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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Florida's New Identity, Thoughts on Dabo, and the Best QB Battles You're Not Talking About

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jon Sumrall is building something real in Gainesville, with a loaded receiver corps and a legitimate QB battle. Matt Campbell's Iowa State imports are quietly reshaping Penn State. Avery Johnson gets a fresh start under Collin Klein at K-State. Jaden Craig arrives from Harvard to replace Josh Hoover at TCU. And Memphis may have the most compelling quarterback competition in the country. Plus, Dabo vents about Notre Dame's money machine. Is he just relitigating the past?




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0:00.0

Welcome to the latest edition of The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:10.9

I'm Stuart Bandel, joined by Bruce Feldman as we continue to carry on without Ralph, who is off on a much-earned vacation.

0:21.0

Bruce, we have a really good mailbag segment for this episode, and it'll allow us to

0:26.1

touch on some news that came out earlier this week about the coaches association and

0:30.7

playoff expansion.

0:32.2

Davo Sweeney, always good for a couple of good sound bites, maybe taking a jab at Notre Dame

0:36.3

in there.

0:37.2

But I want to start out before Ralph left on the vacation, you guys teamed up on kind of a

0:41.9

spring practice notes, some intel now that teams have concluded it, on just some notable

0:49.5

QB races and things going on around the country.

0:52.2

And let's start with Florida, a team that obviously had a really disappointing season last

0:56.8

year, but also made what we think is one of the best hires in the coaching carousel and John Summoral.

1:02.7

Yeah, and he's a guy who goes there.

1:04.6

Obviously, Billy Napier was on the hot seat, really, the last couple of years, and then

1:08.5

it kind of imploded in 2025.

1:11.7

Summerall comes in.

1:12.9

Now, it's interesting because we've seen a lot of schools, most notably Kurt Signetti

1:19.0

going from Indiana, going to James Madison to Indiana, bringing a lot of his JMU guys.

1:25.3

This winner, the one that was probably talked about the most,

1:28.3

was happening in Oklahoma at Oklahoma State,

1:32.1

where Eric Morris brings Drew Mestemaker

1:34.0

and a bunch of other dudes from North Texas.

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