On3, Blain Crain, Jake Crain, David Cone
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College football takes with no offseason.
Crain & Cone treats college football like a year-round pressure cooker. The panel races through spring games, transfer picks, quarterback battles, defensive questions, and SEC expectations with sharp fan energy and constant side-door jokes.
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Crain & Cone is built for the part of college football fandom that never really has an offseason. Spring games, portal additions, practice reports, and position battles all become live ammunition for bigger arguments about who is real and who is pretending. The show moves with sports-radio speed. A Michigan spring reaction can start with Bryce, Savion Heider, pass protection, and a front seven, then slide into fan expectations at the Big House. A Texas segment can linger on Ryan Wingo and Cam Coleman while still noticing the receivers around them, the tight ends, and the way Steve Sarkeesian can use space. Alabama’s A-Day becomes a test case for Keelon Russell, Austin Mack, and what a spring game can or cannot prove. Georgia prompts a harder question: whether the program still feels defensive first when the pass rush numbers have changed. Auburn gets treated through roster concerns, edge depth, win-total expectations, and the possibility of Byron Brown turning the thing around. LSU brings money, pressure, Lane Kiffin, and young defensive linemen into the same conversation. The panel likes a pointed question. It also likes interrupting that question before it gets too neat. Guests add local reporting from team beats and shows, including Andrew Bone, Zac Blackerby, Matt Moscona, and Rusty Mansell. The result is messy in a useful way. It sounds like people arguing from inside the sport, not summarizing it from a distance. Crain & Cone is at its best when a spring-practice detail becomes a larger read on coaching pressure, roster depth, or whether a fan base is allowed to believe yet. The tone is blunt, funny, and impatient with vague optimism. The football talk can get technical quickly, but it rarely gets sterile. For die-hard college football fans, that combination is the point.
Made for: Built for college football fans who follow spring practice, transfer portal movement, depth charts, and team-specific intel before the schedule turns serious. It suits listeners who already know the sport’s shorthand and want fast arguments, not beginner explainers.
What sets it apart: Crain & Cone pairs team updates with a loose panel rhythm that lets jokes, interruptions, and hard football questions share the same lane. It treats spring scraps and roster clues like they matter because, for this audience, they do.
Crain & Cone, hosted by former college athletes Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone, is a college sports show dedicated to delivering quality analysis and passionate insight to the most die-hard fans. On the On3 Network. For partnership inquiries, please contact: [email protected]
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Program-specific guests and pointed roster questions make college football's offseason expectations easier to test.
Crain & Cone turns college football's offseason into a working depth chart. Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone press guests for specifics, moving from the pressure on Lane Kiffin at LSU to Georgia's four-man pass rush and Auburn's questions on the edge.
Georgia's third-and-seven becomes your invitation to argue about whether rushing four still works.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Michigan gets a measured spring-game read on the backs, Bryce, and pass protection.
Michigan's spring-game reaction is treated as a useful, grounded look at what stood out. Savion Heider, the running back room's hands out of the backfield, and the way Jason Beck can lean on that versatility all get clear attention.
A transfer-portal draft where the audience gets the final say.
The show recasts the college football transfer portal as a live draft, with David Cohn, Blaine Crane, and J.D. Piquel building the best five players available while the audience weighs in on the winner.
A blunt Auburn spring check that keeps returning to the edge room and the 6.5-win bar.
This Auburn spring check is more concerned with whether the edge room can survive than with any tidy polish, and that is the right place to start.
LSU's spring talk stays grounded in real practice detail and the pressure of immediate expectations.
Crain & Cone works because it keeps the LSU talk tied to money, expectations, and what the staff is actually seeing in spring. The panel gives real weight to the idea that this is a year-one test, and Matt Moscona adds shape with practice notes on the interior defensive tackle…
A spring-practice segment becomes a debate about whether Georgia still looks defense-first.
Rusty Mansell and the hosts turn a spring-practice update into a broader question about whether Georgia still carries a defense-first identity.
A lively Josh Pate sit-down that keeps college-football pressure in view while the banter stays loose.
Crane & Cone uses a Josh Pate sit-down to get at the pressure around college football, especially the question of what a disappointing first year for Lane Kiffin at LSU would look like.
Daily 49ers draft-room talk.
Daily Jets roster logic, pick by pick.
This episode provides analysis and highlights of Texas football's spring game, focusing on standout players like backup quarterback KJ Lacey and wide receiver Jermaine Bishop Jr., and discussing the team's overall depth.
Michigan's spring game reaction starts with the usual reminder that spring football only shows so much.
The show opens with an AAA auto insurance spot and then pivots straight into turning the college football transfer portal into a draft board.
This episode features an interview with Mike Singer from Blue & Gold to discuss Notre Dame football's spring practice and team analysis.
This episode breaks down Alabama's A-Day spring game, focusing on quarterback Keelon Russell as the frontrunner and discussing team performance and recruiting updates.
Crain & Cone hosts Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone interview Locked On Auburn's Zac Blackerby for an Auburn football spring practice update.
Matt Moscona joins Crain & Cone to discuss LSU football under new head coach Lane Kiffin.
The hosts spend this segment on Georgia spring practice and the familiar question of whether Georgia still look like a defense first team.
Crain & Cone reacts to Michigan's 69-63 national championship victory over UConn in 2026.
Crane & Cone brings Josh Pate back and opens with the familiar promise of only hits.
This episode analyzes the hardest 2026 college football schedules with insights from sports commentator David Pollack.
This episode features a discussion with Kirk Herbstreit about top quarterback rankings and player evaluations in football.
This episode features an interview with Bryan Driskell discussing Notre Dame's loaded football roster, transfer portal additions, and whether the team can improve under Marcus Freeman for the 2026 season.