College Football Previews 2025: Pac-12 and Independents

Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast

Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner

News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.9 • 916 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Split Zone Duo’s conference previews for 2025 keep rolling along with a two-parter: the Pac-12 and the FBS independents, whose ranks have thinned.

* Oregon State might finally (finally!) be poised for stability and growth

* Washington State faces a similar crisis to the one OSU faced last year, although the Cougs have a few reasons for optimism as they prepare to take a big chunk of the best program in FCS and import it to FBS

* Jim Mora has the UConn Huskies in just about the best place possible

* Why this one feels like a “win the national title or bust” year for Notre Dame—or at least get back to the semifinals

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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 understand that?
0:07.7	Hey, were 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	Thank you, Lee.
0:17.8	Conference preview season rolls on here at Split Zone Duo.
0:24.2	I've got my colleague Richard Johnson here with me.
0:27.8	And this week, we are going to do a twofer.
0:32.7	We're going to just put them in one episode for you because there aren't that many teams in these buckets.
0:35.8	We're going to start by previewing the Pact 12.
0:38.4	And then we're going to preview the FBS independence of which there aren't that many left, just two.
0:41.2	One of the great offseason planning and scheduling debates, conversations behind the
0:51.1	curtain that splits on dual LLC is what exactly to do with the Pact 12 and
0:56.4	independence, where to slot them? We've talked about do we do Notre Dame with the rest of
1:00.7	the ACC, do we do Notre Dame in its own episode with potential friends of the show,
1:05.7	Jess Matana, Michael Jr. Do we do Washington State and Oregon State as their own thing? Do we do them individually?
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