There is a ton on the line this weekend in college football and no, it doesn't all have to do with the College Football Playoff. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back with the latest edition of the CFN Podcast and ready to make their picks for the Group of Five championship games this weekend. With that comes not only who wins but a few thoughts: Would you hire Lane Kiffin if you're a power-five school? Who gets the Cotton Bowl bid between Memphis and Boise State? How can Appalachian State en...
Dec 04, 2019•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Clemson is a huge favorite in the ACC Championship and understandably so. Will they cover the huge number against Virginia and can they possibly challenge for the number-one seed in the College Football Playoff? Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak break down "Little Old Clemson" and what will happen in the 2019 ACC Championship here. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/irishwired/support...
Dec 04, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast No. 5 Utah is playing for their potential College Football Playoff lives Friday night when they take on Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship. Does Utah not only have to win the game but do so convincingly in order to make the playoff? And if so, should that be the case? Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back to preview what we thought was going to be essentially a College Football Playoff a few weeks ago, but still has big implications for Oregon and Utah both. --- Support this podcas...
Dec 04, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast Did the Big XII Championship turn into a makeshift national semi-final game after the latest College Football Playoff rankings? Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are on the case in that they break down the Big XII Championship and give their picks as to who wins, who they like in terms of the point spread and ultimately if the winner of this game gets to the CFP. Check it out! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/irishwired/support...
Dec 04, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast When No. 2 LSU and No. 4 Georgia meet up on Saturday there will be different things on the line as LSU can probably afford a loss and still make the CFP while Georgia has to win in order to make the CFP. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back and ready to preview the top-five matchup and discuss Georgia's chances to pull the upset while also trying to figure out what has gone wrong for Jake Fromm of late. Check it out and share with your college football fan friends everywhere! --...
Dec 04, 2019•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast When No. 1 Ohio State and No. 8 Wisconsin battle on Saturday night in Indianapolis the Buckeyes will have their big-three on display for the world to see as they try to make their final push for the number-one overall seed in the College Football Playoff. Will the Buckeyes cover the 15.5? That gets discussed as does the health and look of Justin Fields after his injury-scare in the Michigan game last week. Check it out as well as what's at stake for Wisconsin in the 2019 Big Ten Cham...
Dec 04, 2019•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast After a long, crazy, busy and tiring Thanksgiving week the College Football News Podcast is back and better than ever. Ok, so the second part of that may be a reach (although we don't think it is) but there is a ton to get to on the night the latest College Football Playoff rankings have been released. Did the Big XII, Oklahoma and Baylor get done a solid and did Utah potentially get screwed this week? Alabama hits a record low in this era and the Minnesota/Penn State rankings are each troubling...
Dec 04, 2019•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast The 29th episode of the College Football News Podcast is up and ready for your consumption. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back again to recap the freshly released CFP rankings. A few things from them: -Should Alabama still be 5 after Tua's injury? -Who did Oklahoma tick off? -Which front-runners need the most help? We then have a conversation with Chris "The Bear" Fallica from ESPN and the brain behind College Gameday. Who does he see as the team to beat, who is getting o...
Nov 20, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast LSU beats Alabama in one of the most exciting games in any sport that we’ll see in 2019. Is Alabama out for good or can the Tide make the CFP without a crazy run of events? Nick and Pete discuss that, the 9-0 Baylor and Minnesota teams and compare resumes left and right. Finally the guys remember Charles Rogers before giving predictions for this weekend’s games --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/irishwired/support...
Nov 12, 2019•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast It has been a crazy week. Nick Shepkowski is back after becoming a father since the last time you heard from him while Pete Fiutak is fighting off one of those famous midwest colds that pop up this time of year. Despite all that going on the two were able to get together with a friend of the podcast, Ryan Fowler, to preview Alabama and LSU this weekend, the most hyped game of the 2019 college football season. Who has the advantage? Is it an elimination game for the CFP? And wha...
Nov 07, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week nine in college football brought some big time upsets and huge games we react to. Does Oklahoma losing at K-State officially eliminate the Sooners from the CFP? What does Notre Dame have left to play for and is Michigan suddenly a threat to upset Ohio State in a month? What is Brian Kelly's legacy after another rout away from home? And can a defensive player win the Heisman Trophy? Pete Fiutak and Nick Shepkowski discuss why Chase Young very easily could be the best player in c...
Oct 29, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast We're back with the week nine preview edition of the College Football News Podcast as Pete Fiutak and Nick Shepkowski break down the Wisconsin upset and some of the other takeaways from last weekend including what Oregon and Utah's wins meant out west. The guys then get into previewing week nine and three huge games as Wisconsin travels to the Horseshoe to take on Ohio State, Auburn travels to take on LSU and Michigan hosts Notre Dame. Nick and Pete offers thoughts on each of these three g...
Oct 24, 2019•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back again for another episode of the College Football News Podcast. Week 8 is upon us so the guys look at the four biggest games of the week while they try to find a potential Georgia-like upset. In-depth previews are given to Michigan at Penn State, Florida at South Carolina, Oregon at Washington and Arizona State vs. Utah. The show then continues with potential coaching changes, hot seats and who the perfect replacements for certain jobs may be....
Oct 18, 2019•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast A huge week 7 is upon us with matchups between top 25 squads all over the place. Nick Shepkowski and Pete FIutak are back to discuss and preview them all starting with the SEC clashes between LSU and Florida as well as Alabama traveling to take on Texas A&M. They then get into Notre Dame/USC and Iowa/Penn State before welcoming in Kegan Reneau of Sooner Wire to talk the Oklahoma side of the Red River Showdown and the future of Lincoln Riley in Norman. Trey Luerssen of Rivals.com then breaks down...
Oct 10, 2019•1 hr 9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week 5 provided a scare in seeing Clemson have to stop North Carolina's two point conversion attempt in order to stay unbeaten, but great games, or at least highly anticipated ones were few and far between. Week 6 sees that change with Florida hosting Auburn, Michigan trying to salvage it's season as it hosts #14 Iowa and perhaps the most impressive team to date, #4 Ohio State playing a tough defense in #25 Michigan State. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back to preview those games and...
Oct 04, 2019•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ahead of week 5 we share with you part 2 of our conversation with Steve Greenberg of the Chicago Sun-Times as the Big Ten as a whole gets discussed at length here. Find out how long it will be until Nebraska is back to their great ways under Scott Frost, what exactly is wrong with the likes of Northwestern, Michigan and others in the conference and how great the divide from Ohio State and the rest of the conference in 2019 really is. Nick Shepkowski flies solo besides that and shares with ...
Sep 28, 2019•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week 4 was a fun one for pretty much anyone who isn't a Michigan fan. Nick Shepkowski and Pete FIutak are back on this Monday night to recap the week 4 that was and share their grandest of takeaways after a month of games have been completed. Notre Dame/Georgia, Auburn winning at Texas A&M, Wisconsin destroys Michigan and so much more to recap. Also - are you like Nick and in your mid-30's or perhaps younger? There was actually a time when Wisconsin football was awful, believe it...
Sep 24, 2019•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast John U Bacon is the author of the newly released, "Overtime" a book that goes into detail about the 2018 Michigan Wolverines and how one of the traditional college power houses operates, but also gets into how there is a divide in teams that "do it right" and the ones that "do anything to win". John was kind enough to spend a few minutes with our Nick Shepkowski talking about the issues with the NCAA, how to attempt to fix them and how widespread many of these issues in college football r...
Sep 19, 2019•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week 3 didn't have any huge upsets but it was an entertaining week. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back with the latest episode of the College Football News Podcast and recap that before getting into previewing a Week 4 of college football that should excite most college football fans. Notre Dame travels to take on Georgia in one of the most anticipated games of the season and Bryan Driskell of Blue-Gold Illustrated joins the guys to preview the Fighting Irish's chances while also bre...
Sep 19, 2019•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week two was a damn thriller in college football with LSU getting a road win in Austin, Texas and Trevor Lawrence and company looking all the part of the #1 team in the nation as they easily got by Texas A&M. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are back for another episode of the College Football News Podcast and discuss all of that. Is LSU the third best team in the country? Is Joe Burrow really a Heisman front-runner after scoring at will in Texas? And what went wrong for Tex...
Sep 10, 2019•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Week 1 has come and gone and in terms of the top 25 there might not have been any huge upsets but there are storylines everywhere college football. It starts with week 1 reaction and some self-congragulations as Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak both nailed exactly what would happen in Oregon/Auburn. Tennessee had a major malfunction so that gets discussed and the guys start to get into Texas vs LSU and Texas A&M at Clemson discussions before Rachel Baribeau of Sirius XM College joins t...
Sep 05, 2019•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Shepkowski had some time to kill on Sunday night by himself so decided to share a few thoughts after week 1's games mostly wrapped up. Biggest winners and surprises and biggest disappointments and shocks. Any grand takeaways? Listen in to find out the first impressions that week 1 in college football left with Nick on this latest edition of the College Football News Podcast! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/irishwired/support...
Sep 02, 2019•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are ready to get you all set for week 1 of the college football season. After a fun Thursday night of games the guys are ready for Labor Day Weekend and the first full weekend of games. They start by briefly recapping week 0 and the excitement that came along with it, even if the games weren't the prettiest of things. They then get a look into the gambling side of week 1 as Scott Steehn of Winners and Whiners joins the show. They discuss five differen...
Aug 30, 2019•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Shepkowski sits down with Jeff Feyerer of College Football News, Inside the Pylon and various other football outlets to preview the 2019 season. Clemson/Alabama round 5 - who has the upper hand entering 2019? How does the Big Ten stack up to the SEC? Who are a few underdog picks that could surprise and win their conferences? Predictions, opinions and in depth preview of what the 2019 college football season may bring. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://podcas...
Aug 20, 2019•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is better than college football? Making money off of college football. Nick Shepkowski is joined by Tim Murray of NBC Sports, “The Daily Line” and discusses some of his best bets for 2019. Who out there makes sense to bet to win it all? Which Heisman contender is great value right now? Which team out there is overhyped and who out there is getting way to much love? Find out thoughts on all and much more in this episode of The College Football News Podcast. --- Support this podcast: https://...
Aug 16, 2019•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pete Fiutak and Nick Shepkowski are ready for the off-season storylines to stop and for the ball to finally be kicked in the air. We're just days away from college football games being played and these two are ready to offer their winners. Miami (FL) vs Florida, Arizona @ Hawaii are your week 0 Matchups. Find out who Nick and Pete like in both of these. Then its UCLA @ Cincinnati, Clemson hosting Georgia Tech, Tulane vs. FIU, Texas A&M vs Texas State, ASU vs Kent State and ...
Aug 12, 2019•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak are trying to figure out the 2019 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. Could their talent be better than the 12-1 team that went to the playoff last season, but the record be significantly worse? With road trips to Georgia, Michigan and Stanford that could certainly be the case, especially when you factor in what should be a semi-difficult home slate as well. But expectations have grown over the last two years as the Irish have been in that second tier of prog...
Aug 09, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last time we saw Clemson they were dismantling the Alabama Crimson Tide en route to winning their third national championship in school history and second in the last three seasons. From afar they appear to be headed back to the College Football Playoff, in large part because of the lack of competition in the ACC and, well, like it or not, they're pretty damn great. Who is second best in the ACC however? How would Clemson fare if they were playing an SEC schedule compared to the ACC one they hav...
Aug 09, 2019•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Pete Fiutak has been playing college fantasy football for years now while Nick Shepkowski has wanted to, but never actually pulled the trigger. That finally ended as Nick joined Pete's league and had his first draft. Are you in Pete's shoes and are looking for more information on how to make 2019 a great and profitable year for you in college fantasy football? Or are you like Nick and have next to no idea what you're doing outside of trying to pick players that score a lot of points? Luckily for...
Aug 09, 2019•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Big Ten might not be the best conference in college football but is a very safe pick to be #2. In terms of storylines however, good luck finding a conference with more of them than the Big Ten entering 2019. Nick Shepkowski and Pete Fiutak discuss it all in this episode as they try to figure out if this is indeed Michigan's year at last to win another Big Ten crown, if Ohio State's regression actually plays out, what constitutes a rebuild at Penn State and so much more. Mike Hall from Big Te...
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