CFB Lunch Break: Why Can't Memphis Get a Realignment Bite?
Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast
Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner
4.9 • 916 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Leave us a voicemail telling us why you love college football. Details are at www.splitzoneduo.com.
In this show, Alex and Richard take a bunch of subscriber questions in the run-up to the season, with an early focus on realignment matters:
* The Athletic reported that despite a desperate financial offer, Memphis has not gotten traction in its effort to join the Big 12. Why not?
* Why was Louisiana Tech, which isn’t very good, a good backfilling candidate for the Sun Belt after Texas State joined the Pac-12?
* What do we make of conferences (the American and Big 12 so far) doing away with preseason media polls?
* What do we make of Tulane’s addition of former BYU QB Jake Retzlaff?
* Do we have any Week 1 game travel plans? (Richard does.)
* Should Maryland fans be worried about the prospect of their school getting left out in future realignment? (This question could apply to lots of Big Ten and SEC schools.)
* Why did a story about Catapult video footage access go so quiet?
* Which is the deepest P4 conference for QB depth in 2025?
* How are our video game dynasty builds going?
Producer: Anthony Vito
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Before we get to the show, we've got a project that we could use your help on. We're writing an audio love letter to college football, and we want your submissions. The question is simple. Why do you love college football? It could be what got you into the game, or who got you into the game, or what keeps you around. Here's how to submit an entry one of two ways. In the show notes, we'll link to our voice cast page if you want to |
| 0:21.5 | submit via laptop or desktop. We'll also put our Google voice line in if you want to submit via phone. |
| 0:27.0 | Please submit by the end of business Tuesday, July 29th, for possible inclusion in the show. |
| 0:32.2 | We'll try to include as many as we can. Thanks and enjoy the show. |
| 0:35.8 | We're coming and we ain't back to now. We don't need a bunch of cats in here. Looking in the mirror. Everybody just do your job. You understand that? Hey, will you shut up? I'm bitterly disappointed with the officiating today. Guys being dudes. And they run through our like a shit through a 10 horn, man. Ah, fuck it. We're alive. All right, we're rolling in, we're rolling in. |
| 0:54.8 | John, Lauren, Leighton. |
| 0:56.6 | Welcome to Splitson Duo lunch hour. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to the chat. |
| 1:01.2 | This is Splitsone, do a lunch break. |
| 1:04.4 | We'll let people fill in for, I don't know, a minute or two, and then we'll talk a little bit about the college of fall offseason. |
| 1:11.7 | Take me through yesterday. |
| 1:13.6 | Take me through yesterday when you went low, and I mean, Scotty Shephler, well. |
| 1:18.6 | Taking that, taking his inspiration. |
| 1:20.9 | But, you know, golf isn't what fulfills me, Richard. |
| 1:25.9 | You know? |
| 1:27.4 | So you blacked out of my golf course history shot 77 76 76 excuse me |
| 1:32.9 | but smirching a good name was a great man there was on part 70 so it was more of 78 but yeah |
| 1:38.6 | I mean like I feel like for not for non, we have to take the moments that we get |
| 1:45.2 | where we feel good about ourselves playing a sport. |
| 1:48.1 | That's fair. |
| 1:48.9 | I don't like that. |
| 1:50.2 | All right. |
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