Round 2 Reactions: Huge Upsets and a Shutout
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Ralph went live after an incredible Ole Miss win over Georgia. Can anyone stop this Ole Miss team? They’ll move on to Miami, who came to play and toppled their own giant in a 24-14 defeat of Ohio State. And with bye week teams falling to 1-7 in the 12-team CFP era, does anyone get to use the bye as an excuse?
Indiana didn’t disappoint, steamrolling the Tide 38-3 (don’t they know they’re supposed to be a Cinderella story?). And Oregon convincingly shut out Texas Tech 23-0. Will the Texas Tech boosters spend all that money differently next time?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a live edition of the Audable, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:20.0 | It's been a long day of football, folks. |
| 0:22.2 | I'm Ralph Russo from The Athletic, joined by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:25.2 | We may get Stu. |
| 0:26.4 | We may get Stuart Mandel later. |
| 0:27.9 | He may be popping in here, but he's got some things to write. |
| 0:30.8 | So he needs to do that job first before he does this job. |
| 0:34.2 | Bruce, man, you were at the Rose Bowl. |
| 0:37.3 | I was at the Orange Bowl, so we didn't get |
| 0:40.0 | to see great games today. Interesting stories, but not necessarily great games. The two bookends of the |
| 0:47.5 | CFP semi, excuse me, quarterfinals were awesome. Let's start with, we had, it started with Miami upsetting Ohio State on Friday night, |
| 0:57.7 | and it ended with Ole Miss upsetting Georgia in the Sugar Bowl tonight, just a few minutes ago. |
| 1:04.5 | Let's just start there. You know, I think you and I especially had sort of settled on this was the game we |
| 1:13.2 | we least expected an upset because we thought Georgia had been playing so well rolling into |
| 1:18.9 | this game. |
| 1:20.3 | Ole Miss's defense not that great. |
| 1:22.1 | Who knows, you know, some of the disruption with the coaching staff and Lane Kiffin leaving, you know, |
| 1:28.2 | finally catches up to them against a Georgia team that really had been, had seemingly turned |
| 1:32.9 | the corner since midseason. |
| 1:35.2 | Not at all. |
| 1:36.0 | Trinidad Chambles turned into a legend if he already wasn't one. |
| 1:40.1 | And Georgia and Ole Miss is going to the semifinals to play Miami. |
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