Week 8 Fallout: Miami Stumbles, Texas Tech’s Big 12 Grip Loosens, Hot Seats Get Hotter
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 19 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Miami's undefeated season ends with Carson Beck’s four interceptions at Louisville, but the guys debate whether the ’Canes can still make the playoff at 10-2. Texas Tech loses to Arizona State, throwing the Big 12 race wide open — and raising questions about their quarterback situation.
Georgia survives Ole Miss in a defensive slugfest, LSU falls at Vanderbilt (yes, Vandy is legitimately good), and the crew discusses which SEC team they trust most in a conference where nobody looks dominant.
Brian Kelly and Mike Norvell’s hot seats are heating up after disappointing losses, Notre Dame's explosive offense is rolling with Jeremiyah Love and Jadarian Price forming an elite backfield duo, and Stew shares his in-person experience watching UNC football and getting the classic "It is what it is" from Bill Belichick in the postgame presser.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:17.9 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always by colleagues, Ralph Rousseau and Bruce Feldman, |
| 0:23.4 | for our week eight reaction show guys. There's a lot to get to. We had all these, you know, |
| 0:30.3 | we have, I think, four top 10 teams lose and a lot of other upsets as well. I think some more |
| 0:35.7 | coaches are in trouble. We're going to get to our |
| 0:39.1 | shoutouts toward the end of the show. I might talk a little bit about my UNC football in-person |
| 0:46.3 | experience. But first, let's get right to it. We have Miami, the number two team in the country |
| 0:51.2 | lost to Louisville. Texas Tech, who we thought was the dominant team in the Big 12 so far loses to ASU. |
| 0:58.9 | LSU goes down at Vandy, and then this is not an upset, but Georgia hands Ole Miss its first loss. |
| 1:08.0 | Ralph, I'm going to start with you. |
| 1:09.2 | Out of those four outcomes, which one was the most |
| 1:12.9 | surprising to you? I don't know the most surprising, but I think most significant was Texas Tech |
| 1:19.5 | losing because I think we had all been ready to crown the Red Raiders and their Portal |
| 1:27.0 | All-Star roster as the beast of the Big 12 and they're just |
| 1:32.2 | going to romp their way to a championship. |
| 1:34.6 | And last year's Big 12 champion decided, yeah, we're going to have a say in this too. |
| 1:39.9 | Sam Levitt was great leading a comeback. |
| 1:43.5 | Frankly, Arizona State really let Texas Tech hang around |
| 1:47.1 | in that game. So I think it's significant in that it opens up the Big 12 race. And I think |
| 1:54.7 | it's significant because I think we need to start having a conversation about what Texas Tech |
| 1:59.4 | is doing at quarterback and whether |
| 2:01.4 | that because like I think they're both pretty good players but I don't know if either of them |
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