Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Ralph Rousseau from The Athletic, joined as always by Stuart Mandel and Bruce Feldman, my colleagues.

Today we are concluding our conference-by-conference review, breakdown of Stu and Bruce's buy-sell

hold. We're going to look ahead, look back, see how these guys did, and see where maybe the

teams in the Big 12 are heading going into 2026. We'll also hit on Notre Dame. We'll probably start with Notre Dame.

They tend to get a lot of publicity. So we'll hit on the Irish. And of course, we'll do a Big 12

centric mailbag to put a bow on it. First, a couple of news and notes to start before we dig

into the Big 12. A Big 12 related item, former Nebraska and also Oregon and also

Washington State athletic director, Bill Moose, wrote a book that's been making the rounds, some

excerpts of that had been making rounds. The two juicy items out of this, guys. I'm going to start

with juicy item number one goes to Bruce.

And that is Bill Moose saying that when they met with Scott Frost and he was the obvious candidate,

the Golden Boy, former National Championship winning quarterback from Nebraska, he had been killing

it at UCF. When they. When he met with Scott Frost,

even he and his wife came away a little skeptical about whether Scott would be ready for this job.

And Moose indicated in the book that Frost, that actually the candidate that he was interested in talking to was Chip Kelly.

So Bruce, Chip Kelly and Nebraska, you think that would have been a thing?

I don't think that would have been a thing, guys.

He'd been a guy who was, I think, intrigued by the West Coast.

Obviously, had a lot of success in

Eugene, Oregon, like Scott Frost to some degree. And then I think what it really appealed to him,

he was in this time when Tennessee was open and Florida were open. And I know those jobs,

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