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

Buy, Sell, Hold Revisited: Big Ten

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

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Ralph puts Bruce and Stew on trial for their preseason Big Ten Buy, Sell, Hold rankings. The guys debate how they fared over the course of 2025, and look ahead to 2026: Arthur Smith's unconventional hire at Ohio State, Gary Patterson working with (or for?) Lincoln Riley at USC, Matt Rhule's Groundhog Day at Nebraska, whether P.J. Fleck has taken Minnesota to their ceiling, and more.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.1

I'm Ralph Rousseau here with my colleagues from the athletic Stuart Mandel and Bruce Feldman.

0:15.7

I'm here again.

0:17.0

You can see me again.

0:18.8

Sorry about a couple of days ago.

0:20.2

We had some technical issues. Bruce and Stu and our producer, Matt, got to see the worst of me, the frustrated with technology, Ralph, cussing up like a sailor. But we're better now. And you can see us all live here, or not live, but you can see us all here on YouTube where you can find every episode

0:38.0

of the Audible pod.

0:40.2

Today is going to be a Big Ten-centric show, the first of our Power Conference season

0:47.4

reviews of sorts, using the results of Bruce and Stu's buy, sell, hold segment from the preseason.

0:56.4

Now, since I was not part of that show, I was not part of the show at that point,

1:01.7

I get to be the judge and the jury and the executioner on how the guys did.

1:06.6

We'll also have a big 10 centric mailbag.

1:10.0

But first, should we just tie a bow, guys, Stu, on the Darien Mensa situation?

1:16.0

Just to say, like, here's what happened.

1:18.0

And I'll throw it to either one of you guys.

1:19.9

Like, basically, Darian Mensa is now a member of the Miami Hurricanes.

1:24.0

Oh, shocking.

1:25.5

Which is where it was headed from the beginning.

1:28.7

But they had to reach a lawsuit settlement.

1:31.9

Terms, as of this recording, we don't know what the terms of the settlement were.

1:34.8

I assume Miami had to pay some sort of buyout or Darien himself, I don't know, to get him out of that contract.

1:42.1

But, you know, he's, he immediately, as soon as that came out, was in Miami for a visit, committed.

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