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

9/16: What happened to the ACC?

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

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 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! Subscribe now to hear new episodes of The Lead each weekday morning: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lead/id1478448344 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, Welcome to the audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel joined as

0:19.4

always by Bruce Feldman. It's week for now into the college football season, hard to believe.

0:25.0

It feels like it just started still.

0:27.0

Bruce, something I've been kicking around, I've said it, I feel like in three different outlets already but I got to

0:35.6

give credit to Ralph Russo who's tweet kind of on Saturday night you know he

0:41.6

had the combined scores of basically six teams on Saturday

0:45.8

Clemson, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Ohio State, and LSU. It was some

0:51.0

obscene margin. As I went to do my new top 10 on late Saturday night, I felt like, man, I got

0:58.7

six teams here and I don't feel right leaving two of them out of the top four like they all look like

1:03.8

playoff teams right now and then I don't really have any strong feelings about anybody else

1:08.0

does it feel that way to you that there's this and I know it's only three weeks in but there's just kind of

1:14.4

this separation right now of tears in college football. Well I think it's better

1:19.1

than if you you're if we normally have four teams right I I feel like the pool has expanded just a little bit.

1:26.4

I think one thing that kind of dovetails into this to me is the ACC looks so bad right now and Clemson looks so good it's hard to

1:36.0

imagine anybody including in the conference title game getting in their way and so

1:40.9

let's put them aside then you have what looks like a really strong top three in the in the SEC and I don't know I mean you did your top 10 I mean what percent chance would you give it right now

1:55.9

That we could have three SEC teams make the playoff. Oh, I'm not gonna go there. I don't think I'll go there come on

2:04.3

You're already you're already talking about how there's only six teams that matter you think it's very low yeah but three of them

2:08.1

are gonna play play a little mini playoff amongst each other okay so let's talk about your original power six here, Stu.

2:15.7

So it's those three SEC teams.

2:18.6

It is Ohio State who has looked very impressive on both sides of the ball albeit haven't really played

2:24.0

anybody very very good I think Cincinnati is pretty good but beyond that I we have to

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