Week 1 kickoff times, best games & mailbag
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Stew & Bruce discuss college football's week 1 slate on the heels of kickoff times being announced by ESPN. On Saturday of Labor Day weekend, Alabama vs. Miami is the featured game in the afternoon while Georgia vs. Clemson is in primetime on ABC. Notre Dame will play Florida State Sunday night and Ole Miss Louisville wraps up the holiday weekend in a standalone Monday night window. The guys rate the rull weekend slate as the season is feeling closer by the week. Plus, mailbag questions on UCLA & USC, 2021 group of 5 breakout teams, Nebraska & the transfer portal.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the latest edition of The Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always, by my colleague Stuart Mandel and Stu. |
| 0:31.6 | We got some games lined up. |
| 0:33.4 | Not only we have games, we have some TV times, and it just feels like we're a lot closer to the start |
| 0:39.2 | of the college football season hopefully a normal one we're going to get into a lot of the games |
| 0:44.3 | that you and I are most excited about from the early part of this season before we get into the |
| 0:51.7 | specifics of that is there one particular that you're just giddy about? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, I'm giddy about the whole, I'm giddy about all of it, right? |
| 1:00.6 | Like, we didn't get these marking on conference games last year. |
| 1:05.1 | Most of the conferences went to conference only, and then the one, the two that didn't, those |
| 1:09.9 | weren't necessarily. |
| 1:12.2 | I mean, obviously, we still talk about that iowa state louisiana game but you know those weren't you know there's |
| 1:18.1 | there's we can point to 10 games opening weekend right that are that are better than anything we |
| 1:23.4 | had last year and um i always enjoy this time of year when the kickoff time start coming out. |
| 1:28.1 | It just makes it feel more real. We have one obvious headliner, Clompson, Georgia. I mean, |
| 1:34.8 | I think that one overshadows the other. Well, that's not the right way to put it. That one's the main |
| 1:40.7 | event. But I feel like there's a lot of, it's not like it's that and then nothing. |
| 1:45.1 | I mean, there's a lot of great games starting Thursday night and going through Monday night. |
| 1:50.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.7 | All right. |
| 1:51.0 | So before we go to starting in September, if you call it Week Zero, late August, there's, I think, five games featuring FBS teams. |
| 1:59.7 | The one that is most attractive one I would say is |
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