Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel.

Stu, we had a big top five upset, which just didn't feel like that much of an upset.

And we'll get to that a bit.

I mean, if it's Purdue hosting a top five team, you might as well just go ahead and pick Purdue as I did. Yeah, look, I mean, especially when it's a team that just came off a huge win. So there was, you know, reading into the emotional letdown. So we'll get to Jeff Brom in his program and work on some magic again. A lot of interesting stuff happened yesterday, I thought.

What caught your eye and what stood out to you the most now that we're, you know,

the morning after?

It felt like, and I hate that it becomes a beauty contest by this point in the season, but it felt like if you were somebody who already believed,

oh, I can't believe the committee has Alabama number two.

What about that A&M loss?

They almost lost to LSU.

And I think we can admit that, you know, it's not like Alabama is some juggernaut force this year.

They're very flawed.

They came close to losing to Florida as well.

That being said, what else happened yesterday?

Ohio State's once unstoppable offense can't run the ball against,

couldn't against Penn State that can't against Nebraska.

You know, Oregon pretty much handled Washington, but it wasn't, you know,

we talk about style points.

They are not a style points team.

And then, of course, the team that's of the most polarizing, I guess, Cincinnati, that they were very fortunate that Tulsa did not take that game to overtime.

I've never seen a quarterback try to slide into the end zone as Tulsa's quarterback did.

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