Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Ralph Rousseau from The Athletic.

Joined today by my colleague Stuart Mandel, Bruce Feldman, is taking a day off.

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Audible Show. Today, we're going to pick the biggest games of the week. We've got upset picks

for you as well. We're going to explain why the Big Ten's multi-billion dollar investment deal.

Now on pause is really all about conference realignment.

But first, we got coaching news. And we got so much coaching news to, how do I frame this?

We had to re-record the podcast. We had to re-record the podcast. Everything we talked. At least the first two

thirds of it. Everything we talked about in the first two segments of the podcast. Everything we talked. At least the first two thirds of it. Everything we talked about in the first two segments of the podcast totally was at a date

pretty much as soon as we were done, Stu.

Like it wasn't even like, oh, we had to come back hours later because things changed.

No, no, no.

It changed immediately.

As soon as we were done, it was like,

Bing, bang, boom. Yeah. Peek behind the curtain. I sent you guys, I think maybe two minutes

after signing off and me catching up on Slack and Twitter, I text you guys, a big problem.

James Franklin just got officially hired by Virginia Tech after we kind of speculated about it.

And Lane Kiffin's family members are apparently taking plane flights and he's under a deadline.

So which one do you want to start with first?

Let's start with Lane, which is a fast developing or at least a developing situation.

So obviously, like, as much as we are going to talk about it, who knows?

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