Championship Preview, Dante Moore to Return to Oregon
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Dante Moore announces he's returning to Oregon for 2026, pushing Dylan Raiola's starting opportunity back another year. Was this the right decision? And what does it mean for the thin 2026 NFL quarterback class? Then, the guys make their final predictions for Monday's national championship game between Indiana and Miami. Can the Hoosiers complete a perfect 16-0 season, or will the Hurricanes pull off the upset? Plus, in mailbag, where would an undefeated Indiana would rank among the greatest teams ever?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:15.9 | Ralph Russo, our co-host, is not with us today. |
| 0:19.3 | He will be back with us over the weekend when we, |
| 0:24.2 | it's not going to be our, it'll be our last show before the national title game on Monday night. |
| 0:28.8 | So we got a lot to get to. |
| 0:30.0 | We got the mailbag. |
| 0:31.6 | We're going to talk a little bit about the college football Hall of Fame. |
| 0:34.5 | We're going to talk about the big game, |
| 0:38.7 | and it'll be your last show to weigh in on it and our predictions. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, there's some news that happened just about an hour ago before we were taping, |
| 0:48.3 | and that was, I think, what a lot of us thought was going to happen. |
| 0:51.7 | Dante Moore has, in fact, decided to return to Oregon for 2026. |
| 0:57.2 | Good news for Dan Lanning. The Dylan Riola era will have to hold off for probably another year. |
| 1:04.6 | What do you make of it? Well, yeah, like you just said, I feel like it had been trending this way for a while. |
| 1:11.6 | And so knowing that, knowing that he was probably going to announce he was coming back, |
| 1:16.0 | I was a little surprised that Dylan Riola did go to Oregon. |
| 1:21.8 | Like, it tells me that he's fine with sitting out a year |
| 1:24.6 | because he's clearly not going to get the job over Dante Moore this coming year. |
| 1:28.8 | So it seems like that's now become – because that's exactly what Dante Moore did. |
| 1:33.9 | He went there knowing he would be a backup for a year. |
| 1:36.7 | So it seems like that's kind of a path that Dan Lannning has opened the door for with these quarterbacks. And then just in general, you know, I think we, um, I don't want to say overvalued not anymore, but he had a lot of big moments early in the season that kind of elevated his stock. And then I just, towards the back end, I don't think it went particularly well. Certainly the playoff did not go well. So I think it just, obviously, it's not my money to pass. I'm not the one passing on however many tens of millions of dollars. But, you know, you tell me, I think it was the right decision for him. You know, I talked to somebody in his camp a couple of months ago. It was probably maybe early October. and they said that was the plan that he felt like and his |
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