CFP Bracket Live Reaction
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Bruce, Stew, and Ralph are live in Los Angeles to react to the final CFP ranking announcement. They'll debate who will make the final cut ahead of the full reveal. Then, they'll pick the first round against the spread, and talk through their predictions for how the Playoff will unfold. Don't miss it!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a special edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's, |
| 0:19.3 | our special college football playoff live reaction show today is brought to you by |
| 0:24.1 | BetMGM. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined here with my colleagues from the athletic. |
| 0:29.1 | You know them well, Bruce Feldman, Ralph Russo. |
| 0:32.3 | Guys, great to see you in person for once. |
| 0:35.2 | It's awesome. |
| 0:36.0 | It's awesome to be on the same coast as you guys. |
| 0:38.7 | I feel like we haven't been together in the same room in a long time. So yeah, I've been |
| 0:42.9 | feeling I've been bonding with Stu a little bit, Bruce. It's been great. I'm just glad you |
| 0:46.5 | didn't bring your bad weather with us, Ralph. We got a lot to get into. Stu may get worked up. |
| 0:51.5 | Can't wait for the next hour. We are watching the ESPN ranking show the same time you guys are, |
| 0:58.9 | waiting for that bracket to come out. |
| 1:01.3 | Look, after last night's or yesterday's action, |
| 1:04.4 | I think you guys would agree the bubble, the bracket at this point, |
| 1:07.7 | is three teams fighting for two spots, right? |
| 1:10.7 | You've got Miami and Notre Dame and you've got Alabama. |
| 1:14.4 | And the big wrinkle last night was that Alabama got their butts kicked by Georgia, 28 to 7. |
| 1:20.2 | So I'll start with you, Ralph. |
| 1:21.7 | Your prediction for how the bottom of the bracket plays out. |
| 1:25.0 | Okay. |
| 1:25.4 | So I'm going to go with the classic like what I think |
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