Hot Seats and Hot Grills: CFB Holiday Mailbag
About this episode
The episode discusses various college football topics through a holiday mailbag format, including coaching pressures and playoff implications.
Alex, Richard, and host emeritus Steven Godfrey turn a Memorial Day subscriber mailbag into a holiday-travel episode, starting with an either/or question about Steve Sarkisian and Lincoln Riley. From there, they get into G.J. Kinne’s future, Arkansas cutting and then quiickly reinstating a sport, what a 24-team Playoff might do to scheduling, how to talk about Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, and Eli Drinkwitz in 2026, and then the important holiday matters: message boards, soccer pain, cookout tips and tricks, Alex’s recent discovery of beans, and Spotify deep diving. In this episode: * 2:08: Who is under more pressure in 2026: Lincoln Riley or Steve Sarkisian? Plus: Will Muschamp’s role at Texas and USC’s politics around Notre Dame * 13:46: Where G.J. Kinne could go next, and which coaches might make sense for future Texas G5 openings. * 19:51: Arkansas reinstates tennis, then the conversation turns to Hunter Yurachek and athletic department accountability. * 26:44: Would a 24-team Playoff make schools schedule better non-conference games, or just change the incentive to chase automatic bids? * 33:57: Kirby Smart, Dabo Swinney, Dan Lanning, and Eli Drinkwitz as case…
Topics covered
- College Football
- Coaching Pressure
- Playoff Structure
- Athletic Accountability
- Holiday Culture
- Message Boards
- Food and Cookouts
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