Brandon Walker ends ‘Unnecessary Roughness’ with Kaycee Smith, launching solo college football show

Credit: 'Unnecessary Roughness'Brandon Walker and Kaycee Smith closed the book on Unnecessary Roughness this week, ending Barstool Sports’ longest-running college football podcast so Walker can launch a solo show under the same banner.The Brandon Walker College Football Show debuts Aug. 3 on the same YouTube channel and social accounts that housed Unnecessary Roughness, per Walker’s announcement.

The show will run Monday through Thursday before shifting to three days a week once the season starts, and will include guest interviews, listener phone calls, and voicemails, with Liam Blutman staying on in some capacity.More Brandon Walker CFB Show newsWill start Aug. 3 On sane YouTube/social media as @UnnecRoughness Interviews and guests Phone calls and voicemails Blutman is involved Monday-Thursdays in August.

Three times a week in season pic.twitter.com/PwPqEOn8ID— Brandon Walker (@BFW) July 15, 2026“This is the very last Unnecessary Roughness,” Walker said on the finale alongside Smith, who co-hosted the show with him for nearly seven years.

“I did not, I am not doing the Brandon Walker College Football Show because I’m tired of doing it with Kaycee Smith, or I don’t like Kaycee Smith, or I was ready to get away from Kaycee Smith. I love Kaycee Smith.”A major announcement from @BFW and @KayceSmithpic.

twitter.com/doMgCIn3IV— Unnecessary Roughness (@UnnecRoughness) July 15, 2026Smith will direct her attention toward Barstool’s other football properties, including the Barstool College Football Show, which she co-hosts with Walker, Dave Portnoy, and Dan “Big Cat” Katz, and which has folded into Fox’s Big Noon Kickoff as a recurring segment since Barstool’s wide-ranging partnership with the network began last summer. She also revealed that she’ll be spending considerably more time in Tampa with Jon Gruden this season on top of an already expanding workload since Barstool’s deal with Fox, with a fuller announcement on that still to come.

“If you can end it on your own terms,