This's weeks episode of West of the Rest previews the 2026 Navy All-American Bowl and the two Western announcements coming live in San Antonio, previews the 2026 Polynesian Bowl in Honolulu, the birthplace of the West of the Rest and touches on the transfer portal.

Blair and Huff put a nice bow on the 2025 season and 2026 classes before the Holidays. With the 2025 calendar year coming to a close, the two take a road trip throughout the West, breaking down the classes at each of the FBS schools in the region (save Hawaii, saving that one for the Polynesian Bowl), from the Big Ten to the Big 12 to the Pac-12 to the ACC to the Mountain West and a couple of notable Big Sky classes while recommending which brewery to hit when in each town. Finally they break down their top players, games and plays...

Blair and Huff recap a wild week of the early signing period, the Winners and Losers from the class of 2026 signing day, new coaches at Cal, Stanford, UCLA and Washington State and the GM of Overtime, Hunter Mandel joins us to preview Wednesday's Overtime Nationals between Draper (Utah) Corner Canyon and Baltimore (Md.) St Frances Academy on ESPN2 and tell us how the game came to be.

Blair and Huff touch on how recruiting at California is going on the heels of Justin Wilcox being fired. They preview the Washington-Oregon game at Husky Stadium and the Arizona State-Arizona game at Mountain America Stadium and the recruiting impact of both. They break down the state playoffs in Arizona and the section playoffs in Southern California where both saw games over the weekend. Plus they talk some key flips and some major recruitments to watch down the stretch. And they...

Blair and Huff talk about this weekend's USC-Oregon game in Autzen Stadium and the high recruiting stakes the game will produce. They touch on Oklahoma continuing to build momentum in the region, with commitments from a pair of 2027 recruits in California running back Jaxsen Stokes and Arizona cornerback Mikyal Davis. And they break down the state playoffs in Utah and the section playoffs in Southern California where both saw games over the weekend.

Blair and Huff talk about playoff action getting underway across the West and while the season came to an end for Kaysville (Utah) Davis quarterback Tradon Bessinger, so too did his recruitment with his commitment to Iowa. Alabama hosted several top recruits from out West for their win over LSU and they'll have more there this weekend when they meet Oklahoma so they highlight those. They also preview the announcement this weekend from 2027 four-star safety Khalil Terry while touching on the decommitment of his Tustin (Calif.) teammate, 2027 linebacker Taven Epps.

Blair and Huff return to talk about Stanford's big commitment in the 2027, break down the reclassification of elite defensive lineman Marcus Fakatou from 2028 to 2027, discus the flips happening or looming because of the coaching changes, talk about Alabama's big weekend coming up of hosting Western recruits and talked about Huff's trip to Colorado where he saw a number of players in the 2026, 2027 and 2028 classes...

The West of the Rest returns with hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman talking about Oklahoma hosting four Top247 prospects from the 2027 class from the West for this weekend's game, look back at Arizona State's big visit weekend in their win over Texas Tech, highlight the new 2026 commits from the week and touch on Boise State landing their primary 2027 quarterback target...

The West of the Rest returns with hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman talking about BYU's big upcoming recruiting weekend when they host Utah in the Holy War, key 2026 official visitors to Auburn and Cal, Oregon State firing Trent Bray, the early signing period in December and the Portal window opening in January and more...

The West of the Rest returns with hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman talking about Boise State's and Oregon's upcoming big visit weekend, preview who is also heading to USC, touch on UCLA's win over Penn State and what impact it had with recruits, highlight another Texas A&M visitor from out West as well as a Crystal Ball selection for the Trojans and highlight games in the Inland Empire and the Bay Area while Huff breaks down a couple of brewery stops in Northern California... 

The West of the Rest returns with hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman talking about Washington- both Bishop Gorman five-star safety and Oregon commit Jett Washington and the Washington Huskies, who had a huge recruiting weekend, while highlighting BYU's newest 2026 commit, Texas A&M hosting a major 2027 target and a few key recruitments to track out West in the 2026 class as well as an 8-touchdown game by 2028 QB AJ Tuivaiave.

The West of the Rest returns with hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman talking about Washington's big chance to impress recruits with defending. national champs and top-ranked Ohio State coming to Seattle, touch on who impressed them this past weekend in high school games, namely USC commit Mark Bowman, Oregon commit Jett Washington, Notre Dame commit Devin Fitzgerald and 2028 standout Roye Oliver III and update the key recruiting visits of the week from 2027 four-star Quentin Hale and Oklahoma as well as the top players from Hawaii in 2027 and 2028 respectively, Toa Satele and Trison Satele, visiting USC

The West of the Rest settles in on its regular day of Tuesday and this week, hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman touch on UCLA's firing of DeShaun Foster, how it impacts recruiting and what the Bruins need to do long-term on the recruiting trail, preview Utah's big weekend with Texas Tech visiting, highlight a couple of the in-state rivalry games (the Apple Cup and Civil War) plus Cal visiting San Diego State and update on two key visitors, Josiah Molden to Notre Dame and Marcus Fakatou to Arizona State.

The West of the Rest returns for its third iteration, with a whole new landscape in college football and in college football recruiting, in particular on the West Coast. Hosts Blair Angulo and Brandon Huffman return to the controls in advance of week three of the 2025 college football season to point out some refreshers on the current and future recruiting classes, touch on early key storylines and development and preview what is in store for the West of the Rest podcast.