Week 5 Takeaways: White Out Woes, Best Team in the SEC
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Penn State lost in double OT to Oregon. Drew Allar doesn't look like a 5-star recruit, and once again, James Franklin can't win the big game. Ole Miss beats LSU, and is Texas A&M the best team in the SEC?
Plus, the guys touch on Iowa State, Wake Forest, Cincinnati, San Diego State, and North Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome to our live edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm Bruce Feldman, joined as always by my college from the athletic, Stuart Mandel, Ralph Russo. |
| 0:28.7 | Great show we got today. |
| 0:31.0 | Lots to get into on a wild Saturday. |
| 0:34.6 | A lot of stuff happened, a lot of surprising stuff. |
| 0:40.0 | Don't forget, every episode of the show is now on YouTube. Find us at YouTube.com slash at Audible show. You can join us every Sunday |
| 0:47.7 | morning at this time, obviously, at 8.30 a.m. Pacific, 11.30 a.m. Eastern time. Let's get into the biggest wow moment to me. And let's go to Ralph. Ralph. |
| 1:00.0 | Ralph, you were at the game last night. You're still in Happy Valley. What is your biggest takeaway of what you saw there in that scene? |
| 1:07.6 | Yeah. You know, in some ways, it's a challenging thing to write the same story over and over, |
| 1:13.2 | right? And that's where we are with Penn State. So I don't know, you know, I posted a story this |
| 1:19.1 | morning talking about Penn State getting booed going on and off the field, especially on offense. |
| 1:25.6 | And then having that moment, about 12 minutes of |
| 1:28.6 | football clock time, maybe it was a half an hour of real time, where you just thought, |
| 1:36.0 | oh, this is it. They're going to do it. Like this comeback came out of nowhere. Like this is the |
| 1:43.0 | culmination of all that they have been building for. |
| 1:47.5 | And then again, like Lucy with Linus pulling the ball away, right, trying to kick the field goal. |
| 1:54.7 | My major takeaway is two. |
| 1:59.0 | One is, and they're both kind of related to Drew Allen. And I don't like to be the guy who comes on and analyzes football about nothing but the quarterback. |
| 2:08.0 | But you get a five star a couple of years ago when he became the starter at Penn State. I wrote when I was with the AP that this is the most important |
| 2:19.3 | player in the country. |
| 2:20.7 | Because if Penn State is ever going to make that step forward that we've been talking about, |
| 2:26.5 | what they need is the star quarterback because the star quarterback will narrow the gap |
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