Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman for our

Christmas week episode. Bruce, we have a really special guest, pleased to have the outgoing

Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delaney on this show here in a little bit. He is down to his last 10 days

or so on the job. But first, how was your viewing experience first weekend of bowl games?

It was good.

I got to see most of the games.

It was one thing I'll say is there was three NFL games that ran on Saturday,

and those games were more competitive than some of the bowl games.

I got to admit, you know, hats off to FAU.

They had a coaching change.

And even without the coaching change, I think a lot of people would have thought,

okay, you have a bigger group of five, really good team, SMU against a smaller group of five.

And it turned out to be a blowout, but not the way it probably a lot of us

would have expected so hats off to the owls i thought that was a real head turner um the other one

that jumped out at me i think is kent state considering how bad that program was um not long ago i

mean sean lewis has stepped up there and really made a huge impact. They are a

fun team to watch. They got their first bowl win in school history on the first day of the

bowl games. And it was one of those reminders of what I think, because they had to really

scrap just to get to be bowl eligible,

I think that they are a great example of why, no, there aren't too many bowls.

This was its 500 team that got into a bowl game.

They were impressive in how they handled it,

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