MIAMI, THEN A TRAFFIC JAM 🌀 ACC preview Part 1... about the obvious favorite, the messy contender tiers behind it and a league where the QB and line questions are everywhere. Who do you trust most after Miami? 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/9T9kJLd

🏈 GROUP OF SIX PREVIEWS Our 2026 previews begin with the American, Sun Belt and MAC, where the contenders are real, the questions are obvious, and the middle is *extremely* meaty. 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/tv66Ak3

🏈 WELCOME TO THE CFB SEASON Kicking off our preview series with a quick primer for the 2026 season. New coaches and rules, mega transfers and the big storylines to follow. 👉 LISTEN/WATCH: buff.ly/tv66Ak3

WEIRD STATS AND LETDOWN LOOKAHEAD SANDWICHES 🐻 Chris "The Bear" Fallica joins us for a conversation about the numbers that matter, the portal chaos that makes preseason projections harder, and the schedule spots that turn college football into a weekly trap door. 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/Uk2LktJ

Cal kept JKS. That was the hard part. Now Tosh Lupoi has to protect him, upgrade the pieces around him, and see if the Bears can become a real player in a crowded ACC. Read @tylerschustercfb.bsky.social's full newsletter on the job ahead for Lupoi and Cal: buff.ly/Z7JrqYi

TEETERING ON THE EDGE 🫣 Florida, ASU, Kentucky, Minnesota, Virginia Tech, TCU and Wisconsin all feel like they could land on either side of 6-6. Which teams are headed up, and which ones are we selling? 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/oUMjRGV

JUMP INTO THE SARK TANK 🦈 Ty brings the college football pitches, Dan and guest sark Andy Staples decide where to spend their emotional capital. In which CFB storylines are you investing? For which are you fully OUT? 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/Sx1as44

Alex Golesh brought Byrum Brown with him, and is betting on tempo, decisiveness, the QB run game, and a whole lot of built-in trust from Day 1. Today's newsletter from @tylerschustercfb.bsky.social on whether familiarity can outrun an SEC gauntlet Read & sub: buff.ly/uoTYwpZ

What are we talking about too much/too little in college football? Joined by the great Richard Johnson of @splitzoneduo.com for an audit of the offseason discourse: CFP fatigue, Congress, the Arch Manning media cycle, UCLA, Michigan, a plea for more weird bowls & more Listen/watch: buff.ly/Sx1as44

If you're a college football fan who only checks in on soccer every four years, this one's for you. @espnbillc.bsky.social joins us to put the World Cup in CFB terms: USMNT's CFB comp, expansion weirdness, and which teams have real Indiana energy. 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/z2s5eRu

We opened up the mailbag for a June Q&A. Stop by for summer love teams, portal spending risk, Cignetti vs Saban/Kirby and the programs we are already talking ourselves into before preview season fully arrives. Also, somehow, Brendan Fraser as... Dwight Eisenhower? Listen/watch: buff.ly/z2s5eRu

A little kickoff yearning for the summer: entrances, preview mags, pylon cams, visor coaches, late-night chaos, that leaning-forward feeling right before kickoff & the CFB stuff we still love. 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/A9w2SWY

Some college football narratives have expired. Others still have teeth. We talked through which of the sport's most repeated offseason talking points are still relevant in 2026, from Matt Rhule's reputation to Clemson's adaptability & more. 👉 Listen/watch: buff.ly/A9w2SWY

Kyle Whittingham is not a Michigan Man. He might be exactly what Michigan needs. Today's newsletter drops at 9:30 AM ET. Subscribe for free: buff.ly/4OZVGoZ

🚨 NEW EP Tony Petitti wants a 24-team CFP and the ACC may be an abandoned mall with a particularly vibrant Chili's Listen/Watch: 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/LQByGfw 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/qlxpWiV 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/QIAI149

🚨 BIG TEN VIBE CHECK EP - Ohio State mayyy miss the CFP? - UCLA mayyy... be fun? - Maryland mayyy win a game after Sept? - USC mayyybe with the worst Big Ten schedule? 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/hg87UOc 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/z2iT67c 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/rUvmPkl

🚨Dropping at 9:30 this morning... How Willie Fritz is doing his best work yet at Houston, written by @wafflehousebear.bsky.social Subscribe for our free weekly newsletter right here: www.solidverbal.com/newsletter

🚨 MAY Q&A: Part 1 Rethinking the Big 12 contenders, SEC hypotheticals, building rosters in 2026 and street-naming philosophies 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/Patpba1 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/p3I4cIp 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/0kSmHyY

Today's newsletter drops at 9:30AM ET, is completely free, and tackles the question of what a Matt Cambell-less Iowa State actually looks like. Written by the great @wafflehousebear.bsky.social. Sign up here: quickslants.solidverbal.com/subscribe

♨️ POST-SPRING Q'S w/ @espnbillc.bsky.social Wildcard conferences, mid-major sleepers, Michigan's Whittingham-Underwood pairing, Texas A&M optimism & more... 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/jqn7N3g 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/c4fsiXP 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/Qx0x7Ih

🚨 CROSSOVER POD ALERT! Joined by Jason Moore of @fantasyfootballers.bsky.social with fantasy football tips for CFB sickos + an honest critique of Ty's habit of drafting too many rookies. 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/CfRV7eg 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/ncPKhff 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/bwuoQpM

🚨 Joined by @natetice.bsky.social for our annual NFL Draft pod We talked trenches, the good-weirdness of Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiyah Love's "Avenger" status & more 🍎 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2... 🟢 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2FcP... 📺 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hik0...

🔮 TY-POTHETICALS A look at plausible 2026 scenarios and how the Clemson, Virginia Tech, Alabama, Baylor, South Carolina, Colorado, Nebraska, and Michigan State fan bases would react 🔗 Listen & watch: buff.ly/SRbf8Dc

🔎 SPRING INTEL From QB battles to big questions about the trenches, a collection of the spring storylines from around college football that have our attention 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/I2YrsRq 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/S1X1XR5 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/lheWGQK

Let's play a game of Transfer Portal trivia...

With your help, we put together a list of our 16 most interesting transfers for the 2026 college football season 👇 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/tAU36wH 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/8oYYVc2 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/IiGOGrJ

If we’re being honest, college football is healthy as a horse when it comes to drama. But… everything else? New ep: We graded the health of the whole sport top to bottom. Conferences, scheduling, CFP, TV product, on-field quality, NIL/revenue sharing, and portal chaos. Listen & watch links 👇

you just need to start thinking about the MAC as America's Seatbelt Conference and then it only kinda works

🍑 PEACH BOWL RECAP Indiana annihilated Oregon 56-22. Here's our recap, our struggle to put the Hoosiers in historical context, and a chance for Dan to rant. 🍎 Apple: buff.ly/YJNtLe3 🟢 Spotify: buff.ly/lEa61cT 📺 YouTube: buff.ly/YJNtLe3