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The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

Round 1 Reactions + What Do We Do with the G5?

The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football

The Athletic

Sec, News, Sports News, Football, College Football, Cfb, Big Ten, Sports

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Bruce, Stew, and Ralph recap the first round and look ahead to the quarterfinals. Plus, Ralph argues that college football has always been a league of systems and conditions, rather than one based on merit alone. So, do we want a system that gives teams like JMU and Tulane a path to flourish, or do we want to shut them out? 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

0:19.2

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Rousseau for a recap of the first round of the college football playoff.

0:27.8

Don't forget, every episode of The Audible is available on YouTube at Audible Show.

0:33.6

We're going to get through the four games, guys.

0:35.4

I just have a quick question if you had a similar experience to me.

0:40.5

This is still only the second year of this new format.

0:43.8

I found that the first round just kind of sneaks up on you.

0:47.9

It's just like a normal Friday workday,

0:51.3

and then all of a sudden, boom, it's Oklahoma, Alabama that night. I don't know.

0:55.3

Is it sneak up on you too, Ralph? It, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yes, to a certain degree,

1:01.1

yeah. I find myself not feeling like this sense of urgency and like, oh, I can't wait for the game

1:09.7

tonight until it's kind of there. Right. Like, like, I can't wait for the game tonight until it's kind of there.

1:13.1

Right.

1:13.3

Like, I think because we're so used to these big games being around holidays and time off.

1:19.6

And listen, I think the other part of it is I'm not at any of them.

1:24.0

Right.

1:24.4

Like in the past, there were so few playoff games or big bowl games that you kind of are

1:29.4

geared towards like well if there's a big one going on i'm at it or i'm at one of the other ones

1:35.4

like i'm watching it from there when you're home and you're not covering it like we work because

1:39.7

we have fine colleagues who covered the first round games that That also gives it a weird feel, Bruce.

1:45.7

I also thought I watched, you know, I woke up and watched, there was a bowl game on Friday

1:50.8

morning. It was not a or not, it was a bad bowl game, but Kennesaw State was playing Western Michigan

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