The College Football Chaps

On this episode we talk about the announcement of the inaugural Union Jack Classic to be played at Wembley Stadium next September between the Kansas Jayhawks and the Arizona State Sundevils.

We hear from:

- Managing Editor of the Touchdown, Simon Carroll who has just returned from a visit to The University of Kansas. We talk about the rivalry game between the Jayhawks and Kansas State and what to expect from the Kansas community when they descend on London next year.
- Kansas Head Coach Lance Leipold on why he wanted to bring the Jayhawks...

On this episode wecht with ACC Networl's Eric Mac Lain about the news happening across the Conferences...

James Franklin is out at Penn StateCan Dabo turn things around in Clemson?Is Georgia Tech the hardest team to defeat in the ACC?Can Virginia win out to secure a place in the ACC Championship game?Is the Tar Heels experiment over for Chapel Bill?Nebraska to the Play Off's?Which Group of 5 Team is likely to make the Play Off's?Can the Hurricanes win it all?

On this episode the Chaps speak with SEC Network's Alyssa Lang to talk about another excting week of SEC football.

Surviving storming the field and that viral Diego Pavia momentSouth Carolina football and what has been happening in Columbia this season?Ole Miss & Texas A&M are top of the SEC table - is this a SECCG in the making?Are we sleeping on Mizzoou?The pressure Texas is under to win Red RiverHow hot is Hugh Freeze's seat these days?

On this episode all three Chaps are reunited to review the news from Week 5 & look forward to Week 6 of this epic College Football season. On this episode,

Confirmed news that College Football will be played in London next season!BIG10 road trip chaos : time zone travel is a nightmare!Sam Pittman leaves Arkansas, but will interim HC Bobby Petrino ever leave Fayetteville again?What is happening with the LSU Tigers offense & can defense win Championships?Tix under Twenty is BACK! 

On this episode the Chaps catch up with long time friend, Chris Fallica or The Bear as we all know him to preview Week 5 of this fantastic College Football season. We....

preview the Alabama v Georgia gametake a look at Oregon v Penn Statethe timing of Mike Gundy's departure from OK StateJohn Mateer's hand injury and what it means for the SoonersAre USC the most underrated team in college football?Indiana & Curt Cignetti....better than last year?

On this episode we talk with our guest, ESPN's David Hale about life covering the ACC and specifically the thrills & spills of this season. We talk with David....

Is this Miami team legit?What is happening at Clemson?the 2-10 Noles have turned it around - can they too be an ACC title contender?Georgia Tech have surprised us or have they? Do the Yellowjackets have more in the locker?Does all of this mean that the ACC could have more than 2 teams in the CFB Play Off?Candidates for the Virginia Tech job?Belichick's tyrannous spell at...

On this episode the Chaps take a look at the story lines from Week 2 and look forward to the Week 3 schedule,

return of the Border Warare the Bulldogs from Starkville back?Oklahoma overturns Michigan : is Mateer a Heisman candidate?Alabama whoop ULM : bust what does this actully mean?Floriday Billy is back on the hotseatWeek 3 Match ups :Aggies v Iris; Vols v Dawgs; Tigers v Yellowjackets

With a stellar week one of football behind us and week 2 schedule to look forward to we chat about

those games which surpassed expectations and caugh us by surpriseWhat about those South Florida Bulls?is Miami better than we thought?must win game for Notre Dame against the Aggies in 2 weeks time?is Florida State much improved or Alabama in decline?Go Utes!Manning Mania has come to a screeching halt - why we think its unjustWeek Two look forward : which games to focus on

On this episode we hear the incredible story of 8 time National Championship winning Strength & Conditioning & Special Teams Coach, Scott Cochran.

In this episode Coach tells us about

the part that writing his book 'Skull Session" has played in his recoveryhow coaching became his raison d'etrehis relationship with Coach Saban and Kirby Smartthe point that he realised he had to step away from footballhis new role at the University of West AlabamaThis is a must listen episode!

On this episode the Chaps catch up once more with Southern Wordsmith and host of True South, John T Edge, principally to talk about his new book, House of Smoke.

On this episode we chat,

why the time was right to publish his memoirsthe part his family home in Clinton. GA plays in his life and in the bookgrowing up in Clinton, GA compared to living in Oxford, MSJohn T's time at college in Athens and the Athens music scene at the timeJohn T's time at the Southern Food Alliance and his eventual departure from the...

On this episode the Chaps reunite to talk about the impending new college football season,

Week Zero Kick Off Game in DublinKey match ups to watch out for in the Farmageddon gameWeek zero slate of gamesthe future of CFB games being played in Europe 

On this episode the Chaps catch up with CBS National College Football Writer, Shehan Jeyarajah to talk about the football revolution happening in Lubbock, Texas with the Red Raiders. In an awesome episode we talk with Shehan about,
How the piece about Texas Tech came aboutMike Leach's influence on Cody CampbellTexas Tech taking advantage of the current situation - how do they maintain that momentum going forward?The groundbreaking deal that the Red Raiders put together for Felix Ojo What chance the Red Raiders threaten to win the conference this year?What about those Baylor Bears? What kind of s...

With the Netflix debut of "SEC Football: Any Given Saturday" the Chaps have the opportunity to talk with the show's Executive Producer, Paul Martin to talk about,

the shows origins & the appeal of a show covering the SECPaul's experience of getting down into the South versus his expectationssome of the stories coming from the showif the show can have the same impact on the European audience that Drive to Survive had on the US audiencePaul's thoughts on College Footballwill there by a season 2?

Episode #219 with The Film Guy, Brooks Austin

On this episode The Chaps catch up with The Film Guy, Brooks Austin to talk about recruting across college football. On this episode we discuss,The impact roster caps proposed under revenue sharing and the house settlement bill will have on “walk on” playersthe decline in recruitment of JUCO players as a result of the numbers of players entering the transfer portalHow recruitment is evolving as the college game goes though unprecedented changeThe job Kirby Smart and the coaching staff are doing with recruiting in Athens.QB's flying under the radar in p...

On this episode the Chaps talk about all of the news coming out of SEC Media Days in Atlanta FROM the College Football Hall of Fame. Yes, for the first time our podcast comes to you On Location.

We chat...

LSU prospects for the 2025/26 seasonReview QB prospects :Simmons, Pavia & of course Arch Madness!the launch of the new NETLFIX show featuring SEC Football - "Any Given Saturday"Rumours of a Saban return?

On this episode the Chaps catch up on the news coming out of College Football this week...

Texas State jumps to the PAC12 to revive the ConferenceExcluding Gonzaga, this is an 8 team conference - who joins to give 8 conference games?The ripple effect across College Football from these movesTexas Tech pays OT Ojo $5m to come play in Lubbock - what does this do for the game?

On this episode we welcome back good friend of the show, Adam Rittenberg to talk about the BIG10.

We talk...
the introduction of Clearing houses - will they regulate or complicate CFB?With the SEC's reluctance to move to a 9 conference game schedule can the stalemate on CFB Playoff format with the BIG10 be broken?Expectations for the Buckeyes with a new Matt Patricia defense and a new QB?How Bryce Underwood is developing so far in Ann Arbor?And the big question on everyone's lips - Is this finally Penn State’s year?

On this episode we’re going to do a bit of crystal ball gazing and peek into the future of the new season with our good freind, Chris Marler. We talk: 

 - which teams are overhyped or not hyped enough?
- if Brett Bielema is Social Media’s new Lane Kiffin? 
- which players we expect to have Heisman worthy seasons?
- will Hugh Freeze still be head coach on the Plains at the end of this coming season?

In this episode we speak with returning guest, Ross Dellenger, Senior College Football Reporter for Yahoo Sports about the changing face of college football. We talk with Ross about
the position of the NCAA House settlement BillSEC moves to favour a 5+11 CFP Playoff format and what this does for the SEC/BIG10 “alliance”When will the SEC move to a 9 conference schedule?Private Equity involvement in CFB

It's been a few weeks since the Chaps last caught up so there is much college football news to talk about.

So on this episode, we chat
the Bill Belichick "circus" at Chapel Hillmoving to a 16 team College Football Play Off the implementation of a Presidential Collegiate Sports Commissionand Lee Corso's retirement

On this episode we are joined by Sports Illustrated's Pat Forde to talk about his sporting memories from years of covering sports.

We talk college football, Olympics, horse racing, basketball and NFL in a packed episode. Particularly,
Pat's memories of following the Olympics and watching his daughter qualify for the Tokyo gamesthe noise in Jordan Hare on the night of the legendary "Pick Six"watching Christian Laettner in his prime at Duke and how Cooper Flagg compareswhere he was when Jack Nicklaus won his last Masters jacketand we couldn resist the opportunity to ask Pat his thoughts...

It's April already and with 143 days to go until the college football season kicks off, the Chaps mull over some of the April Fools Japes circulating college football social media.

On this episode we talk,
why can't ASU have a maroon field?Coaches Sanders and Saban expand their AFLAC relationship in Colorado?Are Georgia Black Uni’s back? And we hope Oregon's pink ones are indeed a joke...Matt Rhule does Strictly with Harper Murray!It's true with "golden" tulips in South Bend, the honeymoon is over & we are back to hating Notre DameIt's not a joke bu...

On this episode, the second in the series of guests favourite sporting memories, ESPN/ SEC network & Marty and McGee's Ryan McGee joins the Chaps to recall some of his memories from over the years covering sports.

Hear Ryan talk about,


his entry into sports with Johnny Majors at the University of Tennesseebeing taken out by a North Carolina State linebacker aged just 13playing kids end zone footbal wtih Lane KiffinRyan's Rose Bowl memoriessideline reporting on his Dad's final game officiatingScooping up some Fighting Irish dirt!If you love sports anecdotes, this epsiode is not to...

On this epsiode we kick off our new series "Tell me a story" with guests recalling their favourite sporting memories and telling us about the sporting memorabilia that they have accumulated along the way.

On this episode, Director of Communications for the Southeastern Conference, Chuck Dunlap tells us about...
his love for sports growing up in Mississisppithe story of how he became a New York Mets fanjoining the SEC and the incredible memories of 25 years of SEC sportsa virtual tour of his sporting momentos from his time working in the SEC

On this episode we talk all things UNLV Rebels with Fox Sports, Las Vegas Anchor Paloma Villicana. We chat...
The changing face of Sports in Las Vegas with UNLV benefitting from the surge of pro sports in the CityThe job that Barry Odom took on and how good a job he did with Rebels footballWhat Dan Mullen brings to the Running Rebels programZach Arnett as DC demonstrating UNLV’s growing ambitions as a programExciting times to be a Rebejs fan with Alex Orji and Anthony Colandrea at QBTh expectations for UNLV this coming seasonThe future of the Mountain West Co...

On this episode we welcome back Seth Saunders from the Saturday in Athens podcast for a retrospective of the season just finished. So on this episode we chat,
The good, the bad & the ugly (what worked, what didn’t, what do we never want to see again..?)What did we learn?Individual highlights of the seasonA Georgia Bulldogs 2024 report card with a look forwad to 2025

While the season may be over, college football news stops for no-one. So on this episode the Chaps talk over what has been grabbing the headlines during February, including...
Co-ordinators jumping ship for big money. Is this sustainable as a revenue sharing model comes into view?Is Matt Rhule right about cancelling his public Spring practice?Are expectations for Arch Manning wholly unrealistic?ESPN extends contract with ACC thru 2036 : can the conference (in its current state) remain together? Or is divorce (FSU, Clemson) inevitable?Trent Dilfer is 7-17 in two seasons in Birmingham, AL but will return for a...

On this episode we catch up with our good friend John T Edge, author and host of the excellent TV show, True South. We chat about

his recent trip to the UK, his highlights and favourite foods from the tripWhat chance a True South international special?How well Texas and Oklahoma fits into "Southern" cultureThe place that the humble hotdog holds in American cultureSome of John T's favourite personal interest stories from this seasoncan we get him to share his best Mac n Cheese recipe?

On this episode, the Chaps preview the 2024 season National Championhip game between THE Ohio State Buckeyes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. We talk....
Is Ryan Day & Ohio State exonerated now that they have made it to a Championship game? Or do they still have to win it?Despite Chip Kelly’s excellent record with Oregon, he has never won a National Championship. Arguably that Ducks team was one of the best teams College Football has seen. Does Chip Kelly’s resume deserve a natty?What are the Keys to victory for the Irish?Offensive line injuries again for the...

Happy New Year to all our listeners! On this first episode of 2025 we chat....
Round up of FCS Championshio game between NDSU & Montana State.Now at CFB PlayOff semi final stage, has the 12 teams playoff format left us with the best 4 teams in CFB? The positive impact of the CFB Playoff on Bowl game TV viewing figuresFinal 4: Texas v Ohio State & Penn State v ND previewsOur Predictions !!!!

On this special episode we sit down with Buffalo Bulls Head Coach, Pete Lambo. During our discussion we talk about....
How important playing in a bowl game is to the Bulls programTaking over an underachieving program which has underperformed & expectations at the start of the season? What lessons he took from coaching  in the MAC in his first stint at Ball State that helped prepare for the Buffalo jobThe keys to a successful special teams unitHis experience at South Carolina & Beamer BallThoughts on the changing face of the college game & how NIL and the transfer portal has changed the he...

It's time for our College Chaps Christmas special and who better to share this episode with than our old friend and "4th Chap" Laura Rutledge. On this episode we talk....
Our highlights of a truly exceptional college football seasonLook forward to the first round of Playoffs & which games we are most looking forward toIn a season of college football chaos will there be more shocks in the playoffs? Our MVP of the season?Who would be our ideal college football Secret Santa & what gift are they getting?Ho Ho Ho!

On this podcast the Chaps celebrate 200 episodes & look forward to a weekend of conference championship games,
SEC Championship game : who wins?What happens to the loser in the rankings?How should Conference Championship games impact the rankings?Has the BIGXII been the most entertaining conference to watch this year?

On this episode during Thanksgiving, the Chaps give thanks for a truly fantastci and chaotic football season. 

We talk...

who will make it to the Conference of Chaos Championship game in Dallas?can USC spoil the Irish run into the Play offs?What to make of the SEC and who will win in the Texas v Aggies game to book a place in Atlanta?BIG10 - is it a done deal?

On this episode we talk with our guest, Chris Gordy of the Locked on SEC podcast about the events across the SEC and the impct these are having on the College Football Playoff rankings. On this epiosde we talk,
What does the playoff committee do with Georgia & Tennessee this week?Is Brian Kelly on the hotseat in Baton Rouge?At this stage who makes it to the SEC Championship game...but first who wins Texas v Texas A&MWinners & losers of Arizona St v BYU & Ohio St v Indiana - how will this impact the rankings?

The Beautiful Chaos of College football edition

In this episode the Chaps discuss... 
The importance ofTulane & Navy game in relation to the AAC Championship game (with Army having a bye week)Chaos in the ACC with Miami losing and SMU on track for a Conference Championship appearanceOle Miss and Alabama back in the running with defeats of Georgia & LSUA Texas v Texas A&M end of season shootout?College football playoff rankings,,,what if?
Georgia beats Tennessee?Ohio State play Indiana and lose?Army runs the irish close?Who is vulnerable in the rankings r...

It's Bonfire night in the UK, the US General Election & the first week of CFB Play Off rankings, so on this podcast....

what is happening at USC? Where did it go wrong? Is Lincoln Reilly to blame?Rankings will be out shortly (after we recorded) : who must be in/ who's stock is going to fall?/what about the irish?Tix under $20 is back plus.....Tix with unlimited funds makes its debut!

On this episode the Chaps talk about the chaos of the college football season this far,Only ten unbeaten teams remain : Oregon, Penn State, Miami, Iowa State, BYU, Indiana, Army, Navy, Pitt & Liberty (plus 2 others) highlighting the changing face of college football - good or bad?Texas A&M sit atop the SEC, game against LSU this weekend is huge. Imagine a situation where TAMU is still top going into the Texas game…!Tulane got off to a rough start but are building a head of steam. Army & Navy has still to play the Irish & the Army/Navy game still to...

On this episode it's just the Chaps, but who better to look forward to the season's biggest game in Austin this weekend, but also

Texas v Georgia previewhow good a job Curt Cignetti is doing in Indianaour Group of 5 watch continues - its a fantastic chaos of a race for a play off spotTickets under Twenty!

On this episode the Chaps speak with special guest, The Show Pony - Chris Childers from The Full Ride Show on Sirius XM College Sports Radio. On this episode the Chaps talk, 


From heroes to zeros : Bama beats Georgia, Vandy beats Bama - college football is in chaos!Vandy fans march the goalposts down Broadway - why we love college football!Red River previewOhio State @ Oregon preview and what this game means for the BIG10 and Playoff chances?Which team do we NOT want to face in the CFB Play Off at this stage?