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

CFB weekend takeaways, Bruce's top 10 & mailbag

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

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Stewart Mandel & Bruce Feldman react to the college football weekend. Does Alabama deserve to be #1 instead of Clemson? Has it become impossible to win a National Championship without a high flying offense that hits huge plays in the passing game? Notre Dame didn't have a pass play over 20 yards vs. Louisville. The Fighting Irish can't contend with Clemson with that type of offense. Is Arkansas, shockingly, one of the top 5 teams in the SEC? Tennessee only scores 7 points at home in a loss vs. Kentucky. North Carolina's 1st game in over 20 years as a top 5 team goes horribly wrong vs. Florida State. Bruce's top 10 includes Coastal Carolina, BYU, Cincinnati & SMU. Plus, mailbag questions!


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0:00.0

Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:23.7

This is Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague Stuart Mandel.

0:27.8

We are taping Sunday morning just hours after Alabama really dominated in the second half and blew away Georgia.

0:39.2

Stu, what do you make of the tide right now?

0:42.3

Yeah, the tide, they are, I think, the latest example, LSU last year being another one,

0:50.3

where I don't think they expose Georgia's defense.

0:54.0

I think Georgia is outstanding defensively in terms of talent.

0:58.4

I just think that in this day and age of college football,

1:01.6

when you have an offense like LSU had last year,

1:03.9

when you have an offense like this Alabama one

1:06.8

with Mack Jones playing out of his mind

1:10.4

and two unbelievable receivers and Najee Harris.

1:14.4

And I think probably doesn't get talked about enough, but their offensive line is so dominant.

1:19.7

I don't think it matters.

1:21.5

I don't think you're going to, you know, the traditional notion that you're going to run the ball

1:26.6

and play dominant defense isn't going to work.

1:29.4

And so if they are going to play again in a couple months, and I'm not saying that's a definitive

1:35.4

thing, but obviously I think we at this point expect Alabama to be there and then it's going

1:40.5

to be Georgia or Florida, what can they do differently?

1:45.7

I don't know.

1:46.8

I don't know if there's an answer to slowing down that Alabama offense.

1:51.3

Yeah, I think to me the difference is they are just so explosive and I felt like, you know,

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