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1. Dave Aranda Fired, Oregon Makes a Change & Bill-toberfest Finale

   27 Oct 2026 · 1 h 14 min

   The college football coaching carousel is picking up speed, and we've got another round of major changes to unpack. Dave Aranda is out at Baylor, Drew Mehringer has been dismissed as Oregon's offensive coordinator, and…

2. College Football Week 8 Reactions: The Big 12's Bad Day, Ole Miss Stumbles & Nobody Looks Safe

   25 Oct 2026 · 1 h 25 min

   College Football Week 8 delivered another round of chaos, with major upsets, shaken playoff contenders and an increasingly difficult question: Who can we actually trust? We start in the Big 12, where BYU and Texas…

3. College Football Week 8 Picks: Houston-Utah, Texas on the Brink & Michigan's QB Gamble

   22 Oct 2026 · 1 h 30 min

   College Football Week 8 might not have the biggest headliners of the season, but after another wild Saturday, there are plenty of opportunities for things to go sideways. Which teams can build on emotional wins, which…

4. College Football's QB Chaos + October Q&A with Bill Connelly

   20 Oct 2026 · 1 h 16 min

   After a wild Week 7, we're back with ESPN's Bill Connelly to make sense of a college football season that keeps getting stranger. With five of the top seven teams losing and quarterback questions piling up across the…

5. College Football Week 7 Chaos: Georgia Falls, BYU Shocks Notre Dame & Ohio State Survives

   18 Oct 2026 · 1 h 30 min

   College football's Week 7 was absolute madness. Eight ranked teams lost, including Georgia, Notre Dame, Indiana, Alabama and Texas, leaving us with a completely scrambled AP Top 25 and a whole lot of questions about…

6. College Football Week 7 Picks: Ohio State-Indiana, Notre Dame's Big Test & A Saturday Safari

   15 Oct 2026 · 1 h 28 min

   College Football Week 7 is here, and the schedule is absolutely loaded. We've got top-five showdowns, historic road trips, heated rivalries and a Saturday where survival might be the name of the game. We're making our…

7. Fan Bases in Hell + College Football's Biggest Surprises with Bill Connelly

   13 Oct 2026 · 1 h 26 min

   Dan is back, and after Oregon's stunning loss to UCLA, we've got some questions about which college football fan bases are having the roughest time in 2026. Is Oregon's disappointment worse than what Texas A&M and…

8. College Football Week 6 Reactions: Oklahoma Shocks Texas, Oregon Implodes & Georgia Takes No. 1

   11 Oct 2026 · 1 h 26 min

   College football Week 6 delivered a little bit of everything, including a new No. 1 team, a stunning upset in the Red River rivalry, and another brutal Saturday for Oregon. With Dan away, Ty welcomes Tim Murray from…

9. College Football Week 6 Picks: Georgia-Alabama, Red River & Growing Suspicions

   8 Oct 2026 · 1 h 22 min

   College Football Week 6 is packed with matchups that could confirm everything we think we know about the 2026 season, or force us to reconsider. We preview Georgia-Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where two SEC heavyweights face…

10. What Can We Trust? Bill Connelly + College Football’s Biggest QB Problems

    6 Oct 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    Five weeks into the 2026 college football season, the easy answers are disappearing. We unveil the latest Verballer Top 12, clean up a few things we missed from Saturday night, and then bring in ESPN’s Bill Connelly to…

11. College Football Week 5: Missouri Destroys Florida, Alabama Looks Scary & New Ryan Field

    4 Oct 2026 · 1 h 22 min

    College Football Week 5 gave us another reminder not to get too comfortable with anything we thought we knew in September. We start with Missouri’s emphatic win over Florida and what it means for both teams after a…

12. College Football Week 5 Picks: Alabama-Mississippi State, Ohio State-Iowa & Searching for Water

    1 Oct 2026 · 1 h 33 min

    College Football Week 5 is here, and a bunch of teams are trying to figure out whether the good vibes are real or just another mirage. We make our picks for Alabama-Mississippi State in Starkville, Ohio State-Iowa in…

13. Step-tember: College Football Risers, Fallers & Playoff Dark Horses

    29 Sep 2026 · 1 h 18 min

    September is almost over, which means we finally have enough evidence to start wondering who has actually taken a meaningful step forward, who has gone backward, and which teams are still making us wait for a real…

14. Florida’s Arrival, Oregon’s Survival, Iowa's Stunner & Our New AP Top 25 After Week 4

    27 Sep 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    College Football Week 4 gave us the kind of Saturday that starts changing how the season looks. We start with Florida’s emphatic win over Ole Miss and what it means for a Gators team that suddenly has to be taken…

15. College Football Week 4: Texas-Tennessee, Oregon-USC & 20+ Games to Watch

    24 Sep 2026 · 1 h 27 min

    College Football Week 4 is absolutely loaded, and we’re breaking down as much of it as humanly possible. We start with Texas traveling to Tennessee for its first true road test, then turn to Oregon-USC and a major…

16. September Mailbag: Big 12 Playoff Hopes, Big Ten Doubts & Texas A&M Regression | College Football

    22 Sep 2026 · 1 h 10 min

    Three weeks into the college football season, how much do we actually know? For our September Mailbag, we turn the show over to questions from the Verballerhood and try to figure out which teams have given us enough…

17. What We Learned From College Football Week 3: Ole Miss Gets Revenge, Kentucky Stuns Texas A&M & Our AP Top 25

    20 Sep 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    College Football Week 3 delivered the kind of Saturday that forces you to reconsider a few things in a hurry. We start in Oxford, where Lane Kiffin returned with LSU for a game that had been circled for months, and Ole…

18. College Football Week 3: LSU-Ole Miss, Houston-Texas Tech & Our Picks

    17 Sep 2026 · 1 h 27 min

    College Football Week 3 is here, and the schedule is loaded with games that could get strange in a hurry. We make our picks for LSU-Ole Miss in Oxford, Houston-Texas Tech on a short week, SMU-Louisville in a massive…

19. Where We've Been Wrong So Far & Which Teams Need More Love After Week 2 | College Football

    15 Sep 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Two weeks into the 2026 college football season, it’s time to challenge some of our preseason assumptions. First, we look at where we may have been wrong, or at least too confident, on teams like Oregon, Texas Tech,…

20. Texas’s Comeback, Oregon’s Nightmare, Michigan’s Rock Fight & Our New AP Top 25 After Week 2 | College Football

    13 Sep 2026 · 1 h 15 min

    Week 2 delivered the first truly chaotic Saturday of the 2026 college football season. Texas erased a fourth-quarter deficit to beat Ohio State, Oklahoma State stunned Oregon in Stillwater, and Michigan leaned on its…

21. College Football Week 2: Ohio State-Texas, Michigan’s Gut Check & Picks for a Loaded Slate

    10 Sep 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    College Football Week 2 is here, and the schedule gets serious in a hurry. The biggest game of the weekend sends No. 1 Ohio State to Austin to face No. 4 Texas in a matchup that already feels like it could shape the…

22. LSU Looks Dangerous, Ole Miss-Louisville Fireworks & College Football Week 1 Takeaways

    8 Sep 2026 · 1 h 02 min

    With most of Week 1 in the books, we go back through the games that deserved a longer look after Saturday night’s live reaction show. LSU’s demolition of Clemson is at the center of the conversation. How much of the…

23. Michigan’s Miracle, Oregon’s Scare & Who Impressed Us in College Football Week 1

    6 Sep 2026 · 1 h 16 min

    College football Week 1 started quietly and then completely lost its mind. Michigan needed a last-second miracle to survive Western Michigan, Oregon got pushed deep into the fourth quarter by Boise State, and Auburn…

24. College Football Week 1: Picks, Sneaky Games & Parachuting into 2026

    3 Sep 2026 · 1 h 23 min

    College football’s first full weekend is finally here, and Week 1 is throwing a whole lot of unknowns directly into the fire. We make our picks for the biggest games on the schedule and try to figure out which teams…

25. The Week 1 Storylines That Could Shape the Season | College Football

    1 Sep 2026 · 55 min

    College football Week 1 is finally here, but before we dive into our full preview and picks later this week, we're looking at the bigger questions that could start shaping the season as soon as the games kick off.…

26. What We Learned From College Football Week 0

    30 Aug 2026 · 54 min

    College football is officially back, and Week 0 gave us plenty to chew on before the season really gets rolling. We start with North Carolina getting some revenge on TCU in Ireland, then turn to Virginia's emphatic win…

27. QB Battles, Eligibility Chaos & Our Week 0 College Football Preview

    27 Aug 2026 · 1 h 06 min

    College football is finally back! In this episode, we get ready for the first Saturday of the 2026 season with our full Week 0 preview and picks, starting with TCU and North Carolina in Ireland and working through all…

28. Our 2026 College Football Playoff Predictions

    25 Aug 2026 · 1 h 04 min

    College football is finally here, which means there’s only one piece of preseason business left: putting our predictions on the record. In this episode, we each build a complete 12-team College Football Playoff field,…

29. Our 2026 College Football Fantasy Things Draft

    23 Aug 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    Fantasy Things is back! In our annual celebration of everything strange, stupid and uniquely college football, we draft the moments, tropes, broadcast oddities and completely unforeseen bits of nonsense we want on our…

30. Alabama Needs a Great QB, Texas Has a Depth Question & Bill Connelly’s Biggest 2026 Doubts | College Football

    20 Aug 2026 · 1 h 04 min

    College football is almost here, so we brought ESPN's Bill Connelly back on the show to help us separate the teams worth believing in from the ones carrying more risk than the preseason conversation might suggest. We…

31. AP Top 25 Reaction + College Football Zagriculture

    18 Aug 2026 · 1 h 11 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we react to the first AP Top 25 of the 2026 season and our first preseason poll as official AP voters. We run through the top of the rankings, compare the national poll with…

32. August Q&A: Dark Horses, 9-3 Playoff Teams & Lane Kiffin’s Big Bet | College Football

    16 Aug 2026 · 1 h 05 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we take one final deep breath after our marathon run of 2026 conference previews and turn the show over to the Verballerhood for our August Q&A. With the season finally within…

33. SEC TEAM PREVIEWS: LSU, Alabama, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Missouri, Auburn, Arkansas & Mississippi State | College Football

    13 Aug 2026 · 1 h 18 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we close out our three-part 2026 SEC preview with LSU, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Missouri, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Alabama and Auburn. The biggest mystery may be LSU, where…

34. SEC TEAM PREVIEWS: Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Vanderbilt & Kentucky | College Football

    11 Aug 2026 · 1 h 21 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we continue our three-part 2026 SEC preview with deep dives on Georgia, Vanderbilt, Texas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee and Florida. Georgia enters the season…

35. SEC PREVIEW: Contender Tiers, the 9-Game Gauntlet & a Thick Upper Crust | College Football

    9 Aug 2026 · 1 h 28 min

    In this episode, we kick off our three-part 2026 SEC preview by zooming out on a conference entering the season with plenty to prove. The SEC hasn't won the national championship in three years, six programs have new…

36. BIG TEN TEAM PREVIEWS: USC, Penn State, Michigan, Illinois, UCLA, Minnesota, Maryland, Michigan State & Northwestern | College Football

    6 Aug 2026 · 1 h 39 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we close out our three-part 2026 Big Ten preview with nine more teams and some of the conference's most difficult projections. USC has the offense, talent and expectations of a…

37. BIG TEN TEAM PREVIEWS: Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana, Iowa, Washington, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Rutgers & Purdue | College Football

    4 Aug 2026 · 1 h 30 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we continue our three-part 2026 Big Ten preview with a closer look at nine teams, beginning with the three programs most likely to determine the conference championship. Oregon…

38. BIG TEN PREVIEW: Contender Tiers, The Big Three & Sweet Lady Schedule | College Football

    2 Aug 2026 · 1 h 43 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we open our three-part 2026 Big Ten preview by zooming out before diving into the individual team breakdowns. The conference has produced the last three national champions,…

39. Mike Lombardi’s Leave, Quotes from Media Days and the QB Battles to Watch | College Football

    28 Jul 2026 · 48 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we briefly step out of preview mode for a college football news reset. While we were working through the ACC and Big 12, the rest of the sport kept moving, beginning with…

40. BIG 12 TEAM PREVIEWS: Utah, Houston, TCU, Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, UCF & Cincinnati | College Football

    26 Jul 2026 · 1 h 21 min

    In this episode, we finish our Big 12 preview with the conference’s final eight teams: Utah, Houston, TCU, Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, UCF and Cincinnati. This preview features plenty of teams on the cusp…

41. BIG 12 TEAM PREVIEWS: Texas Tech, BYU, Kansas State, Kansas, Baylor, Colorado, West Virginia & Iowa State | College Football

    23 Jul 2026 · 1 h 11 min

    In this episode, we continue our 2026 Big 12 preview with the first full batch of team-by-team breakdowns. Texas Tech enters as the reigning conference champion and apparent favorite, but the strange offseason…

42. BIG 12 PREVIEW: Contender Tiers, Dark Horses & the Monster Middle Class | College Football

    21 Jul 2026 · 1 h 09 min

    In this episode, we begin our three-part Big 12 preview by taking a conference-wide look at the contenders, challengers and mystery teams shaping the 2026 season. Texas Tech enters as the defending champion and the…

43. ACC TEAM PREVIEWS: Clemson, Louisville, Virginia Tech, NC State, Duke, Georgia Tech, Cal, Syracuse & Boston College | College Football

    19 Jul 2026 · 1 h 26 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we finish our three-part preview of the ACC by turning our attention to the defending conference champions and several of the league’s most difficult teams to project. Can Duke…

44. ACC TEAM PREVIEWS: Miami, Notre Dame, SMU, Florida State, Virginia, Pitt, North Carolina, Wake Forest & Stanford | College Football

    16 Jul 2026 · 1 h 25 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we continue our 2026 ACC preview with conversations about eight conference teams and Notre Dame. Is this finally the year Miami turns its loaded roster into its first…

45. ACC PREVIEW: Contender Tiers & What Happens After Miami? | College Football

    14 Jul 2026 · 1 h 17 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we begin our three-part 2026 ACC preview by zooming out and attempting to make sense of the conference as a whole. Miami enters the season as the clear favorite, with Darian…

46. G6 Previews: Part 2 - Pac-12, Mountain West & CUSA + UConn | College Football

    12 Jul 2026 · 1 h 34 min

    In this college football podcast episode, we continue our 2026 Group of Six conference previews by breaking down the resurrected Pac-12, the new-look Mountain West and a wide-open Conference USA. We start with Boise…

47. G6 Previews: Part 1 - The American, Sun Belt & MAC Conference Previews | College Football

    9 Jul 2026 · 1 h 35 min

    In this episode, we kick off our 2026 conference preview series with Part 1 of our Group of Six rundown, covering the American, Sun Belt and MAC. With coaching changes, transfer portal churn, new coordinators and a…

48. Intro to the 2026 College Football Season

    7 Jul 2026 · 1 h 20 min

    In this episode, we officially welcome ourselves back to college football with a full 2026 season primer. Before preview season begins in earnest, we reset the board with the biggest changes you need to know, from…

49. July Q&A: Surprise Contenders, New Coach Leashes & Ice Cream Sundaes | College Football

    2 Jul 2026 · 1 h 26 min

    In this July Q&A episode, we open up the mailbag and tackle a wide-ranging batch of offseason questions. Which teams could become this year’s surprise contenders? Is Utah still a threat after major coaching and roster…

50. Chris Fallica on Weird Stats, the Transfer Portal & Letdown Lookahead Sandwiches | College Football

    25 Jun 2026 · 58 min

    In this episode, we welcome Chris Fallica of Fox Sports, Big Noon Kickoff and Bear Bets to talk through college football from the perspective of a researcher, bettor, traveler and longtime media fixture. We get into…