producer, Anthony Vito, to go into your podcast feeds now. In this episode:

Running through the top 25

The team placements that stick out the most

Our biggest beefs with the committee (Oklahoma State and Oregon have the same record, and OKST is nine spots lower with a head-to-head win?)

The committee’s crush of the week

Ohio State, you are in grave danger

Jessica Smetana’s Notre Dame Discourse Corner

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Richard is joined by co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey to talk parity, upsets, and the takeaways from an admittedly wild 2026 college football regular season to date. There’ve been some comparisons to the truly wildest season in recent college football memory, but we are here to tell you why they’re not quite the same. Regrettably, Alex is not here to wax poetic about 13-9.

Production: Anthony “Rutgers Detester” Vito

The Week 10 college football slate turned out to be light on classics, but it was heavy on impact. Alex and Richard go through dozens of games, including:

1:35: Notre Dame 31, Miami 24

6:00: Georgia 42, Ole Miss 7

7:34: Alabama 31, LSU 13

13:18: Texas 34, Missouri 20

17:52: UCLA 34, Minnesota 20

19:53: Oregon 41, Ohio State 28

23:26: Michigan State 15, Michigan 6

25:56: Penn State 28, Washington 25

27:50: Utah 28, BYU 20

32:05: Texas Tech 53, West Virginia 48

46:26: Boise State 64, Colorado State 38

Producer: Anthony Vito

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MACtion is back as of this week, and the Toledo Rockets are once again right there in the mix to win the conference. How did the most consistent program in the Mid-American get that way? And what challenges has it needed to overcome to stay there? There are a lot of them. Inside this episode:

4:20: The Cignettification of Toledo

6:38: Mike Jacobs and the small-college coaching pipeline

15:38: Remembering Toledo coaches, from Nick Saban to Jason Candle

20:04: Giant-killing and the Glass Bowl

24:38: The university, the city, and the challenges of MACtion

34:07: Can anybody else in the MAC do this?

Producer: Anthony Vito

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Richard and Alex look ahead to one of the juiciest weekend schedules college football has seen in years. First, a quick discussion of the midterm elections’ effect on the college football landscape, and then dozens of games, including:

- 10:34: Virginia Tech at SMU

- 14:04: New Mexico at Nevada

- 18:15: BYU at Utah

- 23:46: Texas at Missouri

- 31:38: Texas A&M at South Carolina

- 34:25: Alabama at LSU

- 40:14: Oregon at Ohio State

- 52:39: Georgia at Ole Miss

- 58:05: Miami at Notre Dame (note: recorded before we heard Malachi Toney’s status is uncertain)

- 1:05:43: Oklahoma at Florida

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Guest host Jessica Smetana joins Alex to talk through the first College Football Playoff rankings reveal of the season. This episode first aired as a live stream on YouTube and has been spruced up lightly by our producer, Anthony Vito, to go into your podcast feeds now. In this episode:

* Running through the opening 1-25

* What the committee says it’s doing differently this year

* Our biggest beefs with the committee (Alabama, hello again lol)

* The committee’s crush of the week

* The team at risk of being dropped from the group chat

* Jessica Smetana’s Notre Dame Discourse Corner

* The sneaky good win (or loss) of the week. Hi, Oregon?

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