Everything After the FCS Championship Will Be a Letdown

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🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Let's talk about the ACC of the NFL
Let's also meet the Earl of St. Petersburg
Ryan talks about attending the game of the year, where someone did not show him all the cows on their phone
Ryan also talks about going to the Rose Bowl, where 60,000 Indiana fans saw how bad Alabama was
Ryan might be the center of the college football universe this year, actually
Miami is the only team that has solved football with the innovative strategy "get quarterback, no pass"
"beating a team twice is hard" is one of the biggest lies in sports
The SEC should probably stop getting bounced from the playoff if they don't want people to talk about them getting bounced from the playoff
This episode was produced by Michael Ray Surber
Fullcast theme variant arranged and performed by Wes Hunt
DID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s not
Before the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other work
Travel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot exist
Check out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

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0:00.0	Spencer, before you jumped on, last week, Gene Deckerhoff announced that he's retiring after this season.
0:06.6	This was before the Falcons eliminated the bucks from the playoffs.
0:10.2	God, strongest soldier.
0:12.3	But yeah, so he had been there.
0:14.2	So here's from the Buccaneers' own page.
0:18.4	Deckeroff will have called more than 800 buccaneers games what year did he
0:26.3	joined the organization in 1989 okay so he missed the worst of it like yes it's not
0:34.1	it's not it's not 1976 oh but, but let me, here, here.
0:38.3	My entire life has been Gene Deckerhoff, Buck's calls.
0:42.3	He still joined, like, at the beginning of the Testa Verde administration.
0:47.3	Hold on. Do you know how many years they had to go before they got one winning season under Gene Deckerhoff?
0:53.3	Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I, I'm, I, I'm, eight. before they got one winning season under jean deckerhoff yeah i'm i'm many gears eight not yes the night
0:57.8	his ninth season they win 10 and six his ninth eight two presidential administrations of garbage
1:05.2	and this they were in the nfc central at this time too okay yeah yeah he's correct. Okay, yeah. He's coming in, taking over the Bucks job, because like calling the Bucks, I think, is more of a job than coaching them. You know, like, coaching them is like, ah, they'll get rid of me in eight minutes. Yes. Whereas calling them, you are the witness of this. You are the one who must chronicle all of this bullshit. But this is following after the Tampa Bay Bucks were like the worst team of like the late 70s, early 80s. Owen 14 and John McKay's first year, which back then no one gave a shit about expansion teams. These days it's like, oh, the NHL has a new team. Give them all the best players, whatever. But like, it was like 0 and 14, and it didn't get a whole lot better for almost 20 years.
1:58.3	And then it just got, there was a Super Bowl. That happened. And then it just got mid. Then it got mid. Stupid. Yeah. This man, this man with a straight face had to say like,
2:00.7	well, let's see what Jeff Garcia could do out there.
2:01.3	Yeah.
2:03.1	Like, like, not good Jeff Garcia.
2:17.5	We're talking, well, let's see what Jeff Garcia could do out there. Yeah. Like, like not good Jeff Garcia. We're talking, uh, Jeff Garcia, there was a dark and a light side. One was, I play in a bay. It's a great franchise. Everything's fantastic. And the other one was, there's a different bay. And it's Tampa and it sucks. And I'm playing with the wreckage of the Gruden administration.
2:21.8	Like, yeah, there's a Shiano run.
2:23.6	And it was like, we remember, like, all the memes as if it was just like this gigantic catastrophe.
2:29.0	Like, no, it was pretty standard buck stuff.
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