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

New CFP rankings, Michigan's secret weapon & 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

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman have the latest news, notes & opinions on college football.


Michigan associate head football coach Francis “Biff” Poggi is Jim Harbaugh's secret weapon. 


The new CFP rankings were released on Tuesday night. 

Undefeated TCU vaults up into the #4 spot. 

Oregon is #6 despite a 49-3 loss in week 1 vs. Georgia. 

Playoff scenarios! 


Plus, mailbag questions on...

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark

Bills QB Coach Joe Brady 

UCONN HC Jim Mora 

Jimbo Fisher's future at Texas A&M

Alabama's run of titles under Nick Saban 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:23.1

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

0:26.3

In a minute, we are going to get into the latest playoff committee rankings that came out Tuesday night.

0:32.2

We've got a lot of good mailbag questions to get to.

0:35.0

But first real quick, Bruce, michigan jim harbaugh probably

0:39.3

one of the toughest programs to crack in terms of what's going on behind the scenes you had a great

0:44.9

story up on the athletic on tuesday morning um about a figure that i i don't even know if most

0:50.9

michigan fans know about him much less college football fans nationally.

0:54.3

Tell us a little bit about it.

0:56.0

Yeah, his name is Biff Pogh.

0:57.6

If you really know a ton about recruiting, especially on the East Coast, you may have heard of him.

1:03.6

Or there was a really, it was like New York Times bestselling book about his high school program written by Jeffrey Mark's season of life about 20 years ago

1:12.5

um i'll be honest i knew of biff had had never interacted with them or anything like that and

1:19.6

because fox sports had had four big noon games in a row that were michigan there was one of the guys

1:26.5

i know on the michigan staff had introduced me to biff before one of the guys I know on the Michigan staff had introduced

1:28.0

me to Biff before one of the games. And I talked to her for maybe five, 10 minutes that day,

1:32.8

maybe 10 minutes. And then I saw him the next week and talked to him for like 20 minutes. And then

1:38.8

it just kind of grew from there where I talked to people inside the program, people who were there last year.

1:45.7

And one of the things that started to come up when I was like, yeah, I had a really interesting talk with Biff this week was what has changed about Michigan?

1:53.5

How does Jim Harbaugh go from two and four?

1:56.1

Remember, that was the year where they got blown out by almost everybody.

1:58.9

And they didn't even play Ohio State because of the pandemic. He takes a massive pay cut. He's really on the hot seat. And then all of a

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