Way-Too-Early Top 12s & Duke Sues Darian Mensah | College Football
The Solid Verbal College Football
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
With the national championship in the rearview mirror, we turn our focus to 2026 with our first official podcast of the preseason. In this episode, we unveil our way-too-early top 12s and take a closer look and which teams have the most continuity and best schedules, and which crushed the transfer portal. Who's too high, who's too low? Let us know! Plus, a quick roundup of the latest news, from portal signings to early NFL Draft declarations and the brewing legal fight between Duke University and Darian Mensah.
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0:00 - Intro
4:44 - News Update
21:17 - Way-Too-Early Top 12s
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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. |
| 0:22.7 | Dan Rubinstein, welcome back. |
| 0:24.7 | You know, just because we have a national champion does not mean that this train is going to stop anytime soon, my friend. |
| 0:32.1 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:33.1 | How are you? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm great. |
| 0:34.7 | You know what this is like, Ty? |
| 0:36.1 | You see it from NBA players sometimes when |
| 0:38.8 | there's a bad loss and then after they get changed or they go into the locker room, do a, you know, |
| 0:44.1 | answer the questions from the media and then go back out, right? Kobe's shooting 3003s after |
| 0:49.1 | a bad shooting performance. Not that our performance late season was bad, but we're not off |
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