Talkin’ Baseball! Plus, Oregon, Ohio State, and Miami or the Field? And the Top CFB Stadiums With Fox’s Chris Fallica.

October 1, 2025·1 hr 34 min·5 clips

Garrett Crochet walks off the mound looking, in Ryen's words, like "Russell Crowe Gladiator type shit."

The podcast opens with a quick baseball check-in. It says it is only about nine minutes, and it uses that first stretch to cover a packed baseball week before the show turns fully into college football. Chris Felica, the Bear from Fox Sports, joins in. Together they dig into this weekend's matchups and the current list of contenders, while the conversation keeps coming back to the bigger questions sitting underneath the games. The Fox Sports stadium ranking gets called out early. The list is treated like something that deserves an actual argument, not a polite shrug, and the discussion leans into why it feels so off. The math gets broader from there. The point is pushed that 12-game schedules, conference championship games, and the bracket itself make 16-0 runs a lot less realistic than people want to act like. Conference power keeps coming back into the picture. The idea keeps getting pressed that the Big Ten's back-to-back national championships have changed the default read on the SEC, even if it is framed as momentum and proof existing at the same time. Penn State becomes the next problem to solve. The discussion returns to the receiver room, transfer portal fixes, and the same familiar issue of a roster that still does not seem to create separation when it matters. LSU gets pulled into that same broader point. It is used as another example of an offense getting stuck when it cannot run the football against drop-eight coverage. The tone stays loose. The talk thinks out loud, interrupts itself, and gives the guest room when the conversation needs it. The show never gets formal. It keeps the usual barstool rhythm, where a stat dump can become a joke and then snap right back into actual analysis without much warning. The middle of the episode has some real edge. The current college football assumptions are treated as stale, and the annoyance does not get hidden when the sport's logic feels bent by scheduling, expansion, and branding. The guest segment works because the questions are pointed. The talk stays practical instead of abstract, which makes the ranking conversation and the conference conversation feel grounded in how the sport is actually played and watched. There is also a small life-advice detour. That part of the episode asks how far you can go with a teammate, which is exactly the kind of off-ramp the show likes once the sports talk has already done its job. The ending stays familiar. It signs off with the usual podcast housekeeping and lands on a family story about being named Michael Jared instead of Michael Jordan. It is a small, strange button on a show that spent most of its time arguing about football.

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A baseball opener that turns into a broad college football conversation.

It begins with a brief baseball setup, then shifts into a college football conversation that takes over most of the hour. The focus settles on the weekend matchups, the contenders, and a larger argument about conference power, with the Fox Sports stadium rankings singled out as…

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Baseball gets you in the door; college football does the heavy lifting.

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