11/9: The College Football Playoff rankings make zero sense this week!
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Stew is joined by Nicole Auerbach from USA Today as the guest co-host while Bruce is out.
They discuss this week’s College Football Playoff rankings and why the committee’s decisions this week make no sense (7:00); Rooting for chaos within the top four (17:00); How Chris Petersen has led Washington to be undefeated so far (28:00); An interesting story behind Michigan star player and Heisman candidate Jabrill Peppers (35:00); Big Ten’s Friday night games coming in 2017 (40:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:12.4 | I am not joined, as always, today, by Bruce Feldman, who has double-duty sideline |
| 0:18.1 | reporting this week. |
| 0:19.4 | He couldn't join me. |
| 0:20.6 | So I was like, huh, |
| 0:22.3 | who could I get to be a fill-in co-host? And you know what happened? My friend Nicole |
| 0:27.8 | Auerbach at USA Today, I saw her pictures from Seattle that she was in Seattle this week, |
| 0:32.6 | one of my favorite cities, and home of the Washington Huskies who are hosting USC this weekend. I thought it would be |
| 0:39.2 | very timely to bring Nicole on and talk about Washington, but also many other topics. And to be |
| 0:45.0 | clear, the election will not be one of them, Nicole. That's probably a good idea. This now seems like |
| 0:50.7 | a million years ago because of last night, but there were some new playoff rankings Tuesday nights. Washington does move up to number four. Now, I assume when you |
| 0:59.9 | did the interviews that, you know, they're in their complex at that point. They didn't know yet. |
| 1:06.2 | Right. What's the vibe there in terms of feeling whether they were being taken seriously enough by the committee. |
| 1:13.1 | Well, it was interesting. |
| 1:14.9 | And by the way, they're super weird to like process when it's still daylight. |
| 1:19.3 | I'm so used to watching the ranking show on the East Coast that it was like a very strange experience. |
| 1:26.0 | No, four o'clock here. |
| 1:27.4 | Yeah, yeah, I like wasn't ready for it. But it was it was like a very strange experience. No, four o'clock here. Yeah, yeah, I wasn't ready for it. But it was funny because they do the defensive player availability on Tuesdays. So earlier in the day, a couple of the beat riders were there and they're like, so how do you think it's going to go tonight? And I assumed that they were talking about the election, of course. And they're actually, they're like, yeah, you know, I think they're going to be number five behind Ohio State. And I was like, oh, right, right. The rankings are coming. So, you know, I think that they were pretty prepared to have the same consistent criteria applied against them and to have Ohio State be number four. |
| 2:01.8 | I don't, you know, I don't, I've not been around Chris Peterson probably as much as you have, |
| 2:05.6 | but I would expect that rankings mean literally nothing to him. He was asked about it a few |
| 2:11.4 | times this week and he's like, you know, we can only control how we approach our next game, |
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