{"podcast":{"title":"Split Zone Duo: College Football Podcast","slug":"split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379","podcast_index_feed_id":1366379,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/2043967.rss","website_url":"https://www.splitzoneduo.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/2043967/72da64487811d80138722fd59575f648.jpg","author":"Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner","episode_count":610,"summary":"An independent college football podcast that eats the whole hog. Led by Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner, featuring co-host emeritus Steven Godfrey and friends.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-22T02:18:06.015174+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379"},"episode":{"title":"Lane Kiffin's Insincerity and 24-Team Playoff Game Theory","slug":"lane-kiffin-s-insincerity-and-24-team-playoff-game-theory","published_at":"2026-05-14T23:04:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/lane-kiffin-s-insincerity-and-24-team-playoff-game-theory","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379","url":"https://www.splitzoneduo.com/p/lane-kiffin-ole-miss-comments","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197765130/7b800fefb0ad577e88bd78430c6d0dad.mp3","summary":"Alex and Richard use Richard’s trip to ACC meetings as a window into the big college sports fight of the hour: how many teams will be in the College Football Playoff going forward. Then they sort through the Big Ten/SEC split over 24 teams, Ole Miss’ strange week as a national punching bag in the middle of May, and Nebraska’s first run-in with the new NIL enforcement system, which might be less the end of creative player payments than the start of better paperwork. In this episode: * 3:22: What Richard learned at ACC meetings, including the coming ACC tiebreaker puzzle * 7:24: Why 16 vs. 24 teams is the next Playoff fight, and how conference title games, ESPN, and FOX fit into it * 17:47: Why the Big Ten and SEC are on opposite sides of the 24-team debate * 37:25: Ole Miss catches strays from Lane Kiffin and Steve Sarkisian * 47:22: Nebraska’s rejected NIL deals, the College Sports Commission’s first big test, and the future of athletic department creativity Producer: Anthony Vito If you like this episode, you’ll love a paid subscription at www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe 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. You also help keep this show independent and ensure we’re making a podcast that puts our listeners, not anyone else, first. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.splitzoneduo.com/subscribe","meta_description":"Alex and Richard use Richard’s trip to ACC meetings as a window into the big college sports fight of the hour: how many teams will be in the College Footb…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3773,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/episodes/lane-kiffin-s-insincerity-and-24-team-playoff-game-theory/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/split-zone-duo-college-football-podcast-1366379/lane-kiffin-s-insincerity-and-24-team-playoff-game-theory.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}