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Godfrey's back, Richard's leaving and we're not sure about much else. Oh also the NFL Draft is this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Alex talk with new Appalachian State head coach Shawn Clark about the unique way the Mountaineers have continued their success as an FCS power to become a Group of 5 elite. The group discusses how App State evaluates and recruits, how to schedule as a team Power 5 schools shouldn’t really want to play, and how the program has entrenched itself after jumping from FCS. Plus, let’s talk about why an offensive line coach should probably be your offensive coordinator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Alex talk with UAB head coach Bill Clark, who led the Blazers through a program shutdown and prolonged uncertainty a few years ago, about what it’s like to run a team through the COVID-19 pandemic. They also talk about defensive theory, a good Nick Saban story, and the Conference USA picture in 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex and Richard take your questions in a mega ASK grab bag about COVID-19's ongoing impact on college football, but also a bunch of questions that have nothing to do with the coronavirus and a few at the end that aren’t strictly about football at all Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Alex talk to Matt Brown, proprietor of the Extra Points newsletter and longtime college sports person for SB Nation. Matt spends a lot of time covering college athletic finances, so he joined the show to talk about how programs and conferences of every size might move forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex and Richard are joined by Ced Funches to talk about the world of college football logo design. Yes, the press releases are banal and sometimes too bogged down in marketing speak, but there’s a lot more that goes into creating a program’s visual identity than simply picking a color that you like. Ced also settles for good and all some of the most pressing color pallette debates surrounding Florida and Pitt. A note about the charities referenced at the top of the episode can be found here: Cfmt.org - Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Hon.org - Hands on Nashville. Gideonsarmyunited.org - Gideons Army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Alex are joined by Derrik Klassen, of Rotoworld and Football Outsiders to talk about quarterback play. What makes a “big arm” so big? Have some of the best QBs in history ruined what we think about mechanics? And lightning round elevator pitches about about the 2020 draft class signal callers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oh, you thought we were an NFL show before? You ain’t heard nothin’ yet. Richard and Alex Kirshner are joined by Charles McDonald of the New York Daily News to talk about the Combine that you do see and the Combine that you don’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and special guest Ryan Nanni travel to Culver-Stockton College to talk to Andrew Rupcich, winner of the 2019 Piesman Trophy, about the play that won him the crystal pie. They then take your questions about the NCAA possibly granting every student-athlete a single transfer option, whether Joe Burrow can/will actually play for someone other than the Bengals, what our work weeks actually look like, and how to be a responsible Arkansas fan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard has a conversation with Nate Scott of USA Today sports about his true crime podcast called “The Sneak” (which you should listen to right after this episode). Once that’s out of the way, Nate regales us with tales of Tulane’s football renaissance and what it was like to deal with the NCAA in post-Katrina Louisiana. He also plays the Godfrey part while we do therapy words for the Colorado job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud and Richard come to you on this legacy Signing Day wondering whether the early signing period is in fact too late. Do players care how bad your team is? Who will join the Blue Chip Ratio club next? In the wake of Mark Dantonio's retirement we talk the context of what he leaves in East Lansing. Also: a special announcement from Bud.

Editor's note: if you are someone who is sensitive to talk about sexual misconduct, we would advise you to skip from 6:30 to 9:30 . Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey preview the BIG GAME LOL NOPE they're gonna scour the XFL rosters (debuting next week!) for the most college football friendly rooting interests possible. The official PAPN XFL team will surprise you. It surprised us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey dive into some offseason #AskPAPN, featuring fun and weirdness with North Dakota State, Boise State, Auburn, Ole Miss, Kent State and why your coach should ABSOLUTELY agree to be interviewed on this show. (NOTE: Some audio issues popped up on this episode. We did our best) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard, Bud and Godfrey are huddled in a bachelorette party themed hotel room to talk about weird rumors they heard while drinking with football coaches in a former country music theme park. This is all very normal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When news broke that Mike Leach (and not Billy Napier, Steve Sarkisian, Todd Grantham, or a number of other possible hires) was getting the Mississippi State job, Godfrey and Richard hopped on the phone with Banner Society colleagues Brian Floyd, Alex Kirshner, and Ryan Nanni to try and figure out - what the hell just happened? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey pick apart Mississippi State's firing of Joe Moorhead, the timing of its next hire and what Baylor will do after Matt Rhule. There's also some suggestions for the Pac-12 and CBS to start dating, FSU's great assistant hires and a minor national title preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey is joined by noted Twitter user and Banner Society EIC Ryan Nanni to discuss the playoff, the good bowls, the bad bowls and TV ratings. New year, new me? Hell no, we're gonna talk length about K State and Louisville instead of Clemson and Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hope you're good and sluggish from all that holiday'in. Richard, Bud and Godfrey wanna figure out if Wisconsin can run the triple option while Army and Navy go shotgun. Also how screwed is USC's recruiting? Why cant' UCF close the gap in Florida? And why are most head coaches that aren't Dana Holgorsen married? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Bud join Godfrey for the first of two #AskPAPN installments to help ease your holiday travels. Is Paul Johnson coming back to coaching? How bad is Georgia's offense, really? Will Barry Odom throw shade at Missouri recruiting for Arkansas? Can a Clemson-less ACC beat the AAC straight uP? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud, Richard and Godfrey plow through the entire bowl slate and uh, well... it's football. At least some of it. Helping things out is a very intriguing 2/3 match in the playoff, so we spend a lot time trying to figure out how to feel about Clemson and Ohio State. We also find sleeper picks for good reasons (Indiana and Tennessee are excited!) and bad (USC, don't lose to Iowa). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud joins Godfrey to break down the trends, winners and surprises of Early Signing Day. Spoiler: It might as well just be the actual National Signing Day. All the power programs you expect are doing quite well - Clemson, Alabama, LSU, etc. - but there's plenty of unexpected stuff happening at USC, Texas Tech and oh man Arkansas you got some work to do, pal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey recap, explain and pick apart the searches that finished up over the weekend and the variety of jobs still left open. Oh, and the NFL hasn't ended yet, so don't act like this mess is ending anytime soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey, Richard, and Alex Kirshner sit down to discuss the semifinal pairings and the rest of the New Year's 6 games, including what Memphis might do in a transition period, who should be happiest they didn't grab the fourth playoff spot, what Oregon's future looks like, which playoff outcomes make for the juiciest narratives, and what Baylor fans will do in New Orleans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey, Richard and Bud close out the 2019 Tasting Menu with a lengthy, well-rounded trip through 1. Actual football games, 2. Tons of coaching news and rumors and 3. Playoff conjecture galore. Everything and anything is a topic this week. Enjoy it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a special MEGA SHOW, Richard and Godfrey wrap up Week 14 by anointing LSU, Ohio State and Clemson as the realest of the real-ass playoff teams. There's also the weird fun of back-to-back Memphis vs. Cincinnati games, Iron Bowl nonsense, Utah's potential to be the most interesting No. 4 seed AND OH GOD SO MANY COACH FIRINGS AND GOSSIP THERE IS BLOOD ON THE CEILING HOW DID OLE MISS EVEN DO THAT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud, Richard, and Godfrey pick through the holiday rivalry week and look for the quality games (A&M vs. LSU! Cincy vs. Memphis! The Commonwealth Cup!) while trying not to frame everything around that pesky playoff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On a special episode of PAPN, Richard and Godfrey interview search firm veteran Chad Chatlos of Ventura Partners. No longer a fad, these firms are now a fact of life in coaching searches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey heap praise on Michigan (this is true), make fun of Georgia's continued "offense" (this is true), enjoy a laugh on how they weren't part of the anti-Herm campaign (this is true) and rationalize Cincinnati's ability to win close games (this is false, they're lucky as hell) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard, Godfrey and Bud pick through the especially slim SoCon Saturday and find Indiana vs. Michigan, Texas A&M and Georgia, some high quality G5 and THE RETURN OF #ASKPAPN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey debate Arkansas' place in the SEC, it's value as a program outside of it and where the Hogs could go after almost a decade of bad coaching moves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey can't seem to find the HUGE LOOMING MATCH-UP quality in the SEC title game despite LSU allowing a buncha points versus Ole Miss and Georgia winning a boring, defense-y game vs. Auburn. Also: Iowa will Iowa you at Iowa, Cincinnati is SUSPECT and Baylor led a big game by a particular margin that didn't hold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard, Bud and Godfrey sort through a Week 12 that starts strong in the morning and uh... maybe do a date night or volunteer in the evening or something. Louisiana Tech is cool, Georgia vs. Auburn will be a SEC brand of cruddy and Penn State probably won't lose to Indiana, but hey... Minnesota! We love them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey ditch the hurry-up and go long on LSU and Bama's latest game of the century, how the playoff culture is already shortchanging the football parts of good football games and whoops oh hey maybe we should've been nicer about Minnesota and Baylor. And hey, WKU got Chad Morris fired while this episode was being edited! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard, Bud and Godfrey can't ignore the magnitude of LSU at Bama, but there's still some other stuff to pick at. Is Boston College running an all jet-sweeps offense? Will Western Kentucky's QB cause a job opening at Arkansas? Will undefeateds Minnesota and Baylor actually earn our respect? Also, yeah... LSU Bama. That one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey share coaching rumors about the cratering in the Ozarks, how Greg Schiano is believed to be the only one who could undo Rutgers' mess, what USC might do with or without Urban and where the Silly Season stands as of early November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey and Bud talk through the breaking news on Florida State's firing of Willie Taggart after just 20 games in Tallahassee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Kirshner joins Godfrey to round-up a bye-laden week that saw Oregon and Utah DO GOOD GOOD PLAYOFF CALIBER FOOTBALL THINGS. Seriously, they belong in the conversation now. Also Georgia beat Florida on third down and also on the scoring more points part, and FSU is back to being a big old mess. Memphis, you're FUN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud, Richard and Godfrey are telling you to SKIP THE MORNING GAMES in Week 11 and dive into a bounty of Florida vs. Georgia, USC vs. Oregon, Washington vs. Utah and a host of other narrative friendly affairs. Is Pitt gonna Pitt itself? Is Miss. State vs. Arkansas a certified Anxiety Bowl? IS THAT THE AAC IN PRIMETIME? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey still don't totally know what to do with Minnesota, Penn State avoided any possible Dantonioing, it's time to lament what could have been as Utah rounds into form, and Godfrey says nice things about Michigan football. Oh, and Kansas State got Oklahoma to blink, hard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud, Richard and Godfrey pick up on yesterday's coaching discussion with a long look at what's going on with Willie Taggart and the 'Noles. Also there's at least some historical merit to worrying about Michigan State, at least if you're Penn State. Plus there's a MAC pop quiz and compliments about Georgia State! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey make bets on Rutgers' pick for head coach, talk about the work needed to make Old Dominion a really good G5 gig and examine the cooling of many, many hot seats after Saturday. Temporary? Permanent? Both! Except for Arkansas, holy crap is that place going south... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey (well really just Richard let's be honest) roll around in the glee of Illinois Adjusted eating Wisconsin's slow, scared decision making alive. Alabama won ugly because they lost Tua and played Jeremy Pruitt's big dumb defense. Also the Pac-12 really isn't that bad because Oregon rallied at Washington, Utah's mean as a snake and OH BOY that's the reanimated corpse of USC! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard, Bud and Godfrey want you to watch SMU and Temple because it's a "Gameday" quality affair that dumb old Michigan had interrupt. Also there's a lot of nail-in-the-coffin losses lurking this week, plus South Carolina's gonna try to be bigger and dumber than another better opponent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey look at college's football's sole opening - Rutgers - as well as the various hot and cold seats at places like USC, Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Ole Miss and Arkansas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spencer Hall joins Godfrey to marvel at LSU's offensive efficiency and explosiveness, gag at Michigan State, notice Oregon's new competent style of defense and figure out how dumb the Georgia / South Carolina game was. It was real dumb. Sorry, spoilers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud and Richard JOIN FORCES to prepare viewing, gambling and hollerin' recommendations for a fantastic weekend of games. We're talking Florida-LSU, Red River (appropriate noun here), Bama-A&M, Hawaii-Boise, Penn State-Iowa and all the other good ones. You don't even have to watch Notre Dame and USC! It's that good! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey's on the road this week, so Ryan Nanni fills in with Richard to talk about Minnesota putting together its first non-nail biter, Washington stumbling hard against Stanford, the emotional roller coaster that was Miami-Virginia Tech, Bo Nix's Very Bad Day, USF doing what it had to against UConn, Boston College transforming into a Big 12 team, Oregon getting dragged into a Cal game and winning, and the Superfund site that is the Northwestern offense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The tasting menu warns you against ugly things like whatever Ohio State will do to Michigan State and tells you to spend some time with... Illinois and Minnesota? Is that right? Also Bud's just falling head over heels for the AAC (seriously). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey set the table of playoff teams, maybe playoff teams and everyone else after September. Auburn’s doing real good! Minnesota is too! So is Iowa! USF is not. (Note! This episode was recorded before Rutgers fired Chris Ash, in case you're wondering why that didn't get discussed.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's uh... another buffet! Yeah. But there's a lot of figuring-it-all-out this week, like whether or not Indiana or Michigan State will have a lackluster year WAIT WAIT COME BACK. We're also gonna talk a lot of Texas, UCF, Iowa State, Utah and Notre Dame. Promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Godfrey try to find the commonalities in the USC and UCLA narratives, while Bud embraces the Group of Five with question after question about the Mountain West, App State, Boise and SMU! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's some really, really good teams - seven, we think - and some pretty good teams like Wisconsin and Auburn and then a bunch we have no idea about (Hello Pac-12!). Also there's SMU. Watch out for them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s good football all day long this Saturday! Let’s plan a bountiful day of viewing with Bud and Richard. Also - is Texas vs Oklahoma State the real best primetime game? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let’s pick apart both sides of that bizarre NC State loss to West Virginia, and talk about Oklahoma, Nebraska, Purdue, William & Mary, Memphis, FAU, Marshall and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A low-stakes week of weird side stories didn’t disappoint. The top of CFB sleptwalk, but hoo boy did things get weird down below. And you’re damn right we saw MOUNTAIN BEST comin’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 3 is uh... unique? Let’s not kid ourselves, this is territory for hardcores only. Luckily that’s you - and us! - so we’ll build an aggressive flip-around viewing schedule with Richard while Bud sifts through this crap for winners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Bud join the return of #AskPAPN to talk about issues both perceived and real against Notre Dame, how good the Mountain West can be, Texas State's sneaky quality, the virtues of being a FCS Goliath and why San Jose State is bad all the time. To donate to the Hagan family, click here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/gift-from-lsu-fans-to-gsu-childrenfamily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a week of near catastrophe early (good job, Michigan) and actual catastrophe late (uh oh, Tennessee, Stanford, and Washington), Godfrey and Richard Johnson catch you up on an interesting Week 2 and what we do, don't, and only maybe know about the season thus far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard and Bud join Godfrey to take one last look at that big ol' Texas vs. LSU game down in Austin, as well as some very on-brand deviations into exactly how bare the roster is at West Virginia, whether or not Army is asleep headed to Michigan and we'll make an official Anxiety Bowl ruling on BYU vs. Tennessee. Oh, and the NFL is a pox on Thursday nights and should be destroyed. That too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oregon loses to Auburn and the rulebook, the floor drops lower in Knoxville, Boise State > humidity, is Cincy good or is UCLA bad (or both?), and more as Jason Kirk joins Godfrey to recap the first full Saturday of 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A FULL WEEK OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL HAS ARRIVED TO SAVE US. Bud and Richard help Godfrey pick apart a well-balanced schedule of college football from Thursday 'till Monday night. And by Monday night, we mean whatever you DVR'd Saturday because no one should have to watch Notre Dame assault Louisville except Robert Damn Petrino. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Most FBS teams will beat their FCS opponents. Some will not. Let’s pick those teams and make a game out of it that YOU CAN PLAY TOO. Check out the link here to draft along with us: https://forms.gle/kuA4UUHAzrkHQxhz8 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boise State's head coach talks about how to manage a quarterback race, how to manage an outsider campaign against the playoff (and the BCS) and drag racin' in Idaho. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's act like two football games make a real week, dammit. Bud and Richard get especially Floridian exploring Gators / Canes from every angle possible, and oh hey Arizona you really need to win this football game at Hawaii. Seriously, y'all. PLUS: Kent State's Sean Lewis is the FBS' youngest coach in maybe its toughest job, but he's damn sure enjoying it. Must be the Jameson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Cincinnati head coach and longtime Buckeye opens up about his decision to go public against the NCAA’s bizarre transfer policies and Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh. He also talks about his insane year as Ohio State’s interim coach and the horror that is Mike Vrabel’s mustache. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hawaii head coach Nick Rolovich remembers the moment he was done with football - it involved a hard count in a European league game and a very heavy defensive tackle - as well as dispenses advice on how to father twins (if you want to do that). CSU's Mike Bobo survived a hellish 2018 year on and off the field. He talks about that, and what life is like taking criticism as a play caller in the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud breaks down the supermath involved in his Blue Chip Ratio, which certifies which teams are actually talented enough to make the playoff, and Richard examines the complexity of Shai Werts' bizarre encounter with South Carolina police. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Richard has a cord-cutting guide for the most broke-ass (yet comprehensive) consumption of college football without a cable bill. Also, Bud and Godfrey took all the Vegas win totals for 2019 and debated which would cause a firing. Spoilers: a lot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

August drags (sweats) on. Godfrey and Bud decide to end all polls after #15, and Richard stops by to gossip about the potential for a bloody coaching season in the Group of Five. If you haven't, leave a review for 2.0, tell a friend to check out the show, and go to afootballwebsite.com to find more from Banner Society! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey is joined by friends of the program Bud Elliott and Richard Johnson to discuss the appropriate levels of mockery for the Pac 12, why Utah is such an appealing pick, Florida State’s trash APR, and has anyone noticed BYU’s future schedules? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 1.0 version of PAPN ends (2.0 coming in August) with a MEGA episode... * Some #personalnews from one of your esteemed co-hosts * Talking about 2019 story lines, coordinator hires, and infallible bowl projections with Athlon's Mitch Light * Talking about said #personalnews with SB Nation CFB editor Jason Kirk * ONE LAST MEGA #ASKPAPN: the resurgent MWC! Mercer! FCS favorites! Kirk Ferentz retiring (lol yeah right)! Conference USA's NY6 breakthrough! Favorite Foul Play feedback moments! Pressure on Joe Moorhead! Hugh Freeze! The return of #SabanOr! * WE EVEN BROUGHT BOX SCORE BINGO BACK. That's how much we love you guys. * No seriously, we love you guys. This isn't a goodbye ... at least, not exactly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's finally finish talking about the Mountain West!
Let's finish talking about the ACC, too! NCStating: the next Clemsoning
Yeah, Notre Dame's going 10-2
AskPAPN: Geoff Collins' marketing ability, the next drivers of realignment, Illinois' desperate (and almost successful) offseason, college football on the NFL Network!, LSU playing a triple-option team the week before Texas, Liberty's great (and probably brief) marriage with Hugh Freeze, what other teams Michigan fans should root for, Jim Leonhard's coaching path, and the best bad songs of 1999.
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Bud Elliott guest hosts an ACC-intensive episode. The ACC was damn near catastrophic last year, and you can separate basically every non-Clemson team into two categories: those looking to bounce back after crippling disappointments, and those looking to stay ahead of the pack after defeating disappointing teams last year. HELLO. REMEMBER US? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, it's the Internet's only pro football podcast, bringing you the latest in important NFL Draft news and notes. * NFL Draft 2019: SB Nation's Alex Kirshner joins us to talk about the lack of general stupidity in this year's conventional draft wisdom (Daniel Jones aside) and the wonders of Indianapolis in February. * MOUNTAIN WEST ASS END: SJSU is fighting a losing battle, UNLV needs to win this year, Hawaii is the world's perfect chaos agent, Colorado State really needs to win this year, Air Force should rebound despite the Army Effect, and ... what are you doing, New Mexico? * #AskPAPN: Transplant an HC/QB combo onto an NFL team, Penn State's massive renovation project, Rutgers and the triple option, post-Dantonio Sparty vs. post-Alvarez Bucky, Arkansas' expectations after Year Zero, etc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hail to the (donating) victors
PAPN, your home of Anti-Big Ten Lacrosse propaganda
What's in YOUR school T-shirt collection?
AAC TOP END POWER RANKINGS: UCF's gain is USF's pain, Temple only sort of went against type, Houston is spending like a P5 team, Luke Fickell really does like being at Cincinnati, and Memphis has become what we always thought Memphis would become.
ASKPAPN: What to know about Michigan OC Josh Gattis? What do running/passing game coordinators do? Does Bill root for what his stats predict (and therefore against Texas)? Does Mark Stoops get a bigger job one day? How's the Gus Bus looking? Are we seeing a scheduling arms race? Is Mark Whipple going to be a good Pitt OC? What hope should FSU fans have this year re: that whole "scoring points" thing?
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We're helping EDSBS raise money for an amazing charity, and we're doing it in the name of ULM. #PAPNbrand
The More You Know: Joey Lauren Adams got her start on a Married... with Children spinoff.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ASS END OF THE AAC: Words can't describe how magnificently bad UConn's defense was last year, Mike Houston's kind of a jerk but a great damn coach, Tulsa might be low-key the oddest job in FBS, Navy absolutely could bounce back (but it's hard to outright predict it), SMU wasn't as turnkey as we thought, and Willie Fritz ... isn't going to run the ball as much maybe?
Let's also talk about the Big 12's ESPN+ deal and what it means for both the Big 12 and ESPN's streaming future. The golden age of saving money by cord cutting ... probably isn't going to last much longer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're back after an unexpected week off! Lots to cover: * Curses are real * Shutdown Fullcast: the shingles of audio * Texas State has very clearly proven that potential and recruiting aren't everything * Deli trays are hell * SUN BELT POWER RANKINGS: Eliah Drinkwitz doesn't want to put a single dent in the car, Georgia Southern's schedule is rough, and all the loving thoughts to the Anderson family * Yeah, Kansas should run the triple option. And Oregon State. And screw it, Vandy too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's be honest here: between travel difficulties and decrepit computers, you're really lucky to be getting a podcast this week. But we made it in under the wire.
SUN BELT PREVIEW STUFF: Georgia State stumbled! Bill has no words for South Alabama! ULM is awesomely pissy! UL is loading the hell up! Georgia Southern is full-on G.A.T.A. again! Coastal Carolina's still weird! We forgot Texas State!
Okay, yes, let's talk about the Pac-12's latest someone-give-us-money-please gambit. (Also, NewCo? Really?) That AAC media deal is probably not as pretty as it seems, and besides, the Mountain West is the better conference anyway amirite???? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's time to sell you on Conference USA. A bunch of inseparable teams at the top! Competitive games every week! Non-conference upset opportunities (not really)! Lane Kiffin and Seth Littrell are still here! So is Bill Clark! North Texas has a very good chance to be Good In Texas! Someone at MTSU should pay attention to MTSU! Also: The best PODS proposal yet, Apple could drive the next round of realignment, Mizzou might start 8-0, the HARDEST SCHEDULES EVER (yes, Auburn has like 40% of them), Tennessee vs. Nebraska, and YOU BROKE OUR HEARTS, AUNT BECKY. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is the Sloan Conference? Is Bill more comfortable around coaches than nerds now? CONFERENCE USA PREVIEW TALK: Can Bobby Wilder rebuild what he built at ODU (and what's the ceiling there)? Does Louisiana Tech have another gear? Can FIU transition from lucky to dominant? Where is Alcorn State? Can Southern Miss ride experience to another breakthrough (with a murderous schedule)? ALSO: Let's talk about the WORST. COLLEGE FOOTBALL. TEAMS. EVER. (Congrats to Northern Arizona and Northwestern. And 1983 Rice.)

AskPAPN: Dan Mullen absolutely exceeded expectations last year, the transfer portal is modifying bagman culture, NC State is the only cursed football program, the difference between an analyst and lower-level position coach, MORE USC QUESTIONS, sleeping giants vs. giants falling asleep, Jim Delany and oil money (and whether Larry Scott would have thrived as B1G commish), the loaded Big Ten West coaching roster, and Willie Taggart's issues at FSU (man, that Boise State game is huuuuuuge from an anxiety standpoint).

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Bill's off to Nerdland to talk to Google and watch Michael Lewis take on Mike Leach. CONFERENCE USA PREVIEW TALK: GODFREY RASSLIN' (short) STORY TIME, UTEP is a hard job (but you can see what Dana Dimel wants to do), WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO FRANK WILSON AND UTSA????, the importance of class balance, everything Rice is trying to do makes sense (and it might not work), Charlotte's proposed offense is confusing, and WKU fired Mike Sanford and hired Mike Sanford. Also: are you watching the AAF? Why is minor league football worse than college football? Who qualifies for Year Zero? Who qualifies for Sleeping Giant status? Is Scott Frost a make-or-break hire? What the heck can Hawaii be doing to survive? Who are the country's most "one unit good, one unit hilariously awful" teams this year? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We know why you're here: HARDCORE MAC TALK. Frank Solich is a fine wine, Jason Candle might get a better job soon, WMU has absurd experience, and even Notre Dame media are piling on Bowling Green's Necessary Roughness-style staff. Also: you just don't understand how big a deal Kathy Ireland once was. Okay, yes, you're also probably here to hear us talking about aging sportswriters, virgin Twitter experiences, hating the troops, S&P+ figuring out option offenses, and, uh, good tennis books. You have a standing invitation to come on the show, John Feinstein. (Man ... Kathy Ireland ... John Feinstein ... uh, Frank Solich ... IT'S THE 1990S RETRO EPISODE OF PAPN.) Also, AskPAPN: the interesting Charlotte job, the most hopeless previews, OU should have gone for it every time against Bama, the easiest C-USA jobs, the MWC's commonsense moves, and good god, this Auburn-Georgia bickering is dumber than most Auburn-Georgia bickering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sometimes SECing can go wrong. Also: Murder Smurf hats, the return of Box Score Bingo, MAC PREVIEWS HAVE BEGUN -- optimistic hires abound!, Sean Lewis has a wonderful hipster beard, Jim McElwain's back, NIU went NFL, BGSU zagged in a way no one should, Akron is going Full NE Ohio, Ball State keeps getting wrecked by injury.. Also, ASK PAPN TIME: Phil Steele, Indiana's upset potential, Peter Warrick was Reggie Bush before Reggie Bush, heavyweights get different types of performance, who's the next Neal Brown, how should the NCAA actually punish wrong-doers so that the wrong people don't get hit, and UCONN HAS MORE VARSITY SPORTS THAN FLORIDA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our timing is horrid, Bill flew to a tropical island to watch a terrible Super Bowl, Greg Schiano is a coach's coach, Bret Bielema is trying to create a new career trajectory, LET'S TALK ABOUT S&P+ TWEAKS (UCF fans are maaaaaaaad), WE LEFT A PRODUCTION SCREW-UP IN JUST FOR YOU, player tracking is the future of football analytics, Art Briles and oh god Southern Miss what are you doing (~39:30), and congratulations to the NCAA for figuring out a way to unite Mizzou fans (~59:30). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey hates your SID (and your team), Godfrey's bold predictions weren't completely awful, Graham Harrell got a job!, Week 1 of the 2019 season looks quite good, Virginia Tech might not be completely screwed after all (nor might Tennessee or Florida State), Texas fans are yelling at Bill again, and ... Legion Field vs. Liberty Field: go! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey can't find his 2018 time capsule predictions, Bill's trying to figure out when his preview series should start, Costa Rica is lovely this time of year, the Saints-Falcons rivalry is amazingly collegiate, Gronk loved Arizona, and coaches have NO idea how to handle idle time. Also: #AskPAPN time! Mark Dantonio shuffled all his assistants' roles! Our Dream Work Trips list includes Tuscaloosa and Monterrey! Who does Clay Helton hire now? Clemson's timing was a little TOO good! WTH is happening at Virginia Tech? What should we expect from Georgia Tech (and when)? What should we think about Ole Miss' retooled staff? Who are looking forward to watching the most in 2019? And has David Gibbs finally tracked down Bill? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2019 college football preview series isn't far away (lol), but let's step back and admire the best games of the 2018 season one last time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Stats and reactions from Clemson's win over Alabama in the national title game, and also: AFCA meetings and Clay Helton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A review of January 1 bowl games and a breakdown of why Dana Holgorsen left WVU for Houston (and where WVU goes from here). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Reacting to the College Football Playoff semifinals, the bowls to date, and the latest goings-on in the coaching carousel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What was the score of your most important college football game? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tasting menu for the week's bowl games, plus an extended Q&A period including questions about an 8-team CFP and cold-weather title games. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A review of recent coaching hires and a preview of the first week of college football bowls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A review of recent coaching changes and ongoing rumors, plus a look ahead to Army-Navy and bowls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An initial reaction to the CFP semifinal pairings (Alabama-Oklahoma, Clemson-Notre Dame). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tasting menu for college football's championship week, plus the latest on coaching rumors (Louisville, Georgia Tech, etc.). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rundown of the most recent college football coaching hires and rumors, plus #AskPAPN questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rundown of the S&P+ top 25, from disappointing Wisconsin to a three-team top tier (Bama, Clemson, UGA). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A summary of rumored college football coaching changes and a tasting menu for Rivalry Week, from the Apple Cup to Michigan-Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's S&P+ top 25 countdown show, from Miami and Utah State to, yes, Alabama and Clemson at the top. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A special edition podcast about the Wakeyleaks scandal between Wake Forest and Louisville. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tasting menu for Week 12 of the college football season, from Iowa State-Texas to Syracuse-Notre Dame to Colgate-Army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Have we been too negative about the 2018 college football season? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A weekly rundown of the S&P+ top 25, from a rebounding Stanford to still-No-1 Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A viewing guide for (a shaky) week 11 of the 2018 college football season, from Mississippi State-Alabama to, um, Illinois-Nebraska. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The coaching carousel is starting up, so let's take a look at the college football jobs that might come open soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your S&P+ top-25 rundown following Week 10 of the college football season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Why being ranked 8th or 9th is best, in college football or life in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tasting menu for Week 10 of the college football season, from UCF-Temple on Thursday through Bama-LSU on CBS in prime time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Virginia, Kentucky, Northwestern, Utah: who's for real in college football? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your S&P+ top 25 rundown show after Week 9 of the college football season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A tasting menu for Week 9 of the college football season, from App State-Georgia Southern to Florida-Georgia to Texas-Oklahoma State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On potential CFP matchups, the value of head-to-head results, the 2011 Bama-LSU game, and whether the Louisville job really is an upgrade over Purdue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rundown of this week's S&P+ top 25, which includes plenty of G5 representation, a surging Utah, and a sinking Ohio State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a weeklong party in Pullman as Wazzu prepares to finally -- FINALLY -- host GameDay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ACC could get really nutty down the stretch, and Texas and Michigan State have a Groundhog Day thing going on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your weekly rundown of the S&P+ top 25 and a review of the week that was in college football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If Georgia is the weakest link among the top four, we'll begin to find out this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nick Saban's mad at his second-string defense, we don't hate NC State, who in the Pac-12 is good?, DEEP DEEP UTAH STATE TALK, Bobby Petrino's in trouble, Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt are fine, how big is the SEC's middle class?, and how do you measure player development? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your S&P+ top 25 rundown show, featuring a surging Utah State, a stupid Mizzou-South Carolina game, the lost NC State-WVU game, a Mark Richt team that stormed back in a rivalry game, a no-longer-fired Joe Moorhead, a boring top four, and TEXAS AIN'T BACK YET Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

T-Bob Hebert joins Bill and Godfrey to talk about LSU-Florida, the most Les Miles moment ever, and the perceptions vs. reality battle for both LSU in 2018 and Ed Orgeron as a whole. Also: turnovers luck, the Woodward of the Egg Bowl, and your week 6 tasting menu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ole Miss will be very different in 2019. Penn State wants to be elite. Let's make West Virginia happen. Let's just go hang out in Seattle. Texas should go back to triple-option. How do we get the coach salary toothpaste back in the tube? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your weekly S&P+ top-25 rundown: Hello, Fresno and NC State, Kentucky passed another test, UCF's a top-10 team (again), Notre Dame is looking gooooood, and, yeah, we should probably talk about the play call that decided Ohio State-Penn State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football's Week 5 slate is loaded ... and almost all the big games kick off at the same time. That's just ridiculous. Also: UNLV head coach Tony Sanchez talks about the grind of building a winner, standing out in Sin City, and his friends back in Las Cruces. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How S&P+ adjusts for opponent, how Stanford-Oregon happened, how Benny Snell gets into the Heisman race, how Nebraska hired Mike Riley, how petty Utah State fans can be, how Minnesota becomes Oregon, and how schools investigate themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's S&P+ top 25 rundown, from a murderous Appalachian State, to a hungover Oklahoma State, to a really, no seriously, very good SEC East, to this week's No. 5 team, James Franklin's Nittany Lions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football's week 4 slate ... ain't great. But we're here to walk you through it all the same. Also: Arkansas' SEC identity, Clay Helton's hot seat?, second chances for black head coaches, and why Gene Chizik really might not ever want to coach again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

IT'S THE FREAKOUT EPISODE

Have we had a strangely large number of fluky wins this year?
Lance Leipold is proof that FSU fans (and Arkansas fans, and all other fans of schools with first-year head coaches) should stop freaking out
LSU's ceiling isn't as high as it should be, but burly manball can win you some games
Why isn't Texas State better? When will Baylor be better again?
No, Purdue fans, your team probably isn't winning the Big Ten West Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your Week 4 S&P+ top 25 countdown, from the new teams (Indiana! Kentucky!) to the same old, same old. Ohio State used a five-minute burst to survive against a good-looking TCU, Wisconsin got out-Wisconsin'd, Auburn really should've beaten LSU, and does Oklahoma State have a defense now? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 3 is the most interesting yet for the 2018 college football season, but weather's getting in the way. Weather.com's Sean Breslin talks slow-moving storms and Seminoles, and then it's time for your weekend tasting menu, from Troy-Nebraska to ASU-SDSU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas A&M had the definition of a good loss, Boise State is a damn wrecking ball, Kevin Sumlin maybe should've sat out a year, Florida got lazy, a semi-ridiculous realignment scenario, and what has PAPN done for its hosts? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your first Sunday night, no-huddle show of the 2018 season, celebrating teams that are handling their business. Utah! Vandy! WVU! Boston College! Oklahoma State! Wisconsin! Plus: Boise State is wreaking havoc, Nick Saban can't figure out kickers, Clemson-A&M was beautifully manic, and Memphis-Navy was ... statistically unlikely. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SB Nation's Charles McDonald talks about the Falcons, the 2018 NFL season, and bridging together the worlds of college and pro football. Also: WEEK 2 PREVIEW! Mississippi State-Kansas State, Penn State-Pitt, a varied tasting menu, and a non-sarcastic appreciation for Iowa-Iowa State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We try not to overreact to one week of games, but we have to ask ... is Penn State bad? Illinois? (Okay, yes, of course.) Michigan State? Houston? Kansas State? Arizona? Texas? Temple? Miami? Florida State? Plus: #AskPAPN questions! Chicken bets! Archie Moore references! Something for everyone! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Kirshner on your best (YouTube TV) cord-cutting (YouTube TV) options at the moment (YouTube TV). Also: previewing the Week 1 schedule, crashing tailgates, regressing toward your historical mean, watching football with newborns, and finding love for a sport that clearly doesn't love you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quick reactions to Week 0's results: Wyoming's defense looks awfully Bohlish, and CSU's defense looks ... a lot like CSU's defense tends to. Also: Vegas baby Vegas, Crooked Letters on YouTube, and Godfrey's big, bold predictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill Connelly explores Miami and talks to The U head coach Mark Richt, assistant Mike Rumph, writer Cam Underwood, and business consultant Irela Bague to find out which team holds the city's heart and what it's like to be a sports fan in an event city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

RED ALERT. RED ALERT. IT'S WEEK ZERO. Time to go all-in on CSU-Hawaii, NMSU-Wyoming, JSU-A&T, and all the (sort of) first college football weekend has to offer. Also: SEC power rankings, panicky Florida fans, Boise State, Jeff Jagodzinski, and the next great MAC coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The AP's Ralph Russo joins to talk about the purpose, history, and logistics behind the AP poll, the luck involved in dynasties, and getting out of speeding tickets in Mississippi. Also: Ask PAPN! Shea Patterson vs. Brian Lewerke, and what's the worst school Nick Saban could win a national title at? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the PAPN Whitesnake hour! Let's talk about Florida, LSU, Auburn, existential dread, a changed Ed Orgeron, Nick Fitzgerald, grading Gus Malzahn without talking about Bama, the FSU-LSU series that is NOT A HOME-AND-DAMN-HOME, and ... stop talking, Will Muschamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kevin Kelley, championship-winning coach of Arkansas' Pulaski Academy, joins PAPN to discuss the whole "never punts" thing, along with getting better without getting better, progressions vs. reads in the passing game, and why fade routes are bad. Also: MAILBAG TIME. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Muschamp wants South Carolina to evolve beyond Big, Dumb Football. Can he pull it off? Also: BIG, DUMB THINGS -- Ohio State! Baylor! UNC Jordans! Angry Bama fans! Blaming ESPN for things ESPN had nothing to do with! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Urban Meyer, Ohio State, and Lesson No. 1,402 about what happens when you support the apparatus over the individual. Also: nervous birds, wonderfully dumb bowl sponsors, ACC power rankings, WEEK ZERO PAPN BOWL, lionizing Chip Kelly, appreciating Gus Malzahn, and improving Conference USA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“Miami-ing,” "Mark Richting," a bad Bud Foster defense, Mick Foley, Scott Frost, Matt Canada, Jim Harbaugh, Jeff Brohm, Hal Mumme, and the triple option. WHEW!

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Joe Moorhead’s offense and a win-now year at Mississippi State, the ACC’s unbelievable depth (every team’s got a semi-realistic chance at a top-40 performance), UAB’s new stadium, coozies vs. huggies, and a boatload of SabanOrs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The college football offseason has been so quiet, that we're scrounging for really dumb (okay, dumber than normal) things to argue about. Also: Finebaum and radio history, a chalky P5, arguing about Paul Johnson, NDSU to the MAC, and what Auburn's 2017 says about OOC scheduling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quiet offseasons are good offseasons (even if they produce silly stories like Mike Gundy and his AD bickering about recruiting). Plus: Who's No. 2 in the Big 12? Why isn't TCU playing Ohio State in Fort Worth? Is football apparel next for Puma? And what's going to matter in the next round of realignment? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Athlon's Mitch Light joins Bill and Godfrey to talk about zip codes, Army passes, fade routes, negative LSU predictions, Herm, Kent State, ranking conferences, and when an injury wrecks your entire magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A special edition of PAPN talking about Godfrey's dual Mississippi project -- the Foul Play video series on go90 and the corresponding written opus, Crooked Letters. Everybody cheats, the death penalty isn't a thing anymore, and Ole Miss had to leave so many stupid breadcrumbs for things to play out the way they did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey made a TV show, Las Vegas should host every conference title game, Stanford needs a healthy QB for once, Nick Saban would make an amazing AD (but won't), and what's the latest on LSU's perpetual existential crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just because the Pac-12 had a bad year doesn't mean it's not a power conference anymore. Also: Oregon was once as hard a job as Oregon State, Clay Helton only has to be good for USC to be great, Kliff Kingsbury to Bama?, and what do analysts actually do? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

TCU is not Methodist, A PROJECT X ANNOUNCEMENT, gross sports superstitions and vengeance, Joe Moorhead and explosiveness, what if Scott Frost DOESN'T work out?, Kirby Smart vs. Nick Saban, Houston and Hiroshima to the Pac-12, and are good ADs as good as bad ADs are bad? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AAC power rankings, the benefits of running plug-and-play "system," BYU in the short and long term, why no FBS conference would take Liberty, CFP odds in May, this week's "Saban or...", and why selling alcohol at games is a win-win for everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What happens when the NCAA loses its cheerleaders? Who wins Memphis vs. Houston in the AAC West? When do we find out about Ole Miss transfers? How do we feel about former Briles assistants? How long until the SEC beats the gregariousness out of Joe Moorhead? We got through a lot today! Including the things in the title! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can Luke Fickell coach? Is ECU a lost cause? How good is Jalen Hurts, really? Is Lee Corso seriously 90 years old? Who's Jeremy Kelly? And behold, as we manage to piss off every Texas fan base in a single scenario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Spring games, second-year breakouts (hello, Tom Herman), LSU fan despair, Mike Bobo, SDSU and national press, Utah State and close losses, and the best sipping tequila for a Cinco de Mayo wedding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What ESPN+ will and won't offer, why the Mountain West buzz is non-existent, and reader questions spanning from Stephen Garcia to USC to ... maybe (gasp) an actual Texas home-field advantage? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is fandom worth it? How much ass does the Big Ten still have? Why is Buffalo the most intriguing MAC team? What's a better job, USC or Alabama? And do you like your defensive tackles as bar fighters or black holes? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Alex Kirshner and Charles McDonald substitute for Godfrey in discussion of the 2018 NFL draft -- QB silliness, the purpose of the Combine, where to draft a great running back, etc. Also: EMU's financial future, Rutgers' 2018 schedule, and USC fan anxiety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

C-USA's new media rights deal, the Lane Train's remaining time in Boca, the worst mid-week MACtion game of 2018, Miami's national title potential, using minor bowls to experiment with rules, and how analytics might affect coaching habits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ball State Oscar winners, REALIGNMENT TALK, the independent state of BYU, Jimbo Fisher and Chad Morris carving out an SEC West niche, Syracuse and competitiveness, Tee Martin and equity, Rudi Johnson!, and UAB leaving the darling phase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Obama talked at Sloan, football is behind in the analytics race, what the Sun Belt's new ESPN deal means for the Sun Belt and ESPN, why Skip Holtz should stay at Louisiana Tech, and why the Big Ten DESPERATELY needs pod scheduling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Les Miles' future (and that of aging coaches in general), Herm Edwards' role as the exception to every rule, Brent Venables and guys with Bill Snyder coaching DNA, the interview process, global warming, and really hard jobs (like UTEP). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Joe Moglia's story is still cool, Bill did Finebaum, Godfrey's family has a fun team to root for, there were almost no G5 head coaches plucked away by bigger schools this year, and is Nebraska-Wisconsin going to be the new Oregon-Stanford? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Those in charge of college athletics have no idea how to fix college athletics, the 2018 preview series has begun, (weight room) size matters, and Trace McSorley might be the best returning QB in college football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's the #AskPAPN mailbag show! Steve Ensminger's résumé is amazing! Amazon, streaming, and the future of realignment! Data scraping! Parking and transportation bests and worsts! And what happens when Nick Saban retires? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Perusing the 2018 Conference USA and ACC schedules, reviewing the best and worst games of 2017, and watching a room full of coaches root against Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We almost got Ken Niumatalolo a P5 job, head coaches love security blankets, the West Coast Coaching Culture is a thing, and never go back to Indianapolis, Wisconsin fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football had itself another fantastic title game, but this sport still has all sots of soul searching to do. Also: Mizzou's 2018 schedule is rough, Mike Gundy is very tan, and it's time to go to coaching school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

"Auburn just didn't get up for UCF," Arizona's sudden change, reliving the Rose Bowl, Adult Butthead, Notre Dame hype, impatient Utah State fans, and UCF's middle-finger shaped national title banner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Matt Canada burns bridges, Memphis-Iowa State is the PAPN'est of bowls, North Carolina has an FBS overpopulation, and let's pick our preferred CFP title game matchups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Free trucks! Liquor and Pumas! Football on Facebook! The 2017 Sunshine State Classic! Mike Sherman! Placating USC! Pitt not freaking out! We let you set the agenda for this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Previewing the second week of 2017-18 bowl games and all they entail: Butch Davis, UAB, Josh Allen, David Gibbs, an awful December 26, Grandpa's last game, Iowa-BC, Drew Lock, OSU's blown opportunities, and the sellable Arizona-Purdue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mario Cristobal is stressed, Arkansas State-MTSU won't be bad!, Lane Kiffin gets prime time to himself, the new arms race is with analysts, Notre Dame's 2018 season is a raging hemorrhoid, and Will Muschamp's offenses are scared of Will Muschamp. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A Tennessee coach candidates ladder match, a great bowl slate, the year of the first-time coach, and the Michigan State expectations game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A quick rundown of the 2017-18 bowl season, from the fun early mid-major matchups to a dynamite duo of Playoff semifinals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sociology of Tennessee Fans 101, our love of young coaches who haven't failed yet, Levi's Quidditch Stadium, Georgia's odds in an Auburn rematch, Clemson's trust advantage, and J.T. Barrett vs. history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The top two teams in the CFP rankings lost this week; how far will they fall this week? Plus: shouts out to Fresno State, Louisville, Oklahoma State, Penn State, and MIGHTY Buffalo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Texas A&M is going to dump a good coach without a particularly good reason, Georgia-Georgia Tech is an underrated rivalry, Miami is Snoop Dogg, and Michigan is doing exactly what we thought this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yes, playing cupcakes before rivals is lame. Yes, let's can the moral indignation. And then let's move on because Rivalry Week is upon us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bud Elliott sits in to talk about recruiting, de-recruitment, development, where Arkansas and Tennessee went wrong, and how to make it through a dreadful Week 12 slate with your sanity intact. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and SB Nation's Matt Brown chat about Ohio, Michigan's newfound offense, Wisconsin's high floor, UCF's awesome play, and the way Miami makes potential CFP matchups fascinating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 11 is the biggest weekend yet for the college football season, Randy Shannon is no Ed Orgeron, Penn State and Ohio State have massive disappointments to respond to, and Hard Rock Stadium will ROCK on Saturday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Jason Kirk stands in for Godfrey for a chat about Arkansas State's sense of reality, Michigan State's ability to drag you to its level, UCF as an uncontroversial top-10 team, and Vegas giving Ohio State even more love than the computers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

CFP rankings! Coaching carousel! Piesman front-runners! Charity exhibitions! Announcements! We’ve got a lot to cover this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Big 12 has never been messier, the inaugural (and pointless) CFP rankings are almost impossible to predict, and there really aren't that many truly, undeniably good teams this season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Penn State's focused tailgaters, Auburn fans' desperate search for a good reason to fire Gus, Bret Bielema's plummeting stock, Florida's foolishly optimistic fans, and ... can Ohio State AND Penn State get revenge this weekend? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fresno State has a top-25 résumé, Miami is the king of drama, Paul Chryst has a large computer monitor, and Penn State went Full Moorhead on Saturday night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mike Gundy is comfortable in his own skin, Memphis-Navy might be the biggest game of the week, the Big 12 is a wonderful fireworks stand, we have all ruined Josh Allen, and Auburn's going to do something dumb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Big 12 has all sorts of land mines, Auburn fans are angry, Clemson's shortcomings were all laid out for the world to see, and about 13 teams have a claim to be in the top five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Introducing the first PAPN spinoff: Bill Connelly sets out to discover a city's culture through its sports. And he starts in his home state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oregon State's sudden coaching vacancy, Washington's nerdcore offense (and beef with ESPN), Georgia Tech-Miami, SDSU's manhood, the PAPN Theory for Sudden Program Decline, and a terrible Saturday night slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your college football Week 6 recap and ratings update: Michigan State is good again! The Big 12 is fun as hell AND quite good! Miami's finally cleared the FSU hurdle! And good lord, has Ohio State been perfect lately. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Butch Jones is a good dude who never makes things better when he opens his mouth, Alabama was once a disorganized mess too, what might work at UTEP, PAPN undergarments, and when Illinois Football nearly disrupts date night. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rundown of the best, and worst, teams in college football through five weeks. Oklahoma State and TCU are the same, it's okay to talk yourself into Auburn, Miami and UCF look fantastic, and Georgia Southern might be bottoming out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What to do when Bama fans invade your town. Plus: Georgia looked awfully Bama-like last week, JIMBO TO LSU FOR REAL THIS TIME, protecting injury information with your life, and ... okay, NOW is Brent Venables going to take a head coaching job? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Washington State, UCF, and the Washington team that stunk against Rutgers have all been among college football's best teams so far in 2017. So has Alabama, but whatever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Looking back at Week 3 of the college football season: LSU got punched in the mouth and folded, USC is learning to grind, and BREAK UP THE WAKE FOREST DEMON DEACONS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 3 of the college football season is upon us! Let's talk Clemson-Louisville, LSU-Mississippi State, Texas-USC, the real Oregon, flexbone QBs for Heisman, and the rule proposal that makes hypocrites of us all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A review of the S&P+ top 30 after two weeks of action. Which SEC teams will likely drop out as soon as projections are phased out? Who's criminally underrated? And what are the most fun, semi-realistic CFP matchups on the table? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football's Week 1 was fine, WatchESPN is not fine, and Week 2 would be a lot of fun if every interesting game weren't kicking off at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We made it, everybody. Week 1 is upon us, and it's time to talk about how Indiana will challenge Ohio State, what matchups to watch during Bama-FSU, and why you should be watching Boise State-Troy instead of Michigan-Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WE HAVE REAL, HONEST-TO-GOD COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAMES TO PREVIEW. Why you should watch Colorado State-Oregon State, Stanford-Rice, JSU-Chattanooga, and everything else Week 0.5 has to offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What do Auburn and LSU need to play like legitimate top-five teams? What can we do to make sure Auburn-LSU is at night in Death Valley? What cord cutting option is best heading into 2017? And what are missing about this extremely normal-looking QB draft class? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oklahoma State's lavish facilities, PAPN jinxes, adult student sections, Tennessee's dueling expectations, alums at G5s, and, of course, Newport wedding advice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Repurposed old baseball stadiums, paranoid coaches, chips on shoulders, the overdone Bad SEC QBs meme, and the ultimate Georgia anxiety scenario. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A look back at the nutty, spectacular French Revolution that was the 2007 college football season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hugh Freeze didn't exactly disprove the "The louder you scream about being pious, the more you've got something to hide" theory in Oxford. Also: coaching search lists and FSU's psychological ownership of Miami. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

SB Nation's Matt Brown joins PAPN to discuss his new book (What If?), historic conference realignment scenarios, college football parity, and the ACC's fluctuating middle class. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PAPN is back, and just in time to tackle SEC Media Days, lazy NY Times writers, Florida-LSU, fun teams, making friends with Michigan fans, Big Ten power rankings, and Bronco Mendenhall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Local teams vs. local media, BIG TEN PREVIEW TIME (the tricky Illinois job, Michigan State's youth movement, Michigan's quickly-rising bar, Wisconsin's odd defensive coordinator hire), and reader questions (Mike Gundy's got tenure!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ole Miss is not done fighting the NCAA (or Mississippi State), Bob Stoops' first few years of big-game performances were amazing, Bo Pelini to Kent State and Mike Stoops to Youngstown State, USC vs. Washington, Boise State's CFP path, and parachute payments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Athlon managing editor Mitch Light joins Bill and Godfrey to talk about early publishing dates, fact checkers, USC vs. Washington, life as a sideline reporter, and the 50 best players of the last 50 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's PAPN goes deep on UCLA, Cal, traffic in LA, Mississippians in wine country, the expiring stigma of the 4-2-5, Bill's socialist college football plea, and the AAC's short- and long-term goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey's back, and we're diving head-first into the Big 12 pool -- WVU's impending disappointment, KSU's post-Snyder future, and Texas' lone chance to play underdog. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Bud Elliott discuss potential improvements for college football recruiting and review Bill's platform as he mounts a bid for college football commissioner (https://www.sbnation.com/a/college-football-commissioner). You know, the normal offseason stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Miami defensive coordinator Manny Diaz serves as guest host and talks "what" vs. "how," FCS preseason games, influential defensive coaches, the benefits of havoc, analysts with bunsen burners, and stopping the run-pass option. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and guest host Steven Gaither discuss all things HBCU football: the best rivalries, dancing moms, the Celebration Bowl, graduate transfers, ceilings, floors, Division I vs. II, Grambling's resurgence, and our knowledge-free president. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today's PAPN topics: Oklahoma's Big 12 unhappiness, realignment in an era of cord cutting, Memphis as AAC king, Hulu's news, and the blatant hypocrisy of complaining about players sitting out bowls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On ESPN layoffs (and the focus of them), Year 0 mulligans, turnover in the Bear Raid, Steve Spurrier as formative football experience, why Florida doesn't leave the state, Larry Coker, and shut up, Missouri's quite happy in the SEC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Godfrey's having a kid, and we've got SO MUCH AAC TO TALK ABOUT. Also: catty coaches, MWC power rankings, and let's promote some good coordinators to head coach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How college football’s mid-majors should realign. Plus: Mountain West previews, Thundershirts, and what to do with Iowa State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football's 2017 Labor Day weekend smorgasbord, the stat that might change everything for coaches, Steve Spurrier alternate history scenarios, archaic offenses, COMBAT ORCA HIGHLIGHTS, and about 40 different schools discussed. A very PAPN PAPN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about South Carolina in the ACC, moving on after PJ Fleck, the MAC needing a dose of WWE, UNLV and the NFL, Miami really, really needing to beat Florida State, and Texas in the 2000s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey FINALLY tackle the Boston College question on everybody's mind. Plus: Stupid "ball control" questions, IMPORTANT (Wichita State-related)REALIGNMENT NEWS, and is Wisconsin overrated or underrated? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The NCAA Basketball Tournament starts tomorrow, so naturally today's PAPN goes deep on ... the Penn State receiving corps, The Next Idaho, Buffalo, C-USA's TV deal, Notre Dame's PR efforts, and the giant ass end of the MAC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Is Alabama-Florida State the biggest Week 1 game ever? Is there any place to park at Temple? What's Baylor's offensive identity now? What does a college football guy do at the Sloan Conference? Can Butch get the upper hand on Lane? How high can Frank Wilson build UTSA? Lots of questions on today's PAPN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey discuss Ole Miss' rule-breaking in past, present and future tenses, debate 2017's personality, weigh new Conference USA hires, and read listener comments regarding weeknight games and Louisiana rivalries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey revisit Godfrey's bold 2016 preseason predictions, from "Willie Taggart, power conference head coach," to "unexpected Heisman winner," to "3-win Kansas." Also: UAB FOOTBALL IS BACK! And let's answer some reader questions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey chat about BILL'S NEW BOOK, Erk Russell as fictional character, school names and state politics, Georgia's bounce back potential, and the hypothetically perfect hypothetical candidate to hypothetically replace Jim Mora at UCLA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bill and Godfrey fight through spectacular technical difficulties to talk about National Signing Day behind the scenes, a December signing date, and 2017 recruiting narratives -- Texas is doomed! Georgia's ready! Et cetera. Ohhhhhh, the technical difficulties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's officially time to flip the calendar to 2017 now that Bill and Godfrey have discussed the greatest and most awful games of the 2016 college football season. Also: on-brand emails, invisible Georgia, the definition of "rivalry," and Kentucky logic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about failed pitches, the battle between fit and making splashes (using Auburn and Penn State as examples), the Mountain West's branding problems, Hawaii's future and potential creativity, and the new Pac-12 schedule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey discuss Clemson's national title game win over Alabama and its repercussions for both schools. Plus: a recap of AFCA 2017 and a deep dive on both Clemson and the expectations of rival South Carolina. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey indulge in Alabama-Clemson title talk ... eventually. But first, let's look at Week 1 of 2017, buy in on South Carolina, talk about levels of winter cold, and thank everyone for Democracy Prep donations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey hem and haw about Clemson-Ohio State, talk about Washington-Bama upset warning signs, and go in-depth about Florida State past and present (because PAPN can be bought). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey ring in the holiday by talking about the customary wide range of topics: Idaho, breaking news, recruiting rankings, Florida's football culture, mid-major recruiters, and team adoption, to name a few. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a no-agenda day! Bill and Godfrey talk about JMU-Youngstown State and replace MACtion with FCStion, then answer Twitter questions about South Carolina, awful game plans, Christian McCaffrey's bowl threshold, Coastal Carolina, Chris Petersen, and the future of offense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey reunite after a week apart to grade coaching changes (Baylor's restart, a great Purdue hire, and ... holy smokes, did recruiting in Florida just get a lot hire), preview an underrated weekend, and answer reader questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and guest hosts Alex and Morgan chat about the College Football Playoff matchups, the vaunted Piesman, college football origin stories, the Quick Lane Bowl (aka the only bowl that matters), and, naturally, holiday movies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey run down the S&P+ and CFP top 25 and discuss oddities before running down an exciting batch of bowl pairings. The CFP committee gets an A-. The bowl slate: A+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Are you a "best" person or a "most deserving" person when it comes to College Football Playoff selection? Also: The fun-to-analyze Big Ten title game, Mike Gundy's quarter-title, and the state of Boise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There is no upper middle class in college football, Washington is probably safe in the CFP race, LSU should get the SEC's Sugar Bowl bid, and Alabama might be the best team since 1945 Army. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Talking CFP rankings, counting the ways that Texas is botching its coaching situation, and going deep on Wisconsin, Boston College, and RIVALRY WEEK's slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey run down the latest S&P+ rankings (which didn't feature many changes at the top) and begin to weigh the Game of the Century of the Coming Week: Ohio State-Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Everything changed and nothing changed in college football's Week 11 action. One on hand, almost every title contender looked vulnerable and hinted at chaos on the horizon. On the other hand ... Alabama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey are here for your post-election distraction! This week's PAPN covers the new CFP rankings, Strength of Record, pod scheduling, the AAC, and a bunch of hot, young coaches without a lot of job openings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey run down of college football's best teams after 10 weeks, discuss Ole Miss' injury issues, and predict the top of the new CFP rankings. Ohio State's not going to leap Washington now ... right? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey complain about the College Football Playoff committee's overthinking, reminisce on one of the sport's great butterfly effects (2011 Iowa State-Oklahoma State), give Troy some love, and look for a mid-major to adopt in 2017. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey review week 9, stay on brand by gushing about Appalachian State and talking Ole Miss, then attempt to guess the top 6 in Tuesday's first College Football Playoff rankings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about Charlie Strong's performance, the "Big 12 doesn't play defense" narrative (false, except for when it's true), Fresno State, Lane Kiffin's sudden likability, coach candidate lists, Tom Herman, realistic Oregon expectations, and the ultimate MAC road trip. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey review Week 8 and check out the new S&P+ ratings. We should have seen Penn State and Auburn coming, and ... we need a new way of talking about Alabama's dominance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about the Big 12's most ridiculous leap into non-expansion yet, relive Missouri's move to the SEC, discuss what Purdue should be looking for in a new head coach, look back at Ohio State-Wisconsin, and debate Wazzu's lot in life. Typical Thursday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A rundown of the S&P+ top 25 after seven weeks. While most of the country's best teams were doing anything they could to survive and advance, Alabama destroyed Tennessee in almost every possible way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey discuss the postponed/canceled LSU-Florida game and its repercussions, an underrated slate of Week 7 contests, and the theories and numbers behind S&P+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This weekend recap edition of PAPN focuses on Penn State's fantastic showing against Maryland, Navy Navying the hell out of Houston, Alabama winning shootouts with a trendy offense, and the inevitability of Ohio State-Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about Boise sass, the magnet of West Lafayette, Louisville-Clemson as game of the year, Georgia Tech (the football ouroboros), Narrative Saturday, and CAN WE TALK ABOUT GAMES AND NOT COACHING CHANGES, PLEASE? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Bill and Godfrey are joined by SB Nation's Richard Johnson and Tyler Tynes to talk about race and protest in college football, optimistic and pessimistic futures, flashpoints, endgames, and plain old empathy. WARNING: occasionally explicit language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey walk through the 25 best teams in the land after 5 weeks of the season, discussing LSU and the Orgeron Effect, Wisconsin and Oregon as mirror images, and Ohio State looking as ridiculously good as ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's PAPN, Bill and Godfrey take on the earliest coaching search silly season ever, cord cutting and the Pac-12's long game, NC State, Michael Caine impressions, and the oddity that was Baylor-Oklahoma State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

College football week 4 is in the books, and Bill and Godfrey once agin run down the storylines: Brady Hoke is not a miracle worker, Wisconsin's defense is awesome, here comes Texas A&M, and wow, did Michigan put a hurting on Penn State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The big midweek PAPN features Bill and Godfrey on Louisville's blueprint for success (without elite recruiting), North Dakota State's potential FBS moves (if the Bison ever want one), and the Big 12 potentially passing on a national title contender. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's another rapid-fire Sunday PAPN recap. Bill and Godfrey use Bill's new S&P+ top 20 as a guide for discussing Miami's sudden awesomeness, Tennessee's frustrating ... everything, Ohio State's murderous tendencies, and Michigan maybe kinda sorta being the best team in the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Week 3 is huge, and so is this PAPN. Bill and Godfrey talk about Notre Dame-MIchigan State 1966, The Perfect Pass, Alabama (and it's iffy run game) against the crazy guy in the fight, Ohio State-Oklahoma, 11am kickoffs, Lamar Jackson's amazing ceiling, and the angry ghost of Jefferson Pilot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey wrap up college football's strange Week 2, from Oklahoma State's beef with officials, to Clemson's strange funk, to LSU's QB change, to the Mountain West's big day, NC A&T's big win to holy crap, is Louisville-FSU going to be fun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

One week into the 2016 college football season, it's official: The SEC is dooooooooomed. Done. Finished as a top conference. Other topics for this week's PAPN: #FlawedMetrics, a college football preseason, and shaky Big 12 auditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The offseason is over. We've got actual football to react to, but first, let's take the time to make some big, bold, semi-reasonable predictions about what we'll see from college football in 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the last offseason PAPN, Bill & Godfrey talk Charlie Strong, book promotion, book fandom, and any other loose ends they need to tie up because THE OFFSEASON IS OVER. WE WILL HAVE REAL, LIVE FOOTBALL TO REACT TO NEXT WEEK (even if it's just Cal-Hawaii)! WE MADE IT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk cord cutting, power rankings, an anti-ACC bias, Ole Miss and craziness, South Carolina and awfulness, LSU and quarterbacks, Big 12 expansion, our hatred of ambition, and 2016 vibes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Let's raise some money and buy some goods for the people of Baton Rouge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk Georgia (if you fire a guy who wins 10 games a year, the next guy better win 11) and an SEC East race that could flip on its head on October 1. They also answer reader questions about recruiting advantages, hard jobs, and, yes, Purdue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey go in-depth about useful stats and points of emphasis with SMU's Chad Morris and Houston's Tom Herman. Also: IT'S TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT WEEK 1, PEOPLE. 2016 IS HERE. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey attended the AAC's media day festivities in Newport, R.I., this week. This week's first PAPN episode, then, features interviews with Ken Niumatalolo, Tommy Tuberville, Matt Rhule, Willie Taggart, and Philip Montgomery and a discussion of the AAC's place in the consolidating FBS universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk conference media days, haves vs. have nots, the worst SEC teams, why Jim Harbaugh is an incredible football coach, why Bill is in Chicago, and why 1999 Virginia Tech is everybody's favorite team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Go figure -- this week's PAPN is pretty realignment-heavy. AGAIN. Bill and Godfrey tackle Big 12 Media Days, Colorado vs. Colorado State, why the Big 12 adding Houston doesn't make a ton of sense, and what the Pac-12 might get out of going into Texas ... without UT. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the sleeping giants among the "ass end" of the Big Ten, wonder how in the heck Dan Mullen wasn't prepared to answer questions about Jeffery Simmons, and compare booster culture to German football. As one does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about conference media days (the SEC is a waste of time, the Pac-12 and Big 12 are well done), ignoring Oregon to our peril, Texas fans as a "borg-like collective," Playoff hypotheticals, and the insanity of wanting to fire Bob Stoops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about disappointing Pac-12 teams, why everyone's high on Washington, what happens if Charlie Strong goes 6-6 (or 9-4), and the first time an offensive line blew you away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss creative scheduling options, the vast importance of Pitt-Penn State and Texas A&M-Auburn, the CEO coach, the adaptable Bob Stoops, and the struggling Mark Stoops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about Conference USA's cruddy TV deal (and decision-making), cable cord-cutting options, a BracketBuster Saturday, Duke in 5 years, and ditching divisions in the era of 14-team conferences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about Baylor and Ole Miss (obviously), but not before touching on great Verne Lundquist moments, USC win expectations, and New Mexico State's end game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey send best wishes to Mike the Tiger, plug the Athlon preview, discuss 1959 and the geographic center of college football, and go deep into how exactly TCU became the most stable, reliable program in the state of Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey talk about Notre Dame's potentially awesome 2016 team (DISCLOSURE: SB NATION AND COMCAST ARE CORPORATE PARTNERS), a perfectly ACC schedule, realignment scenarios that really don't make sense, and a schedule full of new coaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this week's PAPN, Bill & Godfrey talk about alternate timelines for conference realignment, Nebraska's self-inflicted wounds, the draw of Colorado State, and the long-term power (or lack thereof?) of the Texas brand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the longest ever PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about old Phil Steeles, the Big 12's latest dumb debate, scheduling, 1940s pettiness, the Laremy Tunsil draft drama, and the first ever game of Blind Box Score Bingo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 35th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss the 2016 NFL Draft, the process of overthinking that goes into it, and the quarterbacks that get drafted way, way too high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 34th installment of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey bicker about Bobby Petrino, implore everyone to desperately jump aboard the bandwagon of every spring football all-star, review the worst games on YouTube, and ask why Kentucky isn't any good. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PODCAST AIN'T PLAYED NOBODY, Bill and Godfrey pick a fight with the Georgia legislature over information requests ... but not before half an hour of hardcore MACtion talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 32nd episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about hard jobs -- ULM, Wyoming, Hawaii, EMU, Rice, even Georgia Tech -- and what constitutes Moneyball in college football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Episode #31 of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the ever-quotable Rich Rodriguez, gimmick offenses, Box Score Bingo, the USC expectations game, LSU quarterbacks, and Boise State's need for a good Fresno State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Purdue, Purdue, Purdue, Purdue, Purdue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 30th episode of PAPN, Bill & Godfrey talk about how to succeed in awful jobs, a coaching job that shows you the world, the Big Ten's middle class, and heat maps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a mailbag edition of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey bring in Matt Brown to answer reader questions about Illinois' Lovie Smith hire, Sun Belt expansion, BYU's selling points, and what the heck the Big 12 does next. And hangovers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest PAPN, Bill and Godfrey welcome Ryan Nanni to the stage, then careen off-course, talking about Bill's Kickstarter, Idaho, school biases, Better than Ezra, Purdue vs. Wake Forest, and Ball State alternate history. But listen anyway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bruce Feldman joined Bill and Godfrey to talk about the most interesting teams in recent college football, from early-'00s Miami to mid-'00s USC. Other topics: Life in the Pac-12, second-chance hires, and Bill's Kickstarter project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 26th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss Penn State's uniqueness and progress, the Vast Pro-Ole Miss Conspiracy among random media members, and try to figure out why college football resents its underdogs so much. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill and Godfrey use a reader question to go back in time to 1959, when some combination of USC, UCLA, Cal, Stanford, Washington, Notre Dame, Pitt, Penn State, Syracuse, Duke, Georgia Tech, and the service academies nearly created the Airline Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Episode 25 of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about Bill's 2016 S&P+ projections: why Iowa and FSU fans are yelling, why the numbers have an #SECbias, how teams are clustered, and why this supports and drags down LSU's argument for keeping Les Miles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 24th episode of PAPN is dedicated to reader questions regarding APR tweaks, the plight of San Jose State and commuter schools, the recruiting importance of a Cheesecake Factory, and hugging Purdue fans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The 23rd episode of PAPN runs the gamut of recruiting topics with SB Nation's head recruiting honcho, Bud Elliott: fit vs. four-stars, young brands, LSU, Georgia, Auburn, Miami, early signing days, and 5-star quotas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

PAPN eases into the offseason with a guest: Ramzy Nasrallah of Eleven Warriors. Bill, Godfrey, and Ramzy talk about Ohio State's "disappointing" great season, the importance of Jim Harbaugh at Michigan, Nebraska in five years, "85 yards through the heart of the South," and kitchen equipment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 21st episode of PAPN, Godfrey and Bill talk about the AFCA conference (which Godfrey is attending), Penn State's coaching turnover, another Alabama title, the ultimate win-now year for Tennessee, Ole Miss' not-dead status, the 2016 preseason rankings, and Army-Navy end goals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 20th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey get riled up. Tennessee expectations are off the charts! Oklahoma does not need to move to the Big Ten to win the national title! Nick Saban (and dumb reactions to his success) have ruined college football! Arrow's better than Flash! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 19th installment of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the latest Big 12 expansion rumors and preview upcoming bowl games, including the Playoff semifinals and a must-win game for Auburn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 18th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the perceptions of Jim McElwain and Will Muschamp, warn against knee-jerk hiring reactions, preview this week's bowls, and create a 64-team AAC. As one does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 17th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey preview the early bowl games and answer reader questions regarding staff building, catchable INTs, and, of course, an NIT of 5-7 teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 16th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk bowls, semifinals, and the Heisman race. Plus: whining on Twitter, pre-emptive bowl bumps, and college football's New York Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 15th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about bad parenting, the incestuous SEC, emotional boosters, torrential rain, pre-emptive 2016 USC hype, Michigan State-Iowa, and what happens when a scoop turns out wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 14th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey blow up the College Football Playoff (Auburn wins the Iron Bowl! Oklahoma State ends up the top seed!) and talk about the mortal terror that results from firing your coach before you need to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 13th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss Iowa, why advanced stats are overrated (!), and the biggest potholes remaining in the Playoff selection process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the latest episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the latest from Missouri's campus, the Big 12 brand of football, styles that make fights, crazy-bad offense and an offensive life cycle in real-time, and unmet expectations at A&M. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 11th edition of Podcast Ain't Played Nobody, Bill and Godfrey talk about the Playoff rankings that will be released soon, how the Committee ranks its team, why Clemson is awesome, and why noon ET kickoffs should try harder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the 10th episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about the USC experience, the Trojans under interim coaches, the Texas renaissance, who the selection committee will rank No. 1, bad predictions, Nebraska coaches, and ... Pumas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the ninth episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about a natural LSU-Florida State fan war, the value of run-blocking wideouts, awesome 1-loss teams, fascinating polls, the Notre Dame Effect and single-unit teams and answer reader questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the eighth installment of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss Florida without Will Grier, the death of Clemsoning, Western Kentucky's life after Bobby Petrino, and the Maryland job vs. the South Carolina job. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the seventh episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey discuss Clemson, The Next 2007!, the lack of good QBs on good teams, coaches winning big games, when to fire coaches, Ohio State's résumé, and reader questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In episode 6 of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about surprise dumpster fires (Auburn, Oregon), zombie narratives, math classes, UCLA, verbal ticks, StatSmack shirts, and, because it's PAPN, Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the fifth episode of PAPN, Bill and Godfrey talk about how Georgia ain't played nobody, (gulp) defend ESPN, discuss luck vs. opportunity in turnovers, and ask ... what's up with the Pac-12? How's it going out west? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In episode 4 of AIN'T PLAYED NOBODY, Bill and Steven chat about Arkansas' disastrous loss to Toledo, Auburn's even more disastrous near-loss to Jacksonville State, the for-realness of Ole Miss, and the nerd glory that is the upcoming Memphis-Bowling Green game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the third episode of PODCAST AIN'T PLAYED NOBODY, Bill and Godfrey talk about birthdays, neutral site games, the infinite narrative potential of Oklahoma-Tennessee, bad Big Ten teams, Steve Patterson, and what a week in Statesboro does to a man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the second episode of PAPN, we talk about Baylor, TCU, and what happens when a story falls apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Episode 1 of Podcast Ain't Played Nobody, Bill and Godfrey discuss LSU, brand-name teams, and whether turnovers are luck or partial luck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices