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

Most intriguing non-conference games in 2020 & more mailbag questions!

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

The Athletic

Sports, Football, College Football, Big Ten, Cfb, Sec, News, Sports News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman discuss the most intriguing non-conference games of the 2020 season. Plus, other mailbag questions on playoff expansion, the coaches hot seat, offensive play-calling, BYU's independence and how the guys watch football games as reporters.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe, I'm Stuart McDowell.

0:19.7

Joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

0:22.1

Bruce, we've had a couple pretty, not even a couple, quite a few very heavy episodes recently.

0:28.3

And so for today, we're going to lighten the mood a little bit, and we are opening it to you guys, the listeners.

0:34.7

And this episode is going to be entirely your football questions.

0:40.4

All right, Stu.

0:42.5

So let's get to the mailback.

0:44.7

As always, you can send your questions to the audible pod at gmail.com.

0:50.4

Our first question is from Mark in Pittsburgh.

0:53.3

It's a fun one in that I think, Stu, it gives you a good setup for what we hope will be the college football season and stuff to get excited about, which normally, these kinds of things we've probably been kicking around and discussing for already months at a time.

1:08.2

And we really haven't.

1:09.0

So here's Mark's question.

1:10.5

There are a lot of great non-conference

1:12.0

matchups this year. Which non-conference game do you think will be the most intriguing, i.e.

1:16.9

new coach, new system, new quarterback, other storylines, etc. And which one do you think will be the

1:22.0

most significant for determining the playoff and setting up the season to come? Okay, so Mark has a list of references, and he used the rankings courtesy of Stu,

1:33.5

your post-season, post-spring, top 25.

1:37.5

Mark did a lot of the heavy lifting here, and all but one of his suggestions, or I should say,

1:43.3

there was only one game out of his suggestions that

1:45.9

stood out to me. I'm going to rattle off a couple of the ones that I highlighted from Mark's list.

1:51.7

You tell me which you find the most intriguing and which you will think will be the most

1:56.2

significant, and then I will follow up off of yours. The first one he lists, number two, Alabama against what would be number 12, according to the

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