Bruce and Ralph play a game of "Would You Rather"
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Ralph pick between buzzy teams against sneaky-good alternatives for 2026. Michigan's stability under Whittingham, or Matt Campbell's Iowa State imports at Penn State? Oklahoma's defensive upside or Kiffin–less Ole Miss? Houston's momentum or TCU's depth in the Big 12? UCLA's Chesney era or Washington's returning talent? Plus, mailbag on “wins above bubble,” which past coaches would look different in a 12-team playoff, and whether UNC's Michael Malone hire echoes the Belichick experiment.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Ralph Russo from The Athletic, |
| 0:11.9 | joined today by my colleague Bruce Feldman. Stuart Mandel is off. It's just we haven't been together |
| 0:20.0 | much, Bruce. Like, the three of us have just been like, |
| 0:23.4 | first it's me and then I have technical difficulties and then you have the combine. I have |
| 0:29.1 | basketball. Stu's, you know, galivanting around the world and, you know, taking an elaborate |
| 0:35.6 | and extravagant vacations. It's just, we're just not together enough |
| 0:39.4 | during the offseason, Bruce. People are going to read things into this, Ralph, that the three of us |
| 0:44.1 | don't get along or don't like each other very much or that's dude doesn't like you. It's going to be, |
| 0:50.3 | it's going to be, it's going to be fodder. Let's say that. |
| 0:56.7 | Yeah, no, we are all getting along fabulously. |
| 1:02.1 | But again, this is a good time of the year, actually, for us to be able to, you know, take advantage of the fact that there's three of us and not just two of us so we can still bring |
| 1:06.1 | you tremendous content while some of us are off doing other things, work and play related. |
| 1:12.4 | This week on the show, or today on the show, I should say, we'll hit the mailbag later on. |
| 1:18.6 | We are going to clean up a couple of things related to our last discussion about eligibility. |
| 1:25.3 | We'll probably do that right off at the top. |
| 1:27.1 | And we are going to get into a game that I'm stealing from another athletic podcast. I'll get into that more when we actually steal it. But let's just start with this. Again, we just want to clean up a little something. It's a mailbag. This is not from the mailbag. This was just a post. You got this, right? Somebody posted this to you on |
| 1:45.7 | Blue Sky, Bruce? I did. So what I've been doing is I just kind of try to get as, you know, |
| 1:51.4 | many eyeballs on our podcast as possible. And so I posted it Monday or Tuesday morning and then |
| 1:58.3 | looked the next day. And I was like, oh, this is actually an interesting element of the potential rule change. |
| 2:05.6 | And it's one that I hadn't thought of off top my head, but it's one that's a real thing in terms of like almost every college football program seems like has a punter from Australia. |
| 2:15.1 | Or at least it seems like it. |
| 2:16.7 | And usually they're like older than us. |
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