Week 11 Reactions: Indiana Can't Lose
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Indiana and Oregon survive close matchups as Texas Tech convincingly hands BYU its first loss. What's going on in the ACC? What's the SEC's path to five — or even six — teams getting into the playoff? And Stew gives the breakdown of the USC fake punt from his perspective as an in-person spectator from LA Memorial Coliseum.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm Stuart Mandal, joined by my colleagues from the athletic, Bruce Feldman, and Ralph Russo, to wrap up week 11 of the college football season. |
| 0:28.7 | Don't forget, you can always watch The Audible on YouTube at Audible Show, including this Sunday morning episode every week, which is live on YouTube at 1130 a.m. |
| 0:40.5 | Eastern, 8.30 a.m. Pacific, guys. We've got a lot to get to today. A lot to get to. It was a very |
| 0:48.0 | fun day. Texas Tech made a statement. We're going to, Lincoln Riley, it started Friday night with Lincoln Riley's weird, fake punt decision. |
| 0:57.1 | We're going to get into that, a lot more. |
| 0:59.9 | But let's start in the Big Ten where there were two dramatic finishes guys. |
| 1:05.1 | Indiana driving the field to survive at Penn State with a remarkable catch. |
| 1:10.2 | Oregon surviving at Kinnick. |
| 1:11.7 | I'll start with you, Ralph. |
| 1:14.8 | I'll start with the question that the athletic asked. |
| 1:19.3 | The catch, Omar Cooper Jr., Omar Cooper Jr.'s toe scraping touchdown catch, does that rank up for you as like one of the best college |
| 1:28.6 | football catch as you've ever seen? Without question, especially because of not just degree of |
| 1:34.2 | difficulty getting pushed out of bounds and still managing to get that foot down was remarkable. |
| 1:40.2 | He almost seemed to be like floating. But also circumstances, right? |
| 1:44.9 | You get an undefeated team. |
| 1:46.3 | If he doesn't make that play, I think they have, they might have one more down there. |
| 1:51.1 | But nonetheless, you know, it's the game winning touchdown on an incredible, you know, |
| 1:57.8 | last minute, two minute drive. |
| 1:59.7 | So without question, it was fun to sort of go |
| 2:02.2 | through the archives of trying to come up with other great catches that we've seen. I came up with |
| 2:07.9 | JJ Wharton from UCF against Temple in 2013. Yeah, that was a good ball to me. Yeah, yeah. |
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