CFB Lunch Break: Lincoln Riley, Rivalry Killer?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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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 live questions from our Split Zone Duo subscribers. Topics covered in this episode include:

* The slightly messy ending between Jim Knowles and Ohio State

* What we’re most excited about in the 2025 season

* More developments in Bill Belichick/Jordon Hudson

* Rapid scheme turnover, like Washington State will see this year

* Playoff expansion’s effect on SEC expansion

* Lincoln Riley and USC say they want to preserve their Notre Dame rivalry game, but Riley’s old words and current actions say different

* Duke as an ACC dark horse

* How cooked is Virginia Tech?

* New athletic director at Michigan State: Why?

* Maryland’s business-ish approach to filling the AD chair

* Likelier to get fired or win their conference? Mike Gundy, Brian Kelly, Lincoln Riley, and Mike Norvell

College Football Lunch Break is a recurring live call that we have at 12 p.m. ET on many Tuesdays in the Substack app. Subscribers get a recording afterward.

Producer: Anthony Vito

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming and we ain't backing down.
0:02.0	We don't need a bunch of cats in here,
0:04.0	looking in the mirror.
0:05.0	Everybody is do your job!
0:06.0	You got to stay next?
0:08.0	Hey, were you shut up?
0:09.0	I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today.
0:11.0	Guys being dudes.
0:12.0	And they run through our like a 10 horn, man.
0:15.0	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.0	Yeah.
0:17.0	Good to see you.
0:18.0	Everyone, welcome to an episode of Split Zone Duo lunch break. This is where we just
0:24.1	get on the mics and talk a little bit about news of the week in college football and answer
0:29.3	some of your questions. Thank you to everyone who has pre-submitted questions. Also, chat,
0:33.6	if you feel like adding anything live, we will read it. And if we feel like we can answer
0:38.3	it in this live format, we will definitely do that. And then we, of course, will be posting this
0:42.9	in the feeds for our splitzonedo.com subscribers as a little extra for the course of the week.
0:49.6	Richard, we got a question about how we feel about the bit of drama that's unfolded the last couple weeks between Jim Knowles and Ohio State, former defensive coordinator there, where he's now at Penn State.
1:05.3	What was your read on this?
1:07.0	Because this has been a classic May college football story.
1:11.1	Wait, you go first real quick. You go first story. Wait, you go first real quick.
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