The Week 0 Takeover: College Football’s New Reality
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Is Week 0 about to change forever, and what does it mean for us as college football fans?!
Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo explains why the SEC pushed for this, what it means for the entire college football landscape, and how it will also have an impact in the College Football Playoff.
Mundo also touches on why the NCAA needs to move ahead with its "five in five years" for eligibility, and how the NCAA is hurting itself by likely expanding the NCAA Tournament from 68 to 76 teams.
Lastly, who were the TOP 10 Big 12 football players from 2000 to 2009. Mundo gives his list!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, if you're not ready for it, get ready for it. |
| 0:03.0 | College football is set to begin earlier than ever before, and it's probably going to happen |
| 0:08.5 | in the 2027 season. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Pete Mundo, Heartland College. |
| 0:12.1 | Sports welcome in. |
| 0:13.1 | Thanks for joining us, as always. |
| 0:14.9 | As a part of the show, we cover the Big 12. |
| 0:17.5 | We cover the entire sport, and that's where we begin this show this week. We're giving |
| 0:23.7 | you multiple episodes per week. So please make sure you are subscribed and please like the video |
| 0:29.4 | as well. We always appreciate our radio affiliates being here as well. So we are set to see |
| 0:36.3 | college football move from what we now consider week one to a permanent |
| 0:42.5 | week zero start that will turn out to be week one. I'm not a fan of it, but I understand |
| 0:49.6 | why college football is doing it. There's a couple of things that play here. First, |
| 0:54.7 | it's safety. |
| 0:59.0 | I mean, the SEC coaches are basically getting their way in part and being like, |
| 1:01.8 | oh, we got to do nine conference games now. |
| 1:04.5 | Oh, my gosh, the SEC's so hard. And we need that extra week for a buy because, oh, this league is so tough. |
| 1:10.6 | Who wants to tell them the Big 12th's been playing nine league games for a buy because, oh, this league is so tough. Who wants to tell them the Big 12's been playing nine league games for a decade and a half |
| 1:16.1 | at this point, right? |
| 1:18.1 | Did a true round robin when the league went to 10 games 15 years ago. |
| 1:22.2 | And the belly aching out of the SEC is truly unbelievable. |
| 1:27.1 | And they just have no shame, but it is |
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