College football's stars on display in 2021 playoff
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We're just days away from the College Football Playoff semi-finals. Ralph Russo of The Associated Press joins Bruce & Stew from New Orleans, the site of the Sugar Bowl between Clemson & Ohio State. The playoff continues to feature the same teams, is that a problem for the sport? Ralph says no matter how you feel about it, try to enjoy the great players on Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame & Ohio State. Looking back, 2020 will go down as maybe the most unique season in the sports history.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:25.4 | Joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:27.5 | We haven't had a new episode in over a week, I believe, but it's that time of year |
| 0:31.7 | before the playoff games where I just kind of lose track of what day of the week it even |
| 0:37.3 | is, and we just kind of lose track of what day of the week it even is. |
| 0:38.1 | And we just kind of adjust our schedule around the postseason schedule. |
| 0:44.9 | So we are recording this on Wednesday. |
| 0:48.1 | Playoff games are on Friday. |
| 0:50.2 | And a very unusual playoff for us, Bruce. |
| 0:52.4 | This is neither of us are going to a game. For me, it's the first time, well, certainly first time I missed unusual playoff for us, Bruce. This is, neither of us are going to a game. |
| 0:54.7 | For me, it's the first time, well, certainly first time I missed a playoff game. |
| 0:59.6 | But it's even the first time, I believe, since my first year out of college in 1998, |
| 1:06.2 | that I'm not traveling to anywhere in the postseason. |
| 1:09.0 | What about you? |
| 1:10.5 | I think there was probably a year where I went and because there was overlap with the |
| 1:15.4 | coaches convention. |
| 1:16.4 | I'm not sure. |
| 1:17.0 | I might have missed one year. |
| 1:18.5 | I want to say I watched the national title game. |
| 1:21.6 | It was an Oklahoma, was it Oklahoma, LSU? |
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