LSU beats Iowa in record NCAAW title + CFB mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The NCAAW National Championship game was one of the biggest college sporting events of the season. Bruce talks with Lindsay Schnell about the groundbreaking game that will be remembered for a long time between LSU & Iowa.
Plus, college football mailbag questions! What is the most memorable play of all time? How do coaches avoid a sophomore slump after getting off to a hot start in year one?
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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 on this Monday. And I don't know, lately, Bruce, this is kind of inadvertently turned into a basketball podcast, but March Madness has been so riveting. And this week, in particular, we want to get into the historic women's final four. |
| 0:40.9 | I got completely drawn into the Caitlin Clark experience. |
| 0:45.2 | Her game Friday night against South Carolina was amazing. |
| 0:48.8 | Of course, tuned in for the championship. |
| 0:50.8 | And apparently a lot of people did too. |
| 0:53.0 | Literally right before we started this recording this podcast, it comes out that 9.9 million |
| 0:58.7 | people watched the women's championship game on ABC. |
| 1:02.6 | The previous record, I mean, it's like several million higher than the previous high |
| 1:08.0 | since 2000 was 5.7 million in 2002. |
| 1:12.4 | This was the first time I spent on ABC. |
| 1:14.5 | Poor contacts do. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:16.4 | More viewers than both the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl. |
| 1:23.0 | That's one of those games involved Nick Sabin and Alabama. |
| 1:26.1 | The other one involved Tennessee and |
| 1:27.8 | Davosweeney's Clemson team. What's really kind of crazy, and I get it, there was less |
| 1:32.3 | comp. It was, you know, it's a Sunday afternoon in April compared to a college football Saturday. |
| 1:38.8 | But even the biggest game of LSU season when they knocked off Alabama, this game got more over |
| 1:47.1 | almost three million more viewers. |
| 1:49.8 | You remember the big 12 title game came down to the wire, went to overtime, playoff |
| 1:54.3 | implications for TCU, more people watch this than that. |
| 1:57.8 | More people watch this than the Pact 12 title game, the ACC |
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