1/6: National Championship preview, PJ Fleck to Minnesota, Bowl Season recap
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 6 January 2017
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew are joined by Ralph Russo of the AP live from Tampa, the site of the National Championship. Stew recaps his meeting with new USF head coach Charlie Strong (3:15) and the guys discuss his departure from Texas and what to expect to him in the coming years rebuilding South Florida. Then, a preview of the National Championship rematch between Alabama and Clemson (8:25) - Why has Clemson become the "trendy" pick? How will the loss of Lane Kiffin affect Alabama's offense? What will Steve Sarkisian bring to the table in his absence? Plus a full break down of both sides of the ball on both teams. The guys also discuss where Dabo Swinney ranks as a coach in college right now (15:30) and compare Bruce's Top 20 coaches at the beginning of the season and reorder them now at the end of the season. Then, PJ Fleck takes the open Minnesota job (28:00), what can we expect from him in his new role, and will he realistically be around the program for the long term? And what is the future of James Franklin at Penn State after his recent success? (35:00) Plus, Bruce and Stew answer mailbag questions, including their Top 5 college football games of all time (38:45), if the bad semi-final games were proof we need an 8-team playoff (44:20), and what we should make of the Big 12's "overachievement" during the bowl season (49:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Live from Tampa, Florida, it's the Audible. |
| 0:04.0 | Coming up, we're going to be talking, of course, about the Clemson, Alabama National |
| 0:07.2 | Championship game. |
| 0:08.5 | Minnesota has a new coach, and I assume a new slogan. |
| 0:12.6 | That and more on the Audible. |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to The Audible. I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:31.3 | Joined in person on the patio of this beautiful hotel in downtown Tampa. |
| 0:35.3 | It's Bruce Feldman and our friend Ralph Russo from the AP. |
| 0:38.2 | Guys, glad to be doing this in person. |
| 0:40.6 | This is nice. Thank you very much. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, we have a little like natural sound in the background. |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, like Bruce's phone. |
| 0:50.3 | For example, Bruce's phone, apparently Western Michigan may have hired a new coach. |
| 0:52.1 | Turn this over. |
| 0:56.2 | Kind of walked into Stu's room and I just kind of felt better about myself. |
| 0:57.1 | Stu got a little room. |
| 0:58.6 | He's got a double. |
| 1:01.7 | Stu also has a better view than I do. |
| 1:05.9 | I had that building as my view and Stu has a water view. |
| 1:08.3 | And by the way, we're watching a pirate gym. By the way, a quick aside, since we're talking playoff stuff and everything, back in the heydays of John Junker Stu's to get the really good sweets at the Camelback. Those were the days. My room last week, the Camelback leaked. They had to come fix it because it leaked. No, it's a pretty cool setup they have here for the championship game. This being our third one, but I don't know about you guys. It's cool to me that we're out of the |
| 1:31.2 | normal Ford or five city rotation, that we're trying something new. The convention center is |
| 1:36.6 | right ahead of me, the arena where Media Day will be is right behind us, and there's |
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