Before the season, Godfrey, Richard, and Alex made a bunch of predictions and buried them in a time capsule. Time to dig it up! What did everyone learn over the course of the season? How were our prior opinions challenged? Where we got things wildly wrong, was that bad luck (Penn State) or the sign of missing something much deeper (arguably Clemson)? Let’s review in detail:

* How each FBS conference met or didn’t meet our expectations

* Conference USA and the MAC will just never make sense

* The shocking collapses of Penn State and Clemson and the still-pretty-surprising three-loss season that Texas had

* Godfrey’s almost legendary spotting of a North Texas QB

* What will we think about in a different way heading into 2026?

Producer: Anthony Vito.

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It’s time to review the 2025 college football season, with our annual awards special, the Zonies. Rodger Sherman joins Alex and Richard to dole out some important CFB honors for this past season, including:

* Power conference team of the year

* Non-power team of the year

* Moment of the year

* Proof of concept of the year

* Minority Coach of the Week of the Year

* Bryan Harsin Award for Forestalling the Inevitable

* The Podcaster’s Player Award

It’s an awards show, but it’s mainly a walk down memory lane of the things we enjoyed most about the season. Thanks for listening. Producer: Anthony Vito

Also, we briefly discuss the Olympics at the end of the episode. You’ll be able to read all kinds of Rodger stories on the Olympics at his newsletter.

SZD doesn’t stop in the offseason

The opposite, if anything. We use these months for all sorts of creative projects that are designed to appeal to people who love college football and want to learn more about it while having a good time. History projects! Sports business! Roster moves! We’ll do all of it. (Alex would even say that his favorite subscriber shows are the ones we have time to do out of football season.) We’d love to have you:

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Welcome to the rest of the college football calendar, the part when games aren’t actually being played. In this quick subscriber episode, Alex and Richard debrief on the state of their CFB fandom and talk about what’s both good and not good right now. Producer: Anthony Vito.

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