CFB Lunch Break: What Does an Ohio State "Down Year" Even Mean?

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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Alex and Richard take a bunch of questions from Split Zone Duo subscribers, recorded at lunch on April 15. The topics covered here include:

* Is this the most wide-open track to the national title that CFB has seen in a long time? And what does it even mean for Ohio State to be “down”?

* The Group of 5 schools with the biggest NIL war chests

* Could Notre Dame be better than last year? (We’re skeptical.)

* How does Cal replace an entire portaled running back room?

* Would Texas reset the market for Dan Lanning?

* UAB has a new wordmark

* Is Mike Norvell’s hire of Gus Malzahn a last stand?

* Why is institutional malpractice in the MAC not a bigger story?

* Thoughts on Colorado retiring Shedeur Sanders’ number?

* City schools’ difficulty getting people to care about CFB

* Story time: Richard’s trip to Augusta National Golf Club

* Alex’s running gear recommendation

Producer: Anthony Vito

Also this week for SZD subscribers

Our subscriber episode on Nico Iamaleava leaving Tennessee:

Transcript

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0:00.0	We're coming, and we ain't backing down.
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.
0:14.6	Ah, fuck it.
0:16.5	Thank you, Lee. Alex here, just letting you know that this is a live recording done on Tuesday afternoon,
0:23.1	April 15th, where Richard Johnson and I take questions from our Splitsone Duo.com subscribers
0:28.6	via the substack app and then package it up nice and pretty and put it in the podcast feeds
0:34.1	for our subscribers at www.w.w.com.
0:39.7	That is you. Thanks for your support of the show.
0:44.8	We have been putting out question calls for these ahead of time. If you are interested in asking us questions when we record these on roughly every other Tuesday afternoon, but you don't have
0:50.0	time to actually take the CFB lunch break with us. So keep an eye out for that at Splitonedo.com slash chat.
0:55.9	We're very interested in what you're wondering about, what your input is, and we'll roll
1:00.3	this tape.
1:01.0	We'll note that we do this live.
1:02.6	We do it on our phones.
1:03.4	It's a little bit less polished than typical episode, but we hope it's a fun little
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