About this episode

The episode explores listener anxieties about their college football teams as the season approaches.

As the season gets closer and closer, the hypotheticals start to inch closer to reality. Will the good vibes that your favorite team captured this offseason actually pan out, or will it only lead to disappointment? Is the current situation with your coaching staff or roster getting any better? This internal monologuing can snowball into the dreaded sports anxiety. So we asked you the listener, to spell out your anxieties about your favorite team so that we can analyze whether they’re substantiated or whether you’re just mostly being a impatient for the season to come. In this episode we cover: * 07:56 Boston College * 11:28 Cal * 14:00 Duke * 16:01 Georgia Tech * 18:09 Louisville * 22:32 North Carolina * 23:30 Pitt * 25:00 Stanford * 27:01 Virginia Tech * 33:02 Arizona * 35:23 Iowa State * 37:37 BYU * 43:41 Texas Tech * 52:16 Michigan State * 58:48 Penn State Producer: Anthony Vito If you like this episode, you’ll love a paid subscription. For $10 a month (or you can get a free month with an annual subscription), subscribers get about twice as many Split Zone Duo podcasts, as well as our coach carousel reporting, deep dives on college football history, Q&A opportunities, and…

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Johnson, Alex Kirshner

Topics covered

• college football
• team anxieties
• coaching staff
• roster concerns
• season predictions
• listener engagement

Keywords

• college football
• team anxiety
• coaching staff
• roster
• season predictions
• Boston College
• Duke
• Georgia Tech
• Michigan State
• Penn State

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Boston College, Cal, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, Pitt, Stanford, Virginia Tech, Arizona

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