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

Jenny Taft joins the show! Plus, mailbag questions

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

🗓️ 10 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Stew and Bruce are joined by Fox Sports' Jenny Taft. She talks about her role on the Big Noon Kickoff game, working with Gus Johnson, best games of the year and more including covering the Curb Your Enthusiasm season premier! Plus, mailbag questions on this week's college football playoff rankings, Nebraska's decision to bring back Scott Frost in 2022, Jimmy Lake's rough season in Seattle & jobs that could come open in the next couple months.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. Bruce, we wanted to have a guest on this week. And so I was thinking about who we should get. And I was like, you know, we got some tweets about Sunday's episode. You were usually. We both worked a little blue there. You worked a little blue. You were unusually. I mean, you just seemed really angry.

0:38.8

I don't know what had gone on there.

0:41.0

So who is never angry, would never say a bad word.

0:46.2

Jenny Taft.

0:48.3

Yes, definitely the most delightful person in the Fox Sports family by Miles.

0:54.2

I would go further than that. She might be the most delightful person I've Fox Sports family by Miles. I would go further than that.

0:55.4

She might be the most delightful person I've ever met.

0:58.2

And she's extremely, you know,

0:59.7

extremely important guests to have on this show because she does the biggest game

1:04.9

in the country almost every week through that big noon package.

1:09.2

So we're going to ask her about that.

1:10.8

We're going to ask her about curb. She has some firsthand experience with that recently and a lot of other great things. Here's Jenny. Pleased to be joined now by our friend Jenny Taft, who you know her from, I mean, this is a college football podcast. You all know who Jenny Taft is because you've seen her on some of the biggest games in the country this season.

1:39.8

In fact, Jenny, I got a press release this week that the Big Noon package is the most watched college football broadcast window of the season.

1:47.1

Higher than SEC on CBS, higher than ABC Primetime. I mean, you guys are superstars now.

1:51.9

It's pretty wild. Well, first of all, thanks for having me on guys. I love both of you.

1:57.5

I feel like I don't see you enough in person nowadays. But yeah, what an honor. I mean, I think the big noon strategy is so unique because there was definitely criticism and hey, there's still criticism about that time slot. But what's so special is that

2:06.2

we've kind of owned it and taken over in that time frame. And I personally love it. I mean,

2:12.5

I think it's fun to have that noon window and we've kind of been able to brand it as foxes and I'm not going to

2:18.7

lie getting home Saturday night kind of a win win especially you guys know I work on undisputed during

2:24.7

the week so Sundays are very sacred and there's not a lot of moving from the couch for me so I'm all in

2:30.8

on the noon I've really I've really enjoyed it and, I wake up at four every day of the week.

2:35.6

Anyway, so can we, before we get into the actual football stuff, I want to touch on that.

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