40 FOR 40: The 2025 Cheez-It Citrus Bowl

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.
Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for asking
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This episode was produced by Michael Ray Surber
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell Powell
Fullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by Matt
DID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s not
Before the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other work
Travel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot exist
Check out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

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0:00.0	Welcome to the cheese at citrus bowl.
0:15.8	A flavor pairing that I will note a few years ago when this was announced, in case anyone
0:23.0	has forgotten this part, I posted about like, oh, God, how disgusting.
0:27.4	And the, of course, Citrus Bowl people then sent over a charcutory board with cheese that's
0:33.0	literally in it, and it feels great.
0:36.4	We can be bought.
0:41.8	I think the key is, always actual food paired with garbage and it works every time. It's every time. This year of course the Pop-Tarts bowl sent over
0:47.3	144 Pop-Tarts. How many Pop-Tarts do you currently have, Jason? Oh, we gave away a third of them.
0:53.8	Another third will be given away soon. I don't know how many will keep. I doubt we'll be making much use of the steroid pop tarts. Especially since that traitorous coward refused to be slaughtered in the game itself. Bring them to me. Bring them to me. I will eat the steroid. I will slaughter them with my teeth. Bring you the muscle pop tarts. Bring me the muscle pop tarts, please. Let me tear its flesh.
1:15.6	This, uh, in the cheese at citrus bowl is Michigan, Texas, which is going to function as I'm springing this on everyone. Our chance to talk about Kyle Whittingham, the new head coach of the Michigan Wolverines a coach who at literally almost
1:29.2	literally at least any point in Michigan's many coaching searches over the past 20 years we would
1:34.6	have said you should just hire Kyle Wittingham Jason have said it like literally multiple times people
1:40.4	have posted about I have no memory of this but it was you okay good the last time yeah like
1:45.6	like like people have posted to us hey you called this and like oh of course we did we love this guy we
1:49.2	think like we think he is the archetypical michigan coach yes even beyond jim harbaugh um because jim harbaugh's
1:55.9	weird michigan's not weird what's weird what's weird about memorizing the name of every battleship
1:59.4	that's normal that's not weird um but like the mich What's weird about memorizing the name of every battleship? That's normal. That's not weird. But like, Michigan's going to play football, how Michigan prefers to play football.
2:06.3	And then, you know, some Utah fan will chime in and say, oh, get used to this one weird loss per year.
2:10.2	That's called college football. You're going to have one weird loss per year. Stop crying about it.
2:14.8	Yeah, we love this dude. There was a listener named Sarah who worked in Utah's athletic department a few years ago.
2:23.6	Oh, dear.
2:24.4	And she wrote in to tell us a story about Kyle Whittingham.
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