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Week One Preview with Phil Steele Aug 27, 2025

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It's happening, people. The loaded slate of games that is Week One starts tomorrow and doesn't stop until Monday night in Chapel Hill. The only question now is, do you enough Diet Mountain Dew like Phil Steele does to get you through all these games? Phil stops by for a 30-minute jaunt through the dance card, plus offers some thoughts on value plays outside of the top 25 - which involve the MAC so I highly suggest you tune in for those. Wayne has some thoughts on Chapel Bill that must be heard to be believed. And Hartzell is just trying his best to keep this thing on the tracks. We've been waiting all offseason for this moment and it's about that time, folks!

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Big Ten Preview with Ben Hartsock - Plus Week 1 Games with Roddy Jones Aug 26, 2025

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Week 1 is days away from getting going and buddy, the football is about to be coming at us in waves this week. Starting Thursday there is college ball for five straight days. Let it wash over you. Get ready to bathe in all this football we got coming up. There is some heavy Big Ten discussion on the show today as we wrap up our preseason conference previews, this one in the form of former Buckeye Ben Hartsock. Deep dives on what he expects to see with B1G heavyweights like Ohio State, Michigan, and Penn State. The team nobody's talking about but probably should be (Oregon). Plus all of these 'mid-pack' squads like Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and others who are fighting to be in the mix for these at-large CFP spots. A full download on the might Big Ten in the middle of the show, then we're back to breaking down these week 1 games and getting an 11-pack of Rodstradamus' finest picks to wrap the show

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SEC Preview with Chris Phillips - plus Felder Friday & The Lock Doctor Aug 22, 2025

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The SEC decided on Thursday to add a ninth conference game starting in 2026. Seems like a pretty significant piece of news to drop less than 48 hours from the start of the season, and the guys are here to talk about it. A heavy dive into the Southeastern Conference is on deck today, thanks to Chris Phillips from SEC Unlimited dropping by with his preseason takes. Who does Chris like to make it to Atlanta? Is it Texas and everyone else in this league? Who is he most worried about? And who is the most over-rated SEC team in his mind as we approach the start of the season? Felder has a metaphor about why Georgia's offense is like when he takes his daughter bowling that you're going to want to hear. It's the week zero edition of Felder Friday, enjoy it!

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Battle for Atlanta Show 3 (SEC Preview) Aug 22, 2025

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On the SEC Radio Network's third and final football preview show, Stephen Hartzell and Tony Barnhart preview the final five teams in the conference (Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Auburn & Mississippi State), hearing from players and coaches in the process. Plus, hear our conversations with Sam Acho and Danny Wuerffel with the Allstate Good Hands team and former Texas running back Jamaal Charles with Bush's. Then we wrap up the show with Tony's official predictions within the SEC, the CFP and more!

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The Phil Steele Show - Week Zero Aug 21, 2025

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After 8 long months, we have our guy Phil Steele back and taking us through the opening weekend of College Football. We preview all 5 games on the Week Zero slate, plus take a look at some Futures... Conference Winners, Team Totals and Heisman odds. Lots of great plays from the best in the business. Bet smarter, not harder with The Phil Steele Show.

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Week Zero Preview with Phil Steele Aug 20, 2025

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You already know what time it is. Midweek edition of CSN finds you just three days out from the start of the college football season; Wayne Cook is highly caffeinated, Hartzell is poking the bear, and the Godfather himself - Phil Steele - returns to the main stage for his season debut. The guys talk about Phil's magazine - which you need to get to Barnes & Nobles yesterday to get for kickoff - but there are real, actual football games to break down, people. Come for the banter, stay for the Week Zero picks which, let's be honest, you know you want.

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Big 12 Preview with Shehan Jeyarajah - plus Rodstradamus & the Lock Doctor Aug 19, 2025

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Game week is here and we are officially back with the full cast of CSN characters! Hartzell is joined alongside Roddy Jones and Tripp Hurd to break down actual football games that start in *checks notes* just four days. And since the best game of this weekend involves two Big 12 teams you might as well get the best Big 12 analyst in the game, so that's exactly what we did. Shehan Jeyarajah covers college football for CBS Sports and he helps the guys break down this conference like very few can. How many teams are in the mix to actually win this league? Can Arizona State do the thing again? Does Shehan buy Baylor & Utah & Texas Tech at the top of this conference? And - oh by the way - pretty big game in Ireland this Saturday to kick off the week zero between Iowa State and Kansas State, which the guys discuss at length. A solid 30 minutes is dedicated just to the Big 12, plus we get some leans and locks from Roddy & Tripp who both have alter egos and aren't afraid to make some picks ahead of toe meets leather for week zero!

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Battle for Atlanta Show 2 (SEC Preview) Aug 15, 2025

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On the second edition of the Battle for Atlanta, we preview six more teams (Texas, Ole Miss, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oklahoma & Kentucky), with analysis from Stephen Hartzell and Tony Barnhart, and sound from players and coaches from all six teams. Plus hear conversations with Marty Smith (courtesy of Southwest Airlines) and the SEC's head of officials, John McDaid, and Tony gives us the five greatest players he's ever seen as we continue to celebrate Mr. CFB's 50th season covering college football.

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Ten Questions - ACC Preview with Roddy Jones & Michael Felder Aug 14, 2025

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We have not one, but two ACC legends with us to help break down the league. Hartzell has ten questions to drive the discussion and they are:

1- Are we buying the GT hype?

2- Is Miami finally going to do the thing?

3- Where is the weakness on Clemson?

4- How are we feeling about these week 1 non-con games?

5- Who is the best football team in the state of North Carolina?

6- Is Stanford the worst Power 4 team in America?

7- SMU or Louisville, who ya got?

8- Florida State's win total is 6.5 ... over or under?

9- Will Virginia Tech get back to relevancy this season?

10- The coach with the hottest seat in the league is ____________

Enjoy nearly two hours of ACC talk from the guys who know it better than most. We got actual football games in 9 games, lets go people!

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Wayne's World: Two Weeks to go! Aug 12, 2025

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Summer is over, folks. Kids are back to school, college football season is a little more than two weeks away, and our man Wayne Cook has a lot to say about the sport we all love. The guys are breaking down Wayno's top-5 storylines going into the season, and Hartzell is doing his best to NOT talk about a certain school in LA coming off a 5-win season. Plenty of talk about schedules (which are, by nature, unbalanced), quarterbacks, and the biases that affect how we consume so much of our college football content (hint: stop feeding at the trough). Wayne is fired up, which you would expect after 6 months off. Thank you for listening and we can't wait to talk ball with you all season long!

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