Miami vs. Notre Dame + More on Kiffin
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Should Miami be ranked closer to Notre Dame after their head-to-head win, or does the committee's approach of evaluating teams make sense? Bruce argues passionately for honoring the on-field result, while Stew defends the committee's decision to treat them as teams on separate tiers. Ralph suggests the real issue is process, and questions why SEC teams aren't facing the same scrutiny.
Then they debate whether Lane Kiffin would actually leave Ole Miss before the playoffs if he takes the Florida or LSU job, and discusses the ultimatum from AD Keith Carter to decide his future by the Egg Bowl. Could a team be penalized by the playoff committee if their coach leaves mid-season, similar to how a team would be if their QB got hurt?
Plus, a mailbag question on coaching hypocrisy: why do coaches get to do the very things they complain about with NIL and the portal? And a throwback to Jeff Jagodzinski's firing at Boston College serves as a cautionary tale for Ole Miss.
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| 0:00.0 | I am annoyed by having to defend Miami because if Miami took care of business in the ACC, |
| 0:07.1 | the way Texas Tech has taken care of business in the Big 12, I wouldn't have to be here |
| 0:12.5 | wasting all this energy on Miami. |
| 0:20.3 | Hello and welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:23.9 | I'm Ralph Russo with my colleagues from the athletic, Stuart Mandel, Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:29.7 | Later in the show, we are going to have a very Ole Miss-centric mailbag hit on all things |
| 0:36.1 | Lane Kiffin. |
| 0:37.5 | But first, folks, we are going to argue about some college football playoff rankings. |
| 0:43.3 | We are still in this never-ending debate about Miami and Notre Dame. |
| 0:50.0 | It's not totally just about Miami and Notre Dame, I'll bring up that point but I got Bruce on one |
| 0:56.3 | side and I got stew on the other guys go starting with I don't know starting with Bruce you go Bruce |
| 1:04.6 | you go Bruce okay uh first of all I thought watching this is actually the first the first of the ranking shows I've been able to |
| 1:12.1 | watch this year because of I have YouTube TV and just hadn't been able to see it. And I got |
| 1:17.0 | to admit, it was, it was not a good look for a hundred euro check, the new CFP chair. I felt like he's |
| 1:23.3 | the Arkansas AD, felt like he contradicted himself every time he seemed to open his mouth. |
| 1:29.0 | And it just left a lot more questions and a lot more skepticism. |
| 1:34.8 | I know we're going to talk about Miami versus Notre Dame and to some degree, Alabama, |
| 1:38.5 | in there and maybe Utah. But his rationale or his explainers were just such head scratching that I think that overshadow is |
| 1:50.9 | just what we're going to talk about because it calls into question all the credibility of here. |
| 1:56.5 | Now, obviously the elephant in the room is this. |
| 1:59.7 | Miami and Notre Dame have the exact same record, right? |
| 2:04.0 | And the committee has used this position that because the teams, they're not even looking |
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