Week 9 Reactions: LSU's Collapse + Is Texas A&M the SEC's Best?
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Texas A&M took down LSU 49-25 at Tiger Stadium, and the guys debate whether Kelly's job is safe heading into a bye week before Alabama. They break down how Mike Elko has turned around Texas A&M in year one, with Marcel Reed emerging as a dynamic dual-threat QB and strength coach Tommy Moffitt getting revenge against his former employer.
The crew discusses whether A&M is now the class of the SEC, debates if five SEC teams could make the playoff, and analyzes Steve Sarkisian's explosive postgame rant about Diana Russini’s NFL job report. Plus, BYU stays undefeated with a comeback win at Iowa State behind true freshman Jake Retzlaff, the Big 12 race gets even crazier, and Colorado gets embarrassed 53-7 by Utah as Deion's season spirals. Ralph defends Vanderbilt as a legitimate top-10 team after their defensive performance against Missouri, and the guys discuss Bill Belichick's overtime loss to Virginia and whether UNC will win another ACC game this season.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible |
| 0:14.4 | by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm joined by Bruce Feldman and Ralph Russo for this week nine recap show. |
| 0:25.3 | Once again, there's a lot to get to in the SEC. |
| 0:29.7 | Big 12 race getting crazy. |
| 0:32.9 | Dion took one on the chin to say the least. |
| 0:34.9 | But, guys, speaking of coaches taking one on the chin, |
| 0:38.2 | I think we all were blown away Saturday night and how quickly and how out of hand that LSU, |
| 0:47.6 | Texas A&M game got. LSU was actually winning 18 to 14 at the half and the next thing you knew, |
| 0:57.1 | they were down 49 to 18. |
| 1:05.6 | Tiger Stadium emptied out. Ralph, your thoughts on where things stand with Brian Kelly as we record this. |
| 1:11.4 | Is this going to be another one of those Sunday? Shoot, I wish we'd recorded a couple hours later situations. |
| 1:15.7 | I don't think so. |
| 1:18.4 | I don't know if Bruce has any better. I don't think it will be either at this point today. |
| 1:20.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.1 | I don't think it's today. |
| 1:25.5 | I do think we could see they have a buy week before Alabama, and I wouldn't be |
| 1:32.2 | shocked at all if there's a new play caller, new offensive play caller between now and then. |
| 1:41.4 | And I think we have seen a trend of a little bit of a trend right of schools like hey we got |
| 1:49.9 | this massive buyout how we going to do this and maybe that buys a little time but no I don't |
| 1:57.6 | think we will be in a couple of hours going to. |
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