CFB Lunch Break: How to Know If Your FBS Transition Has a Chance

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.splitzoneduo.com

Richard and Alex take subscriber questions on:

* How to assess if a school’s FCS-to-FBS transition is in a good place or not, especially if it takes a little bit to win any games

* The big business of college football data distribution

* The endless (?) expansion of eligibility for old players

* Why the SEC owns the offseason every year and the Big Ten doesn’t

* The wisdom of Power 2 schools like Mississippi State throwing House settlement dollars into sports other than football

* Richard trading a Florida basketball title for football

* Do recent moves at Georgia Tech and UVA say anything about the ACC’s financial shortfall?

* If more programs will have general managers in charge soon, a la Andrew Luck and Ron Rivera at Stanford and Cal

Producer: Anthony Vito.

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Producer: Anthony Vito

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
0:01.9	We don't need a bunch of cats in here looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job.
0:06.7	You understand that?
0:07.7	Hey, will you shut up?
0:08.6	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.1	Guys being dudes.
0:12.3	And they run through our like a shit through a ten horn, man.
0:14.8	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.3	College football lunch break.
0:17.6	This is Splitone Duo with Alex Kirchner.
0:22.3	That's me and Richard Johnson.
0:37.1	That's my colleague there. Thanks to the chat. He's with us live. Thanks to the many more of you who I anticipate will be listening to this after we record it as a subscriber extra at Splitzoned duo.com.
0:40.0	Richard, the way we do this, as you know,
0:43.1	we take questions live in the chat here on the app.
0:44.7	We would love to field your live questions.
0:47.7	We also have a nice queue of pre-submitted questions.
0:49.1	And I'm going to start you off, Richard,
0:51.8	with a question about a new FBS team as of 14 days from now that we record this, it's the
0:56.1	Mighty Blue Hens of the University of Delaware. With the Mighty Blue Hens, this is from Matt B,
1:01.2	set to enter FBS this year, what kind of benchmarks should an FCS fan base look for to gauge
1:07.8	if their team is completely over its head making the jump.
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