Fan Therapy: Confronting the Trauma of 2024 College Football
The Solid Verbal College Football
College Football
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Before we can move forward with our 2025 season previews, we need to heal. In this episode, we hold our annual fan therapy session, helping the Verballerhood work through the most traumatic moments from last season. From Notre Dame's shocking loss to NIU (on a first-time visitor's birthday, no less) to the eight-overtime Georgia-Georgia Tech nailbiter, we're confronting the pain head-on.
Our listeners shared their deepest college football wounds: Penn State's crushing Orange Bowl interception, Oregon's Rose Bowl shellacking, Oklahoma's punter being its best quarterback, Texas's clutch 4th-and-13 conversion, and so much more. Plus: relationship drama intersecting with Texas State and Michigan State fandom.
Let's process the beautiful agony of this sport before preview season begins. Consider this your exposure therapy in advance of 2025.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:49 - Upcoming previews & explaining Fan Therapy
7:25 - Notre Dame's loss to NIU
13:25 - Florida State and Oklahoma State bottoming out
14:17 - Arkansas trauma
18:28 - Georgia vs Georgia Tech 8-overtime game
21:53 - The Backyard Brawl (Pitt vs West Virginia)
27:08 - The Calgorithm and the Cal vs Miami game
30:30 - Miami football being trauma adjacent
39:50 - Penn State trauma moments
42:28 - Michigan State fan (and relationship) trauma
44:32 - Oregon's Rose Bowl loss to Ohio State
48:08 - Oklahoma's offensive trauma
52:31 - Arizona State gives up a 4th & 13 in the Peach Bowl
58:25 - Texas trauma via Jack Sawyer
1:01:12 - Texas A&M trauma
1:03:46 - Texas State losing to Sam Houston in a restarted rivalry
1:06:10 - BYU's wild loss to Kansas
1:06:36 - Minnesota vs North Carolina opening game trauma
1:07:47 - Rutgers' schedule and struggles
1:08:12 - Tulane's lost playoff opportunity
1:09:04 - Quick rundown of other team traumas (LSU, Washington, Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Baylor, Louisville)
1:12:14 - Purdue fan trauma from Notre Dame game
1:13:40 - Wrap up and preview of upcoming episodes
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| 0:51.5 | Welcome to the solid verbal. The solid verbal. |
| 0:54.5 | Come after me. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm a man. |
| 0:57.2 | I'm 40. |
| 0:57.9 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 1:00.4 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 1:02.0 | Eat a steak. |
| 1:03.0 | It's that woo-woo. |
| 1:04.5 | And now, down and tie. |
| 1:08.0 | Dan Rubinstein, you know, a week from today, you and I are going to start recording our previews. |
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| 1:16.0 | For the 2025 season, it's going to start to get real here. |
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