New Coaches Hired Across CFB + Conference Title Picks
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Lane Kiffin is introduced as LSU’s head coach. Will he win a national championship there, or will he leave first?
Penn State's coaching search drags on past the 50-day mark. Kalani Sitaki has emerged as a strong candidate, but nothing is imminent. They debate the Penn State timeline and react to the other SEC hires: Will Stein to Kentucky, Alex Golesh to Auburn, Ryan Silverfield to Arkansas, Jon Sumrall to Florida, and Pat Fitzgerald to Michigan State.
Then, they make championship picks for all nine conference title games, including Ohio State-Indiana, Georgia-Alabama, and Texas Tech-BYU.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Ralph Russo here with my colleagues from The Athletic, Stuart Mandel, and Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:14.6 | Don't forget every episode of the show is on YouTube now. |
| 0:18.5 | Find us at the Audit. |
| 0:20.2 | Excuse me. |
| 0:20.7 | Find us at Audible show. We'll pick |
| 0:24.1 | championship games later today. See how we're doing in the picks race. I think Bruce is still |
| 0:31.6 | trailing and Stu is still leading. But first, there is so much coaching news, so, so much coaching news that we got |
| 0:42.3 | to get to from Lane Kiffin to all the hires in the SEC. And Penn State's been a little quiet, |
| 0:49.1 | Bruce, you know, kind of behind the time, behind everybody else here as far as like making these hires. |
| 0:56.8 | There's been Michigan State hired, fired and hired to coach in 24 hours and we're still waiting |
| 1:02.1 | to hear from Penn State, a school that's job with a job that opened up in October. |
| 1:08.8 | So it seems like there's a little movement here, but there also |
| 1:11.9 | doesn't seem to be any rush for Penn State to make a hire, Bruce. Right. So it's been up for 50 |
| 1:18.2 | days. And as you noted about Penn State or at Michigan State, the coach they ended up hiring, |
| 1:23.4 | Pat Fitzgerald, was actually somebody that also interviewed with Pat Kraft for the Penn State vacancy. |
| 1:30.0 | So it's kind of been conspicuously quiet as a lot of jobs have gotten filled, and a lot of coaches have decided to stay where they're at. |
| 1:38.6 | As we reported Monday night, Kalani Satake, who's done a terrific job at BYU, who's team, by the way, is playing |
| 1:46.4 | in the Big Ten title game against Texas Tech later this week on Saturday. What did I say? |
| 1:52.6 | Big Ten. That's okay. Freudian slip. So he has, from what we have been told from sources |
| 1:59.2 | close to the process, he has emerged as a strong |
| 2:01.7 | candidate. But we were told as of Monday night that there's nothing really imminent or close |
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