High profile QB competitions and a possible Big12-Pac12 partnership.
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Bruce and Stew discuss QB competitions at Texas, Florida State and Ohio State. Is Texas A&M a National Championship contender? Plus, Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby and Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff met this week to discuss potential partnership opportunities in the wake of Texas & Oklahoma leaving for the SEC.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Bruce Feldman, |
| 0:23.9 | joined as always by my colleague, Stuart Mandel, and Stu camps have started. Everyone is now. |
| 0:31.3 | It's not just the week zero teams that are in fall camp. Now all of a sudden the rest of college football is there. |
| 0:40.3 | Are you excited? I'm very excited. excited i mean i know we've been all consumed by realignment recently but the fact is and we've |
| 0:46.6 | said this many times the 2020 season was so miserable at times because of all the cancellations |
| 0:53.5 | and conferences that played different numbers of games and such. |
| 0:56.3 | And I'm just so ready for a quote unquote normal college football season. |
| 1:00.0 | I know we're not out of the woods on COVID, but by all indications, we're going to have full stadiums and fans and all that. |
| 1:08.8 | And we're going to have some really big games right off the bat, |
| 1:12.4 | as we've talked about on this show earlier. |
| 1:14.4 | So as teams open for preseason camp, I want to get your thoughts on this. |
| 1:20.1 | We didn't actually get a chance to talk. |
| 1:21.7 | We've both been all over the place. |
| 1:24.1 | That's why this episode is coming in so late in the week. |
| 1:26.8 | I don't believe we've had a chance to talk |
| 1:28.7 | about a pretty noteworthy development in the last week, which was Quinn Ewers, the number one |
| 1:35.0 | quarterback in the 2022 class. You saw him out at Elite 11, five-star guy, reclassified. He'd already |
| 1:43.6 | been committed to Ohio State for a long time. |
| 1:45.4 | He reclassified. |
| 1:46.4 | He's now at Ohio State, or he's about to be at Ohio State, and be part of this year's |
| 1:51.0 | team coming off his junior season in high school. |
| 1:55.8 | And the reason, apparently, was that he wants to start capitalizing on NIL, and he |
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