17 Things That Made 2025 Weird, Wonderful, and Uniquely College Football (Part 2)
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
After covering seven major items in Part 1, we're back with 10 more things that defined the 2025 college football season. In this episode, we run the gamut, from Miami's return to national prominence after two decades away to Notre Dame's reaction to being left out. We also talk through Texas Tech's spending spree, the magic of Diego Pavia, the roller coaster of UCLA football and much more.
What defined the 2025 college football season for you? Let us know what we missed!
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
4:49 - Miami is back!
12:45 - Notre Dame controversy
21:06 - Shirtlessness
25:26 - Dan Lanning is nuts
29:36 - Texas Tech's spending spree
35:08 - Everything Diego Pavia
40:38 - Drew Mestemaker
43:07 - The UCLA Roller Coaster
47:51 - John Mateer
51:57 - Tiebreakers
56:57 - Others Receiving Votes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Daniel Alarcon, and this is my friend. This is much more famous than I am. I wouldn't go that far, but I'm John Green. Co-hosted the podcast The Away End with my old friend Daniel. On our podcast, The Away End, we'll share with you the magic of international football, all leading up to the 2026 World Cup. |
| 0:26.5 | Together, we'll find out why, of all the unimportant things, football, soccer, is the most important. |
| 0:34.3 | Listen to the away end with Daniel Auerkone and John Green on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:39.6 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:40.6 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:41.7 | Come after me. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm a man. |
| 0:44.1 | I'm 40. |
| 0:46.5 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:48.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:49.0 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:50.3 | This guy, woo, whoa. |
| 0:52.9 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:57.5 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back, my friend. |
| 1:03.1 | This is part two of the episode that we put out on Tuesday. |
| 1:05.2 | We are talking through the 17 things. |
| 1:14.4 | 17 things that made the 2025 college football season unique, special, and one that we're always going to talk about and remember Dan Rubinstein. We did seven in part one today. We got to knock out |
| 1:20.0 | the remaining 10. I'm ready to roll. This is our own personal 17 again. Shout out Zach |
| 1:26.3 | Efron, not a friend of the show. |
| 1:28.3 | Could be. |
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