11/28: The insane Ohio State-Michigan game & The Great Playoff Debate
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 November 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew react to this weekend's crazy Ohio State-Michigan game and how the Buckeyes fit into the College Football Playoff picture (4:00); Is the CFP committee voting on which team is most deserving, or which team is better? (20:00); Is there any chance anyone else can surge past Louisville's Lamar Jackson in the Heisman race? (22:30); Charlie Strong is finally out at Texas and Tom Herman has been hired as his replacement (31:00); The decision to hire Ed Orgeron as the permanent head coach ay LSU (36:00); Bruce's run-in with the marching band at the Texas-TCU game going viral (47:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:14.9 | It is the Monday of the final week of the college football regular season. |
| 0:20.0 | Bruce and I, for the first time all season, we're in the same place Saturday. |
| 0:23.5 | We were in L.A. at the Fox Studios, where we recorded our playoff preview show that I hope |
| 0:29.3 | you guys saw on Sunday. |
| 0:31.1 | And together we watched what I think was one of the best regular season college football |
| 0:36.0 | games in a long time. |
| 0:37.5 | Ohio State Michigan game, frankly, I was getting nervous at the end watching it, |
| 0:41.8 | and I had no vested interest. |
| 0:44.0 | Where's the rank for you? |
| 0:45.6 | You know, it's the best game I've seen this year. |
| 0:48.0 | I mean, I haven't seen as many games on TV as you have, but it was a ton of drama. |
| 0:53.9 | I also thought, you know, because of the pacing of it, just kind of ratcheted up the drama. And obviously there were, you know, it's at the end of the year. Explain what you mean by that with the pace. Well, you know, especially a lot of the games I do that are, you know, they're big 12 or pack 12. You know, they're tempo games. They're going fast. |
| 1:11.5 | And it's almost like, you know, |
| 1:12.7 | the defenses aren't even set. |
| 1:14.3 | You're maybe not set in the ball or snap that it's going. |
| 1:17.1 | Whereas this, |
| 1:18.6 | when I watched this, |
| 1:19.4 | especially late in the game, |
| 1:20.5 | it was, |
| 1:21.1 | you know, |
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