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College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today's episode we give our thoughts to the first AP Poll and preview the WIDE OPEN Big 12 conference ahead of the 2025 College Football season.

00:00 Intro 
02:20 AP Poll initial reaction
20:32 Most disappointing Big 12 team of the season
30:45 Most surprising Big 12 team
40:37 Worst team in the Big 12
47:00 Ball Knowers Big Game
01:04:47 Big 12 breakout Player
01:12:02 Big 12 Coach of the Year
01:18:43 Big 12 Player of the Year
01:25:44 Big 12 title game & champion

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The only college football podcast in the country that delivers real, raw, unfiltered takes on the best sport in America. Hosts Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith, alongside co-hosts JackMac and Katie Stats, pull no punches when discussing the national landscape of college football. New episodes drop every Tuesday.

New episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Brandon Walker

Big Ev

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Katie Stats

T-Bob

FULL BIG 12 PREVIEW FOR THE 2025 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness Barshal Sports college football podcast. How about a little more energy from you? I thought that was kind of energetic. Not really. Thank you. How did you used to do it? I'd stare them motherfuckers in their soul and I'd say welcome to Unnecessary Reference Brandon W

College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today's episode we talk NOTHING BUT SEC FOOTBALL and drop our predictions for the 2025 SEC season.

00:00 Intro
07:56 SEC Player of the Year
18:40 Most disappointing SEC team of the season
37:30 Worst team in the SEC
49:33 First SEC head coach to be fired
53:38 Most surprising SEC team
01:09:50 SEC Coach of the Year
01:24:24 Ball Knowers Big Game
01:30:53 SEC breakout Player
01:38:03 SEC title game & champion

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FULL SEC PREVIEW FOR THE 2025 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness Barstool Sports College Football Podcast presented by the lovely folks at Twisted Tea. Grab a refreshing Twisted Tea today. The boys in Chicago have it. Ev, I know, you know, you probably got one somewhere. You're wearing a jersey today, which means that Twisted Teas

College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today's episode we take a look at the first coaches poll of the 2025 College Football season then take a deep dive into the Big Ten and drop our predictions for various superlatives around the conference. 

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FULL BIG TEN PREVIEW FOR THE 2025 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON

Hello and welcome to Unnecessary Roughness, Barstool Sports College for Fall podcast presented by the lovely folks at Twisted Tea, the Hard Ice Tea. Guys, it's August. It's still pretty hot outside. The weather is breaking a little bit, but keep up. It is pleasant. It's been pleasant. To wear a hood

College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today's episode we take a dive into Big Ev's practice with Jeremiah Smith, look over the easiest & toughest schedules, and give you the teams and coaches that are facing the most pressure as we head into the 2025 season.

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WHICH TEAMS AND COACHES ARE FACING THE MOST PRESSURE

College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today’s episode we discuss Deion Sanders and his health, reminisce over some of the must see players over the last 15 years, who is the true Death Valley, and another injury concern for DJ Lagway.

00:00 Intro
02:06 Deion Sanders is cancer free
10:10 Trump NIL bill update
14:18 Could we see Nick Saban return to coaching?
30:58 Who can claim the real 'Death Valley' LSU or Clemson?
36:23 Our thoughts on international College Football games
45:10 Our 'can't miss guys' of the last 15 years
01:09:07 Which coach gets fired first?
01:17:55 Happy Gilmore debate

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DEION SANDERS IS CANCER FREE + A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE

Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness. It is July 28th. It's almost August boys college football podcast, Barstool Sports. We've got the whole crew here. And of course the boys over there drinking twisted tea, drinking the good old twisted tea. Oh, they got fist bumps going on. Brandon, what flavor you g

College Football podcast on Barstool sports hosted by Brandon Walker and Kayce Smith presented by Twisted Tea

In today's episode we discuss the most recent media day comments made by Curt Cignetti, Rhett Lashlee, and James Franklin. After that we debut our top 10 players in College Football lists' and debate who are the most over hyped teams as we head into the 2025 season.

00:00 Intro
04:45 Thoughts on Curt Cignetti 'adopting SEC scheduling style'
16:36 Rhett Lashlee calls out SEC for 'lack of depth'
25:20 Trump signs NIL executive order
29:18 James Franklin is not happy with Big Ten media days landing in Las Vegas
38:46 Could we soon see North Carolina in the SEC?
40:03 Top 10 players in College Football
01:00:30 Who are the most over hyped teams entering 2025?

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RANKING THE TOP 10 PLAYERS IN CFB + TEAMS THAT ARE OVERHYPED

Welcome to Unnecessary Roughness presented by Twisted Tea. As we know, hard iced tea. Before we get into this though, we do know the audio issues on the last episode. We're not good. We apologize. It will not happen again. This episode is fixed. Brandon just opened his Twisted tea. So again, we do a

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