Intro to the 2025 College Football Season | CFB Previews
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 1 July 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We kick off our 2025 college football preview season with everything you need to know before the action begins on August 23rd. From revenue sharing to playoff seeding changes, new coaching hires to massive quarterback transfers, we break down all the major storylines heading into the season.
In this college football podcast episode, we discuss the sport's new revenue sharing structure, playoff format adjustments, and rule changes (goodbye, Lanning loophole). We dive into the biggest coaching moves—from Bill Belichick at UNC to coordinator shuffles at Ohio State, Florida State, and beyond. Plus, we analyze the most impactful quarterback transfers including John Mateer to Oklahoma, Carson Beck to Miami, and Fernando Mendoza to Indiana.
We also cover the media landscape changes with Lee Corso's retirement and preview what promises to be a season where familiar faces in new places could reshape the college football hierarchy. Is this the year for Clemson's resurgence? Can Penn State finally break through? And who will emerge from the crowded Group of Five race?
Consider this your intro guide to the 2025 season.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
5:07 - Season start date and the strange familiarity of 2025
9:47 - "Old names in new places"
11:55 - New questions for blue bloods
16:22 - Revenue sharing
19:37 - Straight seeding in the CFP
20:30 - New FBS teams and conference realignment
23:11 - New rules
27:30 - Head coaching changes
33:21 - Key coordinator changes
40:58 - Notable transfers
46:49 - Impact freshmen
49:15 - Media news & random factoids
51:32 - Consensus top 10
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:03.0 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:04.0 | Come after me. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm a man. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm 40. |
| 0:08.0 | I've heard so many players say, well, I want to be happy. |
| 0:10.0 | You want to be happy for a day? |
| 0:12.0 | Eat a steak. |
| 0:13.0 | It's that woo, woo. |
| 0:15.0 | And now, down and tie. |
| 0:18.0 | Dan Rubinstein in his preview season at Long Last. My friend, welcome back to the show. How are you? |
| 0:26.5 | I'm great. I got to give you a warning because today where this is the episode one of preview season where we review all things new for the sport, for teams, for media, |
| 0:41.5 | for coaches, whatever for the 2025 season. If I sound like I have some extra zip to me today, |
| 0:48.9 | I just brewed up a cup of coffee with not a sponsor, but beans that were, I don't even |
| 0:56.6 | know what this means, processed with watermelon. |
| 0:59.2 | Oh. |
| 1:00.0 | Coffee beans processed with watermelon by, I think, a roaster named methodical coffee in |
| 1:06.8 | Greenville, South Carolina, not a sponsor would be very specific, could be. |
| 1:11.7 | And delicious. |
| 1:13.6 | Absolutely, but wild. |
| 1:16.3 | Absolutely bonkers on the palate. |
| 1:18.6 | And I like it. |
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