8/29: The biggest games and news of Week 1 with Joel Klatt
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
It's game week! FS1's Joel Klatt stops by to discuss the biggest games and stories of Week 1, including: Alabama's ongoing QB battle (2:45); why UCLA-Texas A&M and Houston-Oklahoma are the two biggest games this week (15:15); the big concerns still facing Texas (17:30); why Ohio State is being overlooked (20:20); plus Joel goes off on Tim Tebow and his decision to pursue baseball (27:00). So there's that.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman, and it is Game Week. |
| 0:15.4 | There are college football games this weekend, and we're joined now by a man who's going to be calling one of them every week for you, |
| 0:21.8 | and that is Fox Sports Lead College Football Analyst, Joel Klat. |
| 0:26.8 | Joel, you're ready for this? |
| 0:28.7 | I am so ready. |
| 0:30.3 | Can we please get through the preseason? |
| 0:33.6 | I thought the NFL preseason was painful. |
| 0:36.6 | Months and months of just talking about nothing as equally as painful. |
| 0:41.3 | Yeah, at least they play preseason games to watch. |
| 0:44.0 | We just talk. |
| 0:44.7 | Exactly. |
| 0:45.6 | There's like stuff to actually, hey, this guy looks good in a game. |
| 0:49.0 | Hey, this backup race is interesting. |
| 0:50.7 | We're just continually sitting here like, well, if the André Francois is any good, |
| 0:55.8 | then watch out for Florida State. Okay. So, Joel, what is the thing that we have kind of |
| 1:02.3 | bandied about and bantered about most that you are most curious to see actually unfold this fall? |
| 1:09.9 | Yeah, I mean, I mentioned that one. |
| 1:11.6 | I think the things that are most interesting to me are the unknowns because all of us tend |
| 1:19.6 | to believe that there's about eight teams in the country that are good enough to win the national |
| 1:24.6 | championship. |
| 1:25.6 | And outside of that, it would be a real dark horse to creep up and get into that mix. |
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