Top programs continue to look vulnerable
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 19 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Bruce & Stew recap week 3 of the college football season. Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma and Clemson don't look as impressive as previous seasons. What's wrong with Clemson's offense? Can Ohio State's pass rush turn it around? Plus, Miami and Florida State look to be free falling -- will we be seeing changes made with Manny Diaz and Mike Norvell?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:23.2 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always by my colleague from the Athletics, Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:28.1 | It is Sunday morning as we're taping this. |
| 0:31.7 | Stu was a fascinating Saturday of games. |
| 0:36.9 | One thing I want to really jump into is it felt like for much of the last |
| 0:42.8 | decade that there was a real clear separation between these like five teams that have gotten |
| 0:48.7 | very comfortable being in the playoff almost every year almost like that. And now they all look pretty vulnerable, do they not? |
| 0:56.5 | Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I would say it's been the whole decade, but certainly |
| 0:59.5 | for the last four or five years, there's been, I feel like that separation. |
| 1:04.8 | And three weeks in, I feel like everybody's beatable. |
| 1:09.9 | And it's a, it's what, what has been the, the number one complaint from college football fans has gotten too boring. |
| 1:17.7 | It's the same teams every year. |
| 1:19.5 | Well, we watched Ohio State lose to Oregon last week. |
| 1:22.7 | I would say they didn't look so great against Tulsa either. |
| 1:26.2 | Oklahoma's got issues. |
| 1:28.7 | Clemson's got issues. |
| 1:37.6 | In Alabama, I'm not going to hit the panic button just yet, but after the Miami game, |
| 1:42.3 | everybody's like, oh my gosh, they're going to dominate everybody again all year. And obviously, |
| 1:48.6 | Florida unexpectedly took them right down to the wire. So there's a stat from Adam Rittenberg at ESPN.com late Saturday night. 19 top 25, AP top 25 teams have lost |
| 1:57.2 | through three weeks. That is a record. So even more than the crazy 2007 season. |
| 2:03.5 | So it does feel like even though, you know, we haven't had a equivalent of Stanford |
| 2:09.3 | meeting USC that year, certainly. |
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