College Football's Annual Checkup: Grading The Sport From Head To Toe
The Solid Verbal College Football
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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
It's time for the annual college football checkup. In this episode, we put college football on the exam table and rate every major element of the sport from one to five. From conference structure and scheduling to the College Football Playoff, the TV product, on-field play, NIL, and the transfer portal, nothing escapes our stethoscope.
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
3:42 - Key Themes for CFB in 2026
13:28 - Conference Structure
24:50 - Scheduling
33:42 - College Football Playoff
45:18 - The TV Product
53:02 - The On-Field Product
1:02:24 - NIL
1:11:43 - The Transfer Portal
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm a man. |
| 0:11.8 | I'm 40. |
| 0:12.6 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:15.1 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:16.7 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:17.6 | It's that woo-woo. |
| 0:19.2 | And now, Dan and Ty. |
| 0:22.6 | Dan Rubinstein, my great and good friend. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome back to the solid verbal. |
| 0:28.6 | How are you today? |
| 0:29.7 | It's my favorite kind of episode, Ty. |
| 0:32.7 | An episode on which, in which I can speak on behalf of people who never asked for me to do so, |
| 0:41.6 | who in no way are begging me to speak on me. But no, we're speaking on behalf of ourselves as |
| 0:49.6 | fans today. And hopefully some of what we say resonates with people who are listening, who are |
| 0:56.4 | also fans. Because at the end of the day, we approach this sport as two people who want this |
| 1:03.3 | sport to thrive. And I think we're going to do our best to represent the people, capital T, capital |
| 1:10.7 | P. And so if I get to speak on behalf, my wife loves when I do this, by the way. I'm sure. I'm familiar with this. Yeah, no, I am. Not to speak for Jody, but. Yeah, so I'm excited for this episode. Welcome back. What and all. Hit follow, hit subscribe if you are new here for ballers dot com is our |
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