8/1: Breaking Down The Preseason College Coaches Poll

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Bruce and Stew start this week's episode of The Audible discussing the first coaches poll of the season (:30); they follow that with a discussion about UCF scheduling a home and home with FIU (16:00); and they wrap up the show answering your questions in the mailbag (21:12).Trader Joe's is the presenting sponsor of The Audible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh yeah. Welcome to the audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel joined as
0:21.2	always by Bruce Feldman.
0:23.0	It is Thursday.
0:24.9	I think almost every team in the country
0:26.4	is opening camp tomorrow.
0:28.2	But some news on Thursday,
0:29.8	the preseason coaches poll is here. Bruce anything stand out to you right away
0:34.1	overrated, underrated, perfectly rated. There's a few. All right so first of all what
0:38.1	stood out to me in a long time Alabama number two not number one. Look I don't with it, but I just think just seeing Alabama number two is one that kind of gets your attention.
0:47.0	And the other thing, and this isn't a surprise, but it has been about almost 20 years since USC when it's been eligible for the poll hasn't made the top 25
0:59.1	pre-season coaches poll.
1:00.4	You have to go back to 2001 to find it and eligible U.S. seems that did not make it until
1:06.4	this Clay Helten team.
1:07.4	I also saw that Florida State is unranked for the first time since 2008 and only the second time since the early 80s.
1:15.8	Credit to Paul Meyerburg of USA Today for that one.
1:18.8	We've had this discussion before, we're going to have it again about Michigan.
1:22.3	They are number seven in the
1:23.6	preseason coaches poll and I already have a reputation as a Michigan hater
1:28.0	unfortunately so now when we have this discussion they just more fodder for
1:32.0	the Michigan fans but I but I'm just baffled.
1:36.1	You've seen the movie The Big Short?
1:38.4	No.
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