Shutdown Fullcast - 40 FOR 40: The 2025 Military Bowl

Episode Date: December 24, 2025

WWWWWWWWELCOME to the return of 40 For 40, our bowl preview series where every bowl game gets its own episode and each episode is exactly as long as that game deserves.Who decides what “deserves” means? We do! Thank you for askingNow through December 31, 100% of proceeds from all PTKU merch sales will be donated to Trans Ohio. Visit preownedairboats.com to purchase BRAND-NEW BLUE SHARKS GEAR #EXCLUSIVEThis episode was produced by Michael Ray SurberFullcast theme 40 For 40 intro arranged and performed by Russell PowellFullcast theme 40 For 40 outro arranged and performed by MattDID YOU KNOW: Spencer and Holly write Channel 6, a year-round newsletter that is mostly about football, until it’s notBefore the world ends (again), treat yourself to Jason’s critically praised novel and other workTravel in your mind palace to Phantom Island, Ryan’s new show with Steven Godfrey, which is not a college football show because another simply cannot existCheck out Surber’s band Killer Antz and his new show Podcasterino

Welcome, soldiers! It's the Military Bowl! Yeah, this is a shutdown, full cast, a 4440 preview, where we're going to talk about each game for as long as we need to. I'm Spencer Hall, joined by Jason Kirk, Ryan Nanny, Holly Anderson. and michael ray server on the ones and twos yeah stand up soldier it's the military bowl you know what i think of when i think of ball games and excitement annapolis maryland that's that's where this thank you for the doink uh speaking of doin pitt's in this game that's right pit walking aggressive

error pit faces walking aggressive error east carolina two teams that no matter when you played them or where you played them you are going to get mindless aggression maybe not winning aggression since both teams sort of lead the league in in quality losses both of these teams have some just outstanding losses like for instance east carolina they lost to b yu they lost to utsa right they they lost to toulain um they lost to nancy state never mind but they have were you have that dave doran was high during that game it's he did seem very mellow he seemed entirely too mellow if davidore was blitzed out of his skull how would you tell that's a great question oh my gosh um there are some things in flux for east carolina uh they're starting from inside a kennel i sonny shut the fuck up somebody needs to go bowling brother don't i uh east carolina will be playing without quarterback katen hauser he's decided to

hit the transfer portal so um mike right late uh vanderbilt will be the starter for right mike yes right mike it's not quite as good it's not quite as good it's great um he will be the starter for this game for the pirates also in flux uh east carolina's core offensive coordinator john david baker it's got three names So you go, naturally, he's probably getting a job at Old Miss. That's right. Pete Golden called him and goes, Hey, John David Baker, son of a bitch.

Heard you build the biggest damn offense into the simple scene. Why don't you come over to Old Miss? So the North Texas offensive coordinator, Jordan Davis, who worked under me there, he's going to be the next month. Let me tell you, immensely qualified gentleman. I think he's got great things coming for him. I talked a lot about East Carolina. The other team, we don't really need to introduce.

It's Pitt. It's Pitt. We already brought them up in the quick language. Bowl preview. So ominous, but also so promising. So, so ominous, so promising. Prominous. Prominous? Yeah. If you like, something's coming. It might not be good, but something's definitely going to get here. That's right. I found this box and it's got nails and spikes all over it. We should probably open it. Yeah, that's what this game is going to be. As always, this game is sponsored by go bowling eternal sponsor of the military bowl because if there's two things that go together

it's our dying empire sustaining military and the noble sport of bowling the two of those things like that I tell you my fingers intertwined if you want to go bowling there's a website let the troops go bowling anymore they took the ice cream out of the boats that's right no fun no fun war fighters war fighters it's because pete heggs that there's a gutter bowl spilling bitch that's what he is that's why he doesn't want the troops to go bowling um anyway you should give the troops in your life because they've been deprived of bowling you should go ahead to go bowling.com and get them like a cheetos themed bowling shirt honestly sorry yeah it just says the all over print like the bush beans bucket hat at least yeah it's it's got like oh i was guessing holy

shit yeah this is cheeto print if you like yeah cheetah is the faintly lascivious cartoon cat still on the job? Chester? Chester, yes. Yeah, not Pat. Not Ducey. Is Chester Cheetah? Is Chester Cheetah still horny? Yeah, that's AI overview.

Dangerously. Cheezily. You know, on the... Just Chester Cheetah in a smoking jacket leaning in like, wouldst thou desire to live Cheezley? While we're looking this up, I just noticed the Wiki page on this, the first edition of this game,

and I went back and looked, this has been there for years, I didn't really notice it. It says the first, the 2008 version of this game was the Congressional Bowl working title. A few years ago on Wiki, it was called Planning Stages. Apparently Wiki is so thorough with this specific game that it even retains its pre-Bole aliases, its code names. I guess that's pretty military now that I think about it. Yeah, if you're the editor of this Wikipedia page, you probably listen to this show. Call us. We'd love to hear about your journey. Speaking of Sexy, Pittsburgh, it's a top 20 scoring offense, but there's 69th in scoring defense.

What does that mean?