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

Hot Takes on Playoff Expansion, Sorsby Files his Lawsuit, and Week 1 Hidden Gems

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

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Ralph Russo returns from his trip to Italy to find college football in full chaos. The 24-team playoff has gone from a whisper to a roar. The ACC and Big 12 on board, while ESPN and the SEC pump the brakes. What's actually driving this? And does the math work? Then, Brendan Sorsby files a suit that Bruce and Stew find unconvincing. Plus, the guys pick their favorite Week One games and under-the-radar matchups.




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0:00.0

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

0:10.5

I am Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleagues from The Athletic.

0:14.5

This is Stuart Mandel.

0:16.0

Ralph Russo back from his European-Italian vacation.

0:20.4

We will get to that in a second.

0:22.8

So back.

0:23.8

We're happy to have you back.

0:26.2

The other thing that's back is we've got a Brendan Sorsby update

0:29.9

that we will get in on the latest in a bit.

0:32.6

We're also going to talk about the games of week one,

0:36.9

what we're kind of excited by, even though it's not a great week

0:39.4

one, but there's going to be some under the radar games that we think we can get you

0:43.3

interested in. But first, Stu, Ralph is back. I know we both missed him a lot. He's happy. He's

0:52.4

smiling. He's probably got a lot of grievances because I'm sure

0:55.7

he listened to a few of the episodes and there's stuff he takes issue with. I mean, if you are

1:00.7

sitting on the beach in Italy, I hope you're not there getting worked up about mine and Bruce's

1:06.5

podcast takes. I was not. I did listen because I had a lot of plane time, obviously. JFK to Rome is,

1:17.2

you know, a pretty long flight. I also had some train time because getting from Florence to Rome,

1:24.0

Rome to Naples, we did via train.

1:28.8

We did drive around a little bit.

1:32.2

Before I, you guys did a great job, first of all.

1:34.4

And boy, I missed a lot.

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