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

CFP Expansion News, and Wisconsin vs. Miami Tampering Lawsuit

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

The Athletic

Sports News, News, Football, Sports

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Stew is joined by his colleague at The Athletic, Ralph Russo, to dive into the latest College Football Playoff expansion news. Will a new format be decided anytime soon? Plus, Wisconsin is suing Miami over alleged tampering in the transfer of a player. Legal expert Michael McCann joins the show to break down the lawsuit and what it could mean for the future of the transfer portal.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:15.5

I'm Stuart Mandel.

0:16.8

No Bruce Feldman this week.

0:18.2

He is actually taking some time off.

0:21.2

We've got still, I think I've put together a pretty interesting show here about some topics in the news.

0:27.2

First up will be our good friend Ralph Russo, who's been covering the ins and outs of whether the CFP is going to expand or not, whether there's going to be special auto bids for the big tenant SEC or not.

0:41.8

And then we also get into the new PAC-12 announced their primary TV deal with CBS on Monday.

0:49.2

So we're going to talk about those things.

0:51.0

Then stay tuned because I'm really pleased to have on a former colleague

0:56.0

Michael McCann, legal expert, to discuss this from Sportico, to discuss this case that got

1:02.9

filed on Friday, Wisconsin is suing Miami basically for tampering with a player. And we've never

1:10.8

seen a case like this. He does a really good

1:12.7

job of walking us through the arguments on either side. All right, please be joined my good

1:18.9

friend and colleague Ralph Russo, who's filling in for Bruce, who gave me such flack for going

1:24.4

on vacation. Now he's on vacation. But how much you want to bet, he's on vacation but how much you want to bet he's in

1:28.2

hawaii how much you want to bet like one of those days he's going to leave his wife and kids at the

1:32.5

beach to go like visit with hawaii's strength coach so as someone who does that occasionally who

1:39.7

will turn a vacation into oh we're near so-and-so. Let me go say hi. I don't do it too much,

1:47.0

but Bruce is definitely more likely to do it than me. Bruce is also likely to be like putting

1:51.3

himself in a hotel room making phone calls for half the day. Though I guess I've done that too.

1:57.2

I don't do it as much as Bruce. I got to help. Yeah, we got to, I got to help you

2:02.3

guys learn how to disconnect. The reason I wanted to bring you on this week, Ralph, and I feel

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