Richard Johnson and Alex Kirshner take you on a 30-ish minute journey through yet another really wild weekend in college football. This episode covers 43 games, including:

1:25: UCF 39, BYU 31 (2OT)

3:13: Cincinnati 37, Texas Tech 24

5:27: Utah 21, Houston 13

11:02: Texas 34, Ole Miss 27

13:59: South Carolina 27, Tennessee 24

19:13: Indiana 13, Michigan 6 (OT)

25:00: Wisconsin 24, USC 7

28:23: Miami 52, Pitt 23

34:46: FAU 51, Rice 49

38:33: New Mexico 21, North Dakota State 16

Producer: Anthony Vito

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Coach firing season is upon us, and the first ouster of the year comes from Maryland, alma mater of SZD host Alex Kirshner. Richard joins him to talk through the first opening on the market. In this episode:

The meaning of Locksley’s Maryland tenure, and why it isn’t a failure despite eight-plus years of mostly bad results

5:48: Why firing season got a late start this season

12:47: What kind of job is this, really?

21:50: A very, very early candidate wishlist from a Terp

Producer: Anthony Vito

Week 8 preview! Richard and Alex start this episode with a quick football digression about Manchester City and then get into the mega-preview of this week in CFB. We cover a bunch of games, some in a lot of detail, some quickly:

* 1:41: Manchester City digression

* 6:10: JMU at App State

* 18:21: Indiana at Michigan

* 26:45: LSU at Auburn

* 35:40: Rutgers at Northwestern

* 39:50: West Virginia at TCU

* 46:48: Oregon at Illinois

* 50:22: BYU at UCF

* 1:04:20: San Diego State at Colorado State

* 1:07:09: Virginia Tech at Clemson

* 1:10:55: Ole Miss at Texas

* 1:13:19: Mike Locksley news breaks mid-show

* 1:23:56: Houston at Utah

Those are just a handful out of the dozens of games we cover this week. Produced by Anthony Vito.

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