9/16: What happened to the ACC?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The top tier in college football is clearly separating itself from the rest of the pack. Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia and LSU are all in the hunt for the College Football Playoff. Does Alabama look mortal compared to years past? Jalen Hurts is phenomenal in Lincoln Riley's offense. Bruce got a first-person view of Oklahoma Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Les Miles and Kansas dominate Boston College. What happened to the ACC? The conference, other than Clemson, is way down. How will the Tigers stay sharp? Mailbag questions!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Stuart Mandelow, joined, as always always by Bruce Feldman. It's week four now |
| 0:22.3 | into the college football season, hard to believe. It feels like it just started still. |
| 0:28.0 | Bruce, something I've been kicking around. I've said it. I feel like in three different |
| 0:32.3 | outlets already, but I got to give credit to Ralph Rusph russo who's tweet kind of um on saturday night |
| 0:40.0 | you know he had the combined scores of basically six teams on saturday clemson alabama |
| 0:47.1 | georgia oklahoma ohio state and ls uxn'trcule it was some obscene margin as i went to do my |
| 0:53.9 | new top ten on late Saturday night, |
| 0:56.8 | I felt like, man, I've got six teams here, and I don't feel right leaving two of them out |
| 1:02.2 | of the top four. Like, they all look like playoff teams right now. And then I don't really have |
| 1:06.5 | any strong feelings about anybody else. Does it feel that way to you that there's this, and I know it's only three weeks in, |
| 1:13.6 | but there's just kind of this separation right now of tears in college football? |
| 1:18.1 | Well, I think it's better than if we normally have four teams, right? |
| 1:22.4 | I feel like the pool has expanded just a little bit. |
| 1:26.3 | I think one thing that kind of dovetails into this to me is the |
| 1:31.7 | ACC looks so bad right now and Clemson looks so good. |
| 1:35.5 | It's hard to imagine anybody, including in the conference title game, getting in |
| 1:39.6 | their way. |
| 1:40.7 | And so that let's put them aside. |
| 1:43.0 | Then you have what looks like a really strong top three in the |
| 1:47.1 | in the SEC. And I don't know. I mean, you did your top 10. I mean, what percent chance would you |
| 1:54.8 | give it right now that we could have three SEC teams make the playoff? Oh, I'm not going to go there. |
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