Bowl season peaks on New Year's Day with Rose Bowl shootout + playoff blowouts
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Welcome to 2022! Stew and Bruce recap bowl season. The Rose Bowl delivered and the semi-finals were blowouts over the holiday weekend. Kirk Herbstreit stuck his foot in his mouth on the set of College Gameday talking about players who opted out. The narrative has become how to fix college football's postseason. Plus, the guys give shoutouts.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:30.0 | We are taping this late Saturday night. |
| 0:33.9 | It doesn't even feel like a Saturday, but it is New Year's Day. We got a bunch of football, some really compelling games. We're going to talk about those. We're going to talk about the blowouts of Friday night in the CFP, as well as some other compelling games that turned out to be stuff that we felt like really we all got kind of emotionally connected |
| 0:56.5 | to. And Stu, before we get into the semifinal games since they were a little more than 24 hours ago, |
| 1:05.7 | we had the Rose Bowl not that long ago. We just had Baylor and Dave Aranda pull off a 12-win season by |
| 1:12.9 | by beating Ole Miss and the Sugar Bowl. It was a pretty fun New Year's Day, just kind of like |
| 1:18.6 | old times, right, where a lot of stuff happened. I had a feeling that New Year's Day was going to end |
| 1:24.6 | up being more entertaining than New Year's Eve. And that |
| 1:28.7 | certainly ended up being the case. I know a lot of people like to crap on the Rose Bowl and wonder |
| 1:34.4 | why we make such a big deal out of it in California and in the Midwest. And some people hate the fact |
| 1:41.4 | that it maybe has kept us from from playing the semis on new year's eve |
| 1:45.4 | i mean on new year's day uh every year but i got to say the game often delivers when you think |
| 1:51.2 | about just just in the last decade or so the u sce pen state one uh that justin herbert uh |
| 1:57.9 | oregon wisconsin a couple years ago and right down to the wire, but this was really something. I mean, we saw a, we saw a receiver catch 16 passes for 347 yards. |
| 2:13.2 | You know how people say, oh, those are PlayStation numbers. I don't even think you can do that |
| 2:16.9 | on PlayStation. You could if you're really good and decided hey i want my favorite player to go off |
| 2:22.2 | um yeah jackson smith and jigba who i don't even want to say quietly because you had garrett |
| 2:29.1 | wilson and you had chris elave and they weren't playing in this game and then the number three |
| 2:33.7 | receiver of the |
| 2:34.5 | best receiving core in the country. I don't know if I want to say by far, but it sure seems like |
| 2:38.6 | that because they just have studs waiting in the wings. And the other thing, it's crazy to say |
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