Oh yeah. 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 bull 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 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

probably a lot of us would have expected.

So hats off to the owls. I thought that was a real head-turner.

The other one that jumped out at me I think is Kent State, considering how bad that program was,

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 at 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 and how they handled it and it means a ton to that

program and I think those players deserve the spotlight.

Yeah, I got that one wrong.

I think I picked Utah State to win by like 30.

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