Reactions: Penultimate Playoff Rankings Drama
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Notre Dame is at No. 10, while Miami is on the outside looking in at No. 12. Texas moved up to No. 13, and Alabama sits at No. 9. Who’s in danger of missing the playoff, who’s still on the bubble, and how much motion is possible with just a few days left before the bracket is finalized?
Plus, somehow there’s more coaching news. With Kalani Sitake now locked in at BYU, Penn State remains standing at the altar — and Cal looks like it will be hiring Tosh Lupoi.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, |
| 0:18.6 | joined by Ralph Russo. No Bruce Feldman tonight. Ralph, I feel like I've been |
| 0:23.0 | staring across the screen at you constantly over the... How many times have we recorded an episode |
| 0:28.0 | just in the last like 48 hours? It's a bit a lot and how lucky are you? How lucky are we? That we |
| 0:33.8 | get to hang out and talk. And that we just get to talk college football. |
| 0:41.4 | We wanted to come on to talk about the rankings that came out on Tuesday nights. |
| 0:43.5 | I'm calling it Ralph the, |
| 0:50.5 | So You're Saying There's a Chance edition for Miami and for James Madison, actually. |
| 0:58.4 | But obviously we want to focus on that bubble cutoff. So new rankings, we saw the one development, if you will, is that Alabama and Notre Dame swap spots. Alabama |
| 1:04.8 | moved up to nine, Notre Dame. This goes one back to number 10. So they're living a little |
| 1:10.7 | dangerously now. |
| 1:12.5 | BYU 11, Miami 12, and then I think we can officially rule out number 13, Texas, number 14, Vandy, and number 15, Utah. |
| 1:24.0 | What's your takeaway in terms of what that Alabama Notre Dame flip means? |
| 1:28.8 | I think it puts Alabama safely in if it loses to Georgia. |
| 1:37.8 | Though I guess, you know, I'm still going to be open-minded to this idea of Georgia 35-10 creates a problem for Alabama. But I think even though |
| 1:48.5 | it's only one spot, it probably has to give Alabama some solace that they're not right on the |
| 1:53.7 | edge there. And I think really the most interesting part is Notre Dame, |
| 2:01.4 | BYU, |
| 2:04.6 | Miami, and if BYU loses, well, let's move |
| 2:06.7 | them out and now who is back |
| 2:08.6 | to back in the final ranking. |
| 2:10.7 | How long have I been telling you guys about |
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