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

I'm Bruce Feldman joined, as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel.

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Stu, as we're doing this over Zoom, I see you're in your posh hotel suite, somewhere in the

614. You went, you've had some good luck at games, meaning when you go to games, they've been

very compelling. This one, not so much. Not this one, no. No, you went to Michigan State,

Ohio State, and by the time I imagine you got settled in your seat,

it was already probably 14 to nothing.

I guess you got to pay the price at some point, right?

I mean, it was, couldn't have been more opposite of when I went down to the field at the end of the Ohio State Oregon game two months ago,

and the place was going crazy and 100,000 people screaming.

And is Ohio State going to be able to come back and take Oregon to overtime, which they did not?

And then by the time I got down the field yesterday, the place was already half empty.

I felt like you were at a spring game.

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