Week 12 Reactions: Who Clinched a Playoff Spot, and Who Could Actually Win?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Did Notre Dame clinch a playoff spot, and did Georgia eliminate Texas? The Aggies win, they extend Elko — but is their schedule deceptive? Ole Miss survives an upset bid by Florida in the Lane Kiffin bowl. The Sooners are in the CFP mix, USC win sets up a huge Big 10 matchup next week, and Georgia Tech nearly chokes against BC. Plus, a two-bid Big 12 is within reach, but there are too many 10-2 teams to fit in the playoff.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by my colleagues from The Athletic, |
| 0:23.0 | Bruce Feldman, Ralph Russo. We're going to recap week 12. There is a lot to get to, |
| 0:29.1 | especially a lot of consequential results in the SEC. Remember this show, this Sunday show, |
| 0:35.8 | I guess we've only got a few left, guys. |
| 0:48.3 | 11.30 a.m. Eastern, 8.30 a.m. Pacific every Sunday on YouTube at Audible show. All episodes of the Audible, three episodes of the week are always on YouTube. |
| 1:00.4 | Guys, let's start high noon Eastern on Saturday. Texas A&M falls behind 30 to 3 at home to a bad South Carolina team, and by the start of the fourth quarter, they're winning. |
| 1:02.5 | This had a lot, this game had a lot going on, including a weird thing with a police officer. |
| 1:07.9 | Bruce, what did you take away from the fact that A&M was down that much in the first place, |
| 1:14.3 | but then, of course, the fact that they had such a, it was a historic comeback. |
| 1:18.7 | Yeah, honestly, it was the weirdest game of the season so far, because they jumped all over, |
| 1:24.6 | all over the Aggies, did it in College station. And then on top of it, like, |
| 1:30.5 | it felt like everything that could go wrong for A&M was going wrong. It was like, this is just not their |
| 1:35.6 | day. They're dropping passes for first downs. They're dropping passes for touchdowns. You have, |
| 1:41.4 | you're reminded in that game where there's some elite talent on South Carolina, at least in certain places. |
| 1:49.0 | Oh, yeah, this is the Lenora Sellers that embarrassed Clemson last year. |
| 1:54.6 | You know, he may not complete 75% of his passes, but he's going to make some wow plays. |
| 1:58.9 | And you got an edge rusher who's one of the most dynamic |
| 2:01.5 | you know talents he comes in and disrupts a play where it basically you know feels like a game |
| 2:06.1 | changing play and then nick harbour who's the you know my number one like freaks guy for two years |
| 2:10.9 | he makes this you know just runs away from everybody and then there's the thing you allude to |
| 2:16.8 | where he gets into this weird dustup with this cop, which the video is like embarrassing, I think for law enforcement. It's like, you're not there to, you know, like to confront the other team, especially in that moment. It was just so bizarre. And on top of it, I remembered, we've talked to a little bit about this at times where it's like sideline interviews, usually in games yield nothing. |
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