CFB Lunch Break: Off, Wisconsin?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

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4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

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In this week’s CFB Lunch Break, Alex and Richard answer live questions from Split Zone Duo subscribers:

* What to make of Luke Fickell’s mediocre first two years at Wisconsin and a challenging situation in Year 3

* Ohio State/Texas scheduling fight

* Florida’s upside this fall

* What Penn State actually needs from Drew Allar

* The cloudy landscape of G5 position player talent

* What’s behind TNT’s weird College Football Playoff TV arrangement

* Nebraska and Clemson offseason vapors

* UCLA: Glass half full?

* Notre Dame’s reasonable goals

* Michigan State hiring Georgia Tech’s athletic director

* The air raid is dead. Long live the air raid

Producer: Anthony Vito

Hosts: Alex Kirshner, Richard Johnson

Reminder: Split Zone Duo LIVE in Raleigh, August 23 Details here. Tickets here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't back to now.
0:01.8	We don't need a bunch of cats in here.
0:03.4	Looking in the mirror.
0:04.5	Everybody just do your job.
0:06.7	You got to stay next?
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	All right, folks, we're going to start college football lunch break. It is Tuesday, June 3rd. It's 12 p.m. Eastern time.
0:24.6	Richard, as usual, we'll do this a couple ways. We have some people submitting, pre-submitting questions, and we can also take questions that come live in the chat.
0:34.2	So if you are one of the folks watching us live right now, feel free to drop something in the
0:38.0	chat, and there's a great chance that we will try to get to it.
0:41.1	Richard, first question this week is from Brendan F.
0:44.5	Why do you guys think the Luke Ficklehire isn't working out for Wisconsin?
0:49.7	Has it been more of a Phil Longo problem that could be fixed with Jeff Grimes, replacing him as
0:54.9	offensive coordinator?
0:56.1	Or is Luke the problem?
0:58.8	I have a few thoughts on this, but I'll turn it to you first.
1:02.0	Yeah, I think the, I am interested in how, um, in how this goes with Jeff Grimes.
1:11.3	I think Luke is pretty clearly staking his future, frankly,
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