Season 6 - Episode 5 - Mike talks 2025 College Football with Tim Horvath and Chad Massey

In Episode 5 of Season 6 Mike welcomes noted college football fans and expert prognosticators Tim Horvath and Chad Massey for the guys’ annual college football preview of the 2025 season. Follow the podcast on BLUESKY: @friendsofmiked Email the podcast at talkingfriendship@gmail.com Key moments from the pod: 0:30: Mike welcomes listeners to S6E5 1:40: Mike updates the listeners on the plan for the rest of Season 6 of the podcast 2:25: What’s been going on with Mike? Namely trips to Philadelphia and morning horror movies 4:30: Mike breaks down the rest of this episode and features a song that best encapsulates the attitude of the Michigan Wolverines heading into the 2025 season (spoiler alert: it’s not an old attitude) 9:45: Mike welcomes Tim Horvath and Chad Massey onto the podcast. There’s definitely some insurance humor involved as well as some life updates 15:15: Mike sets the table for the rest of the episode, starting with a quick recap of the 2024 season as well as a tailgate tradition that involves the mantra 29:20: The guys give their thoughts on the big offseason recruiting news about incoming freshman QB Bryce Underwood 37:50: The fellas then talk about which true freshmen they’re most excited about outside of Bryce Underwood 43:45: Next up is discussing their favorite pickups in the transfer portal for the Wolverines 46:40: The Big 10 has some annoying head coaches and the guys discuss them in non-annoying detail 54:15: Should the College Football Playoff be expanded from 12 to 16 teams? The guys debate this (in a respectful manner) 57:10: Reasons for optimism for the 2025 Michigan football season 1:01:00: Reasons for concern for the 2025 Michigan football season 1:04:00: Key position groups for the 2025 Michigan football season 1:07:00: Key individual players for the 2025 Michigan football season 1:11:00: The guys break down every game on Michigan’s 2025 schedule, starting with game 1 with the game against New Mexico Lobos 1:12:30: Oklahoma 1:17:00: Central Michigan 1:18:00: Nebraska 1:20:00: Bye Week (First ever Big House concert) 1:21:40: Wisconsin 1:24:50: USC 1:28:00: Washington 1:31:00: Michigan State 1:34:45: Purdue 1:36:15: Bye week 1:36:30: Northwestern (at Wrigley Field) 1:39:00: Maryland 1:41:00: Ohio State 1:46:00: The guys finish up by picking the Big 10 champions, the teams who will make the College Football Playoff and the National Champion.

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Season 6 - Episode 5 - Mike talks 2025 College Football with Tim Horvath and Chad Massey is an episode from The Talking Friendship with Mike D Podcast by Mike Daniel.

This episode is 118:37 long.

This episode was published on Aug 10, 2025.

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