Pat Forde on Louisville-Clemson + Week 5 preview
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 September 2016
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Pat Forde of Yahoo! Sports to talk about Louisville QB Lamar Jackson and his Heisman chances (2:00); The upcoming Louisville-Clemson game (10:30); How some college athletes are getting backlash for protesting like NFL QB Colin Kaepernick (13:00); The latest on Big 12 realignment (21:00); The big games of the weekend (25:00); This week’s mailbag (32:30); and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:13.8 | Today we're pleased to have on Pat 40 from Yahoo Sports. |
| 0:17.6 | In addition to being an excellent college football columnist, Pat happens to be a long-time resident |
| 0:24.2 | of Louisville, and their football team has made some waves so far this season, and he and I will |
| 0:32.1 | both be down there in Clemson this weekend. |
| 0:34.6 | I saw you write that the Florida State game was the biggest home game in program history. |
| 0:41.6 | Is this now, does this raise the stakes and make this Clemson game the biggest regular season game in program history? |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, I think so. |
| 0:50.4 | I think you step it up the line from there, Stuart. |
| 0:54.3 | It's, they got the ranking now, the line, uh, from there, Stuart. It's, uh, |
| 0:55.5 | they got the ranking now, |
| 0:56.6 | the highest ranking they've ever had, third in the, in the, in the country. Uh, so this is, uh, basically the, the highest ranked game they've ever played in, given Clemson's ranking and Clemson's standing is the, defending ACCC champion defending ace national runner up |
| 0:54.7 | uh this is uh standing as the defending ACC champion defending national runner up. |
| 1:14.0 | This is the next step up, the latter in the evolution of Louisville football, I would say, this weekend. |
| 1:22.8 | Pat, we've had some other, especially in recent years, guys have phenomenal September. |
| 1:29.3 | You know, DeNar Robinson, and it was like he was doing things nobody'd ever done. |
| 1:34.3 | Leonard Fournett even last year, Gino Smith a few years back. |
| 1:38.3 | And those guys, none of them won the Heisman. |
| 1:41.3 | So far, Lamar Jackson has been the story of the season so far. What chance, how realistic |
| 1:47.7 | is it to think that he can sustain this? Not just this weekend at Clemson in the roughest road |
| 1:52.4 | environment, but just for the rest of the year that he can, I know he's young and he's developing, |
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