Cal Fires Wilcox + Rivalry Week Playoff Chaos
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Justin Wilcox is out at Cal after nine seasons following a blowout loss to Stanford in the Big Game. In a surprising twist, Nick Rolovich is named interim head coach. The guys discuss potential replacements, including Tosh Lupoi, Sean Lewis, and Jim Mora.
Rivalry week is here with massive playoff implications. Could Alabama actually play themselves OUT of the playoff by losing the SEC Championship Game? Ralph and Stew debate whether the committee would drop a 10-3 Alabama team after losing a 13th game. They also discuss scenarios where Michigan beats Ohio State and crashes the at-large pool, and Georgia Tech upsets Georgia with head-to-head chaos. Plus, why the committee's head-to-head logic only seems to apply to certain conferences.
Also, the guys make their picks for Texas A&M at Texas, Ohio State at Michigan, Miami at Pitt, and Tennessee at Vanderbilt, with one rivalry game upset each.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Ralph Rousseau. |
| 0:13.0 | No, Bruce Feldman, for this episode. |
| 0:15.0 | We've got a lot to hit on in college football. |
| 0:17.4 | Don't forget every episode of our show is available on YouTube at Audible Show. |
| 0:23.5 | It's Thanksgiving week, Ralph. |
| 0:25.9 | Everybody's filling up on Turkey. |
| 0:27.5 | They're heading hopefully to Trader Joe's to get their last minute items for their |
| 0:30.9 | Thanksgiving meal. |
| 0:32.0 | And of course, Ralph, we got Iron Bowl, Ohio State, Michigan, Texas, Texas, and now it's one of the |
| 0:39.2 | greatest weeks of the year with all these rivalers. But what do you say we start with, before |
| 0:44.6 | we get to our picks? We had another coach firing on Sunday. Like clockwork, it just seems like |
| 0:53.2 | it's a Sunday routine throughout most of this college football season is at some point some coach is going to get fired. |
| 1:00.6 | Not too surprising this one, right? |
| 1:03.3 | Stu, especially considering the events of Saturday in what? |
| 1:09.7 | Stanford Cal is the big game, right? It's not the game Stanford Cal is the big game right it's not the game |
| 1:13.9 | big game which I think it's also hard things because it's yeah yeah it's the big game but it's |
| 1:19.5 | also the battle for the axe right they play for the axe if you've ever seen the two kind |
| 1:25.2 | of nerdy student bases, student groups square off. |
| 1:28.5 | They stare at each other when the clock hit zero. |
| 1:31.9 | Either they either give it back or whatnot. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, look, Ralph, it turned ugly fast for Justin Wilcox, a cow. |
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