The 2025 Post-Mortem with ESPN's Bill Connelly | College Football
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
With Dan on vacation and the regular season officially in the books, Ty invited ESPN's Bill Connelly back to the pod to help us put the 2025 campaign in perspective. In this episode, we discuss the biggest risers, most head-scratching fallers, and how Indiana and Texas Tech are the best stories of the year. Plus, a conversation about how the Group of Five should fit into the CFP discussion, what to watch for in non-playoff bowls, what it felt like for Bill to be part of the Mountain West's tiebreaker, and how Bill's new book, Forward Progress: The Definitive Guide to the Future of College Football, can be instructive as college football forges ahead into uncertain territory.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | 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 Ty. |
| 0:22.6 | The ballers. |
| 0:24.4 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:25.9 | My name is Ty Hilda Brandt. |
| 0:27.5 | My beloved co-host, Dan Rubenstein, is currently enjoying the sun and surf at an undisclosed location. |
| 0:35.2 | He will be back with us on Sunday when we drop our college football |
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