17 Things That Made 2025 Weird, Wonderful, and Uniquely College Football (Part 1)
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The 2025 college football season is in the books, and it was... a lot. Join us as we attempt to catalog the moments, storylines, and characters that made this year impossible to forget, starting with seven of the most defining elements of the season.
In this episode: Why the Lane Kiffin-to-LSU saga touched every corner of college football culture. Indiana's national championship and the refreshing "plainness" of how they won it. The Penn State coaching search trilogy (expectations to collapse to Crumbl cookies). Bill Belichick's first year at North Carolina... both the 4-win disappointment and, well, everything else. Alabama's bizarre tumble into (and out of) the playoff. Two Group of Five teams crashing the party. And Lee Corso's farewell to College GameDay.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
3:02 - The Most 2025 College Football Things
6:54 - Lane Kiffin
17:19 - Indiana
26:34 - Penn State, Clemson & Texas
36:20 - Bill Belichick
43:52 - Alabama
55:04 - Tulane & James Madison
1:03:03 - Lee Corso
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a man. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm 40. |
| 0:12.6 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:15.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:16.7 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:17.6 | It's that woo-woo. |
| 0:19.2 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:22.6 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back, my friend. |
| 0:25.0 | It's about a week removed from the Indiana Hoosiers winning their first ever national |
| 0:30.8 | championship. |
| 0:31.8 | We've had about a week to digest, a week to look back fondly at the season that was, a 2025-26 season. |
| 0:40.2 | We're going to do a little bit more of that today, my good friend. How are you? |
| 0:43.8 | I'm really good, Ty. I'm really good. And I say that in a situation that I find myself, |
| 0:49.5 | I'm in an icy prison here, Ty, once again. Same here, man. Same here. This is, I was, was it the Ursa family that moved the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis in the, |
| 0:59.3 | in the, in the, the, the moving trucks? |
| 1:02.0 | I've looked into the logistics of, of that. |
| 1:06.2 | I love my family. |
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