Saturday Shakedown: The Big Ten Is Back, Baby! Waddle, Alabama's Future & Weekend Mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Stewart and Bruce dish out their takes on the opening weekend of Big Ten action, starting with the dramatic conclusion to Indiana-Penn State (2:00). Why are fanbases other than Penn State trying to label James Franklin as 'overrated', and where do the Nittany Lions fall in the conference pecking order (8:00)? Who's the second best team in the 'Ten behind Ohio State (11:30), plus who would the guys bet on to win the Big Ten aside from OSU? The guys cruise through Rutgers' first conference victory since 2017, Wisconsin and Graham Mertz as well as Maryland's lopsided loss (15:00). Will Saturday's be different now with Jaylen Waddle expected to miss the remainder of the season (27:00)? Is it time to hop back on the LSU bandwagon, and just how impressive was TJ Finley in the Tigers' win (30:30)? Stew and Bruce brandish their digital letter openers and answer some mailbag questions, featuring Cincinnati, James Franklin and Tim Brando (33:00)!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman. |
| 0:17.9 | Bruce, you had an interesting vantage point for the return of the Big Ten and all the other action on Saturday. |
| 0:25.1 | I did. |
| 0:25.9 | It was a long but entertaining day for me. |
| 0:28.5 | I got to our studios at 5 a.m. |
| 0:32.2 | to get ready for our big noon kickoff show. |
| 0:34.8 | And then because those guys were on the road, |
| 0:37.3 | I was with Emmanuel Ocho and Mike Hill in studio. |
| 0:40.8 | And so I was at the desk pretty much from, I don't know, |
| 0:44.9 | I would say from basically like 11 or noon Pacific till 8 at night. |
| 0:50.3 | Or 8 Pacific, which is obviously 11 at night, Eastern. |
| 0:53.5 | And, you know, at one point we were sitting there, we were just like, because the Penn State |
| 1:00.8 | Indiana game, which really felt like the game of the day, because of everything that happened |
| 1:04.6 | in the last hour of it, and it was an FS1 game, and that was one of the games that was kind of we had to be, you know, handling postgame and halftime for. |
| 1:16.3 | So it was on big on your radar. |
| 1:19.5 | And just to kind of watch it unfold, there was just so much drama and so much craziness in that game. |
| 1:24.4 | Then once that game ended, I think we had to pivot to Boise State, Utah |
| 1:29.3 | State, and you're feeling like, I mean, this is way inside the weeds of this show, but like, |
| 1:38.0 | you know, two days before, I'm getting way up to speed on those two programs. And I have all this |
| 1:43.9 | stuff on Bdie Reader, |
| 1:46.0 | the offensive coordinator at Utah State and Jeff Schmettings, |
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