Sark’s Big Game Problem + Who’s Top Dog in the Big 12?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The guys debate whether Steve Sarkisian has a big game problem after Texas’s loss to Florida. With a 2-8 record against top 10 opponents, is the criticism fair — or is Texas still the team to beat in the SEC? They break down the Red Zone struggles, offensive line issues, and what to expect when the Longhorns face Oklahoma’s elite defense.
Ralph, Bruce, and Stew make their picks for that game and the weekend’s other biggest matchups, including Oregon-Indiana, USC-Michigan, and Alabama-Missouri. And in upset picks, can North Texas pull off the stunner against USF? The guys also discuss Texas Tech's rise as a legitimate Big 12 contender and debate whether the Red Raiders might actually be the best team in Texas right now.
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| 0:00.0 | You know what the best way to really win the big game is, is to have the better team in the big game. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:14.1 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined by my colleague from the athletics, Ralph Rousseau, Stuart Mandel, not here. |
| 0:23.5 | Ralph will explain why in a second. We have a really good show today. We're going to get into Ralph's AP, latest AP rankings. We'll also talk |
| 0:31.5 | about the biggest games this weekend, give our upset picks. We'll include Stu's upset picks |
| 0:37.2 | and Stu's picks because he's |
| 0:38.6 | been on fire um but first there's a big news out of the big 12 or something that we're keeping an |
| 0:45.5 | eye on uh and that involves dion sanders i think i got more blood clots got outside the bag all right |
| 0:53.4 | i think i got more blood costs man it don't make bag, all right? I think I got more blood costs, man. |
| 0:55.0 | It don't make sense. I'm hurting like crazy. I got the doctor's appointment Monday to see what time it is. So that's what's going on. I'm not getting blood to my leg. That's why my leg is dropping. I'm sorry to get that out, but thank you for noticing. Yeah, big news insofar as I think you can't help but |
| 1:14.2 | hear that, understand that Dion has had a whole bunch of other serious health issues to deal with |
| 1:22.6 | this year. And now you wonder, you know, listen, I think it's just simply fair to wonder what his future is as |
| 1:31.7 | coach of Colorado. You know, will, you know, will he walk away? Will he, will he be forced to sort of walk |
| 1:39.7 | away from this? I definitely think that there's a lot of people within the industry who are wondering |
| 1:44.8 | what could be next at Colorado and keeping an eye on this situation. It's hard for us to speculate |
| 1:51.3 | beyond that because I don't think it's necessarily fair to do that with another person's health. |
| 1:57.0 | But without question, I think it raises the specter of what's going on at Colorado and how |
| 2:03.9 | much longer will Coach Prime be able to coach the buffs. Yeah, Ralph, you and I both heard from |
| 2:09.5 | different industry sources about there is concern around Colorado about his health. And obviously, |
| 2:16.0 | he came out and addressed it over the weekend. |
| 2:18.9 | Something to keep an eye on. |
| 2:20.4 | Obviously, we wish him well and hope that things pick up for him. |
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