Post-Spring Questions with Bill Connelly: Wildcard Conferences, G6 Sleepers & the SEC Logjam
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Bill Connelly from ESPN.com stops by to walk us through the post-spring college football landscape, fresh off turning in 7,000 words on the MAC and kicking off his annual conference preview series. We get into how the portal era has transformed his prep work, why the SEC has become a "horizontal" conference of strong middles, and which conferences are hardest to make sense of right now. Bill evaluates the Big 12 after the Brendan Sorsby news, talks up a few mid-major teams to watch, and explains why he still doesn't fully trust Texas the way the rest of the country does.
We also dig into the Bob Chesney's roster build at UCLA, Oklahoma State's full offensive transfusion, Lane Kiffin's quarterback insurance policy, and what to make of the pairing of Bryce Underwood and Kyle Whittingham in Ann Arbor. Bill also shares his Alabama skepticism, his read on Indiana's encore, and why he's increasingly intrigued by Texas A&M.
And, to close things out, a little World Cup talk in advance of this summer's tournament.
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0:00 - Intro
4:05 - Bill Connelly joins the show
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.3 | Welcome to the solid verbal. |
| 0:08.1 | The solid verbal. |
| 0:09.1 | Come after me. |
| 0:10.8 | 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. |
| 0:22.5 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back to the podcast, my friend. |
| 0:25.0 | How are you? |
| 0:25.8 | Good. |
| 0:26.3 | I can't believe you agreed to do a live watch-along for the Madrid Open and Raphael Hodar, |
| 0:34.1 | absolute local Spanish sensation taking on Janannick's sinner, established killer. |
| 0:41.3 | But I think it's a step in the right direction for both you and for the show in general. |
| 0:45.5 | When you say it's Hodar or Hodor, because Hodor was a character in Game of Thrones. |
| 0:50.0 | I think it's Hodar. I think it's J-O-D-A-R. |
| 0:53.3 | That's not spelled at all the same as the character I'm thinking of from Game of Thrones. No. This dude played a year at Virginia. We're talking about ACC Pettigree on the ATP tour and looking like a top 20 player as a 19-year-old. Is he better than Bo Perbula, though, I guess is the operative question. |
| 1:14.1 | I mean, is Bo Probula even the best quarterback on that roster? |
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