Rocking at the Rose Bowl: UCLA upsets LSU + more week 1 reaction
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 5 September 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Stewart Mandel and Bruce Feldman discuss the first full Saturday of college football. UCLA looked great in a win vs. LSU. Does Chip Kelly have things rolling again? Bruce was there and shares what it was like to see the Rose Bowl rocking again. Is Ed Orgeron on the hot seat?! Clemson vs. Georgia in Charlotte featured zero offensive touchdowns. Texas looks good in its first game under Steve Sarkisian. It was a fun weekend in the Big Ten because of the conference's decision to put marquee games in week one. The Big 12 is in expansion talks with UCF, Houston, BYU and Cincinnati.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always by Bruce Feldman on Sunday morning of week one. |
| 0:23.9 | Week one is not entirely complete yet, but we wanted to go ahead and delve into three days |
| 0:30.6 | worth of action, but in particular, Saturday and Bruce, you had a, I would say, you know, |
| 0:37.3 | even better than front row seat for one of the more eventful |
| 0:41.6 | results from Saturday. You were the sideline reporter for LSU, UCLA. You've been telling us for |
| 0:48.7 | months that UCLA was going to be this much improved physical team. I was very skeptical. |
| 0:55.4 | I think most people are skeptical. |
| 0:57.6 | That's exactly what they went and did to LSU. |
| 1:00.2 | What was it like there at the Rose Bowl? |
| 1:02.5 | Stu, my ears are still ringing from last night. |
| 1:06.1 | It was a really fun atmosphere. |
| 1:07.7 | I know a lot of people, you know, last week noticed, hey, there was so many |
| 1:13.3 | empty seats at the Rose Bowl when they played Hawaii. And, you know, they kind of just kind of |
| 1:17.9 | smirk at, at the vibe around the Rose Bowl. And the place was, was basically packed. And there was a |
| 1:25.9 | bunch of LSU fans, but it wasn't, |
| 1:29.3 | at one point I thought it was going to be 50, 50. |
| 1:33.9 | It was probably 75, 25 or so UCLA. |
| 1:35.4 | But it was, |
| 1:37.2 | it was a really good energy in the building. I thought from our meetings, |
| 1:40.5 | we went to practice on Friday, |
| 1:43.3 | just, |
| 1:50.4 | there was a lot of confidence about what they, they feel like they have become at UCLA. And so Chip Kelly had told us, you know, you got to remember for context. When he first |
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