Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman.

In a couple minutes, we're going to be joined by one of our all-time favorite guests, Joe Tessitore of ESPN. He's back calling college football now.

And speaking of college football coming back, Bruce, Thursday, do we think we'll finally get some clarity on the

Pac-12?

Stu, I think we're going to get the PAC-12 to come back this fall.

Everything I'd heard that was, their meetings were geared towards actually a November

7th start date, which a lot of the coaches felt like it was

better than rushing back a little too soon. And some of them pointed to the NFL injury

issues, not just in week one, but then I talked to some of the last few days who said, you know,

look, there's been devastating injuries even more so in week two.

So if you're going to say health and safety is your number one priority, why would you rush back when a lot of your programs or several of your programs are not in that position

where they feel like, hey, this isn't just being in cardio shape.

We got to get our guys in football shape.

And even if there are a couple

of ADs in places that maybe haven't had the same issues with COVID that some of the other ones have,

it's like, you know what, maybe they'll let them face each other on Halloween, but everything I'd

heard was the target date was going to be November 7th. So November 7th, seven game season.

They get to play in their New Year 6th bowl and their bowl games.

And it's not what everybody would have hoped back before COVID.

But it's better than, I think we can all agree that would be better than the original plan of having to wait until January.

And then the Mountain West and the Mac real quick? Yeah. we can all agree that would be better than the original plan of having to wait until January.

And then the Mountain West and the Mac real quick?

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