Oregon & Washington to join Big Ten | Realignment fallout
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 4 August 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Stew and Bruce react to more realignment news! This time it's Oregon and Washington on the move to the Big Ten. College football as we know it is changing rapidly. The guys discuss the fallout and what could happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, a special edition of the Audible, an emergency version of the Audible, |
| 0:22.9 | presented by Trader Joe's coming at you on Friday morning where a week's worth of everything |
| 0:29.6 | you can imagine and realignment came to a head. |
| 0:32.8 | We did not wait until the official word, Bruce, but as of this recording, just to give people a little |
| 0:38.5 | time capsule, it is being reported by the athletic and others that Oregon, Washington are |
| 0:45.0 | going to accept invitations to the Big Ten after a brief like 45-minute period Friday morning |
| 0:50.3 | where it looked like they might not, at which point is expected that Arizona, |
| 0:55.0 | Arizona State, and Utah, though Michael Crow may still keep his, you know, he clearly doesn't want to do it, |
| 1:03.0 | would join the Big 12, at which point you have four schools remaining in the PAC 12 and the |
| 1:09.0 | pack 12 is dead. Even though this has been a possibility |
| 1:14.2 | and has been talked about ever since USC and UCLA left, which is now more than 13 months ago, |
| 1:20.5 | I don't know about you, but like, I still can't believe it. I can't believe that come, not this football season, but next, the PAC 12 as a |
| 1:31.8 | conference just won't be part of college football. I think, Stu, and we've talked about this a lot |
| 1:37.7 | internally, you and I, this has been a wild week in this regard, I think if you had asked me maybe on Tuesday |
| 1:46.6 | when this started to get a lot more traction is this really going to happen this being |
| 1:52.1 | Oregon and Washington getting into the PAC 12 and and it working out financially for |
| 1:59.1 | for them and everyone else. |
| 2:02.9 | I was like, hmm, that seems like a long shot still to me, you know, in the end. |
| 2:08.5 | And then, you know, as we got closer to it, we're taping this Friday morning. |
| 2:13.3 | I think as we got closer to it Thursday afternoon, it was like, oh, boy, this is actually, this is going to become a reality. |
| 2:22.5 | Then Friday morning, we're seeing reporting about, and I remember the term, and you and I texted you this, was like, people inside the Pac-12 have been cautious, quote, cautiously optimistic. |
| 2:33.5 | It's like, they've been cautiously optimistic for months and months, |
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