Podcast of Champions - Big Ten Football Podcast

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More NCAA Transfer Portal troubles in Tempe plus Oregon State spring game recap Apr 22, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods breakdown the newest batch of bad news for the Arizona State football program, two prominent players choosing to enter the NCAA Transfer Portal following the conclusion of spring football. Wide receiver Ricky Pearsall (ASU's top receiver and originally from Tempe) and linebacker Eric Gentry (consensus freshman All-American) have both decided to enter the portal. From SunDevilSource's Chris Karpman: "They would have been two of the team’s most important players. Things are going from bad to worse for the Sun Devils."

They also recap the lone spring game for the Pac-12 this past weekend, the Oregon State Beavers. OSU still three healthy quarterbacks now, giving last year's starter Chance Nolan some competition in practice. The Beavs also have a more aggressive defense under new defensive coordinator Trent Bray. Coming up this weekend there are six more Pac-12 spring games: UCLA, Utah, USC, Colorado, Washington State and Oregon will all be in action on the Pac-12 Networks (except USC will be on ESPN).

Finishing off the show the guys discuss two articles featuring Pac-12 programs this week, the fall of Colorado's football program over on the Athletic and USC head coach Lincoln Riley talking about life throwing him a curveball over on the Players Tribune.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Pac-12 spring game recaps for Arizona, Arizona State and Stanford Apr 14, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods dive into spring football in the Pac-12 with Arizona, Arizona State and Stanford all hosting their spring games over the weekend shown live on Pac-12 Networks. To be fair, David hates spring games so it is mostly Ryan giving his thoughts on what he saw from the broadcasts, read in the recaps and heard from the players and coaches who talked about how the spring session went. Arizona and Stanford combined for just four wins in 2021 but there is still a lot of optimism on both campuses that these programs can turn things around and have a winning campaign in 2022. Arizona State went 8-5 last season and lost more than half of its coaching staff and its star quarterback Jayden Daniels, but there is optimism in Tempe as well with talk of more team chemistry than ever before for Herm Edwards' squad.

They also discuss the lone upcoming spring game for the Pac-12 this weekend, the Oregon State Beavers which will be live on Pac-12 Network on Saturday at 11 a.m. PT. Speaking of the Beavers, they missed out on the top remaining quarterback in the NCAA Transfer Portal, former USC and Georgia gunslinger J. T. Daniels. West Virginia won the sweepstakes to land Daniels, so Oregon State will either stick with one of the quarterbacks on the roster or find someone else from the portal before the beginning of May deadline.

Which Pac-12 school has the best tailgating experience? A listener wrote in with his thoughts so Dave and Ryan chime in talking about what they like to do on gamedays at the various Pac-12 schools.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Projecting the over/under for Pac-12 football 2022 win totals Apr 07, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods are taking a look at the 2022 Pac-12 football season and projecting the win totals for each team. Our colleagues at 247Sports put out their Pac-12 over/under win totals and the guys go through each program's schedule and make their prediction for more or less wins than what the line was set at.

They also discuss the breaking news that Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff has decided to do away with the expensive office space in San Francisco and instead is moving the conference into a remote work environment. Friend of the show Jon Wilner wrote that between Larry Smith's salary and the over the top rent, the Pac-12 spent an extra $70 million over Scott's tenure, or about $1 million per school per year.

Pac-12 spring games kickoff this week with Arizona, Arizona State and Stanford holding games on Saturday, all of which will be broadcast on the Pac-12 Network. We also would like to thank listener Scooter McGavin for emailing us a list of each Pac-12 football coach and describing what type of lover they would be, content you can only get here on the POC.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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No deep March Madness run for the Pac-12 & spring practice reports Mar 28, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods return to put a bow on the Pac-12 2021-2022 college basketball season, with USC losing in the first round and both Arizona and UCLA getting knocked out in the Sweet 16. The guys normally don't discuss basketball on the podcast (for good reason) and after a major drop-off of listener questions following our previous basketball episode, we can safely say this is the final time basketball becomes an actual topic on the show.

With basketball far in the rearview mirror, we can get to the task at hand, football and off-season nonsense topics like Disney princesses and Civil War generals. Starting with football, Ryan checked out reports from all 12 football programs in the Conference of Champions and passes along what he was able to learn. As of now 8 of the 12 teams have already started spring football practice with three more starting this week and California starting next week.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Pac-12 Tournament recap from Las Vegas plus Jayden Daniels heads to LSU Mar 15, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods do the unthinkable, they talk about Pac-12 basketball! Both of the POC hosts were in Las Vegas for the Pac-12 basketball tournament so the guys give their thoughts on how the top teams looked including the three teams that made it to March Madness, Arizona (No. 1 seed), UCLA (No. 4 seed) and USC (No. 7 seed). Can the Conference of Champions make another run to the Final Four and maybe even cut down the nets for the first time since 1997? We shall see starting on Thursday when the first round of the NCAA Tournament kicks off.

They also talk about former Arizona State quarterback Jayden Daniels deciding to go to LSU from the NCAA Transfer Portal. Daniels won't walk into Batten Rouge as the clear starter, but he will have the opportunity to compete for the job and play a very tough SEC schedule down there. Ryan thinks Daniels has a shot to be the man at LSU after the change in scenery while Dave thinks he won't start a game for his new squad.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Projecting the Pac-12 preseason standings for the North and South divisions Mar 03, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods give their thoughts on Phil Steele's prediction of the preseason AP Poll top-10 that included both Utah and Oregon and not USC. Spinning off of that, the guys take their prediction game one step further as they take a crack at what they think the media will pick for the order of the Pac-12 North and South division races. Both guys agree with the teams at the top and the bottom of the each division, picking Oregon to win the North and USC to win the South, with Stanford pulling up the rear in the North and Colorado finishing at the bottom of the South.

They also touch on some of the assistant coach movement drama with Vic So'oto leaving Colorado after two months and heading to California and what head coach Karl Dorrell had to say about the move followed by So'oto's rebuttal. Lastly they discuss the details of UCLA head coach Chip Kelly's contract extension and Arizona head coach Jedd Fisch's positive one-on-one interview with 247Sports.

The POC Pac-12 Tournament meet-up is at the "BetMGM Sportsbook & Bar" in Park MGM casino on Thursday, March 10, 2022 starting at 2pm PT.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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No CFP Expansion and NIL Money Feb 25, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods don't even record at the same time, dropping separate segments due to scheduling conflicts. The guys discuss the decision to not expand the CFP and what's going on with NIL money.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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The official post-season top-10 POC listener rankings Feb 17, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods don't really have much to talk about after finishing off their off-season reports for all of the Pac-12 football programs over the past three weeks. Luckily, superfan Shane provided us with a topic to discuss this week, his list of post-season top-10 POC listeners (which instantly becomes the official Podcast of Champions list since both Ryan and Dave certainly don't remember who writes into the show every week). Once again Shane did a nice job composing the most notable people to take part in the show in 2021, tabulating all of the data and presenting it with colorful prose so the two hosts don't have to do anything but read it.

The guys also discuss the pending B1G television rights deal that, according to reports, will surpass the $1 billion mark for a single year (remember Larry Scott was proud of $3 billion over 12 years before), the status of UCLA's defensive coordinator vacancy, a big name in the NCAA Transfer Portal and even a little about the upcoming Pac-12 basketball tournament (not long though, no worries).

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Off-season reports for the Northern and Southern California Pac-12 football programs Feb 10, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods finish with their off-season report series by discussing the two Northern California and two Southern California Pac-12 football programs. They first welcome in Jackson Moore who publishes the Stanford and California 247Sports sites, breaking down what the Cardinal and Golden Bears did during the off-season. Neither program changed head coaches or coordinators despite posting losing seasons and Moore gets into the personnel turnover for each team.

They end the series talking about the two programs they cover, USC and UCLA. The Trojans made some major off-season moves bringing in Lincoln Riley, an almost entirely new coaching staff and 13 players from the NCAA Transfer Portal including star quarterback Caleb Williams. The Bruins extended head coach Chip Kelly and are still looking to fill both coordinator roles, but with Dorian Thompson-Robinson returning UCLA should once again be a factor in the South.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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Off-season Reports for the Oregon and Washington Schools Feb 04, 2022

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This week Podcast of Champions hosts Ryan Abraham and David Woods welcome in several experts on the show to provide actual information for our POC listeners. We are continuing our off-season reports for all of the football programs in the Pac-12, going over the various coaching changes and of course the significant roster turnover with recruiting, graduations, NFL defections and most importantly the NCAA Transfer Portal. This week we are getting updates on the Oregon and Washington schools starting with Angie Machado talking about Oregon State's off-season, Chris Fetters breaking down everything going on with Washington, Matt Prehm giving us the lowdown on all things Oregon and Jamey Vinnick getting us up to speed on what Washington State has been doing.

As always Dave and Ryan spend the last part of the show answering your voicemails, texts and emails with questions about Pac-12 football plus lots of other topics.

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