The Audible’s New Look and Bold Postseason Predictions
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Audible is heading into Week 0 with a new look, new sound, and new co-host: The Athletic’s Ralph Russo. Stew, Bruce and Ralph break down their College Football Playoff picks, including why Oregon might miss out — and which unranked teams could surprise. Plus, preseason takes on new starting quarterbacks, and Bruce shares some insight on Kansas QB Jalon Daniels ahead of the Jayhawks’ Week 0 matchup against Fresno State.
Read Ralph’s piece on how to boldly avoid going chalk in your postseason predictions: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6562192/2025/08/20/college-football-playoff-predictions-ap-top-25/?source=user_shared_article
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to a very special edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:22.3 | A lot of new things to introduce here on the show. |
| 0:25.7 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:27.1 | I am joined as always by Bruce Feldman, and we are both excited to be joined by our new co-host, |
| 0:35.0 | frequent friend of the show. |
| 0:36.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, Ralph Rousseau. |
| 0:40.0 | You know, when you say a very special edition of the very special episode of the Audible, |
| 0:45.2 | my mind flashes back to those very serious sitcoms they would have back in the 70s and 80s. |
| 0:51.7 | And when Stu gets caught like shoplifting some, some diet medication. |
| 0:57.4 | And then Ralph, you're the friendly policeman who's going to make it all better. |
| 1:02.2 | Yeah, it was, oh no, you know, what's happening is going to be really serious this week. |
| 1:09.2 | That's no fun. |
| 1:10.7 | Somebody's going to get arrested or somebody's going to die on different strokes. That's not that cool. That is not the case here. No. That is not the case here. This is mostly a joyous occasion. Yes. Yeah. We are going to talk college football and in particular our playoff predictions here in a little bit. But like, we got to take a second to acknowledge, Bruce. |
| 1:29.7 | This has been a day, frankly, months in the making. |
| 1:33.0 | It is the relaunch of the audible. |
| 1:35.3 | Bruce and I have been doing it just the two of us since 2014. |
| 1:38.9 | It's probably the most significant change. |
| 1:41.9 | Obviously, Ralph being the headliner, but also, I'm sure you already |
| 1:45.9 | noticed on your phone, new cover art. As the episode came on, you might have heard a new theme |
| 1:51.3 | song. And now the big change this year, guys, is we are now officially on YouTube. You can |
| 1:59.5 | actually watch this show, go to at Audible show on YouTube. You can actually watch this show. |
| 2:01.9 | Go to at Audible show on YouTube, at Audible show. |
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