Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms.

The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan.

This week, our hosts take the temperature of a nation simmering from the most important Tuesday in memory. By that of course we mean a full debriefing of BGSU’s return to Tuesday night MACtion against Central Michigan.

After Ohio State’s big win at Penn State, Briggs wonders how many whiskey bottles must fly before James Franklin enters the Hot Seat. And Phil seeks clarity on whether the dog or the pony are more beloved in any dog-and-pony show.

The Rockets won after giving up a Hail Mary, so our hosts determine what qualifies as a Hail Mary pass, and if this is the most backward win in program history.

All that and more on your favorite college football show, The Heart of the Rivalry.

Heart of the Rivalry is a Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms.

The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan.

This week, our hosts talk about the differences between a morass and molasses in Ohio State’s lethargic win over Nebraska and the quantity and quality of bottles thrown in the Horseshoe.

Briggs takes us back through all that was on and off the field in Bowling Green’s thrilling thumping of Toledo 41 - 26, an atypical college football score Phil claims he predicted.

That leads to our first edition of Hot Seat, where Briggs give us the tale the stovetop tells about coaches, who are all at a 1 to start.

We marvel at the Wolverines rejection of quarterbacking norms. But their better-mousetrap worked well enough to get a win against in-state rivalry Michigan State, who again felt they should throw fists over the whole affair.

But now Michigan welcomes the juggernaut, number one-ranked Oregon Ducks. Briggs tells us about the eight things that need to go right for the Wolverines to win. Then we look ahead to OSU traveling to Happy Valley for a much needed win over Penn St., while UT and BGSU travel to respective directional Michigan schools.

All that and more on your favorite college football show, The Heart of the Rivalry.

Heart of the Rivalry is a new Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms.

The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan.

Yes, it’s a full phalanx of Falcon-Rocket information carried in a yeoman’s effort at chopping, catalyzing, crystalizing, and critiquing this year’s matchup between the school’s a mere 25 miles apart — making this the first edition of Heart of the Rivalry to be within RIVALRY WEEK!

Briggs tells us about orbital fiascos of television broadcast choices, which is somehow again Buffalo’s fault. There’s further band drama, and Phil encourages the BGSU band to busk outside the Glass Bowl.

All that and more on your favorite college football show, the Heart of the Rivalry.