Big Ben & K Winn
Two West Coast Sports Fans. Louder Takes. We cover NFL, NBA, MLB, College Football, and College Basketball. Click here to put an end to the East Coast Sports Bias: @bigbenkwinn_
Episodes
Four unranked teams knocked off ranked playoff hopefuls in a college football week that made zero sense. Chip Kelly brings #20 Northwestern into Autzen on Halloween with the hotter team and the better quarterback. Can the Ducks survive?
The SoFi Bowl: Chargers vs Rams, first win or 0-7. The Seahawks defense shut down Kenneth Walker in a statement win over the Chiefs. The 49ers handed a 2-4 team four giveaways heading into the bye.
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0:00 Chargers 0-6, Diet Coke Cold
4:59 Arch Manning vs Ole Miss: Start or Sit?
11:39 UCLA 6-0 and Unbeaten
14:42 Big 12 Gets No Respect
18:06 24-Team College Football Playoff
24:40 Rams Super Team or Super Tease?
27:30 49ers 6-0 and Rolling
33:38 Seahawks Need a Run Game
38:58 Bench Points: Big Ben Retires
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UCLA is Indiana 2.0. Bob Chesney brought his James Madison blueprint to Westwood, and Wayne Knight scored both touchdowns in the Bruins’ first win at Autzen since 2004. Notre Dame is 6-0 and has outscored opponents 264-66, so name one ranked win. Plus Ohio State at Indiana for Big Ten bragging rights.
In the NFL, Stafford throws for 383 and the Rams still lose to the Bills in overtime. Kicker’s fault? The Texans land Ma...
Brock Purdy has 11 touchdowns, one interception, and a 4-0 record. Next up is Lumen Field against the defending champs who beat the 49ers 41-6 in January. If he wins in Seattle, Purdy is in the thick of the MVP race alongside Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes, and Bijan Robinson.
Then the 0-4 club. Justin Herbert's Chargers have thrown six picks and given up 12 sacks. The Texans blew a 10-point halftime lead. And only the 1992 Chargers h...
The 3-0 Raiders host the 3-0 Chiefs in Las Vegas, and the winner takes sole possession of first in the AFC West. We're taking the Raiders outright as 5.5-point home dogs.
The 49ers are 3-0 and the Chargers are 0-3, so we ask: Brock Purdy or Justin Herbert, who would you rather have?
Jeremiah Smith is one touchdown from tying Chris Olave's Ohio State record of 35, and we say he breaks it at Kinnick. Then, should he be the #1 overall...
The Chargers lost to the Cardinals and the Raiders by the exact same score, 26-14, back to back weeks at SoFi Stadium, and now they fly to Buffalo. Then Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels and Jaxson Dart all went down, and Oregon vs USC with somebody's playoff dream on the line.
Lose to the Bills and is the Chargers' season over? We pick a side. Williams, Daniels and Dart are each headed down a different injury road, and we sort out wh...
Lane Kiffin walks back into Oxford as LSU's head coach, and Big Ben and K Winn can't agree on who wins. Caleb Williams and the Chicago Bears drop 59 on Carolina, while Jim Harbaugh's Chargers get walked out of SoFi by Jacoby Brissett as 8.5 point home favorites.
Kiffin broke up with Ole Miss, moved in with LSU, then asked to coach the Rebels through the playoff anyway. K Winn rides with Ole Miss. Big Ben takes LSU to win and cover....
Arch Manning gets Ohio State in Austin, Aaron Donald is playing football again, and Oregon barely survived Boise State at Autzen.
College Football Week 1 gave us two coaching debuts and only one of them was real. Lane Kiffin dropped 51 on Clemson in Baton Rouge and led 31-3 at halftime. Kyle Whittingham left 21 years at Utah for Ann Arbor and needed a second the officials put back on the clock to beat Western Michigan as a 27...
Pete Crow-Armstrong is running away with the NL MVP, and it is no longer an underdog story. This is PCA outperforming Shohei Ohtani. Lane Kiffin hosts Dabo Swinney for his first home game in Baton Rouge, and we hand out the full 12-team College Football Playoff field.
We open on College Football Week 1 and the team nobody is ready for. North Dakota State joins the Mountain West as a football only member, and we have the Bison takin...
The Seahawks won the Super Bowl and Vegas has them fourth at +1100, behind three teams that did not. De'Zhaun Stribling has 11 catches in two preseason games. Lane Kiffin just pulled a tight end straight off an NFL roster.
We open with a confession and a ruling on the question every fan has argued about and nobody has ever settled. How many teams are you actually allowed to have? Is a main team plus a side team or two legal, or is ...
The San Diego Padres have surged into the third NL Wild Card spot and the verdict is coming: contender or pretender? Meanwhile the Seattle Mariners are on the brink, one more bad road trip away from getting knocked out of both the AL West and the Wild Card race entirely.
We're also breaking down the Las Vegas Raiders' Week 1 quarterback battle. Fernando Mendoza or Kirk Cousins, who's under center when the season kicks off? Then we ...
The 49ers' training camp injuries pile up again, and we dig into the Santa Clara substation conspiracy theory behind San Francisco's historic run of bad injury luck. Cal Raleigh follows a 60 home run MVP runner up season with a .161 batting average, and Lincoln Riley heads into a make or break fourth season at USC with the number one recruiting class in the country and zero excuses left.
This week: whether Raleigh's power outage is...
The Dodgers traded for Tarik Skubal without moving a single player off the active roster, and Buster Posey turned the San Francisco Giants deadline into a five-trade heist. Deebo Samuel is back in the Bay on a one-year deal worth up to $7 million, and we settle whether Brock Purdy or Justin Herbert is under more pressure this NFL Season.
Kyle breaks down 6-Man Volleyball in Manhattan Beach and why a bracket in the sand explains the...
LeBron James is a Philadelphia 76er, the Warriors still need to upgrade their roster, and the Dodgers are one week away from deciding whether Tarik Skubal is worth the farm. This week Big Ben and K Winn break down the LeBron to Philly move, the Golden State trade that actually makes sense, and the biggest names on the MLB deadline board.
We start with the five grill masters problem in Philly. LeBron, Joel Embiid, Jaylen Brown, Tyre...
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LeBron's 2026 free agency, France's run to the World Cup final, and the NCAA burning down the redshirt headline this one, and no MLB Allstar Game Home Run Derby watching.
We discuss the FIFA World Cup Semifiinal games and France. In six games, France has six wins, sixteen goals scored, two conceded, and we’ll see if anyone in the field can stop them on July 19 in New Jersey. Big Ben plants his flag on Messi ...
LeBron James is still a free agent and the entire NBA is holding its breath. The Golden State Warriors cleared cap space, Draymond Green walked away from $27.7 million, the Miami Heat acquired Giannis, and the Cleveland Cavaliers want another homecoming.
This week on Big Ben & K Winn, we unpack the biggest question in basketball: does LeBron chase a fifth ring on a team-friendly deal, or protect the bag in his 24th season?
We a...
LeBron James is a free agent and the question is, what’s next? Lakers, Warriors, Cavs or Heat? We break down his options and pick a destination where we think he lands.
Steph Curry is 38 years old and the Warriors are a middle team in the West. Draymond declined his player option. The front office is targeting Trey Murphy III, LeBron,, and Anfernee Simons with the mid-level exception. We make the call on which move actually e...
NBA Draft: AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, and Cameron Boozer walk into the 2026 NBA Draft on June 23 in Brooklyn, and Big Ben and K Winn have bold takes.
We break down the #1 pick debate between Dybantsa and Peterson, K Winn drops his Jazz hot take on Cameron Boozer at #2 while Big Ben says Utah will trade up to draft AJ Dybantsa at #1.
Team USA beat Australia 2-0 at Lumen Field in Seattle to punch their ticket to the knockout...
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