Fox's Colorado bet & games we're most excited for from early season schedule
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 31 May 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
College football's early-season schedule is out, and there's a healthy serving of Colorado and Coach Prime. Stew and Bruce discuss Fox's big bet on the Buffaloes/Deion Sanders and the national audience's appetite for UC games. The guys also chat about NBC Peacock and streaming headaches, and which games they're most excited to watch in the season's first three weeks. Lastly, why would the SEC change their schedule to nine games? Plus, mailbag questions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:15.1 | joined, as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:16.9 | And we are recording about an hour after ESPN, Fox, NBC, CBS, you name it, individual conferences all at once announced their selections, the kickoff times, which networks for the first three weeks of the season. |
| 0:37.4 | Bruce, what stands out to you? Well, is something. which networks for the first three weeks of the season. |
| 0:38.8 | Bruce, what stands out to you? |
| 0:45.7 | Well, is something that, you know, the first thing, honestly, is the Dion thing. |
| 0:52.6 | Because, and this is, you know, full disclosure, I work at Fox and we have Big Noon the first two weeks. |
| 0:54.8 | We have Deon Sanders in Colorado. |
| 0:59.2 | And how shocking that is compared to where it was a year ago, |
| 1:02.9 | where they played back-to-back games in November, |
| 1:06.7 | they've been the buffs, and against top ten opponents, |
| 1:10.3 | once against Oregon, once against USC. |
| 1:15.5 | They didn't even get a million viewers, which for TV, for college football is not a lot. |
| 1:20.4 | And against USC game, they had barely over half a million. |
| 1:31.5 | So to see them not just have big interest from the networks, but also in big, you know, big coveted time windows. |
| 1:32.9 | That's significant. |
| 1:40.9 | Colorado had an interesting note about, about this, which is this is the first time in over 30 years. |
| 1:46.6 | And it's really dating back to the CU national title season in 1990, where the Buff's first three games are either on network television or the main ESPN channel. |
| 1:52.3 | Again, this speaks to the intrigue around Dion Sanders in that program. |
| 1:57.2 | For at least the early part of September, they are must-cTV. |
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