THE College Football Podcast (Conference Previews)

Want to know if Notre Dame is looking good this year? Or who the best of the Group of 5 schools are? Or why in the world Canada would go on a boba tea date? Or what he thinks boba tea is called? This episode is right in your wheelhouse.

Direct download: ND__Group_of_5_Preview.mp3
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The 2017 conference preview series comes to an end with a look ahead to the ACC, a 14-team league that could be a two-team race. Well, three; someone's gotta come out of the Coastal.

Direct download: 2017_College_Football_Preview_-_You_Down_with_ACC.mp3
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Canada and Luke continue the 2017 conference preview series with a visit to the Big 12, the conference that ... might not just be a nine-team queue to finish runner-up to Oklahoma. Might not.

Direct download: 2017_Conference_Previews_-_Big_12.mp3
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The 2017 conference previews keep rolling with a visit to the Big 10. Not only are there a few College Football Playoff contenders to consider, but some of the unlikeliest Last Chance Texaco candidates in the business.

Direct download: 2017_Big_10_Preview.mp3
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The 2017 College Football Preview series keeps rolling. Today, Luke and Canada tackle two important topics: forecasting the SEC and whether or not Canada is the most famous person in his town.

Direct download: 2017_College_Football_Preview_-_SEC.mp3
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The first of the 2017 College Football Previews are upon us! First up, Sam Darnold, Jake Browning, 12th-year senior Luke Falk and the Pac-12. Who's Canada's surprise team in the South? The answer is ... surprising.

Direct download: 2017_Pac_12_Preview.mp3
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The Power 5 conference previews are in the books, but there's still plenty more 2016 college football to preview. Today, the boys look ahead to the Independents and the Group of 5s: Notre Dame; BYU; the cream of the Group of 5 crop; and finally some MAC and Fun Belt respect?! Always go full Hudspeth.

Direct download: ND__Group_of_5.mp3
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Does Bama have a repeat in them? Does Tennessee finally put the whole package together this year? Does South Carolina win a single SEC game? How could we possibly foretell if Cam Robinson will be able to work his way back into the playing rotation by the season opener? Who knows? The 2016 SEC Preview knows. . . .

Canada and Luke break down all of the above, along with the rest of the conference's contenders and pretenders. Plus your weekly dose of Australian American-football news, and a quick Donkey Kong Country 2 aside, of course. Because what's a conference preview without it?

Direct download: 2016_SEC_Preview.mp3
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The world is high on the University of Washington. Are Canada and Luke? Thank goodness there's a 2016 Pac-12 Preview episode, or these questions would just go unanswered.

Also: College Football Playoff moves, baby carrot revelations and La Croix recommendations.

Direct download: 2016_Pac_12_Preview.mp3
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The Big 12 was one of the more interesting conferences last year, surprisingly spawning a number of teams -- Baylors and Oklahomas and OK States and TCUs -- that were genuine playoff contenders at various points in the season. Will that success carry over into 2016?

The boys tackle that question in today's 2016 Big 12 preview, along with the other mainstays: Will Kansas still be terrible? Will Iowa State be any better? Is this finally the year Charlie Strong fields a competitive Texas team? On which continent are Blake Sims and Vad Lee currently playing professional quarterback?

Direct download: 2016_Big_12_Preview.mp3
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The 2016 college football season is finally here! Well, actually, no . . . no, it's not. But the 2016 college football preview is finally here, and it starts with the two-horse race that is the ACC. In fact, the boys cover their two favorite topics today (three if you include Boston College), because somebody got new pants!

Direct download: 2016_ACC_Preview.mp3
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Well, the year's first College Football Playoff Committee rankings are out. Boy, did they screw up?!

Well, did they? The boys break it down, while previewing Week 10 (Week freaking 10!) action.

Direct download: 2015_Week_10_Preview.mp3
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If you have a college football podcast located in America -- as opposed to all of those CFB 'casts in Luxembourg and Bhutan -- you have to do an episode on Notre Dame, since they're not in a conference and it'd be unAmerican to ignore them. It's mandatory.

So the boys do that. But there's a national preview too -- a projected playoff bracket -- bookending the 2015 conference preview series, so it's not just all Malik Zaire all the time.

THIS IS THE FINAL EPISODE BEFORE GAME PREVIEWS BEGIN. We're so excited we're yelling.

Direct download: 2015_National_Preview__ND.mp3
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The 2015 previews near the finish with what figures to be one of the most competitive conferences races of the year: The Pac-12. No thanks to Oregon State. And the entire two-horse-race North division. That South, though. . . .

Direct download: 2015_Pac_12_Preview.mp3
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An annual tradition unlike any other, Luke and CA sit down and discuss how Iowa gets to the national championship game.

OK, that's a little aggressive, but they do preview the Big 10, with a couple of not insignificant surprise movers and shakers. And a look ahead to the obligatory seven wins and no coaching changes for the Hawkeyes. That's the tradition unlike any other.

Note: This episode was recorded just before the news broke that Michigan State LB Ed Davis is out for the season.

Direct download: 2015_Big_10_Preview.mp3
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You know how Canada and Luke generally agree on most points? No longer!

2015 ACC preview! FSU the Lone Favorite vs FSU the Co-co-co-Favorite! Deshaun Watson's dominance vs. Deshaun Watson's mediocrity! Louisville the ACC Title Contender vs Louisville the Third Tier Team! Short sentences with aggressive punctuation!

It's going to be wild.

Direct download: 2015_ACC_Preview.mp3
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There's a fine line between the top two teams in the Big 12 and the bottom two.

Wait, did I say fine? Gigantic, yawning chasm. On the latest episode of CFP, the boys delineate the four tiers of the 2015 Big 12, including that endless divide between 2 and 10.

Direct download: 2015_Big_12_Preview.mp3
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The 2015 previews begin!

With the season tantalizingly close, the boys begin the 2015 conference previews, starting, as one tends to, with the SEC. Yes, the conference that features such world-beating quarterbacks as Brandon Allen and Maty Mauk.

Don't get too comfortable, Case Keenum; records were made to be broken.

 

Direct download: SEC_2015_Preview.mp3
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages: the 2014 Pac-12 South Preview. Moreover, the final conference/division preview episode of the summer, which means college football is four days away. Three days, if you're an Abilene Christian fan.

Celebrate with a look ahead to what will likely be a contentious division, as UCLA, USC, Arizona State and (way out on a limb) even Arizona could make a run for the P12 Championship Game.

Plus, the five most interesting opening weekend games!

Direct download: 2014_PAC_12_South_Preview.mp3
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The college football season is one week away. THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON IS ONE WEEK AWAY. While you let that sink in, tackle the first half of our final conference outlook: the 2014 Pac-12 North preview.

And of course the Braxton Miller news, becuase we deal in college football and so this sort of thing is mandatory.

Direct download: 2014_PAC_12_North_Preview.mp3
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East's in the bag. Today, the boys take on the 2014 SEC West outlook: all too bright for the Alabamas and Auburns and, sure, even Ole Misses of the world.

But what of Mississippi State or Texas A&M or Arkansas? And LSU: overrated due to the brand name, or reloaded and ready to go? You ask great questions, fella.

Plus, ranking the top secondary groups in the country!

Direct download: August_2014_SEC_West_Preview.mp3
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We're down to the wire now, with a mere two conferences remaining in the great College Football Podcast previews of 2014. Today, another divisional show, looking ahead to the somewhat top-heavy SEC East. And the case for optimism at Kentucky!

College football is seriously three weeks away. Just let that sink in.

Direct download: August_2014_SEC_East_Preview.mp3
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Need a little Paul Rhoads in your life? Want badly to be optimistic about Kansas State but you're just looking for a push in the right direction? Just want to hear the usual top-of-the-league predictions about Oklahoma, Baylor and Texas?

The boys have all of that and more, as The College Football Podcast previews hit the homestretch with the 2014 Big 12 outlook.

Plus, power ranking the five best linebacker corps.

Direct download: August_2014_Big_12_Preview.mp3
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Is the relative mediocrity and unpredictability of the ACC Coastal not your cup of tea? Well today the boys forecast the 2014 ACC Atlantic division; much more predictable and wildly top-heavy.

Plus, ranking the top defensive lines in the country!

Direct download: ACC_Atlantic_Preview.mp3
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2014 ACC Football preview? 2014 ACC Football preview! But don't worry, so as not to overstimulate you, we'll ease into the process. First up, the ACC Coastal, a collection of seven teams that could legitimately all go 4-4. But hey, at least there's no Wake Forest, right?

Give the full episode a listen here today, and stay tuned for the ACC Atlantic preview tomorrow morning. Which is ... well, more predictable, anyway.

Direct download: July_2014_ACC_Coastal_Preview.mp3
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In the latest ep, the boys once more venture into B1G territory, with the 2014 Big Ten East preview.

Sure, there's a certain element of chalk to this one -- Ohio State and all that -- but there may be some surprise improvements in the conference as well. Rutgers, even?! (Spoiler alert: Absolutely not Rutgers.) More predictable than the West, perhaps, but also more important, national landscape-wise.

That, plus power ranking the top five offensive lines in the country.

Direct download: July_2014_Big_10_East.mp3
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I'm sorry, Iowa might secure a berth in the B1G Championship Game? THE Iowa?!

Well . . . yeah, bizarre as it may seem. In The College Football Podcast's 2014 Big 10 West preview, the boys look ahead to the inevitable fortunes of those seven Midwestern teams, including the very real contender that is Iowa.

Plus the top five receiving corps in the country!

Direct download: July_2014_Big_10_West.mp3
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The conference previews continue today, as do the not-a-conference previews. CA and Luke look ahead to the 2014 season for the Independents -- Notre Dame and BYU mostly, but, sure, Army and Navy as well -- before plowing through forecasts for each of the mid-major conferences.

You know what that means: Rakeem Cato and Terrance Broadway talk!

All that, plus power ranking the top RB corps. AND a history lesson on the Canadian Independence Day? And this is all free?!

Direct download: July_2014_Mid_Major_Preview.mp3
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Do you realize how close the college football season is? So close that we're in the end of June, the penultimate month that doesn't feature any games. So close that today we begin the conference previews!

First up: the earth-shattering, rankings-dominating American Athletic Conference. But you can call it AAC.

Also, ranking the top five QBs in the nation!

Direct download: June_2014_AAC_Preview.mp3
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