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

Our First-Ever 12-Team CFP Preview

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

The Athletic

Sports News, News, Football, Sports

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We’re just days away from the first round of the 12-team College Football Playoff. Ralph Russo joins Bruce and Stew to preview this weekend’s highly anticipated matchups on this episode of “The Audible.” Plus, retired CFB and NFL superstar, Mike Vick, is making coaching news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

0:15.9

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman, and we're bringing back our recurring special guest,

0:22.4

Ralph Russo, our colleague, because guys, the playoff starts on Friday night.

0:27.8

Still a little bit hard to believe.

0:29.3

We are going to be watching a Notre Dame, Indiana, first round playoff game live from South Bend.

0:37.3

But the coaching news hasn't stopped.

0:39.5

So shall we start with that?

0:40.8

Let's start with that, guys, just because there was a huge name that is now back in college football.

0:47.8

Michael Vic, legendary Virginia Tech quarterback, and I guess technically a colleague of mine at Fox Sports, even though I almost never saw him.

0:57.1

Our schedules didn't align.

0:58.3

He is now going to, to some degree, follow the path of Dion Sanders and Eddie George,

1:04.1

star former player now taking over an HBCU program, not far from where he grew up in Virginia at Norfolk State.

1:13.5

Guys, were you shocked by this?

1:15.8

Or were you just like, okay, now it's not so surprising to see a big name make a move like this?

1:21.0

Yeah, that's me.

1:21.8

I find myself not being, you know, I mean, it's not like we knew Michael Vick was like searching around for jobs.

1:29.5

So yes, there was a little bit of a surprise.

1:31.8

But it's become something of a thing, right?

1:35.6

Especially for HBCUs.

1:37.3

I think they find value in the name, in the name value here, right?

1:42.3

And sort of the branding and getting the attention, you know,

1:47.7

and bringing in a little bit of a risk, right? I mean, again, you're at an HBCU that's been

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