College Football Previews 2025: Conference USA

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Richard and Alex preview Conference USA, as the league adds Delaware and Missouri State. In this episode:

* Liberty remains the favorite, even with a downgrade at QB

* Sam Houston is primed for regression after 10 wins and a coaching change

* WKU goes back to a strategy that has worked time and again: portaling an entire offense from a lower-level program

* UTEP might have a bit of juice under Scotty Walden

* Jacksonville State slams the reset button after winning the league and seeing Rich Rodriguez return to West Virginia

* FIU has … reason for optimism?

* Missouri State is making an ambitious play by jumping to FBS, and we aren’t sure it will work out well—at least not in the win column

* Delaware looks poised for a smoother transition

* Kennesaw State will be much more interesting, but still not good

* Middle Tennessee is hunting for reasons for optimism

* Louisiana Tech’s coach looks to forestall what might be inevitable

* New Mexico State makes changes after a turbulent offseason

Producer: Anthony Vito

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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 looking in the mirror.
0:04.6	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 ten horn, man. Ah, fuck it. Thank you, Lee. I'm Alex Kirchner here this week with Richard Johnson. It is Splitzone Duo
0:21.7	Relaunch Week rolling on episodes every single day of this week, the final week of July,
0:28.9	that becomes the first week of August if you are a subscriber at www.w.w.com. But you also get
0:35.0	a lot of free shows, too. I think the last week of July becomes the first week of August, whether you're a subscriber
0:39.3	or not. I just think that's how count. No, actually, no, it's actually not the case. If you aren't a subscriber, you're going to be stuck in July forever, which actually is not very good marketing on our part, because July is a good month, and I would probably want to be stuck in it if I could be.
0:35.2	I think July,
0:37.4	July certainly starts with a bang.
0:40.9	Certain. want to be stuck in it if I could be. I think July, July certainly starts with a bang,
0:57.9	certainly, because the fourth is, I think, the second best holiday behind Thanksgiving,
1:03.2	all things considered. But then July drops off, man. I don't know. You don't have the summer,
1:08.9	the summer fun that you have in June. And it's, it's, you're starting to get into late summer, for instance. You're starting to see fall out of the corner of your eye by the time you get to July. I think the vibes take a tumble at the end of July and it knocks July down in my month power ranking. I'm a little biased as a July birthday, but I'm also, I think the thing that I don't
1:31.3	like about July is that, have you ever been in an airport in July, Richard?
1:35.6	It's tough.
1:36.5	It's a tough scene.
1:37.7	Pretty much any airport.
1:39.0	Like, I'm not going to pretend that my airport experiences are any worse than anybody else's,
1:42.6	but I do feel like being in an airport
1:44.8	in July is about the worst consumer experience that you can have as an American. And so I'll give
1:53.3	you that, but I would probably keep the month of July for the most part if I could.
1:57.3	I'm a big November guy over here, big November guy. Is that when your birthday is?
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