Title Contenders to Moral Victories
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Tua Tagovailoa injures his ankle. Alabama shouldn’t be ranked #1 in the country. Did Jeremy Pruitt cross the line by grabbing Jarrett Guarantano’s face mask? Wisconsin gets exposed by Illinois. Bruce puts the upset into perspective. How big of an underdog are the Badgers vs. the Buckeyes? Ohio State is loaded at every position. Clemson has no margin of error because the ACC is a mess. Schedule strength matters. Kansas and Les Miles nearly pull the upset at Texas. Les Miles has exceeded expectations in year 1. Michigan went from title contenders to earning a moral victory at Penn State. Oregon is still in the CFB Playoff race. Mailbag!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman on another lovely Monday morning. |
| 0:19.4 | Bruce, I felt like Saturday had a lot of great games, a lot of |
| 0:24.9 | crazy endings, and yet the big story coming out of it, and this was a story last year as well, |
| 0:30.7 | obviously, is Tua's ankle. This notion that I, maybe in a couple weeks before it, that I started to see people |
| 0:39.3 | be, uh, start to try to downplay to a little bit and be like, oh, it's all his receivers. You know, |
| 0:45.0 | he just throws a quick pass and they, uh, they take it from there. Uh, anybody who still thinks |
| 0:50.3 | that should have watched the second half of the game once Mack Jones came in a quarterback. |
| 0:54.2 | Clearly, they are not the same team. |
| 0:56.7 | And so you hate to see any player get injured. |
| 1:01.2 | This one in particular, I'm like, oh, no, because first of all, it happened to him last year. |
| 1:07.1 | And second of all, I want that Alabama LSU game on November 9th to be full strength |
| 1:12.8 | Tua versus full strength Joe Burrow. But as the details emerge, and Aaron Suttles had a nice |
| 1:18.6 | story about this for us yesterday where he talked to a source close to the program who |
| 1:22.7 | indicated, this is serious. He's going to, he did have the same procedure Sunday morning that he and other |
| 1:30.1 | Alabama players have had in the past that allows them to recover more quickly from a high ankle |
| 1:34.9 | sprain than has traditionally been the case but it definitely sounds like this is going to be |
| 1:39.4 | cutting it very close to expect him to be healthy in time for that game, to be able to play in that game. |
| 1:46.5 | And even if he does play in that game, is he going to be full strength, 100% Tua, if not how close is that going to be? |
| 1:55.1 | And, I mean, I don't be blunt about it. |
| 1:58.7 | If he's not Tua, I don't think they beat LSU. Yes, Stu, I think this is going to be |
| 2:03.8 | the dominant storyline we're going to hear really till November 9th about the speculation. And look, |
| 2:11.0 | last year, I think it was four weeks before the playoff, before Tua returned. Obviously, it was |
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