UCLA & VT Clean House + Ralph Ranks 0-2 Irish #15
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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There were major coaching shake-ups this weekend at UCLA and Virginia Tech after embarrassing losses. Who will fill the void? Plus, Ralph's controversial decision to rank 0-2 Notre Dame at #15 on his AP ballot. Stew, Ralph, and Bruce also pick against the spread for the biggest games of the week, and select one upset each.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the latest edition of the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:21.7 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my colleagues from The Athletic, Ralph Rousseau and Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:27.0 | Good show today, but first, don't forget every episode of The Audible is on YouTube now. |
| 0:33.9 | Find us at YouTube.com slash at Audible Show. join us live on sunday mornings at 1130 a.m. |
| 0:42.4 | Eastern time 8.30 a.m. Pacific time as we break down everything from the weekend's games. |
| 0:49.4 | Later we're going to pick our upsets as well as the biggest games of this weekend. |
| 0:56.0 | We will have to get into Ralph stirring up his own controversy on the AP poll this week, Ralph. |
| 1:03.2 | And we got some big news that actually came out of our live stream after we closed the show Sunday morning. |
| 1:11.6 | That was coming out of UCLA as well as out of Virginia Tech. |
| 1:15.1 | Guys, let's start with that. |
| 1:17.1 | No shocks, given that both teams, both programs were embarrassed this weekend. |
| 1:22.1 | Where do you guys want to start? |
| 1:23.5 | UCLA or Virginia Tech. |
| 1:26.6 | Well, you guys both sort of wrote the obits on both of those schools on Sunday after their |
| 1:35.2 | terrible losses. |
| 1:36.2 | So we're going to try to spin this ahead. |
| 1:37.9 | I'd say I find UCLA to be a little more interesting because of their move to the Big Ten, it was supposed to |
| 1:48.3 | refresh the financial coffers, and I think eventually it will, because they just haven't |
| 1:52.6 | been there long enough. But it's just, it's been such an odd shift for that program into this almost like space of irrelevance. It really shouldn't be |
| 2:04.6 | that way at UCLA. There's always going to be attention for schools in pro towns to grab the |
| 2:12.6 | attention of fans. Even USC has that problem sometimes. It's always that way. But it just feels like UCLA has |
| 2:20.6 | gotten to a point where UCLA should never be. And that is, again, this feeling stew of like, |
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