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Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

Penn State fires James Franklin plus we recap Big Ten week 7 games and preview week 8

Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

Ryan Abraham and David Woods

News, Sports News, Sports, Football

4.9813 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods try to make sense of the unprecedented fall from grace for the Penn State Nittany Lions, who three weeks ago was a play away from taking down Oregon to now firing head coach James Franklin after inexplicable losses to UCLA and Northwestern. The guys give their takes on the regime change and discuss where PSU goes from here. From week seven the Big Ten had some exciting games including Indiana smashing Oregon in Eugene, USC outmuscling Michigan, Ohio State throttling Illinois and UCLA smoking Michigan State. Looking ahead to week eight the last scheduled USC vs. Notre Dame game is in South Bend, Washington travels to Michigan and Penn State will try to get right at Iowa. The guys also welcome in special guest Chris Gorham, starring in CBS's new drama "Sheriff Country" (and a huge UCLA fan). As always, they wrap up the podcast by answering listener email and live chat questions. Here is the link to the Survivor Pool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfd40mHRlNb_kMm2alkG1Nh_l9_osLfJqXQ5MdMaMlr8fHPww/viewform?fbzx=7409685804100062573 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

From the heart of Big Ten country, Los Angeles, California, Ryan Abraham and David Woods

0:07.0

present the podcast of champions.

0:14.7

Welcome everyone back to the podcast of champions.

0:17.0

I'm David Woods from Bruin Report online, the UCLA site on the 24-7 Sports Network.

0:22.4

And I'm Ryan Abraham from USCFootball.com, the USC site on the 24-7 Sports Network. And together

0:27.8

we make the podcast for champions. Talk at all things. Big 10 football. We have a very special

0:34.8

show today because if you're watching us live on our YouTube channel

0:38.8

or you're watching the replay, we have a guest.

0:42.2

He apparently is a Bruins fan all the way from Toronto, Canada.

0:48.1

Chris Gorham, you can see him on the upcoming CBS show, Sheriff County.

0:53.8

Sheriff Country, Ryan. You have one job.

0:58.0

One job.

1:00.6

And now we've got a little delay.

1:03.2

So it's Sheriff Town.

1:07.6

Hang up. Hang up.

1:10.5

Well, Chris, welcome. How are you doing, man?

1:13.6

I'm great. It's nice to see you guys.

1:17.0

Is there a helicopter? Do you hear the helicopter, Ryan?

1:19.9

We're getting some bad audio and stuff. But if you guys don't know...

1:23.2

It's not here.

1:24.6

Chris is like a superstar. And we had a little, well, I don't know, sort of an impromptu get together to watch the first round of the college football playoff last year.

1:34.9

We were at a bar in Manhattan Beach.

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