Adapt and Respond with RJ Young

Adapt and Respond with RJ Young

Welcome to Adapt & Respond with RJ Young. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in sports and pop culture. Tune in live on College Football Saturday Night, Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, Tuesday Night College Football Playoff rankings revealed and Thursday Night Football. RJ also performs daily segments taking on the biggest breaking news stories in college football and the NFL.

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June 13, 2025 32 mins

RJ discusses Texas' win-now attitude, Deion Sanders' time away from Boulder (9:10), Nebraska's gem in Dylan Raiola (18:17) and Texas A&M's KC Concepcion as a $2.5 million WR.


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Oklahoma is predicted to finish behind Auburn; Michigan is predicted to finish fourth in the Big Ten (9:50); Deion Sanders is not in Boulder (18:35); Deloitte's NIL Go will face scrutiny.


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Monday's edition of A&R begins with a discussion about Michigan and its NCAA infractions hearing, then moves to what Arkansas' 2025 might look like (9:35), the impact of House v. NCAA settled (19:36), Kevin Jennings was snubbed as notable by the Manning Passing Academy (28:53), Oregon WR Evan Stewart's apparent season-ending injury (37:03) and an anonymous assessment of Deion Sanders' Colorado by a Big 12 assist...

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Steve Sarkisian's Texas is the favorite to win the 2025 College Football Playoff national championship with Arch Manning at QB and (8:34) Josh Heupel's Tennessee is going through a transition year with quarterback Joey Aguilar and running back DeSean Bishop looking to lead the Vols.


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Georgia is baking on Gunner Stockton being the guy, but should Kirby Smart trust that? And Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he'd like to see four spots reserved for Big Ten teams in a 16-team CFP field. And In its 2025 edition of Anonymous coach speak, Athlon Sports dropped a doozy about the Sooners' head coach and what expectations must be in 2025.


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RJ discusses just why the Oklahoma Sooners and Alabama Crimson Tide have two SEC foes circled on their schedules.


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Ohio State QB Julian Sayin follows a tough act in Will Howard after Ryan Day's Buckeyes won the 2024 national championship AND Deion Sanders has made headlines once again as he defends his son and former star Colorado QB Shedeur Sanders' NFL Draft prep on Asante Samuel's podcast.

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In Monday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ asks is USC ready to compete in the Big Ten versus the likes of Ohio State and Michigan and is Deion Sanders' Colorado about to take a step back in 2025?


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In Sunday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ unpacks the $40 million Illinois coach Bret Bielema claimed some programs are spending on their rosters and if Duke QB Darin Mensah is worth more to the Blue Devils than Oklahoma QB John Mateer is to the Sooners.


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In Saturday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ asks with seven home games and perhaps just one ranked opponent on the schedule before November, Matt Rhule, Dylan Raiola and the Nebraska Cornhuskers have a chance to win nine games and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and his SEC spring meetings dominated news this week with field rush fine and news about the 16-team playoff format that most agree is best.


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In Friday's edition of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses what Justin Fields has to do be great for New York Jets and what Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte had to say about his Longhorns football program's NIL roster pay out and moving their game time with Ohio State.


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In the Wednesday podcast episode of Adapt & Respond, RJ discusses the idea that Deion Sanders is to blame for Shedeur Sanders NFL Draft slide and the prospect of the SEC and Big Ten agreeing to play each other regularly.


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The time is now for Steve Sarkisian's Texas with Arch Manning as his starting QB in a year where the College Football Playoff national championship feels attainable in Austin.

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Texas QB Arch Manning is not on the cover of EA Sports College Football 26, and that is not a shock. Texas expects to be one of the best teams in the sport in 2025.

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Ohio State wide receiver Jeremiah Smith and Alabama wide receiver Ryan Williams will grace the cover of EA Sports College Football 26. Smith and Williams could compete for the Biletnikoff Award and Heisman in 2025.This is the official YouTube channel for everything Adapt & Respond. RJ gives his strong opinions on the biggest topics in college football, sports and entertainment every week. Tune in live on College Football Satur...

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New name. Same RJ.

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Enzo Ferrari wanted to race cars, sing opera or write sports; was too much of a coward to race, couldn't sing worth a damn and doesn't believe the truth is entirely necessary. You can find examples of this all over motorsports history, but Brock Yates — who created, participated in and wrote about Cannonball Run — wrote a spectacular biography of the man behind the Scuderia. In fact, separating fact from fiction about Ferrari and h...
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September 8, 2023 7 mins
Tony Gilroy, Andor’s maestro, adapted action movies I love—the Bourne trilogy, Armageddon, Michael Clayton and The Devil's Advocate. He made Rogue One too. And I didn't like that as much as others did. His pops, Frank, adapted a movie into a Pulitzer and Tony award-winning play—The Subject Was Roses in 1965. His brothers Dan and John can Kool and the Gang get down on it too. But then I saw Gilroy put his back into dialogue got sna...
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Spawn is the first Black superhero ever to feature in a major motion picture — one year before Wesley Snipes featured in Blade. That fact serves to illustrate Spawn is one of the most overlooked and most popular Black superheroes in history. That juxtaposition merits investigation. So does the idea that the first mainstream superhero or antihero broke through as the angry, violent demon monster that fits a retrograde and heinous st...
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April 20, 2022 110 mins
RJ chopped it up with Racing Incident co-host Anna Tarkov about Formula One. They gushed about Lewis Hamilton, talked about the lack of racial and gender representation in the sport, the upcoming Imola and Miami Grands Prix and just what Drive to Survive has done for the sport. Also, RJ reads the prologue of Adrian Newey's excellent autobiography called How to Build a Car where Newey drives the Williams racing FW-15 F1 car around ...
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