9/4: UCLA’s crazy comeback, Josh Rosen & more from Week 1
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Stew and Bruce recap an interesting opening weekend, including UCLA’s crazy comeback and Josh Rosen’s amazing performance (2:00); FSU-Alabama and what QB DeAndre Francois’ major injury means for FSU’s season (13:00); Is Alabama clearly the No. 1 team in the country, or is Ohio State? (16:00); Sam Darold and USC’s chances of making the playoff (28:00); The wild Maryland-Texas game (32:00); Return of The Mailbag (35:00); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode of The Audible is brought to you by Trader Joe's, a national chain of neighborhood grocery stores where you can run a naked bootleg to score delicious food at great prices. |
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| 0:16.1 | Learn more at Traderjoos.com and at traderjo's on Instagram. Welcome to The Audible. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:43.7 | And Bruce, what a weekend of football we have had. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, especially what we saw on Sunday night. |
| 0:51.7 | I thought it was, I don't know how good either A&M or Y are going to turn out to be, but it was quite a wild show. And the other game, West Virginia, Virginia Tech was a lot of fun too. So, I mean, it was just a really good way to cap. And as we taped this, we still have one more game left, Tennessee, Georgia Tech, but it was a really good way to cap. It was a pretty interesting, a lot of ups and downs first weekend. Well, let's just start right there. I mean, obviously we want to get to a lot of stuff that happened over the weekend, but it's fresh in our minds. By the way, just to give you a little bit of a color here, I was on my flight back from Atlanta to home, and I watched the entire UCLA and M |
| 1:30.8 | game on Delta. Thank you, Delta. And it really made the time go by because there was a lot to take from |
| 1:37.3 | that. We knew going into this game, I mean, people were joking that it was the hot seat bowl, but I've never seen anything quite like this, where UCLA fans were ready to fire Jim Mora, probably in the second quarter. And by the time it was over, UCLA completed the 34-point comeback. Second largest. Do you know what the largest was? You know, our guys put it up on the graphic, and I'm blanking on what it was. |
| 2:02.2 | I actually saw it. |
| 2:03.0 | I remember it well. |
| 2:05.1 | John L. Smith, Michigan State came back from 38 to 3. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah, 35. |
| 2:10.7 | Against Pat Fitzgerald's first Northwestern Wildcats team. |
| 2:15.6 | It always comes back to Northwestern, doesn't it? |
| 2:17.8 | Somehow it always does. |
| 2:19.3 | But first of all, let's start with this. |
| 2:23.1 | You've covered Josh Rosen a lot. |
| 2:24.8 | And I guess it hadn't really hit me. |
| 2:27.5 | And I know Twitter's not the perfect gauge of public opinion. |
| 2:31.5 | But as the meltdown was happening in the first half, |
| 2:34.1 | and UCLA was just |
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