SEC schedule, realignment update, QB tiers & CFB HOF ballot

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

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Stew and Bruce are back for another week of offseason college football topics... 1:00 - SEC opting for 8 games instead of 9 in 2024 as a one-year solution. We'll be back in Destin, FL next year doing this song & dance all over again. 7:00 - Realignment update! Is The Big 12 going to expand further? Colorado is the program that could potentially leave the Pac-12 for the Big 12. Who else could follow? 12:25 - QB tiers! The guys look at returning QBs for the 2023 season and discuss what category top players fall into. 36:00 - 2023 College Football Hall of Fame ballot is announced. Who gets in? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Audible, presented by Greater Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce
0:21.9	Feldman and Bruce. We've got several items to get to today. We're going to talk a little bit later
0:26.7	about the Cultural Bahalla theme ballot and some big names that popped up on it that was released
0:33.3	Monday morning. We have not had a chance yet to wrap up the SEC scheduling conversation from last
0:41.5	week in Destin. They have agreed to a temporary one-year solution of sticking with eight games
0:50.8	in 2024, despite Texas and Oklahoma joining and then revisited the following year. So for
0:58.0	I already feel like we've had this debate for years and we still don't have a permanent resolution.
1:04.3	Are you surprised? I thought for sure they were going to meet St.
1:08.6	Erheads would prevail. They would go to nine games and in fact only five schools in the end voted
1:13.8	to go to nine games. Yeah, I'm not surprised because I don't think there's anything
1:18.6	forcing their hands to. I don't think that at the end of the day they'd love to sit there and
1:26.4	have all these teams have winning records and it helps that cause and it's the have their cake and
1:35.3	eat it too kind of thing. I don't think anybody questioned that the SEC is the best conference
1:40.4	yet there's other layers of it where it's like okay we're going to play all these weaker opponents
1:47.3	in the middle of the grind of November or we're going to have teams that play a lot of
1:53.6	power five and weaker I'm sorry group of five programs and we're not going to really venture
1:58.9	out of that to challenge ourselves beyond what is the SEC schedule and right now I don't think the SEC
2:08.2	I don't think the SEC community cares that much when anybody else thinks and why and you
2:13.6	could look it from there so why should they they keep winning the national titles and that
2:17.1	doesn't seem like that's going to change. So unless Greg Sanky is going to you know it's a
2:22.8	little bit like spitting in the wind at this point. Well, under the system that's existed to this
2:29.8	point obviously playing one last conference game then then the big 10 big 12 pack 12 has not hurt
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