May Q&A: Part 1 - Big 12 Contenders, SEC Hypotheticals & College Football in 2035
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In Part 1 of our big May Q&A, we dig into some of the biggest questions hanging over college football right now, starting with Brendan Sorsby’s uncertain status at Texas Tech and what it could mean for the Big 12 race. We also get into the new single-window transfer portal calendar, the changing value of internal player development, and how roster construction is evolving in a sport where continuity, money, scouting, and plain old luck all seem to matter at once.
From there, we zoom out to the SEC’s national championship drought, Texas’s non-conference schedule, the future structure of college football, and what a more stable version of the sport might look like by 2035. And naturally, we also find time for foot massagers, suspicious domain names, street-naming philosophies, and a little competitive geography talk.
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
2:16 - Brendan Sorsby & Portal Buyers' Remorse
22:16 - Homegrown Talent
36:18 - Non-con Schedule Smoke
44:12 - SEC vs The Field
51:24 - CFB in 2035
1:07:45 - Street Naming Strategies
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.7 | 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, down and tie. |
| 0:22.7 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back to the podcast, my friend. |
| 0:26.8 | How was your weekend? |
| 0:28.3 | Good weekend. |
| 0:29.2 | We had a, it was a chill in the air, but we had some kids sports pop off successfully. |
| 0:35.3 | It's a nice day outside in the |
| 0:37.5 | Chicago Burbs. |
| 0:39.5 | I get to talk to the |
| 0:41.3 | internet's Ty Hildenbrand. |
| 0:42.8 | Everything's coming up, Rubenstein. |
| 0:44.3 | Dan, I have some news. |
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