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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

5/23: The Top 50 college football players of the past 50 years

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sports, Football, College Football, Big Ten, Cfb, Sec, News, Sports News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Bruce and Stew take a look at Athlon Sports’ list of Top 50 college football players of the past 50 years and debate who is deserving of their spot and who was left off the list.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible.

0:10.9

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman.

0:14.2

Bruce, I always love when another publication just drops something that gives us perfect

0:18.8

fodder to talk about on the podcast.

0:21.2

But she's one of the dead of the off seasons, Stu, as we are right now.

0:24.6

We're like, should we do a podcast today or not?

0:27.2

And I think we have some interesting material to pour over.

0:30.8

We do.

0:31.3

Now, loyal listeners may remember a few months ago us talking about this originally when we voted in it ourselves. This is Athlon

0:39.1

has come out with their annual college football preview issue. And it's funny because usually when

0:44.4

the preview magazines start coming out, you want to jump immediately to their top 25 teams.

0:50.4

But I'm more interested in talking about this list that you and I were selected to be part of the panel,

0:56.6

and that is the 50 greatest college football players in the 50 years that Athlon has been putting out as magazine.

1:05.5

So if you heard that episode a few months ago, we talked about how we had voted.

1:11.1

I don't think we went through all 50, but we kind of talked about certain players and how we voted.

1:16.4

Well, now the list is here.

1:18.0

And so, first of all, go out and buy the magazine.

1:22.5

It's one of my favorite preview magazines.

1:24.4

It's my favorite preview magazine, I would say.

1:29.3

Because Phil Steele is just a little too dense for me, although I do get that one as well.

1:33.2

Phil Steele's is valuable for me, especially for the old, old Vegas odds. I do appreciate that.

1:39.5

And for the, you know, obviously Phil Steele has never been on the same page with a designer who

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