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Florida Football Insiders, a part of the

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College Gridiron Coast to Coast podcast ever
and here's your host, Jason Tylers.

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I welcome in a Week four edition
of the Florida Football Insiders podcast, part

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of the College Gridiron Coast to Coast
podcast network feed. I'm your host,

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Jason. Down in Tampa. We
have gotten to almost the quarter point of

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the excuse me, the third the
third, the third pole, the third

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pole of the college football season.
We've crossed the quarter pole, and we're

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going to the third pole of the
college football season. Week four upon us

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in the college football world. We've
got a big week of matchups around the

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country. We've got a couple of
big matchups here in the state of Florida,

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and so we are going to recap
what happened last We had had a

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big week in the state of Florida
with the state teams, with the Gators,

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pulling the upset. Florida State kind
of was in a little trouble.

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The USF Bulls showed themselves very well
against the Crimson Tide as well. So

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we're gonna we'll recap last week's action. We'll preview this week's action as well.

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In the state of Florida. We've
got two excellent guests for you.

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We're gonna have Brett McMurphy, college
football insider extraordinaire from the Action Network.

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He's gonna join us to talk about
things in the state of Florida as well.

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And we're also going to talk to
Eason Cosim, a beat reporter for

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the Tallahassee Democrat, covers the Knowles. We're gonna preview Florida State Clemson on

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Saturday twelve o'clock, kind of a
showdown game in the ACC. So we're

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gonna talk to those two gentlemen.
You'll enjoy those conversations and such. And

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before we get to Brett and Easton, let's recap what happened last week.

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of great activity in the state of
Florida last week. Let's start in Gainesville

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last Saturday night. The Florida Gators
with an excellent effort against the Tennessee Volunteers.

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They beat Tennessee twenty nine sixteen.
A well balanced effort both offensively and

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defensively, a couple of turnovers the
Gators. Napier played really well. Mertz

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on offense played really well. The
Gators to two and one and their sec

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opener again. The game kind of
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through early in the third quarter.
The Gators really dominated the game. The

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game got a little closer in the
late third quarter, but the Gators Builnder

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Billy Napier get it done beat Tennessee
twenty nine sixteen. The Gators will host

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Charlotte next week. Remember the game, the Florida Tennessee game at the end

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if you remember watching the game,
or let's doing on the radio with Sean

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Kelly, who's been on this podcast
part of the Gator Radio network. Kind

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of marred at the end of the
game, there was a fight at the

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end of the game with like four
last four or five seconds of the game.

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Napier calls time out and then Josh
Hypel calls time out. Bad blood

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Broun. You had four players getting
a fight. Four players were actually suspended

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for the first half of this week's
game, three Florida guys in one Tennessee

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GI Tennessee guy for the altercation at
the end of the game. Not a

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good ending to that game. I
know they're bitter rivals, but we we

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you know what Napier's doing calling timeout, I'm not sure, and then Hypool

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follows that up with a timeout.
Uh. Not good. Just just just

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unnecessary, totally unnecessary for both guys
to call timeouts. You didn't need to

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do that, you know, no
excuse for what the players did as well,

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but just a bad look for both
those teams as that game, especially,

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you know, I would say Florida
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they don't need that. They're gonna
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suspension this week against Charlotte, just
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So I didn't like that one bit. As that game ended, so

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but Florida goes to one and on
the SEC against Charlotte this week for for

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for Florida their last non conference game, I'm sorry, not their last one,

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but their last uh not till the
end. Well, they'll see Florida

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State, so they will get into
full SEC play following Charlotte. So FAU

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loses that Clemson forty eight fourteen.
The big news out of this game is

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Casey Thompson, the quarterback at FAU, lost for the year with a knee

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injury. Remember Thompson was the guy
came to FAU, had had a relationship

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with Tom Herman at Texas, had
been been I think he was at Nebraska

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after his Texas days. But lost
for the year. They lose forty eight

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fourteen. FAU goes back on the
road again another another big tough opponent,

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goes to the Big Ten. They're
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used one and two, so being
interesting how they respond with no quarterback.

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With as far as Casey Thompson out
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Herman one and two. FAU heads
to Illinois this week UH three and oh

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UCF They beat Villanova forty eight fourteen
to go to three and ozho. They

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opened their Big twelve season at Kansas
State this week, so they have their

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first inkling of a Big twelve play. A tough place to go to play

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at Kansas State in Manhattan, so
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is the new quarterback at UCF.
Reese Plumbley is still out injured, so

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Timmy McClain will get his first roads
will get a nice road opportunity road start

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here at Kansas State. A tough
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but we'll see what the three and
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They moved to three and one with
a nice twenty four seventeen win at

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Yukon. Great job by the by
Mike McIntyre and company to get to three

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and one. They again winning road
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against is a tough thing to do. So the Panthers get to three and

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one and they will host Liberty next
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So nice job, nice start by
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moved to three and ozer. They
beat Bethune Cookman on Thursday night last week

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forty eight seven, a kind of
a ho Hume game there. They'll go

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to Temple this week again a game
they should win. Christa Ball is getting

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some things done at Miami, which
I like. Their gauntlet is coming up

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in October. I believe they got
games against Carolina and Clemson and then they'll

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have Florida State later and I think
in early November. So Miami's got a

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couple more weeks of games that they
should be favored in and win before they

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get to Carolina and Clemson here in
early October. So good job by the

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Canes to take care of business in
a game they needed to win. So

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last two games, want to hit
hit before we get to Brett McMurphy is

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the Florida State Boston College game in
the USF Bama game. Let's do USF

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Bama first. Bama wins the game
seventeen three. I was in the building

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in Raymond James last week as the
Bulls played very competitively against an Alabama team

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that's really searching for an identity at
quarterback, especially Milrow who Jalen Milroe,

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who's been named the new named the
starter again in Alabama, did not play

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In this game, Bama played Buckner
and ty Simpson the entire game, which

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was a little surprising. There was
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Again, give usf full at it. I will say this though, I

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did not love how Alex Goblish coached
some of that game. I know he

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was wanting to be aggressive and made
that very clear in his postgame presser,

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but I thought he was a little
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He ran a fake punted around the
fifty when the game was still three three.

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He went for it one time at
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and three, fourth and four kind
of situation when the game was still three

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three. I didn't like that punt
the ball Alex. Alabama was not moving

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the ball on offense. They were
massively struggling into quarterback position. The odds

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of Alabama driving the ball eighty five
to ninety yards was not very good.

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I didn't like how he gave Alabama
a couple of short fields. They ended

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up again. They ended up not
offensively. They just struggled to get in

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and going on offense with Byron Brown. The defense, though played really well

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five sacks, they thoroughly confused the
Alabama offensive line, and I didn't see

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a ton of offensive creativity out of
the Alabama play calling. Alabama did have

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a have a punt return or kickoff. It was a kickoff, actually it

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was a it was a special teams
I can't remember. It was a kickoff

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or punt return a call back for
a penalty. But again, give out

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Scholish credit. They are much further
along than I thought they would be after

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three weeks. The USF is definitely
improving on the rise. Got a better

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you know, more organized as far
as the way they're running their offense and

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their defenses has been much better.
Remember, they were in the They were

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in the Western Kentucky game all the
way to the end. So give Alex

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credit for the competitive game. There's
no moral victories, we get it.

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But again USF losing seventeen three at
home was disappointed. I will say this

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down on the floor on the USF
fan base, that stadium should have been

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filled. It's the biggest home game
in your history with Alabama coming to town.

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They were probably ten to fifteen thousand
Alabama fans and maybe fifty five maybe

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fifty five thousand people the building.
At least ten to fifteen thousand empty seats.

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I didn't like that from a USF
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if you're wanting to be a recognizable, respectable fan base, you have to

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fill the building when Alabama comes to
town. I know this is not a

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vintage Alabama team, but I don't
care not. Was down on the USF

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fan base a little bit there for
their for their lack of attendance at the

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game on Saturday at Raymond James.
So USF falls to one and two.

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They do host Rice this week in
conference play, so we interest to see

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how that how that goes. Can
they follow up their performance against Alabama?

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The interest to see what the physical
toll of that game takes on USF this

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week as Rice comes to town.
Kind of a more finesse team, more

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high powered offense. So we'll see
how the USF Bulls respond after their seventeen

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three lost to Alabama. Last game
we're gonna get to is Florida State.

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Florida State finds a way to get
out of Boston College with a w kind

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of a lackluster thirty one twenty nine
win in up in Chestnut Hill. Uh,

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the you know Boston again. Boston
College credit they played well, was

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Florida State looking ahead to Clemson.
Potentially we'll see the offensive. They had

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some injury issues. They were missing
three or four guys in that game at

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Boston College, all couple of offensive
linemen. But Florience State get escapes thirty

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one twenty nine. The key point
in this game that I want to highlight

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is what Florida State is winning thirty
one sixteen mid fourth quarter. Florence State

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pulled away from BC in the third
quarter a little bit to create some separation.

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They were up thirty one fifteen or
sixteen. Excuse me, Boston College

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strips set strips. The running back
from Floriden State runs the fumble back for

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a touchdown to make a thirty one
twenty two with about eight minutes to go

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in the game. And my biggest
beef here, what are you doing,

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Jeff Hafley, the head coach of
Boston College. You're down nine points with

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eight minutes to go. You have
to score another touchdown, no matter what,

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what are you doing going for two
points? When you're down nine with

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eight minutes to go? You kick
the extra point to get within eight to

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wear a touchdown and two point ties
the game? Know what Jeff Hafley does

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is he runs it. He goes
for two, down nine points, and

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of course doesn't make it. Now
they're down nine points. Guess what Boston

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College does later in the quarter.
They score a touchdown, which would have

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had an opportunity to tie the game. Now you can't tie the game with

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a two point conversion. You have
to kick the extra point to make it

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thirty one twenty nine, and you'll
lose thirty one twenty nine. Coaches,

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coaches, Coaches stop relying on the
analytics and the spreadsheets one hundred percent of

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the time. When there's eight minutes
left in the game, you don't go

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for two when you're down nine points, you get within one score and you

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play with only eight minutes left in
the game. If it's the third quarter,

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the start of the third quarter,
the first half, and you want

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to go for two, okay,
I can live with that because there's five

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sets, six more possessions guaranteed left
in the game. But when there's eight

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minutes left in the game, you'll
be lucky to get the ball twice,

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if not once, one more time
left in the game. So very down

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on Jeff Hapley did not give his
team the best chance to win the game,

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and his lack of knowing the situation
or understanding the awareness of the situation

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costs. Boston College Eagles, who
were outmatched, had an opportunity to pull

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a big upset come up short.
Florida State thirty one twenty nine winners head

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to three and oz as they head
to Death Valley and Clemson next week,

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and again, this is a knockout
situation kind of game for the seminole.

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They can knock out Clemson, they
can put them in their grave, they

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can get rid of the bully on
the block, whatever terminology you want to

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use. This is a tremendous opportunity
for Florida State to say guarantee, because

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there's no guarantee, but make their
path to the College Football Playoff very very

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doable. You beat Clemson here,
you still got Miami down the road,

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and you got a couple of games
that can be tricky. But if you

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beat Clemson here on the road,
you're in a great spot to get to

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the College Football Playoff. Remember,
the top two teams from the ACC go

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to the championship game. This will
be Clemson's second conference law, so you

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can really put them in a bind. As far as to even get to

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the conference championship game. So go
take care of business. Florida State in

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Death Valley, Saturday, twelve o'clock
primetime game here, National TV game.

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We're gonna get into this game a
little more with Essen Kassim from the Tallahassee

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Democrat, and we're also going to
talk more about this game with Bret McMurphy,

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lead college football insider with the Action
Network. So there are your recaps,

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your previews going into this week again, a great week of college football.

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You'll you'll enjoy our chats with bretton
eason and we'll see in just a

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couple of minutes with Brett McMurphy college
Football Insider extraordinary. Action Network will be

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in to the Powers On Sports and
Florida Football Insiders Podcast simulcast interview. We've

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got a great pleasure this week.
We're gonna be talking to a pre eminent

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source of college information around the country, College Football Insider from the Action Network

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one Brett McMurphy. Brett is a
here based here in the Tampa Bay area

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in my neck of the woods,
and Brett is the again pre eminent insider

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on the world of college football.
So welcome in, Brett. Hey,

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good, good to talk you,
Jason. Thanks, buddy, you got

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it. You gotta know, it's
been a last week was a week when

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we all thought it was going to
be kind of a lackluster weekend. It

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turned out to be a pretty good
week college football. We had a lot

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of games that we thought were gonna
be mismatches that turned out to be really

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good games. We had Florida State
pushed, we had Alabama pushed, Texas

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was pushed, Georgia was pushed.
So just give me a thought about last

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week's slate there and your thoughts of
again, the games we thought weren't going

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to be very good games turned out
to be some pretty good football. Yeah.

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Usually it seems like when we have
a bad schedule, everyone kind of

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poo poos it, and then you
know, twenty four hours later, you

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look back and say, wow,
we had some really good games. I

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think that's another example. I think
one thing with maybe the transfer portal and

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people being able to revamp the roster
so quickly. You know, these games

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where teams are supposedly huge, prohibitive
favorites, if they don't show up,

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they could be in danger. And
certainly saw a number of examples of that

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you know, around the country.
So you know, again, you know,

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we only have you know, fourteen
fifteen weeks of this stuff. So

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I really never think there's a bad
week anyway. Do you think it's Do

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you think it's a sign that there's
not a dominance? I mean, I

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think the prevailing thought has maybe been
the last week or so, maybe there's

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not a dominant team. Obviously,
we all think Georgia and Texas are really

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good, but maybe not dominant kind
of good. Is that your sense of

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three weeks of action? There maybe
isn't a handful of teams that are going

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to be dominant this year. What's
funny, I actually think probably Georgia would

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well. Georgia obviously is the favorite
to win it. I don't have them

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ranked number one on my AP ballot
right now because my ballot is a snapshot

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of what has happened through the season. It's not how I project them out

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the entire year. I don't.
We don't know anything about Georgia. They

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haven't played anybody. I mean South
Carolina tested him a little. The second

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half they look like potentially the best
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they look like a top twenty team, and there's about forty teams that look

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like top twenty team. So yeah, I think the people that are tired

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of the Georgia, Alabama, Ohio
State, Clemson playoff every year, I

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think you're gonna have a little different
variants this year in the playoffs. So

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that makes it exciting. You know, Clemson's you know, cliche time backs

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are against the wall this week against
Florida State. This is an elimination game

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for Clemson. Are they out?
Alabama has to win out or there or

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they're out of the playoffs. So, you know, I kind of agree

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a little bit with you that I
I don't. I think it's more wide

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open, at least it appears like
right now. But at the end of

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the day, we still may end
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usual suspects, including you know,
Michigan and those guys you mentioned the Alabama

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game. I was at the Alabama
USF game Saturday here in Tampa, obviously

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we saw the score and if you're
people around the country, you know ended

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up seventeen three, and USF was
very much in that game, very late

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into that game. Just give me
a sense and what you're hearing over the

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weekend about the about the Alabama quarterback
situation and you know, they know nobody

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they went to look very good in
that game, and the offensive line was

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a really really much of a problem, especially in past protection. What sense

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are you getting about the whole just
the Alabama quarterback situation. Yeah, that

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was That was a weird deal.
It was almost like, you know,

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Saban knew that they were, you
know, they should win the game.

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They were nearly five touchdown favorites nothing
against USF. But and so because of

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that, they're like, Okay,
we're not gonna play mill Road. Yeah,

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we're gonna see what we have with
these other two guys. And then

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you know, we've got old Miss
this week and the rest of the SEC

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schedule. And so I think basically
that that was the plan. And so

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now we have to see you know, he said after the game he's going

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to evaluate all the quarterbacks now going
forward with full Miss. You know,

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USF put up a great fight.
You know, they they they took Abama

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a lot deeper into this game than
then. I'm sure Saban ever imagine uh,

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you know, and now people are
wondering about his Alabama. Is the

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dominance of Alabama over you know,
the at least in the short term.

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People think that the line for the
old Miss Alabama game opened up I think

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around seven or eight at last I
saw on Monday. I think it's down

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to six. So we'll have to
see. But the one thing that's that's

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been constent every year and saving seventeen
years is once you start doubt in Alabama,

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that's usually when you're in trouble.
So but this will be the ultimate

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test because they do look a lot
more let's say, they look a lot

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more mortal than they have in past
years. Now. I mean, the

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defense was still pretty really good,
but man, the offensive, whether it's

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play calling, creativity, lack of
skill guys. But I'm with you.

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I think I think Milrose gotta be
the guy they go back to because I

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just didn't see anything out of Simpson
and Buckner that major think in a big

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spot, in a big moment,
that they could deliver in the passing game

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and at least mill Roe frount athletically
was good enough, and he could throw

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a decent deep ball and stuff.
I just well, I didn't see anything

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out of Buckner and Simpson to show
me that they could be the guy moving

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forward. So I do think Milroe
will be the guy moving forward. And

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you're right, it was very surprising
that he didn't get any touches or any

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action in that game on Saturday.
So give me a thought on give me

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a thought on the on the Dion
phenomenon out west. Obviously, Colorado wins

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a thriller Saturday night in double overtime
against Colorado State. It was a very

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entertaining game. If you didn't see
that. At the end of that game,

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Travis Hunter gets injured. Their their
their two way dual star cornerback,

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wide receiver. He sounds like he's
gonna be out for a period of weeks,

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multiple games. Obviously, Colorado has
at Oregon and USC coming up in

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the next couple of weeks. Just
give me the give me the give me

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the scuttle butt that you hear behind
the scenes from coaches around the country about

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the impact of Dion out West at
Colorado. Yeah, I mean it's been

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it's been remarkable. I mean,
this is a team that that you know,

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Vegas projected their win total was three
and a half. There need one

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more win to go over that number. So they've done a remarkable job.

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You know, sat I watched all
of Saturday's game with pretty much most of

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America. Colorado State blew it.
They had the game. I'm sure you

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know. I know Jay Norvelle.
I haven't reached out to him yet.

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I probably will this later this week. I talked to him a little bit

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for the game leading into the game, and if I could give him free

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sermon, I may not even need
to. I think, you know,

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late in the game, when they
had that fourth and two, he probably

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would have went for it instead of
punting. You know, they did.

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They had a great punt. They
pinned him on the two, but you

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know, with the clock stopping and
all that, that's that's irrelevant these days,

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first down would have ended it.
And the other thing I would have

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asked him is, you know,
would you have gone for two in that

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first overtime Colorado scored? Go up
seven? They scored, you know,

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because every touchdown after that you got
to go for two, So why not

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use your best two point play right
now and see what happens. Obviously it's

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easy to do that, but yeah, Colorado stayed out game. Colorado,

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they gave him a lot of a
lot of problems are obviously you know,

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a billion penalties. But as far
as Colorado, they've they've done outstanding.

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I you know, I hate to
be the you know, the wet blanket,

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but I'm just you know, if
it's raining, I tell you,

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if it's it's raining, I'm going
to I'm not going to tell you the

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sins out. So as great as
Colorado is, what what has blown me

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away is you see all these various
reports that there's more money on Colorado to

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win the national title than in any
other school. There's more money on Hunter

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and Sanders to win the win the
Heisman than any other player. Look,

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Jason, if you'll give him my
address, I will book every one of

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those bets because I know Colorado is
an unbelievable story. But they're not going

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to win the national Championship and those
guys won't win the Heisman. And it's

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nothing against those guys, but that's
just the reality. I mean, they're

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sitting here at three and Ozero and
you look at the rest of their schedule,

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they will be favored in maybe one
or two of their games, right,

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so they potentially could go four and
eight, they could go three and

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nine, they could go five and
seven. We don't know. They've got

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them currently in my Bowl projections.
Maybe they get the six. I don't

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know if they can get the six. But again that's just the long term

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outlook of Colorado. But certainly Dion's
done a remarkable job there. He has

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turned things around. You know,
he's made history. They've never had you

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know, Foxes, Big New Kickoff
go to consecutive sites. You know,

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I thought they were just gonna start
having their mail delivered there. They're there

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so much, you know, game
days there for a for a you know

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game against a G five school,
which they never do in the past or

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rarely do. So, yeah,
we have to see what happens going forward,

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and you know, for for USF
fans, it's probably going to be

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a bitter pill because you know,
he he interviewed with USF and was in

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the mix there. But ultimately,
from what I was told, basically he

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used USF to get a bigger deal
at Colorado. But my gosh, if

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he would, if Colorado never would
enter the picture, right, and he

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would end it up at USF.
Just just think, and this is not

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a shot at alex by any means, but just the amount of tention that

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you the USF program would be getting
now. Has Dion's philosophy of going into

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the portal and basically overhauling the entire
roster? Has that part of his his

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his start at Colorado trickled through the
college football coaching world, especially you know,

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you've heard some rumblings of why isn't
Nick Saban and guys like Dabo Sweeney

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utilized the transfer portal more? Has
that philosophy do you think trickled through the

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coaching world a little bit more than
than you thought it might have? Well,

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I think, I mean everybody pretty
much except for Dabo, you know,

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has been pretty aggressive in the transfer
portal. Now Dion took it to

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another level. Like he he basically
you know, scortsed earth and got rid

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of you know, eighty percent of
his roster. Right. The other the

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other schools don't feel the need to
do that. They don't feel like they're

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at such a disadvantage roster wise where
they need to wipe out three fourths of

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their their team and bring in new
players. But certainly you know you're you're

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gonna look around and teams are going
to make additions through the portal where they

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need to. So I think,
you know, maybe Texas States another example,

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they they almost cleared house with a
new coach. They've seen it drastic

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improvement. So I think teams that
are basically I think it's probably more likely

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at the at the group of five
level, or maybe it's some power fives

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that you know, have been struggling
for a number of years and need to

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need to just kind of hit the
reset button. I think you'll see a

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don like transfer portal situation. But
you know, the big boys, the

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Alabama is the Clemsons, except that
they're not gonna They're not gonna, you

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know, clear out three fourths of
the roster to bring in new guys.

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And you look at somebody that's done
it very very well at the at the

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power five level. Who I have
projected as one of my four playoff teams

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is Florida State. Yep, I
mean Mike Norvelle. Arguably he has had

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the best offseason as far as a
transfer portal it bringing it, you know,

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key On Coleman, a wide receiver
and others. You know, he's

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made specific additions. It's specific positions
where they were weak and he has bolstered

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that roster. And again we'll find
out Saturday if they're legit or not.

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They certainly looked the part against LSU, So I think, Jason, I

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think you'll see it more more in
an individual basis than basically a you know,

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free for all kind of like Dion
did. We're on the Florida Football

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Insiders and Powers on Sports Simulcast podcast. We're talking to Brett McMurphy college football

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pre am and the insider at the
Action Network. You can find Brett on

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Twitter or x or whatever we're calling
it these days at Brett Underscore McMurphy.

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00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:59,200
He does awesome work on those on
that platform as far as breaking information,

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Rank King's insider stuff that he that
he hears from all around the country.

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Let's let's stay in the state of
Florida. Was Saturday as signature win for

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Billy Napier or is it just maybe
a sign that Tennessee's kind of a little

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bit not not what we thought they
potentially could be. Yeah, I think

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a little bit of both. I
mean, you know, even with the

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past history success of Florida against Tennessee. You know they haven't they haven't won

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there since. Tennessee hadn't won there
since two thousand and three. When it's

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funny, Napier was a Napier was
a grad assistant at Clemson and and Hypel

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was a grad assistant at Oklahoma.
That's how long ago was at Tennessee won

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in Gainesville. But no, I
mean that, Look, Tennessee is still

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a top twenty five, possibly top
twenty team once they If Milton and this

432
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was the whole thing going into the
season, if Milton could harness you know,

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that arm and be more accurate,
tennis seed would be, you know,

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legit contender in the SEC. And
if not, then you're gonna see

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kind of the results you saw against
Florida where he's getting hit and he's thrown

436
00:32:10,519 --> 00:32:15,480
up armpunts that are easy interceptions.
But no, that was that was huge

437
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for Florida. I mean, Billy
Napiers had an unbelievable stretch, not only

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at Florida but at Louisiana is an
underdog, so you know, you guys

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are into those things. Next time
Florida is an underdog, you may want

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to look at at the Gators again. But I don't want to say it's

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00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:35,759
a must win, but that's not
fair. But certainly that's significant enough for

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Florida. I think they're gonna get
to six wins. I think they're going

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to get to a bowl game.
You know, maybe they can do a

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little bit more damage after this win, because you know, as much as

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they did defensively against Tennessee, they
also etn they also showed the ability to

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run the ball, control the ball, and I think that that bodes wealth

447
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for the Gators long term. Through
three weeks, give me a couple of

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teams that are that that on that
are on your radar, that maybe aren't

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on the national fans radar, that
you really think maybe they're maybe they're maybe

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they're ranked between ten and twenty five
or fifteen to twenty five, or maybe

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unranked that you really think, man, this is a really good these are

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really good. A couple of really
good teams that if they think they get

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a couple of breaks, they could
make a run in there. Maybe a

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team out West in the Pac twelve, maybe a team in the Big Ten.

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Give me a team or two that
that you think is a little bit

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undervalued through three weeks. Yeah,
I would say right now, I'm you

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know, I'm looking at this week, say people, you know oregonst at

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thirteen. I've got Oregon. I've
got to Oregon number eight. I think

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they're vast you know at thirteen,
they're vastly underrated. They played Colorado this

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week, I think, yeah,
Colorado comes comes down to Earth this week.

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I think Oregons somebody. And then
Oregon State. You know there their

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ranks sixteenth in the eight pe pole. I've got Oregon State at at eleven.

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00:34:00,880 --> 00:34:05,799
People don't know much about Oregon State. It's unfortunate the conference realignment.

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00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,480
You know, they're they're in a
bad situation. I think Jonathan Smith,

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I don't think he's one of the
most underrated coaches in the country. I

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think he's the most underrated coach in
the country. And anybody that saw the

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Vegas Bowl last year, they just
basically sealed Club Florida. And I saw

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00:34:22,119 --> 00:34:24,400
him in May in Arizona. It's
some Pact twelve meetings and I went up

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00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,920
to him and I'm like, how
could you do that? How could you

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00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,199
do that? And He's like,
what are you talking about? And I

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00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,280
go the audacity of you doing that. I don't understand it. He goes,

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00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,760
Brett, what are you talking about? I said, how could you

473
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:42,280
let Florida kick that last second field
goal? So he had a good laugh

474
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,280
about that. But look, I
think they're really good. And that's what's

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00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:50,519
unfortunate with you know, the situation
with the PAC twelve is you you have

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eight teams right now that are ranked
in the top twenty five. That is

477
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:58,840
absolutely crazy. Seventy five of your
membership, at least for this year,

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is in the top twenty five.
Now, when we get to the end

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of the year, you know they're
gonna beat each other up. Some of

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00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,920
those guys are going to move out. But I think Oregon's really good.

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00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,639
I know, you know you said
somebody in the ten to twenty range,

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but I think you know Washington's up
there. I'm sniffing around the top,

483
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,679
but they're at number eight in the
poll. I've got him at number five.

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,960
I guess I'm I must be overranking
every Pack twelve team because that's how

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00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:27,880
good I really think they are.
USC's at five. I've got him down

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00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,760
at seven. I think they've got
issues defensively, that's why I don't have

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00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,920
them higher. But Michael Pinnox,
you're talking about you know you're a Florida

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00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:38,119
podcast. People may not remember this. Tampa Bay Tech. Yeah, Caampa

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00:35:38,159 --> 00:35:43,239
Bay Tech recruited by Tom Allen,
who used to coach at Temple Heights,

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which no longer exists anymore, and
he got him to Indiana and now he's

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00:35:46,559 --> 00:35:51,079
at Washington. If Washington runs the
table, you know, they've got to

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get through the Pac twelve. I
think you'll see him in New York for

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00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:59,039
the College Football or excuse me,
for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. So if

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00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:04,119
the bottom line is, with so
many good teams out there in the in

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the Pac twelve, you know,
one of those guys has to get through

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00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,360
through the first week in December with
only one loss. If they do,

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they'll be in the playoffs. I'm
afraid though. They're probably gonna beat each

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00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:21,519
other up, and I don't know
if anybody can survive that with less than

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two losses. And I didn't even
mention Utah or UCLA. I mean that

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00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:28,519
that conference is just so staffed right
now. No, you make a great

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00:36:28,519 --> 00:36:30,599
point about the Pac twelve. They're
gonna probably cannibalize themselves, and you just

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00:36:30,639 --> 00:36:34,559
hope for the sport that one of
these teams can get out of there with

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one lass, because it would be
good to see the PAC twelve hasn't been

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00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,559
in the playoff and so long,
it would be good, be good for

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00:36:39,559 --> 00:36:43,880
the conference as the conference does come
to an end. A couple more things

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00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,360
we'll get you out of here.
Got a huge slate of games this week.

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We got a monster schedule. You
got you mentioned obviously album Old Miss.

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You got Colorado, Oregon, Florida
State, Clemson, and then probably

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00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,800
the showdown up in South Bend.
You got the Irish and the Buckeyes.

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00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,440
Give me a note or two about
each of these. You know one of

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those games that you really think is
is is going to be interesting as we

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get to obviously a high State has
not been to to South been in many

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00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,159
many years. What do you think
of that? Give me a thought on

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00:37:10,199 --> 00:37:15,119
that game? Well, I mean
it's basically, you know, all the

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00:37:15,159 --> 00:37:19,840
games you mentioned were you know,
until we get to the twelve team playoff

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00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,880
next year and that camp comes soon
enough. These are these are people say

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00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:28,320
they want an expanded playoff. Well, this week, this week is your

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00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,199
expanded playoff. Yea, these are
all these are all quarterfinal games because the

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00:37:31,239 --> 00:37:37,119
loser is all for all intents and
purposes, is eliminated unless they run the

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00:37:37,159 --> 00:37:40,440
table the rest of the way.
Not saying they can't do that, but

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it's going to be very unlikely.
And so you know, specifically, you

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00:37:46,159 --> 00:37:51,880
know, Ohio State is kind of
an analogy I saw which I kind of

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00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:53,599
liked. Is you know, after
this point is kind of just played with

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00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:59,000
this, played with its food.
We don't really know how good they are,

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00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:02,159
right and noted. You know,
NC State it's a quality opponent.

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But before that, you know,
Navy Is has some issues. You know,

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they played a FCS. After that, we don't know how good Notre

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00:38:10,199 --> 00:38:15,320
Dame is, and you know,
Notre Dame wants to get in the mentioned

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00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:20,360
for the playoff or a New Year's
six game. You know, they need

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00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:25,760
to win this game. They also
have USC later on, so you know,

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00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:30,039
we'll have to see Sam Hartman.
People didn't see him play at Wake.

532
00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,239
He's at Notre Dame now. He's
one of the one of the top

533
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:37,119
quarterbacks out there. Is an unbelievable
talent. But you know, as Ohio

534
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,360
State just too too talented for for
Notre Dame. We'll have to find out.

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00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:46,599
But you know, for for local
people here, if you you know,

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00:38:46,679 --> 00:38:50,800
follow my bold projections at all,
I've I've been putting Notre Dame in

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00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,760
the rely Quest Bowl, and the
rely Quest Bowl does not have any tie

538
00:38:55,800 --> 00:39:01,280
into the ACC, which Dames considered
a part of even though they're not a

539
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:06,760
member. But there is a clause
in there that if a Big ten team

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goes to the Orange Bowl, then
the relia Quest can get the first pick

541
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,800
from the ACC. So if you
want to see Notre Dame in Tampa,

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00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:19,000
then you need to root for Ohio
State to knock Notre Dame down a peg

543
00:39:19,039 --> 00:39:22,079
and get them some losses. And
you need the Big ten to you know,

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00:39:22,199 --> 00:39:25,199
trio of Michigan, Ohio State,
and Penn State keep winning. So

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00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:30,480
one of those guys goes to the
Orange Bowl. But if if, if

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00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:35,039
Notre Dame can win this game,
then they are they are legit. They

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00:39:35,079 --> 00:39:37,000
are legit contender. Yeah, I've
got them. I think ten on my

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00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:43,039
AP ballot. And we just you
know, again, so early in the

549
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:45,119
year, we don't know much about
a lot of these schools. But with

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00:39:45,199 --> 00:39:49,840
all the you know, six or
seven top twenty five matchup this week,

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,639
I think we'll get a good read
on a lot of these guys and then

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00:39:52,679 --> 00:39:57,320
Clemson Florida State. Obviously it's an
elimination game for Clemson. If they lose

553
00:39:57,360 --> 00:40:00,719
a second time, they're in big
as far as a playoff probably out.

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Florida States showed a little chink in
the armor at Boston College over the weekend.

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Is this a spot? Is this
a good spot for for Clemson to

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00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:14,400
potentially pull the upset? Well,
it's it's basically do or die for Clemson.

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00:40:15,039 --> 00:40:16,719
You know, Dabo's gonna play it
up this week that you know,

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00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,119
nobody's nobody's given little old Clemson a
shot and no one thinks we can win,

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00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,360
and you know they'll feed into all
that. For Florida State, it's

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it's simple. You know, they
knew, they knew coming into the season

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that they basically not that they really
had a three game schedule, but they

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knew they had Clemson. Excuse me, they had LSU at Clemson and then

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Miami and then the obviously Florida.
So this is part two of that three

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part three part big games for Florida
State and if they are if they are

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00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:58,840
going to get over the hump and
finally become a national contender again, you

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know, going back to the days
when Jamis was there, they absolutely have

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to win this game. The good
news for Florida State is even if they

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00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:10,239
lose this game and then went out
and then you know, win the ACCT

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at twelve and one, I think
they would. I think they would be

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in good shape as far as the
playoff because I think that that LSU win

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is going to carry a lot of
a lot of cache down, you know,

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as we get deeper into the season. As long as LSU continues to

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win. We saw what LSU did
in Mississippi State last week. So LSU

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00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:37,480
looks like they are legit. But
for Florida State, this is more Hey,

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00:41:37,519 --> 00:41:40,840
okay, if you want to prove
that you guys have really taken that

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00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,119
next step, you have to go
in and you have to beat the team

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00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:51,360
is generally regarded as the best team
year after year in the ACC although maybe

578
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:53,920
that hasn't happened in the past year
or two, but historically, you gotta,

579
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:57,679
you gotta, you gotta kill the
champion if you're gonna, if you're

580
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,119
gonna take over, take over that
role. So that's gonna be a you

581
00:42:01,159 --> 00:42:05,400
know, monster, that's monster game. To kick off our Saturday at noon.

582
00:42:05,559 --> 00:42:07,440
You can't can't wait sit it.
No, that's that's that's a great

583
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,079
point. And last point I'll get
you out here. Give me a thought

584
00:42:10,119 --> 00:42:14,360
on Miami. Obviously, Christal ball
with a big win against A and M.

585
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,119
Especially obviously here in the state of
Florida, there's there's a lot,

586
00:42:16,159 --> 00:42:21,800
there's a lot of optimism. You
mentioned the potential Miami could come into that

587
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:24,800
game undefeated and against Florida State and
in about a month or so, Florida

588
00:42:24,840 --> 00:42:28,760
State could be in that game.
Is that a potential? Do you like

589
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,760
what Mario is doing down down South? Yeah? I mean they've they've you've

590
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:37,320
talked about the transfer portal. They
brought in some offensive lineman and the big

591
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:42,119
difference from Miami to Shear is their
offensive line is given Tyler Van Dyke time

592
00:42:42,199 --> 00:42:45,440
to actually throw the ball. And
you know that was a that wasn't a

593
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:50,599
Fluke win against Texas at M They
just they beat him. They beat him

594
00:42:50,599 --> 00:42:52,760
bad. And you know, you
can't we can joke about you know,

595
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:57,760
Texas at M and there are issues
on offense and Petrino coming in and taking

596
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:00,559
over and what's going to happen there. But defensively, A and M has

597
00:43:00,599 --> 00:43:05,760
always been really really really good there
and for Miami to almost put up half

598
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,559
a hundred that was so so impressive. And you know, again they've taken

599
00:43:09,679 --> 00:43:15,440
they've taken advantage of the transfer portal. The biggest thing for them is their

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00:43:15,559 --> 00:43:21,800
Their yards per play against my excuse
me against a m was the best that

601
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:24,920
they've had in a game against the
Power five opponent and something like ten years.

602
00:43:25,559 --> 00:43:30,800
So you know, they're just being
more explosive on offense. You know,

603
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:34,639
they've got you know, they at
Temple Georgia Tech. They should be

604
00:43:34,679 --> 00:43:37,719
fine there, and then they get
you know, consecutive weeks in mid October

605
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,719
at North Carolina, who they're going
to put up a ton of points,

606
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,880
and Clemson at home the following week. That would be huge. And if

607
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,599
they can survive that, then wow, the showdown in November at Florida State,

608
00:43:50,679 --> 00:43:53,599
It'll it'll be like the nineteen eighties, you know, just waiting to

609
00:43:53,639 --> 00:43:58,599
see who misses a field gold at
the buzzer. But yeah, that would

610
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,280
that would be great for the stay
and awesome nationally for people that you know,

611
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:07,119
because this quite frankly that you know
people that have grown up around here

612
00:44:07,119 --> 00:44:10,000
that know the history of Florida State
Miami. We know what that rivalry is

613
00:44:10,039 --> 00:44:14,519
and what it's about, but for
younger folks, they probably have no clue

614
00:44:14,559 --> 00:44:17,599
what it's like. And so that
would be really cool if both Miami and

615
00:44:17,599 --> 00:44:22,239
Florida State came into that game,
you know, to top fifteen or even

616
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:25,920
top ten in the country, that
would be that would be unbelievable. Well,

617
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:30,079
Brett mcburfy, I really appreciate the
time. Again, follow Brett's work

618
00:44:30,119 --> 00:44:35,679
on Twitter and X at Brett Underscore
McMurphy. Brett is the college football insider

619
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with the Action Network breaks all huge
stories all year long. He's very dialed

620
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:43,280
in as far as the realignment,
talk of what's going on, as far

621
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,760
as moving forward and again all these
week to week man. Brett is the

622
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:51,519
ultimate insider or in the college football
world. So Brett, I really appreciate

623
00:44:51,519 --> 00:44:54,760
the time. Hey, thanks,
Jason, appreciate it. You got it.

624
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welcome back Florida Football Insiders podcast. Hopefully

639
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,519
enjoyed our chat with Brett McMurphy from
the Action Network, and now we are

640
00:46:15,519 --> 00:46:21,000
going to get into the biggest game
in the state of Florida. This week,

641
00:46:21,039 --> 00:46:27,800
the Showdown in the acc Florida State
travels to Clemson to face the Tigers

642
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:31,599
in kind of an elimination game for
Clemson in most people's minds, and we

643
00:46:31,639 --> 00:46:36,679
are going to break down the game
with the beat reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat

644
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,599
who covers the Knolls, Essen Cassom. He is the again beat reporter for

645
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:45,400
the Tallahassee Democrat and has been covering
the Knolls for a couple of years now.

646
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:50,760
So Essen, welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you joining us, Thanks

647
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:53,199
for having me on. And let's
see the way the ACC has gone this

648
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:55,440
year where you college football has gone. This might be an elimination game for

649
00:46:55,480 --> 00:47:00,000
the ACC. You're right, You're
right. I mean a lot of peop

650
00:47:00,039 --> 00:47:04,199
will think that Florida State in theory
could absorb a loss and still be in

651
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,320
the mix. But we can talk
about that whether you think that's true or

652
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:09,719
not with the with the win over
LSU. But you're right, Uh,

653
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:14,320
definitely. Uh. If you're Florida
State, you don't want to you don't

654
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,119
want to have a loss. It's
early in the year with some of the

655
00:47:16,159 --> 00:47:20,519
weakness of the a SEC that we've
seen, and but you do have some

656
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,320
you do. Let's let's let's talk
about the AEC a little bit before we

657
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:27,280
get to the game. What are
your opening impressions after three weeks of the

658
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,119
conference in general? And obviously you
see Miami doing what they're doing a little

659
00:47:30,119 --> 00:47:34,800
bit, and you've got North Carolina
that's that's continuing to win. Give me

660
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,679
your overall thoughts of the a SEC. I mean, I agree with Miami,

661
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:44,519
Oklahoma, Miami, UNC and Duke
Can all look good, but I'm

662
00:47:44,519 --> 00:47:49,199
not sure they're national title contenders.
So I don't think even one loss or

663
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,079
two losses that they're there at the
end of the year, that they're gonna

664
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,280
Florida State went over them, is
gonna push them over the top because I

665
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:59,840
think you mentioned a Clebs and loss
probably limits them from the ACC contention.

666
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,840
So with two losses, I'm not
sure there's enough star power to get you

667
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:07,840
a win, like it's a you
know, I guess it's Clemson. Still

668
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:09,719
live. With one loss in the
year, you could get there. But

669
00:48:10,920 --> 00:48:15,119
I feel like one lost a SEC
team is less likely to make it than

670
00:48:15,159 --> 00:48:21,519
a one loss SEC team or one
loss Pack twelve, Big Pack twelve Big

671
00:48:21,519 --> 00:48:23,719
ten teams, because the Pack twelve
will truly impress them so far, no

672
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,679
no doubt, no doubt. It
might be the best conferences here. Now,

673
00:48:27,679 --> 00:48:29,920
did you go to the Were you
at the game at Boston College on

674
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,000
Saturday? Yes, sir, I
was, did you? And I gotta

675
00:48:32,039 --> 00:48:36,039
I gotta beef with that with coach
Halfley. I gotta. I don't know

676
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:37,920
if this was brought up or if
you were involved in the Boston College press.

677
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,840
What is Jeff Hafley doing going for
two down nine points with eight minutes

678
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:45,360
to go in the game. Yeah, I kind of get the decision,

679
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,519
like you're trying to make it that
you want to see how many points you're

680
00:48:47,599 --> 00:48:51,880
chasing, but at the same time, you keep it within one score or

681
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,400
you have a better chance. Also, just make sure you tell your kicker

682
00:48:54,519 --> 00:48:59,000
not to make the extra point and
united that situation anyways. Yeah, but

683
00:48:59,039 --> 00:49:01,599
I mean to me that that was
just a fatal, a fatal coaching area.

684
00:49:01,679 --> 00:49:05,920
You can't put yourself in a position
with eight minutes lething get the Jet

685
00:49:05,840 --> 00:49:08,679
to score twice where if you kick
the extra point, you're still down one

686
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:14,320
possession and again you're chasing points.
And to me, that just changes the

687
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,599
entire strategy of the game when you
don't make that two point conversion when you

688
00:49:17,639 --> 00:49:21,280
do it first instead of doing it
when you really have to do it.

689
00:49:21,519 --> 00:49:23,320
I thought it was just a terrible
call, and it has to be a

690
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:27,599
better play call than that corner of
the ends on it's a fifty fifty ball

691
00:49:27,639 --> 00:49:30,559
on when you got to call a
safer play down a fifty fifty ball in

692
00:49:30,599 --> 00:49:34,639
that kind of situation. Opinion,
right, No, I agree? I

693
00:49:34,679 --> 00:49:37,400
agree? All right, So let's
let's talk about Florida State. They kind

694
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,039
of escaped. I don't know if
it was a look ahead situation potentially,

695
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:45,199
or you know, Florida State wasn't
as crispa offensively obviously, we I'm referencing.

696
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,679
They had a strip the strip and
Boston College runs back and fumble for

697
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,880
a touchdown. They just look a
little lethargic and they, you know,

698
00:49:52,039 --> 00:49:57,559
a sleepy early start up up in
Boston. Just your overall impressions of Florida

699
00:49:57,599 --> 00:50:00,480
State in the Boston College game.
I think it was interesting. Florid State

700
00:50:00,519 --> 00:50:06,360
got punched in the first quarter where
Boston College came out and they said,

701
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,039
we're going to dominate the ball.
We're gonna keep drawing Travis off the field.

702
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:13,000
Florida State did not run first,
played the second drive until the start

703
00:50:13,039 --> 00:50:16,159
of the second quarter, So I
think that was a great strategy by Boston

704
00:50:16,199 --> 00:50:21,119
College. They did a good job
of moving the ball, but Florida State

705
00:50:21,119 --> 00:50:27,800
missed so many tackles. The tackling
was poor. The just it was not

706
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:30,280
something we've seen from Florida State since
last year on the road again against etc.

707
00:50:30,440 --> 00:50:36,239
State, I'd say that how they
poorly they played. They were missing

708
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:42,079
tackles and blown coverages. Just like
you mentioned, the offense looked Chris Brock

709
00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:45,440
a few drives actually if the offense
scoring five the sixth first drives, but

710
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:47,880
they were not in the field enough
to make that high scoring game. And

711
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,719
then in the fourth quarter they never
got the run game going. So we

712
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,440
need trying to run out the clock
and the run games like going. Boston

713
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:59,920
College was able to get enough stops
that they were not able to get run

714
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:02,159
the clock and bleed the clock out, and the defensive on the field so

715
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:06,920
long, it just kind of they
retired. They were missing tackles. It

716
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,800
was just a overall I don't want
to say like disrespect Boston College, but

717
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:15,880
Florida State should have never had that
game that close, right. Talk about

718
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,840
the injury Jordan Travis, we know
I saw he left in the left in

719
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:22,840
the late second quarter, and I
know he returned. Any any concerned post

720
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:29,239
game about the status of of of
the injury moving forward, No, I'm

721
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:31,559
they're confident he's gonna be back,
that he's gonna be out there playing joint.

722
00:51:31,599 --> 00:51:36,800
Travis is tough, they coaches yesterday, they praised his toughness, especially

723
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:39,320
in our bels, so that it
was kind of just a they saw him

724
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,119
to go down, they said,
Okay, we we fully expect him back

725
00:51:43,159 --> 00:51:45,000
next I'm in to start the second
half because that's just how he is,

726
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,039
how tough he is. So and
what was it? Was it a risk

727
00:51:50,119 --> 00:51:54,880
injury? It looked like a non
throwing shoulder injury. But we have not

728
00:51:54,920 --> 00:52:00,480
gonna like, we're not gonna get
a specific diagnosis from FFU unless he tells

729
00:52:00,519 --> 00:52:05,039
us directly. Right, All right, let's talk about other injuries. Were

730
00:52:05,079 --> 00:52:07,639
there any significant injuries in the game
for Florida State that could linger into the

731
00:52:07,639 --> 00:52:12,480
Clemson game or and more importantly,
maybe I know there were a couple of

732
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,719
guys that didn't play in the Boston
College game. What are you anticipating those

733
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:21,800
guys availability for the Clemson game.
Jackie Bell got rolled up in the fourth

734
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,639
quarter. I'm not sure. I
don't think he returned, did not see

735
00:52:23,679 --> 00:52:27,079
him return. We had not got
an update on him, so we'll see

736
00:52:27,119 --> 00:52:29,559
what he what his status is.
That's obviously, that's a big one.

737
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,599
Maurice Smith, Robert Scott, they're
voltad in the show last night said both

738
00:52:35,639 --> 00:52:38,840
of them are still working their ways
back. We'll see where they are later

739
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,840
in the week. Obviously, the
I'm not playing against Clemson would be a

740
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:47,920
major loss. I don't want to
speculate where it's gonna go. I would,

741
00:52:49,159 --> 00:52:52,840
but I would guess that one of
the two play I kept. I'm

742
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:54,559
not sure which one, but that's
my guest. Ritt Now, early in

743
00:52:54,599 --> 00:53:00,119
the week one that two play and
then a Keem Dent went down with a

744
00:53:00,159 --> 00:53:05,559
hamstring injury and we have not really
got an update on him, but we

745
00:53:05,679 --> 00:53:08,760
got we saw that he was ruled
up by Pete Damil early in the day

746
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:13,599
on Saturday, So we'll see his
status this week. I would say usually,

747
00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:15,880
again just not trying to play a
doctor here, but usually hamstring injuries

748
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:21,639
or not one week recoveries, yea
now usually are ruled out during the game.

749
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,519
That's usually not a one week recovery, So you would you know be

750
00:53:24,679 --> 00:53:30,719
safe to probably infer that makes the
availability is probably be pretty limited at best.

751
00:53:30,559 --> 00:53:34,599
Yeah, I think that's fair to
say. Good thing about Florida State

752
00:53:34,679 --> 00:53:37,599
is though, essen as you've got
depth, You've got a lot of offensive

753
00:53:37,679 --> 00:53:39,519
line depth. You've got a lot
of depth on both lines of scrimmages,

754
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:44,679
and obviously going into this game and
Clemson, the lines of scrimmage are going

755
00:53:44,719 --> 00:53:49,199
to be critical element of this game, how this game is determined. Just

756
00:53:49,199 --> 00:53:53,159
giving your overall assessment of the Florida
State offensive and defensive lines, especially going

757
00:53:53,199 --> 00:53:58,679
to into an environment like they're gonna
be going into Saturday Clemson. Yeah,

758
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,559
you mentioned depth you need done against
the Clemson team, who's historically great on

759
00:54:01,599 --> 00:54:06,760
the offensive and defensive lines, They're
gonna get up. They're probably the best

760
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,280
best pass rush State faces this year
because you know, Mason Spits was up

761
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:13,159
for LSU, so that was a
major loss for them. I want to

762
00:54:13,159 --> 00:54:16,679
see like they struggle a little bit
to get Joint Travis protected last week a

763
00:54:16,679 --> 00:54:20,719
little bit the run game the off
fund and open a bunch of holes in

764
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:22,679
the run game. The run game
is not taken off for Florida States.

765
00:54:22,679 --> 00:54:27,039
That's be interesting to see what happens
there. And last week we saw Boston

766
00:54:27,079 --> 00:54:30,559
College run at will when they wanted
to against Florida State, especially a quarterback

767
00:54:30,639 --> 00:54:34,239
run. So club Nick is an
underrated athlete, so I could see him

768
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,559
pulling the bond running a little bit
more this week, just becauld based off

769
00:54:37,559 --> 00:54:40,360
the week, the off what Castallanos
did last week. So it could be

770
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:45,599
interesting to see because I think,
like you mentioned that when Floyd's State and

771
00:54:45,880 --> 00:54:50,599
Clemson play, it's more like an
SEC matchup where what happens upfront matters more

772
00:54:50,639 --> 00:54:54,199
than anything else that happens. Yeah, and again look at looking at the

773
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:58,800
skill players. Obviously Florida State has
the you know, the guys on the

774
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,360
outside, Johnny Wilson, Keon Coleman. We'll see what Bell's situation is at

775
00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:06,679
tight end. He'll be he could
be a major factor if he's available.

776
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,599
Talk about the struggles. I know
there's been some public you know, you

777
00:55:09,599 --> 00:55:13,519
guys have written about it, the
struggles of Johnny Wilson, you know,

778
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:16,400
consistently catching the ball. Great athlete, we you know, six foot seven,

779
00:55:16,639 --> 00:55:20,920
he's very difficult to cover in the
red zone, especially talking about the

780
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,079
challenges he's been having hold on the
ball in the passing game. Yeah.

781
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:28,960
First, I'm Gettelius he I think
he had two drops against Southern Missy just

782
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:32,280
there was no credited drops, but
there was a couple of plays where he

783
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,559
hit the ball and hit the he
hit the ground and the ground caused the

784
00:55:35,559 --> 00:55:38,559
ball to come out. Last game, great game, bounced back, hundred

785
00:55:38,639 --> 00:55:44,320
yard game, which is funny.
People are having a huge panic thing about

786
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:46,079
him, but he's at two hundred, one hundred year games. Obviously,

787
00:55:46,079 --> 00:55:51,679
the one game at zero receptions,
then Keyon Coleman last game had zero receptions.

788
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:53,519
So I think it's just how the
offense is going to operate at times.

789
00:55:53,559 --> 00:55:57,280
You have so many weapons, you
got to feed them all. Jaane

790
00:55:57,280 --> 00:56:00,360
Bell had to like a seventy yard
game and I touchdown, So you gotta

791
00:56:00,599 --> 00:56:04,559
the boss gonna spread out a lot
tasks me games unfortunately, where Kean Coleman

792
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:07,800
is gonna be the one that's focused
on and people didn't take them away.

793
00:56:08,039 --> 00:56:12,280
I saw Boston Collegers not letting you
play one on one with Southern miss and

794
00:56:12,639 --> 00:56:15,199
LSU. I don't understand why they
did that three different times in the red

795
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,000
zone. I'm just like, oh, believe you one on one, Let's

796
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:20,840
see what happens, You're not gonna
win that. Not to get ski On

797
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:23,320
Coleman. Man's an athlete right now, and I think that'll be something.

798
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,760
I think Florida stay it's gonna lean
on, especially if they are a little

799
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,119
bit beat up up front. Quick
throws more jump ball kind of situations in

800
00:56:30,159 --> 00:56:35,559
the red zone. So I definitely
think you're gonna see Keyon Coleman get get

801
00:56:35,639 --> 00:56:39,079
targeted again, big best player in
these In these big games, as you

802
00:56:39,119 --> 00:56:43,280
know, you gotta get your best
players the ball as often as possible.

803
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:45,280
And this is gonna be an opportunity
I think for for Keyon Coleman to have

804
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:50,840
some opportunities against the Clemson DBS.
Let's talk about a couple more things.

805
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,679
We'll get you out of here.
Talk about special teams. Ryan Fitzgerald has

806
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:58,320
had a good start of the year. It seems like talk about the importance

807
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,039
of obviously making the makeable feel goals, things like that red zone conversion,

808
00:57:02,159 --> 00:57:07,679
things like that with the special teams
and the return game and Ryan Fitzgerald,

809
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:14,800
I think last year is one rough
patch where as you know, kickers confidence,

810
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:19,519
you know, hangs on what and
then it's hard to's not I want

811
00:57:19,599 --> 00:57:22,920
it hard to come back. But
when you when that's all you concentrate on

812
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:25,639
and all the outside noise is all
over you, it's a concentration thing.

813
00:57:25,679 --> 00:57:29,800
It's a focusing and he's done a
good job of like honing back in.

814
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:31,840
I think the end of the season, making that game winning field goal against

815
00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:37,960
Oklahoma and the Cheese A Bowl has
carried over. He's changed his strategy midway

816
00:57:37,039 --> 00:57:42,360
last year where he was running up
a little bit less too, and it's

817
00:57:42,360 --> 00:57:44,880
been working for him. He returned
to what he was doing before before the

818
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:46,559
season because he changed up if someone
else told him to do that, and

819
00:57:46,599 --> 00:57:50,920
it was not working for him clearly. But he's doing a much better job

820
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:54,079
now. He has great concentration.
So talking about special teams, you know,

821
00:57:55,480 --> 00:58:00,159
we talked to Petpucas and up norvell
Yashi and they both said that they

822
00:58:00,159 --> 00:58:05,119
believe the return game is close to
breaking one, which would would be obviously

823
00:58:05,119 --> 00:58:07,960
helped the offense in a game like
a Clemson because you want to you can

824
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,639
want to play shorter fields. You
want to have shorter fields against any team

825
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:15,039
obviously, but especially against Clemson.
It'd be interesting to see how they work

826
00:58:15,119 --> 00:58:20,599
on that squid kick last week which
they allowed to Boston College to recover because

827
00:58:21,239 --> 00:58:23,960
Ray Benson just didn't fall on the
ball. Then there was Keian Coleman's muff

828
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,360
punt it looked like at the end
of the game where luckily went out of

829
00:58:27,360 --> 00:58:30,679
bounds. Otherwise, Boston College is
in prime field goal position all right,

830
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:34,880
like or a few yards away from
field goal position. Eventually run out to

831
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,920
the clock and get the kick and
win the game and pull off the major

832
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:42,320
upset. So there's some things that
special teams are close on. They look

833
00:58:44,119 --> 00:58:46,199
they're close, but there's still things
they need to be worked on, all

834
00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:50,960
right. Last thing I want to
ask you, obviously, is Florida State

835
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:53,679
that we've heard all the hype over
the off season. Everybody thinks, you

836
00:58:53,679 --> 00:58:57,880
know, all the senior guys came
back, all the all the veteran guys

837
00:58:57,920 --> 00:59:00,039
didn't go to the NFL, the
transfer guys they brought in, we're veteran

838
00:59:00,079 --> 00:59:05,360
guys. Is Florida State ready for
this moment? Obviously? The LSU game

839
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,280
was big because but it was more
of a home game, even though it's

840
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:10,239
a neutral site game, more of
a home game in Orlando. This is

841
00:59:10,239 --> 00:59:15,239
your first true monster road game in
Clemson. If you win this game and

842
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:19,039
you look at the path moving forward, it's a pretty good path to be

843
00:59:19,079 --> 00:59:22,760
able to get to the playoff.
Is Florida State ready for this moment to

844
00:59:22,840 --> 00:59:27,199
go to Death Valley and beat the
knock off the bully, the bully that's

845
00:59:27,199 --> 00:59:30,519
been on the block for the last
bunch of handful of years. Is Florida

846
00:59:30,559 --> 00:59:34,760
State ready to go to Death Valley
and knock off the bully? I still

847
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:38,480
I'm gonna lean. I'm leaning yes
now, but that's a less emphatic yes.

848
00:59:38,559 --> 00:59:40,760
And it would have been last week
before the Boston College because that was

849
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:45,239
the first year road game and we
saw the struggles. So I don't think

850
00:59:45,239 --> 00:59:50,760
they make complacent because it's clemes in. But they you've seen, we saw

851
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,199
the margin of area for this Florida
State team is still not huge. I

852
00:59:53,199 --> 00:59:58,000
think that's true of any college football
powerhouse. And now is we've seen the

853
00:59:58,039 --> 01:00:01,039
margin of area strength because the translate
for it, because the talent across spread

854
01:00:01,039 --> 01:00:06,239
across college football now, so that
the Florida States out what the margin of

855
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:08,000
error is and that's much dinner,
which cleans in. So it's gonna be

856
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:13,599
interesting. I think on paper,
Florida States another team, but you're going

857
01:00:13,599 --> 01:00:15,079
to the place you have at one
in ten years. You're going to the

858
01:00:15,079 --> 01:00:20,920
place a team that's won six straight
games over you, so that that there's

859
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:23,159
a psychological factor, like you know, we want to prove not the little

860
01:00:23,159 --> 01:00:27,519
brother anymore. So I lean,
yes, I do think Floyda State pulls

861
01:00:27,559 --> 01:00:31,440
us off, but I'm not as
sold on it as I was before last

862
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:36,440
week. And you will be in
the building in Death Valley. It's a

863
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:39,559
twelve o'clock kickoff. I believe that's
is in an ABC game. Is an

864
01:00:39,559 --> 01:00:44,679
ABC game, And hopefully the hurricane
is not come you know that'd be They're

865
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:46,800
they're talking about another tropical storm over
there. I'm like, I don't need

866
01:00:46,840 --> 01:00:51,400
a third one in four weeks to
deal with before a game. Yeah,

867
01:00:51,719 --> 01:00:53,840
we're essence. Obviously essen's up in
Tallahassee. We had the storm a couple

868
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:57,679
of weeks ago, and then obviously
you've got some of the remnants of the

869
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,280
storm over the weekend up in Boston. And so you're right, you might

870
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:05,239
have three you might have three out
of four weeks to have some some weather

871
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,880
issues. So hopefully that won't be
the case. So hopefully we'll have beautiful

872
01:01:07,920 --> 01:01:10,639
weather and all that good stuff.
Tell everybody, Tell all the fans where

873
01:01:10,639 --> 01:01:15,239
they can find all your great work
with the Tallahassee Democrat. Yeah, obviously

874
01:01:15,239 --> 01:01:20,079
you can find this Tallassee Democrat dot
com under no Sports where we have a

875
01:01:20,079 --> 01:01:23,400
great football section. There's something coming
every day. Then my Twitter is at

876
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:28,320
S and E H s A N
Underscore, cassim K S S I M.

877
01:01:28,440 --> 01:01:30,119
You can find me there. I
post everything on there and you can

878
01:01:30,159 --> 01:01:36,360
easily find everything. Well. Essen, enjoy the trip to Clemson. Uh,

879
01:01:36,679 --> 01:01:39,840
let's get let's get a W for
the Knowles. Obviously, I think

880
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:44,440
this will be a great again.
This is another signature moment here for Mike

881
01:01:44,519 --> 01:01:47,679
Norvell if he can get it done
to really establish at Florida State is back

882
01:01:47,719 --> 01:01:52,079
to the UH, the standard and
the glory days that we all know and

883
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:57,360
hope for again. So appreciate the
time, Essen, enjoy the coverage and

884
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:00,159
let's go Knowles man, let's get
let's get it done. Thanks for having

885
01:02:00,199 --> 01:02:04,159
me on you got it all right. Appreciate you find us on the Florida

886
01:02:04,159 --> 01:02:07,519
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888
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,960
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889
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:21,360
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890
01:02:21,519 --> 01:02:25,039
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891
01:02:25,079 --> 01:02:30,159
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895
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:50,679
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