Week 1 preview (Part 1)
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Scott Frost and Nebraska lose to Bret Bielema and Illinois. How bad is the outlook in Lincoln? Hudson Card wins the Texas QB competition. Bruce is covering LSU @ UCLA this Saturday in the Rose Bowl. Ohio State kicks off the season vs. Minnesota on Thursday night. The guys will be back later this week to discuss more week 1 matchups. Plus, the almost unbelievable story about ESPN getting scammed into broadcasting a high school football game between IMG Academy and Bishop Sycamore.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:18.2 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always always by Bruce Feldman on week one of the |
| 0:24.2 | college football season. There's just a different, a different energy, a different glow as we get |
| 0:30.4 | ready for some college football action. We got a little bit of a taste of it over the weekend with Week Zero. |
| 0:39.3 | And Bruce, I hope you had a better weekend than Scott Frost. |
| 0:43.0 | Stu, we got a big taste of it. |
| 0:44.3 | I thought it was a very fun Saturday. |
| 0:47.3 | Obviously not a fun Saturday if you're Nebraska fans do. |
| 0:51.8 | How shocked, if at all, were you that Brett Bielma's Illinois team, the home team, ended up beating Nebraska? |
| 1:00.2 | I mean, I did pick, I mean Nebraska, but it's hard to be shocked at this point when you watch Nebraska and they just do the same thing, |
| 1:12.1 | I mean, Scott Frost himself, that's the same movie. |
| 1:14.8 | As soon as they started playing, |
| 1:17.5 | it was clear this is going to be no different than previous Nebraska Scott Frost teams. |
| 1:23.8 | We had our customary Adrian Martinez fumble. |
| 1:27.3 | We had our customary Adrian Martinez fumble. We had our customary. |
| 1:29.3 | Snap over his shoulder or whatever. |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, we had the punt returner who tried to throw a forward pass and got a safety. |
| 1:38.9 | Well, it was also the punt returner basically taking, fielding the punt into the end zone, basically. |
| 1:44.4 | Like, it's the biggest no-no. |
| 1:46.1 | Like, don't back up to the goal line. |
| 1:48.8 | It was, it was, it was, it was more of the same. |
| 1:51.2 | And, and the fact is that once Brandon Peters, the Illinois quarterback got hurt, |
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