College Football Playoff Fallout, National Championship Preview & Coaching Carousel Update
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Officiating controversy surrounds the Fiesta Bowl where Clemson and Ohio State played an instant classic. LSU's historic performance in the Peach Bowl was something we've never seen before. Oklahoma is now 0-4 in playoff games. The balance of power in college football lies in the South and the top tier of the sport is a very exclusive group. Many people used the Peach Bowl to criticize playoff expansion. Plus, a coaching carousel update that includes Baylor Coach Matt Rhule interviewing for the Panthers opening, Kellen Moore leaving the Cowboys to go back to college football and other potential names to keep an eye on.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined in person for a change with Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:27.1 | This is like a home game for you, Stu, even though you have come to the Fox Sports Red Box Bowl Hotel down the street from you. |
| 0:58.9 | I brought a suitcase. You're not moving in here, still. If you're trying to insinuate, no. I have this room for one night, and even though it's a big room, this is the extent of your stay. So you guys tune in thinking we're going to be talking about the playoff games, but in fact we're here for the box bowl we're going to do a full Cal Illinois right now just kidding no no no no basically I flew in from Bruce flew in do you find last night or this morning from |
| 1:03.2 | this morning I yeah and I just flew in I literally just got in from Phoenix and came here |
| 1:09.1 | because why not? |
| 1:11.9 | Let's do the podcast in person before I head home. |
| 1:15.7 | Before we get into the games, I think we should start with this. |
| 1:19.4 | As a lot of you probably already know, one of our colleagues and friends, |
| 1:24.6 | Edward Ashoff, who worked at ESPN and was a longtime writer for ESPN.com, passed away rather |
| 1:32.6 | suddenly around Christmas on his 34th birthday. It was pretty devastating news, to be honest. I knew Ed |
| 1:40.8 | very well. And I actually met him the same time. I think Stu did. And he was in |
| 1:46.7 | college. And I remember this was playing the week. Oklahoma, uh, Florida versus Florida versus |
| 1:53.4 | Ohio State. No, Florida versus Oklahoma in Miami, San Bradford. Yeah, national title game. And I think I remember him beating you in Wii Tennis. |
| 2:04.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 2:04.8 | That's my, I, not only do I remember that, and I was not the first story I tell about him, |
| 2:10.2 | but he reminded me about it for years afterward. |
| 2:13.1 | Yeah, and then I remember running into him at a bar and brought him over to meet my editor at ESPN magazine at the time in the bar and just thinking, okay, you know, at some point, I bet you we're going to end up hiring this guy. |
| 2:25.6 | And they did. |
| 2:28.3 | And Ed lived in Los Angeles with his fiance. |
| 2:32.3 | And so I would see him quite a bit and he started doing games remotely |
| 2:36.4 | and worked on on mostly when I saw him for ESPN radio doing games and they did a couple |
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