Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

We are a day late this week.

Normally we come out on on Wednesdays this week

got pushed to Thursday. Gosh, what could possibly be going on in college football, Bruce?

It's kept us a little busy this week. I don't know, Stu. What are we want to talk about first?

Maybe we should talk. That was a Sam Houston State game last night. No, Michigan.

And look, this thing is moving so quickly and so fluidly,

and somebody new comes out with a bombshell report the next day

that it's possible when you listen to this,

it will have moved beyond what we know as of this moment.

This is Thursday. You know, I think the first big development was

when ESPN reported that he had bought that Connor Stallions, the quote unquote low level assistance

had bought tickets to more than 30 games at pretty much almost the entire Big Ten.

Then it came out as beyond the Big Ten.

It was Georgia.

It was Oregon.

Anybody they might possibly play in the playoff.

And then on Wednesday, the Washington Post, well, Hobson at the Washington Post reveals that this whole thing came about not because from the NCAA, people always, you know, Michigan fans saw the NCAA is out to get us.

The NCAA never knows about it first.

It was an outside investigative firm that approached the NCAA with documents and videos, the firms that had obtained from computer drives,

maintained and accessed by multiple Michigan coaches, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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