QB Portal Madness, Texas Stocks Up, Favorite Announcers
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sam Leavitt has committed to LSU, and Dylan Raiola to Oregon. Does anyone want to develop quarterbacks anymore? Ralph argues Trinidad Chambliss shouldn't get a sixth year despite his appeal. Texas raids the portal, landing a dream haul including Cam Coleman, Hollywood Smothers, Raleek Brown, and Rasheem Biles. Plus, who’s your favorite announcing team? Bruce, Ralph, and Stew weigh in with their opinions — and a controversial take about Kirk Herbstreit's dog.
Chris Vannini’s story on how Athletic readers watch college football: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6946307/2026/01/12/college-football-broadcast-tv-announcers-survey-results/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to The Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:10.2 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Russo for our first episode of the week, guys. |
| 0:17.8 | We've still got another week before the Indiana Miami National Championship Games. |
| 0:21.8 | So for this episode, we're going to focus more on all of the QB dominoes going down in the |
| 0:26.8 | portal. Also, Texas is on a particular tear in the portal. And, you know, our colleague |
| 0:32.7 | Chris Finini had a story up, a big survey he did of our audience and which college football TV play-by-play |
| 0:40.2 | and analysts they like the best. So we're going to get into that as well. All right, let's talk |
| 0:44.7 | quarterbacks. It's been a very hectic weekend between the pursuit of Sam Levitt amongst |
| 0:50.3 | multiple schools and obviously the DeMond Williams thing happened last week. |
| 0:56.4 | Just to touch on that again real quick. |
| 0:58.8 | So he is, in fact, going back to Washington. |
| 1:03.6 | Turns out scaring somebody into thinking they're going to have to pay $4 million buyout works. |
| 1:06.5 | So interesting dominoes since then, guys. I'll start with you, Ralph, of the names that are being talked about out there, which is quarterback |
| 1:12.7 | school pairing are you most excited? Are you most intrigued by? Well, I think I'm most intrigued by |
| 1:20.4 | the Sam Levitt LSU pairing. If it actually truly does become a pairing, right? We've reported that he's committed |
| 1:31.9 | to LSU. So LSU feels like it's a done deal. As we're going on air, there's some reporting |
| 1:39.0 | out there that rumors out there that maybe Tennessee still has a chance here. And I guess it's not so much |
| 1:47.3 | that I'm interested in what Levitt looks like within the LSU offense as much as what his |
| 1:55.4 | recruitment has sort of signaled about the quarterback market and who doesn't and does not want to |
| 2:05.1 | take the time to actually develop a quarterback. |
| 2:09.7 | Tennessee going all in on Leavitt is interesting to me because they've got like two four |
| 2:15.3 | stars on the roster, including I think a local kid that they had recruited last year as a freshman. |
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