11/2: Reaction to the first College Football Playoff rankings and Kaylee Hartung of ESPN
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 November 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Bruce and Stew discuss the College Football Playoff committee’s first set of rankings, then are joined by ESPN and SEC Network’s Kaylee Hartung to talk about the upcoming Alabama-LSU game, including Ed Orgeron’s impact on LSU (12:00); Leonard Fournette (14:00); behind the scenes of Kaylee’s sideline reporting work (20:00); and the ever-popular Mailbag questions (37:00).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. I'm Stuart Mandel. I'm joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:14.1 | And first we want to just hit on the initial playoff rankings that came out Tuesday night. |
| 0:19.1 | This is our first chance to weigh in on it. |
| 0:21.3 | How surprised were you about A&M head of Washington at number four? |
| 0:24.9 | I was a little surprised, to be honest, because, you know, I know you and I have bickered about, |
| 0:29.7 | you know, I felt like, hey, if it's a Power 5 team and they haven't lost a game, |
| 0:34.5 | I think that that's a big piece in it. And whereas, yeah, A&M has played more teams that |
| 0:40.7 | have winning records, it's not like, I mean, yeah, they have a good win at Auburn. Well, |
| 0:45.5 | Washington has a nice win at Utah. And I think when I look at the second best win of comparing |
| 0:53.3 | them, I think the way they just destroyed Stanford by |
| 0:56.2 | 40 points, and Stanford, by the way, is now 5 and 3, holds up as well as anything A&M has, and A&M has a loss. |
| 1:05.4 | I thought that it was interesting that when Kirby Hocut was defending it on the conference call afterward, he said, |
| 1:13.0 | you know, they've got big wins or good wins at Auburn, which we would agree. And then the |
| 1:18.4 | second one he mentioned was Arkansas at a neutral site. And I'm thinking, you know, have you |
| 1:22.7 | seen Arkansas lately? You know, they lost 563 to Auburn. If that's what they're holding up, |
| 1:44.6 | now A&M fans are very defensive about this and they just keep pointing out, you know, they lost 563 to Auburn. If that's what they're holding up, now A&M fans are very defensive about this, and they just keep pointing out, you know, they're, you can tell this will be their season-long rallying cry if they keep winning. Hey, our only loss was the number one team. But it was by 19 points. Should they be getting credit just for playing the game just because that game was on the schedule? |
| 1:48.2 | Yeah, it wasn't like they were blown off the field in the game for four quarters. |
| 1:51.3 | I mean, they were actually leading into the, you know, midway through the third quarter. |
| 1:54.7 | So on that front, I see one thing. |
| 1:56.6 | Here's the interesting thing to me. |
| 1:59.4 | You know, we've talked about this a lot. |
| 2:03.5 | Washington has a terrible non-conference schedule, three bad opponents. |
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