Episode
Hot Seats and Hot Grills: CFB Holiday Mailbag
- Published
- May 21, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 3688
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.splitzoneduo.com/p/steve-sarkisian-lincoln-riley
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/episodes/hot-seats-and-hot-grills-cfb-holiday-mailbag/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/hot-seats-and-hot-grills-cfb-holiday-mailbag.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Alex, Richard, and host emeritus Steven Godfrey turn a Memorial Day subscriber mailbag into a holiday-travel episode, starting with an either/or question about Steve Sarkisian and Lincoln Riley. From there, they get into G.J. Kinne’s future, Arkansas cutting and then quiickly reinstating a sport, what a 24-team Playoff might do to scheduling, how to talk about Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, and Eli Drinkwitz in 2026, and then the important holiday matters: message boards, soccer pain, cookout tips and tricks, Alex’s recent discovery of beans, and Spotify deep diving. In this episode: * 2:08: Who is under more pressure in 2026: Lincoln Riley or Steve Sarkisian? Plus: Will Muschamp’s role at Texas and USC’s politics around Notre Dame * 13:46: Where G.J. Kinne could go next, and which coaches might make sense for future Texas G5 openings. * 19:51: Arkansas reinstates tennis, then the conversation turns to Hunter Yurachek and athletic department accountability. * 26:44: Would a 24-team Playoff make schools schedule better non-conference games, or just change the incentive to chase automatic bids? * 33:57: Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, and Eli Drinkwitz as case studies in how we talk about portal usage, title ceilings, and carousel smoke. * 44:52: Memorial Day light fare: Eastside LA food, message board culture, Tottenham and Valencia, cookout rules, beans, and all-time Spotify listening history. Producer: Anthony Vito If you like this episode, you’ll love a paid subscription. For $10 a month (or you can get a free month with an annual subscription), subscribers get about twice as many Split Zone Duo podcasts, as well as our coach carousel reporting, deep dives on college football history, Q&A opportunities, and many more goodies as we think of them.…