Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. How do we determine and define what a returning starter is for the magazine? Who is returning the most talent in the Power 5? Who is returning the least starting talent in the Power 5? And how does all of that impact our magazine predictions? Which coaches get the benefit of the doubt?

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• What did we expect?
• Selfishness, greed dominates
• Total chaos of last few years
• Will never get equity
• Charm vs. profits
• When was CFB small business?
• News: UK, UGa, Michigan, ASU
• Top 10 games of Week 1
• Notre Dame-Ohio St
• Oregon-Georgia
• LSU-Florida State
• Utah-Florida
• Cincinnati-Arkansas
• Backyard Brawl 

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football. News and Notes:

• Auburn retains Bryan Harsin... why?
• Baylor, Cincinnati extend coaches
• C-USA, Sun Belt scheduling conflict

Transfer QB analysis and breakdown:

• Big 12's biggest brands using portal
• Big Ten's best teams are homegrown
• Pac-12 has the best transfer QBs
• SEC middle class propped up
• ACC is a total hodge podge
• G5: UCF, Mountain West, Fun Belt

Steven Lassen and Braden Gall talk college football. 

• ACC might be getting rid of divisions!
• (Why we still hate divisions)
• The real goal of playoff expansion
• What on earth is happening at Auburn?
• Importance of organizational alignment
• Which schools have it? Which don't?
• Texas, USC, Miami, OU, Ohio St?
• Josh Gattis leaves for Miami
• What does Michigan do?
• Braden was wrong about NFL carousel
• Super Bowl starting QB trivia

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• Big Ten ditching divisions?
• Coaching drama: ASU, Auburn
• Jim Harbaugh coming back
• Caleb Williams, Jaxson Dart
• Recruiting Outliers:
• Biggest overachievers
• Biggest underachievers
• What's going on in the Pac-12?
• How does future Big 12 look?
• Big Ten West needs a boost
• ACC staying power?

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• Some new rules, committee members
• Bama using portal in big way
• Hawaii update

Grading the first-year P5 coaches:

• Jedd Fisch, Arizona
• Bryan Harsin, Auburn
• Bret Bielema, Illinois
• Lance Leipold, Kansas
• Shane Beamer, South Carolina
• Josh Heupel, Tennessee
• Steve Sarkisian, Texas
• Clark Lea, Vanderbilt

Grading the first-year G5 coaches from Blake Anderson at Utah State to Butch Jones at Arkansas State.

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• What are the risks of the expansion stalemate?
• Why wouldn't SEC, Big Ten expand?
• Big 12 proposed divisions: Good and bad
• JT Daniels, Jaxson Dart, Caleb Williams
• Todd Graham's shocking Hawaii tenure
• Where do NFL playoff QBs come from?
• All of the evidence points to the Pac-12
• NFL Draft deadline: winners and losers
• QB play in 2022 will be MUCH better

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• What is holding up playoff expansion?
• Public sentiment wants expansion
• Automatic qualifiers helps who?
• What the Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12 care about?
• TV ratings for the national title: Up and down
• How to regain national interest?
• Big programs have follow the Ohio State model
• Just Do It: Hire recruiting assassins
• Early Top 25 2022 Rankings
• Bama, Ohio St, Georgia on top tier
• Clemson, Texas A&M, Michigan?
• Who has staying power: Utah, Mich. St, Wake?

The band is back together as Mitch Light from The Athletic joins Steven Lassan and Braden Gall to break down Georgia's national championship victory over Alabama.

• Drama, tension, talent leads to great game
• Injuries for Bama play big role
• Did Todd Monken, UGa evolve?
• Georgia defense got stops when it had to
• Kirby vs. Saban wasn't a factor
• How will this game be received nationally?
• Fighting the regionality of the sport
• Removing focus from the national title

Steven Lassan and Braden Gall talk college football.

• TV ratings for the semifinals were bad
• TV expectations for the national title?
• Why were numbers down in 2020?
• Fatigue about the top of the sport?
• Does expansion fix this?
• Georgia's defensive approach
• Bryce Young's ability to beat man coverage
• Stetson Bennett will change the narrative
• Georgia's weapons getting healthy
• HAS Georgia innovated?
• Final game scores, predictions
• NFL coaching moves to impact college
• Caleb Williams big news