# College football season kicks off in NC Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/due-south-6665725/college-football-season-kicks-off-in-nc Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/due-south-6665725/college-football-season-kicks-off-in-nc.md Podcast: [Due South](https://stenobird.com/podcast/due-south-6665725) Published: 2026-08-26T16:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_6066_a2461537-1664-44d1-85fa-4e82f29b075c&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wunc.org%2Fpodcast%2Fdue-south%2Frss.xml Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/6066/a2461537-1664-44d1-85fa-4e82f29b075c/260826_D_BB_CollegeFootball.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/due-south-6665725/episodes/college-football-season-kicks-off-in-nc Duration seconds: 3025 ## Resource College football is back! This weekend, players take to the gridiron to open the season for a sport that is seeing a lot of change. From the transfer portal, NIL agreements for athletes, media rights for conferences, to the potential for Congress to have their say in college athletics; the storylines for this season go beyond the gridiron. Demetri Ravanos , columnist, Awful Announcing and podcaster with OG Triangle Media Mitch Northam , sports writer for USA Today Brian Murphy , sports investigative reporter, WRAL Scott Hamilton , host, Back Porch Sports podcast on 107.5 The Game ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/due-south-6665725/episodes/college-football-season-kicks-off-in-nc/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/due-south-6665725/college-football-season-kicks-off-in-nc.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.