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Jason. Down in Tampa. We have gotten to almost the quarter point of
the excuse me, the third the third, the third pole, the third
pole of the college football season. We've crossed the quarter pole, and we're
going to the third pole of the college football season. Week four upon us
in the college football world. We've got a big week of matchups around the
country. We've got a couple of big matchups here in the state of Florida,
and so we are going to recap what happened last We had had a
big week in the state of Florida with the state teams, with the Gators,
pulling the upset. Florida State kind of was in a little trouble.
The USF Bulls showed themselves very well against the Crimson Tide as well. So
we're gonna we'll recap last week's action. We'll preview this week's action as well.
In the state of Florida. We've got two excellent guests for you.
We're gonna have Brett McMurphy, college football insider extraordinaire from the Action Network.
He's gonna join us to talk about things in the state of Florida as well.
And we're also going to talk to Eason Cosim, a beat reporter for
the Tallahassee Democrat, covers the Knowles. We're gonna preview Florida State Clemson on
Saturday twelve o'clock, kind of a showdown game in the ACC. So we're
gonna talk to those two gentlemen. You'll enjoy those conversations and such. And
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
last Saturday night. The Florida Gators with an excellent effort against the Tennessee Volunteers.
They beat Tennessee twenty nine sixteen. A well balanced effort both offensively and
defensively, a couple of turnovers the Gators. Napier played really well. Mertz
on offense played really well. The Gators to two and one and their sec
opener again. The game kind of second midth you know, late first quarter
through early in the third quarter. The Gators really dominated the game. The
game got a little closer in the late third quarter, but the Gators Builnder
Billy Napier get it done beat Tennessee twenty nine sixteen. The Gators will host
Charlotte next week. Remember the game, the Florida Tennessee game at the end
if you remember watching the game, or let's doing on the radio with Sean
Kelly, who's been on this podcast part of the Gator Radio network. Kind
of marred at the end of the game, there was a fight at the
end of the game with like four last four or five seconds of the game.
Napier calls time out and then Josh Hypel calls time out. Bad blood
Broun. You had four players getting a fight. Four players were actually suspended
for the first half of this week's game, three Florida guys in one Tennessee
GI Tennessee guy for the altercation at the end of the game. Not a
good ending to that game. I know they're bitter rivals, but we we
you know what Napier's doing calling timeout, I'm not sure, and then Hypool
follows that up with a timeout. Uh. Not good. Just just just
unnecessary, totally unnecessary for both guys to call timeouts. You didn't need to
do that, you know, no excuse for what the players did as well,
but just a bad look for both those teams as that game, especially,
you know, I would say Florida because again Florida won the game and
they don't need that. They're gonna lose three guys to to a first half
suspension this week against Charlotte, just totally unnecessary for the timeouts to be called.
So I didn't like that one bit. As that game ended, so
but Florida goes to one and on the SEC against Charlotte this week for for
for Florida their last non conference game, I'm sorry, not their last one,
but their last uh not till the end. Well, they'll see Florida
State, so they will get into full SEC play following Charlotte. So FAU
loses that Clemson forty eight fourteen. The big news out of this game is
Casey Thompson, the quarterback at FAU, lost for the year with a knee
injury. Remember Thompson was the guy came to FAU, had had a relationship
with Tom Herman at Texas, had been been I think he was at Nebraska
after his Texas days. But lost for the year. They lose forty eight
fourteen. FAU goes back on the road again another another big tough opponent,
goes to the Big Ten. They're gonna go to Illinois this week. FA
used one and two, so being interesting how they respond with no quarterback.
With as far as Casey Thompson out of the mix for the year, Tom
Herman one and two. FAU heads to Illinois this week UH three and oh
UCF They beat Villanova forty eight fourteen to go to three and ozho. They
opened their Big twelve season at Kansas State this week, so they have their
first inkling of a Big twelve play. A tough place to go to play
at Kansas State in Manhattan, so we'll see how Malzon again. Timmy McClain
is the new quarterback at UCF. Reese Plumbley is still out injured, so
Timmy McClain will get his first roads will get a nice road opportunity road start
here at Kansas State. A tough place to open up for the nights,
but we'll see what the three and oh Knights can do. How about FIU.
They moved to three and one with a nice twenty four seventeen win at
Yukon. Great job by the by Mike McIntyre and company to get to three
and one. They again winning road games, I don't care who you're playing
against is a tough thing to do. So the Panthers get to three and
one and they will host Liberty next week at home home game for the Panthers,
So nice job, nice start by Mike McIntyre and company. The Hurricanes
moved to three and ozer. They beat Bethune Cookman on Thursday night last week
forty eight seven, a kind of a ho Hume game there. They'll go
to Temple this week again a game they should win. Christa Ball is getting
some things done at Miami, which I like. Their gauntlet is coming up
in October. I believe they got games against Carolina and Clemson and then they'll
have Florida State later and I think in early November. So Miami's got a
couple more weeks of games that they should be favored in and win before they
get to Carolina and Clemson here in early October. So good job by the
Canes to take care of business in a game they needed to win. So
last two games, want to hit hit before we get to Brett McMurphy is
the Florida State Boston College game in the USF Bama game. Let's do USF
Bama first. Bama wins the game seventeen three. I was in the building
in Raymond James last week as the Bulls played very competitively against an Alabama team
that's really searching for an identity at quarterback, especially Milrow who Jalen Milroe,
who's been named the new named the starter again in Alabama, did not play
In this game, Bama played Buckner and ty Simpson the entire game, which
was a little surprising. There was a rain delay in early second quarter.
Again, give usf full at it. I will say this though, I
did not love how Alex Goblish coached some of that game. I know he
was wanting to be aggressive and made that very clear in his postgame presser,
but I thought he was a little too aggressive in a couple of spots.
He ran a fake punted around the fifty when the game was still three three.
He went for it one time at the fifty, you know, fourth
and three, fourth and four kind of situation when the game was still three
three. I didn't like that punt the ball Alex. Alabama was not moving
the ball on offense. They were massively struggling into quarterback position. The odds
of Alabama driving the ball eighty five to ninety yards was not very good.
I didn't like how he gave Alabama a couple of short fields. They ended
up again. They ended up not offensively. They just struggled to get in
and going on offense with Byron Brown. The defense, though played really well
five sacks, they thoroughly confused the Alabama offensive line, and I didn't see
a ton of offensive creativity out of the Alabama play calling. Alabama did have
a have a punt return or kickoff. It was a kickoff, actually it
was a it was a special teams I can't remember. It was a kickoff
or punt return a call back for a penalty. But again, give out
Scholish credit. They are much further along than I thought they would be after
three weeks. The USF is definitely improving on the rise. Got a better
you know, more organized as far as the way they're running their offense and
their defenses has been much better. Remember, they were in the They were
in the Western Kentucky game all the way to the end. So give Alex
credit for the competitive game. There's no moral victories, we get it.
But again USF losing seventeen three at home was disappointed. I will say this
down on the floor on the USF fan base, that stadium should have been
filled. It's the biggest home game in your history with Alabama coming to town.
They were probably ten to fifteen thousand Alabama fans and maybe fifty five maybe
fifty five thousand people the building. At least ten to fifteen thousand empty seats.
I didn't like that from a USF perspective. If you're if you,
if you're wanting to be a recognizable, respectable fan base, you have to
fill the building when Alabama comes to town. I know this is not a
vintage Alabama team, but I don't care not. Was down on the USF
fan base a little bit there for their for their lack of attendance at the
game on Saturday at Raymond James. So USF falls to one and two.
They do host Rice this week in conference play, so we interest to see
how that how that goes. Can they follow up their performance against Alabama?
The interest to see what the physical toll of that game takes on USF this
week as Rice comes to town. Kind of a more finesse team, more
high powered offense. So we'll see how the USF Bulls respond after their seventeen
three lost to Alabama. Last game we're gonna get to is Florida State.
Florida State finds a way to get out of Boston College with a w kind
of a lackluster thirty one twenty nine win in up in Chestnut Hill. Uh,
the you know Boston again. Boston College credit they played well, was
Florida State looking ahead to Clemson. Potentially we'll see the offensive. They had
some injury issues. They were missing three or four guys in that game at
Boston College, all couple of offensive linemen. But Florience State get escapes thirty
one twenty nine. The key point in this game that I want to highlight
is what Florida State is winning thirty one sixteen mid fourth quarter. Florence State
pulled away from BC in the third quarter a little bit to create some separation.
They were up thirty one fifteen or sixteen. Excuse me, Boston College
strips set strips. The running back from Floriden State runs the fumble back for
a touchdown to make a thirty one twenty two with about eight minutes to go
in the game. And my biggest beef here, what are you doing,
Jeff Hafley, the head coach of Boston College. You're down nine points with
eight minutes to go. You have to score another touchdown, no matter what,
what are you doing going for two points? When you're down nine with
eight minutes to go? You kick the extra point to get within eight to
wear a touchdown and two point ties the game? Know what Jeff Hafley does
is he runs it. He goes for two, down nine points, and
of course doesn't make it. Now they're down nine points. Guess what Boston
College does later in the quarter. They score a touchdown, which would have
had an opportunity to tie the game. Now you can't tie the game with
a two point conversion. You have to kick the extra point to make it
thirty one twenty nine, and you'll lose thirty one twenty nine. Coaches,
coaches, Coaches stop relying on the analytics and the spreadsheets one hundred percent of
the time. When there's eight minutes left in the game, you don't go
for two when you're down nine points, you get within one score and you
play with only eight minutes left in the game. If it's the third quarter,
the start of the third quarter, the first half, and you want
to go for two, okay, I can live with that because there's five
sets, six more possessions guaranteed left in the game. But when there's eight
minutes left in the game, you'll be lucky to get the ball twice,
if not once, one more time left in the game. So very down
on Jeff Hapley did not give his team the best chance to win the game,
and his lack of knowing the situation or understanding the awareness of the situation
costs. Boston College Eagles, who were outmatched, had an opportunity to pull
a big upset come up short. Florida State thirty one twenty nine winners head
to three and oz as they head to Death Valley and Clemson next week,
and again, this is a knockout situation kind of game for the seminole.
They can knock out Clemson, they can put them in their grave, they
can get rid of the bully on the block, whatever terminology you want to
use. This is a tremendous opportunity for Florida State to say guarantee, because
there's no guarantee, but make their path to the College Football Playoff very very
doable. You beat Clemson here, you still got Miami down the road,
and you got a couple of games that can be tricky. But if you
beat Clemson here on the road, you're in a great spot to get to
the College Football Playoff. Remember, the top two teams from the ACC go
to the championship game. This will be Clemson's second conference law, so you
can really put them in a bind. As far as to even get to
the conference championship game. So go take care of business. Florida State in
Death Valley, Saturday, twelve o'clock primetime game here, National TV game.
We're gonna get into this game a little more with Essen Kassim from the Tallahassee
Democrat, and we're also going to talk more about this game with Bret McMurphy,
lead college football insider with the Action Network. So there are your recaps,
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Two zero five seven nine zero one four zero four. All right, Welcome
in to the Powers On Sports and Florida Football Insiders Podcast simulcast interview. We've
got a great pleasure this week. We're gonna be talking to a pre eminent
source of college information around the country, College Football Insider from the Action Network
one Brett McMurphy. Brett is a here based here in the Tampa Bay area
in my neck of the woods, and Brett is the again pre eminent insider
on the world of college football. So welcome in, Brett. Hey,
good, good to talk you, Jason. Thanks, buddy, you got
it. You gotta know, it's been a last week was a week when
we all thought it was going to be kind of a lackluster weekend. It
turned out to be a pretty good week college football. We had a lot
of games that we thought were gonna be mismatches that turned out to be really
good games. We had Florida State pushed, we had Alabama pushed, Texas
was pushed, Georgia was pushed. So just give me a thought about last
week's slate there and your thoughts of again, the games we thought weren't going
to be very good games turned out to be some pretty good football. Yeah.
Usually it seems like when we have a bad schedule, everyone kind of
poo poos it, and then you know, twenty four hours later, you
look back and say, wow, we had some really good games. I
think that's another example. I think one thing with maybe the transfer portal and
people being able to revamp the roster so quickly. You know, these games
where teams are supposedly huge, prohibitive favorites, if they don't show up,
they could be in danger. And certainly saw a number of examples of that
you know, around the country. So you know, again, you know,
we only have you know, fourteen fifteen weeks of this stuff. So
I really never think there's a bad week anyway. Do you think it's Do
you think it's a sign that there's not a dominance? I mean, I
think the prevailing thought has maybe been the last week or so, maybe there's
not a dominant team. Obviously, we all think Georgia and Texas are really
good, but maybe not dominant kind of good. Is that your sense of
three weeks of action? There maybe isn't a handful of teams that are going
to be dominant this year. What's funny, I actually think probably Georgia would
well. Georgia obviously is the favorite to win it. I don't have them
ranked number one on my AP ballot right now because my ballot is a snapshot
of what has happened through the season. It's not how I project them out
the entire year. I don't. We don't know anything about Georgia. They
haven't played anybody. I mean South Carolina tested him a little. The second
half they look like potentially the best team in the country. The first half
they look like a top twenty team, and there's about forty teams that look
like top twenty team. So yeah, I think the people that are tired
of the Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson playoff every year, I
think you're gonna have a little different variants this year in the playoffs. So
that makes it exciting. You know, Clemson's you know, cliche time backs
are against the wall this week against Florida State. This is an elimination game
for Clemson. Are they out? Alabama has to win out or there or
they're out of the playoffs. So, you know, I kind of agree
a little bit with you that I I don't. I think it's more wide
open, at least it appears like right now. But at the end of
the day, we still may end up with two or three of the same
usual suspects, including you know, Michigan and those guys you mentioned the Alabama
game. I was at the Alabama USF game Saturday here in Tampa, obviously
we saw the score and if you're people around the country, you know ended
up seventeen three, and USF was very much in that game, very late
into that game. Just give me a sense and what you're hearing over the
weekend about the about the Alabama quarterback situation and you know, they know nobody
they went to look very good in that game, and the offensive line was
a really really much of a problem, especially in past protection. What sense
are you getting about the whole just the Alabama quarterback situation. Yeah, that
was That was a weird deal. It was almost like, you know,
Saban knew that they were, you know, they should win the game.
They were nearly five touchdown favorites nothing against USF. But and so because of
that, they're like, Okay, we're not gonna play mill Road. Yeah,
we're gonna see what we have with these other two guys. And then
you know, we've got old Miss this week and the rest of the SEC
schedule. And so I think basically that that was the plan. And so
now we have to see you know, he said after the game he's going
to evaluate all the quarterbacks now going forward with full Miss. You know,
USF put up a great fight. You know, they they they took Abama
a lot deeper into this game than then. I'm sure Saban ever imagine uh,
you know, and now people are wondering about his Alabama. Is the
dominance of Alabama over you know, the at least in the short term.
People think that the line for the old Miss Alabama game opened up I think
around seven or eight at last I saw on Monday. I think it's down
to six. So we'll have to see. But the one thing that's that's
been constent every year and saving seventeen years is once you start doubt in Alabama,
that's usually when you're in trouble. So but this will be the ultimate
test because they do look a lot more let's say, they look a lot
more mortal than they have in past years. Now. I mean, the
defense was still pretty really good, but man, the offensive, whether it's
play calling, creativity, lack of skill guys. But I'm with you.
I think I think Milrose gotta be the guy they go back to because I
just didn't see anything out of Simpson and Buckner that major think in a big
spot, in a big moment, that they could deliver in the passing game
and at least mill Roe frount athletically was good enough, and he could throw
a decent deep ball and stuff. I just well, I didn't see anything
out of Buckner and Simpson to show me that they could be the guy moving
forward. So I do think Milroe will be the guy moving forward. And
you're right, it was very surprising that he didn't get any touches or any
action in that game on Saturday. So give me a thought on give me
a thought on the on the Dion phenomenon out west. Obviously, Colorado wins
a thriller Saturday night in double overtime against Colorado State. It was a very
entertaining game. If you didn't see that. At the end of that game,
Travis Hunter gets injured. Their their their two way dual star cornerback,
wide receiver. He sounds like he's gonna be out for a period of weeks,
multiple games. Obviously, Colorado has at Oregon and USC coming up in
the next couple of weeks. Just give me the give me the give me
the scuttle butt that you hear behind the scenes from coaches around the country about
the impact of Dion out West at Colorado. Yeah, I mean it's been
it's been remarkable. I mean, this is a team that that you know,
Vegas projected their win total was three and a half. There need one
more win to go over that number. So they've done a remarkable job.
You know, sat I watched all of Saturday's game with pretty much most of
America. Colorado State blew it. They had the game. I'm sure you
know. I know Jay Norvelle. I haven't reached out to him yet.
I probably will this later this week. I talked to him a little bit
for the game leading into the game, and if I could give him free
sermon, I may not even need to. I think, you know,
late in the game, when they had that fourth and two, he probably
would have went for it instead of punting. You know, they did.
They had a great punt. They pinned him on the two, but you
know, with the clock stopping and all that, that's that's irrelevant these days,
first down would have ended it. And the other thing I would have
asked him is, you know, would you have gone for two in that
first overtime Colorado scored? Go up seven? They scored, you know,
because every touchdown after that you got to go for two, So why not
use your best two point play right now and see what happens. Obviously it's
easy to do that, but yeah, Colorado stayed out game. Colorado,
they gave him a lot of a lot of problems are obviously you know,
a billion penalties. But as far as Colorado, they've they've done outstanding.
I you know, I hate to be the you know, the wet blanket,
but I'm just you know, if it's raining, I tell you,
if it's it's raining, I'm going to I'm not going to tell you the
sins out. So as great as Colorado is, what what has blown me
away is you see all these various reports that there's more money on Colorado to
win the national title than in any other school. There's more money on Hunter
and Sanders to win the win the Heisman than any other player. Look,
Jason, if you'll give him my address, I will book every one of
those bets because I know Colorado is an unbelievable story. But they're not going
to win the national Championship and those guys won't win the Heisman. And it's
nothing against those guys, but that's just the reality. I mean, they're
sitting here at three and Ozero and you look at the rest of their schedule,
they will be favored in maybe one or two of their games, right,
so they potentially could go four and eight, they could go three and
nine, they could go five and seven. We don't know. They've got
them currently in my Bowl projections. Maybe they get the six. I don't
know if they can get the six. But again that's just the long term
outlook of Colorado. But certainly Dion's done a remarkable job there. He has
turned things around. You know, he's made history. They've never had you
know, Foxes, Big New Kickoff go to consecutive sites. You know,
I thought they were just gonna start having their mail delivered there. They're there
so much, you know, game days there for a for a you know
game against a G five school, which they never do in the past or
rarely do. So, yeah, we have to see what happens going forward,
and you know, for for USF fans, it's probably going to be
a bitter pill because you know, he he interviewed with USF and was in
the mix there. But ultimately, from what I was told, basically he
used USF to get a bigger deal at Colorado. But my gosh, if
he would, if Colorado never would enter the picture, right, and he
would end it up at USF. Just just think, and this is not
a shot at alex by any means, but just the amount of tention that
you the USF program would be getting now. Has Dion's philosophy of going into
the portal and basically overhauling the entire roster? Has that part of his his
his start at Colorado trickled through the college football coaching world, especially you know,
you've heard some rumblings of why isn't Nick Saban and guys like Dabo Sweeney
utilized the transfer portal more? Has that philosophy do you think trickled through the
coaching world a little bit more than than you thought it might have? Well,
I think, I mean everybody pretty much except for Dabo, you know,
has been pretty aggressive in the transfer portal. Now Dion took it to
another level. Like he he basically you know, scortsed earth and got rid
of you know, eighty percent of his roster. Right. The other the
other schools don't feel the need to do that. They don't feel like they're
at such a disadvantage roster wise where they need to wipe out three fourths of
their their team and bring in new players. But certainly you know you're you're
gonna look around and teams are going to make additions through the portal where they
need to. So I think, you know, maybe Texas States another example,
they they almost cleared house with a new coach. They've seen it drastic
improvement. So I think teams that are basically I think it's probably more likely
at the at the group of five level, or maybe it's some power fives
that you know, have been struggling for a number of years and need to
need to just kind of hit the reset button. I think you'll see a
don like transfer portal situation. But you know, the big boys, the
Alabama is the Clemsons, except that they're not gonna They're not gonna, you
know, clear out three fourths of the roster to bring in new guys.
And you look at somebody that's done it very very well at the at the
power five level. Who I have projected as one of my four playoff teams
is Florida State. Yep, I mean Mike Norvelle. Arguably he has had
the best offseason as far as a transfer portal it bringing it, you know,
key On Coleman, a wide receiver and others. You know, he's
made specific additions. It's specific positions where they were weak and he has bolstered
that roster. And again we'll find out Saturday if they're legit or not.
They certainly looked the part against LSU, So I think, Jason, I
think you'll see it more more in an individual basis than basically a you know,
free for all kind of like Dion did. We're on the Florida Football
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Rank King's insider stuff that he that he hears from all around the country.
Let's let's stay in the state of Florida. Was Saturday as signature win for
Billy Napier or is it just maybe a sign that Tennessee's kind of a little
bit not not what we thought they potentially could be. Yeah, I think
a little bit of both. I mean, you know, even with the
past history success of Florida against Tennessee. You know they haven't they haven't won
there since. Tennessee hadn't won there since two thousand and three. When it's
funny, Napier was a Napier was a grad assistant at Clemson and and Hypel
was a grad assistant at Oklahoma. That's how long ago was at Tennessee won
in Gainesville. But no, I mean that, Look, Tennessee is still
a top twenty five, possibly top twenty team once they If Milton and this
was the whole thing going into the season, if Milton could harness you know,
that arm and be more accurate, tennis seed would be, you know,
legit contender in the SEC. And if not, then you're gonna see
kind of the results you saw against Florida where he's getting hit and he's thrown
up armpunts that are easy interceptions. But no, that was that was huge
for Florida. I mean, Billy Napiers had an unbelievable stretch, not only
at Florida but at Louisiana is an underdog, so you know, you guys
are into those things. Next time Florida is an underdog, you may want
to look at at the Gators again. But I don't want to say it's
a must win, but that's not fair. But certainly that's significant enough for
Florida. I think they're gonna get to six wins. I think they're going
to get to a bowl game. You know, maybe they can do a
little bit more damage after this win, because you know, as much as
they did defensively against Tennessee, they also etn they also showed the ability to
run the ball, control the ball, and I think that that bodes wealth
for the Gators long term. Through three weeks, give me a couple of
teams that are that that on that are on your radar, that maybe aren't
on the national fans radar, that you really think maybe they're maybe they're maybe
they're ranked between ten and twenty five or fifteen to twenty five, or maybe
unranked that you really think, man, this is a really good these are
really good. A couple of really good teams that if they think they get
a couple of breaks, they could make a run in there. Maybe a
team out West in the Pac twelve, maybe a team in the Big Ten.
Give me a team or two that that you think is a little bit
undervalued through three weeks. Yeah, I would say right now, I'm you
know, I'm looking at this week, say people, you know oregonst at
thirteen. I've got Oregon. I've got to Oregon number eight. I think
they're vast you know at thirteen, they're vastly underrated. They played Colorado this
week, I think, yeah, Colorado comes comes down to Earth this week.
I think Oregons somebody. And then Oregon State. You know there their
ranks sixteenth in the eight pe pole. I've got Oregon State at at eleven.
People don't know much about Oregon State. It's unfortunate the conference realignment.
You know, they're they're in a bad situation. I think Jonathan Smith,
I don't think he's one of the most underrated coaches in the country. I
think he's the most underrated coach in the country. And anybody that saw the
Vegas Bowl last year, they just basically sealed Club Florida. And I saw
him in May in Arizona. It's some Pact twelve meetings and I went up
to him and I'm like, how could you do that? How could you
do that? And He's like, what are you talking about? And I
go the audacity of you doing that. I don't understand it. He goes,
Brett, what are you talking about? I said, how could you
let Florida kick that last second field goal? So he had a good laugh
about that. But look, I think they're really good. And that's what's
unfortunate with you know, the situation with the PAC twelve is you you have
eight teams right now that are ranked in the top twenty five. That is
absolutely crazy. Seventy five of your membership, at least for this year,
is in the top twenty five. Now, when we get to the end
of the year, you know they're gonna beat each other up. Some of
those guys are going to move out. But I think Oregon's really good.
I know, you know you said somebody in the ten to twenty range,
but I think you know Washington's up there. I'm sniffing around the top,
but they're at number eight in the poll. I've got him at number five.
I guess I'm I must be overranking every Pack twelve team because that's how
good I really think they are. USC's at five. I've got him down
at seven. I think they've got issues defensively, that's why I don't have
them higher. But Michael Pinnox, you're talking about you know you're a Florida
podcast. People may not remember this. Tampa Bay Tech. Yeah, Caampa
Bay Tech recruited by Tom Allen, who used to coach at Temple Heights,
which no longer exists anymore, and he got him to Indiana and now he's
at Washington. If Washington runs the table, you know, they've got to
get through the Pac twelve. I think you'll see him in New York for
the College Football or excuse me, for the Heisman Trophy ceremony. So if
the bottom line is, with so many good teams out there in the in
the Pac twelve, you know, one of those guys has to get through
through the first week in December with only one loss. If they do,
they'll be in the playoffs. I'm afraid though. They're probably gonna beat each
other up, and I don't know if anybody can survive that with less than
two losses. And I didn't even mention Utah or UCLA. I mean that
that conference is just so staffed right now. No, you make a great
point about the Pac twelve. They're gonna probably cannibalize themselves, and you just
hope for the sport that one of these teams can get out of there with
one lass, because it would be good to see the PAC twelve hasn't been
in the playoff and so long, it would be good, be good for
the conference as the conference does come to an end. A couple more things
we'll get you out of here. Got a huge slate of games this week.
We got a monster schedule. You got you mentioned obviously album Old Miss.
You got Colorado, Oregon, Florida State, Clemson, and then probably
the showdown up in South Bend. You got the Irish and the Buckeyes.
Give me a note or two about each of these. You know one of
those games that you really think is is is going to be interesting as we
get to obviously a high State has not been to to South been in many
many years. What do you think of that? Give me a thought on
that game? Well, I mean it's basically, you know, all the
games you mentioned were you know, until we get to the twelve team playoff
next year and that camp comes soon enough. These are these are people say
they want an expanded playoff. Well, this week, this week is your
expanded playoff. Yea, these are all these are all quarterfinal games because the
loser is all for all intents and purposes, is eliminated unless they run the
table the rest of the way. Not saying they can't do that, but
it's going to be very unlikely. And so you know, specifically, you
know, Ohio State is kind of an analogy I saw which I kind of
liked. Is you know, after this point is kind of just played with
this, played with its food. We don't really know how good they are,
right and noted. You know, NC State it's a quality opponent.
But before that, you know, Navy Is has some issues. You know,
they played a FCS. After that, we don't know how good Notre
Dame is, and you know, Notre Dame wants to get in the mentioned
for the playoff or a New Year's six game. You know, they need
to win this game. They also have USC later on, so you know,
we'll have to see Sam Hartman. People didn't see him play at Wake.
He's at Notre Dame now. He's one of the one of the top
quarterbacks out there. Is an unbelievable talent. But you know, as Ohio
State just too too talented for for Notre Dame. We'll have to find out.
But you know, for for local people here, if you you know,
follow my bold projections at all, I've I've been putting Notre Dame in
the rely Quest Bowl, and the rely Quest Bowl does not have any tie
into the ACC, which Dames considered a part of even though they're not a
member. But there is a clause in there that if a Big ten team
goes to the Orange Bowl, then the relia Quest can get the first pick
from the ACC. So if you want to see Notre Dame in Tampa,
then you need to root for Ohio State to knock Notre Dame down a peg
and get them some losses. And you need the Big ten to you know,
trio of Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State keep winning. So
one of those guys goes to the Orange Bowl. But if if, if
Notre Dame can win this game, then they are they are legit. They
are legit contender. Yeah, I've got them. I think ten on my
AP ballot. And we just you know, again, so early in the
year, we don't know much about a lot of these schools. But with
all the you know, six or seven top twenty five matchup this week,
I think we'll get a good read on a lot of these guys and then
Clemson Florida State. Obviously it's an elimination game for Clemson. If they lose
a second time, they're in big as far as a playoff probably out.
Florida States showed a little chink in the armor at Boston College over the weekend.
Is this a spot? Is this a good spot for for Clemson to
potentially pull the upset? Well, it's it's basically do or die for Clemson.
You know, Dabo's gonna play it up this week that you know,
nobody's nobody's given little old Clemson a shot and no one thinks we can win,
and you know they'll feed into all that. For Florida State, it's
it's simple. You know, they knew, they knew coming into the season
that they basically not that they really had a three game schedule, but they
knew they had Clemson. Excuse me, they had LSU at Clemson and then
Miami and then the obviously Florida. So this is part two of that three
part three part big games for Florida State and if they are if they are
going to get over the hump and finally become a national contender again, you
know, going back to the days when Jamis was there, they absolutely have
to win this game. The good news for Florida State is even if they
lose this game and then went out and then you know, win the ACCT
at twelve and one, I think they would. I think they would be
in good shape as far as the playoff because I think that that LSU win
is going to carry a lot of a lot of cache down, you know,
as we get deeper into the season. As long as LSU continues to
win. We saw what LSU did in Mississippi State last week. So LSU
looks like they are legit. But for Florida State, this is more Hey,
okay, if you want to prove that you guys have really taken that
next step, you have to go in and you have to beat the team
is generally regarded as the best team year after year in the ACC although maybe
that hasn't happened in the past year or two, but historically, you gotta,
you gotta, you gotta kill the champion if you're gonna, if you're
gonna take over, take over that role. So that's gonna be a you
know, monster, that's monster game. To kick off our Saturday at noon.
You can't can't wait sit it. No, that's that's that's a great
point. And last point I'll get you out here. Give me a thought
on Miami. Obviously, Christal ball with a big win against A and M.
Especially obviously here in the state of Florida, there's there's a lot,
there's a lot of optimism. You mentioned the potential Miami could come into that
game undefeated and against Florida State and in about a month or so, Florida
State could be in that game. Is that a potential? Do you like
what Mario is doing down down South? Yeah? I mean they've they've you've
talked about the transfer portal. They brought in some offensive lineman and the big
difference from Miami to Shear is their offensive line is given Tyler Van Dyke time
to actually throw the ball. And you know that was a that wasn't a
Fluke win against Texas at M They just they beat him. They beat him
bad. And you know, you can't we can joke about you know,
Texas at M and there are issues on offense and Petrino coming in and taking
over and what's going to happen there. But defensively, A and M has
always been really really really good there and for Miami to almost put up half
a hundred that was so so impressive. And you know, again they've taken
they've taken advantage of the transfer portal. The biggest thing for them is their
Their yards per play against my excuse me against a m was the best that
they've had in a game against the Power five opponent and something like ten years.
So you know, they're just being more explosive on offense. You know,
they've got you know, they at Temple Georgia Tech. They should be
fine there, and then they get you know, consecutive weeks in mid October
at North Carolina, who they're going to put up a ton of points,
and Clemson at home the following week. That would be huge. And if
they can survive that, then wow, the showdown in November at Florida State,
It'll it'll be like the nineteen eighties, you know, just waiting to
see who misses a field gold at the buzzer. But yeah, that would
that would be great for the stay and awesome nationally for people that you know,
because this quite frankly that you know people that have grown up around here
that know the history of Florida State Miami. We know what that rivalry is
and what it's about, but for younger folks, they probably have no clue
what it's like. And so that would be really cool if both Miami and
Florida State came into that game, you know, to top fifteen or even
top ten in the country, that would be that would be unbelievable. Well,
Brett mcburfy, I really appreciate the time. Again, follow Brett's work
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ultimate insider or in the college football world. So Brett, I really appreciate
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enjoyed our chat with Brett McMurphy from the Action Network, and now we are
going to get into the biggest game in the state of Florida. This week,
the Showdown in the acc Florida State travels to Clemson to face the Tigers
in kind of an elimination game for Clemson in most people's minds, and we
are going to break down the game with the beat reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat
who covers the Knolls, Essen Cassom. He is the again beat reporter for
the Tallahassee Democrat and has been covering the Knolls for a couple of years now.
So Essen, welcome to the podcast. Appreciate you joining us, Thanks
for having me on. And let's see the way the ACC has gone this
year where you college football has gone. This might be an elimination game for
the ACC. You're right, You're right. I mean a lot of peop
will think that Florida State in theory could absorb a loss and still be in
the mix. But we can talk about that whether you think that's true or
not with the with the win over LSU. But you're right, Uh,
definitely. Uh. If you're Florida State, you don't want to you don't
want to have a loss. It's early in the year with some of the
weakness of the a SEC that we've seen, and but you do have some
you do. Let's let's let's talk about the AEC a little bit before we
get to the game. What are your opening impressions after three weeks of the
conference in general? And obviously you see Miami doing what they're doing a little
bit, and you've got North Carolina that's that's continuing to win. Give me
your overall thoughts of the a SEC. I mean, I agree with Miami,
Oklahoma, Miami, UNC and Duke Can all look good, but I'm
not sure they're national title contenders. So I don't think even one loss or
two losses that they're there at the end of the year, that they're gonna
Florida State went over them, is gonna push them over the top because I
think you mentioned a Clebs and loss probably limits them from the ACC contention.
So with two losses, I'm not sure there's enough star power to get you
a win, like it's a you know, I guess it's Clemson. Still
live. With one loss in the year, you could get there. But
I feel like one lost a SEC team is less likely to make it than
a one loss SEC team or one loss Pack twelve, Big Pack twelve Big
ten teams, because the Pack twelve will truly impress them so far, no
no doubt, no doubt. It might be the best conferences here. Now,
did you go to the Were you at the game at Boston College on
Saturday? Yes, sir, I was, did you? And I gotta
I gotta beef with that with coach Halfley. I gotta. I don't know
if this was brought up or if you were involved in the Boston College press.
What is Jeff Hafley doing going for two down nine points with eight minutes
to go in the game. Yeah, I kind of get the decision,
like you're trying to make it that you want to see how many points you're
chasing, but at the same time, you keep it within one score or
you have a better chance. Also, just make sure you tell your kicker
not to make the extra point and united that situation anyways. Yeah, but
I mean to me that that was just a fatal, a fatal coaching area.
You can't put yourself in a position with eight minutes lething get the Jet
to score twice where if you kick the extra point, you're still down one
possession and again you're chasing points. And to me, that just changes the
entire strategy of the game when you don't make that two point conversion when you
do it first instead of doing it when you really have to do it.
I thought it was just a terrible call, and it has to be a
better play call than that corner of the ends on it's a fifty fifty ball
on when you got to call a safer play down a fifty fifty ball in
that kind of situation. Opinion, right, No, I agree? I
agree? All right, So let's let's talk about Florida State. They kind
of escaped. I don't know if it was a look ahead situation potentially,
or you know, Florida State wasn't as crispa offensively obviously, we I'm referencing.
They had a strip the strip and Boston College runs back and fumble for
a touchdown. They just look a little lethargic and they, you know,
a sleepy early start up up in Boston. Just your overall impressions of Florida
State in the Boston College game. I think it was interesting. Florid State
got punched in the first quarter where Boston College came out and they said,
we're going to dominate the ball. We're gonna keep drawing Travis off the field.
Florida State did not run first, played the second drive until the start
of the second quarter, So I think that was a great strategy by Boston
College. They did a good job of moving the ball, but Florida State
missed so many tackles. The tackling was poor. The just it was not
something we've seen from Florida State since last year on the road again against etc.
State, I'd say that how they poorly they played. They were missing
tackles and blown coverages. Just like you mentioned, the offense looked Chris Brock
a few drives actually if the offense scoring five the sixth first drives, but
they were not in the field enough to make that high scoring game. And
then in the fourth quarter they never got the run game going. So we
need trying to run out the clock and the run games like going. Boston
College was able to get enough stops that they were not able to get run
the clock and bleed the clock out, and the defensive on the field so
long, it just kind of they retired. They were missing tackles. It
was just a overall I don't want to say like disrespect Boston College, but
Florida State should have never had that game that close, right. Talk about
the injury Jordan Travis, we know I saw he left in the left in
the late second quarter, and I know he returned. Any any concerned post
game about the status of of of the injury moving forward, No, I'm
they're confident he's gonna be back, that he's gonna be out there playing joint.
Travis is tough, they coaches yesterday, they praised his toughness, especially
in our bels, so that it was kind of just a they saw him
to go down, they said, Okay, we we fully expect him back
next I'm in to start the second half because that's just how he is,
how tough he is. So and what was it? Was it a risk
injury? It looked like a non throwing shoulder injury. But we have not
gonna like, we're not gonna get a specific diagnosis from FFU unless he tells
us directly. Right, All right, let's talk about other injuries. Were
there any significant injuries in the game for Florida State that could linger into the
Clemson game or and more importantly, maybe I know there were a couple of
guys that didn't play in the Boston College game. What are you anticipating those
guys availability for the Clemson game. Jackie Bell got rolled up in the fourth
quarter. I'm not sure. I don't think he returned, did not see
him return. We had not got an update on him, so we'll see
what he what his status is. That's obviously, that's a big one.
Maurice Smith, Robert Scott, they're voltad in the show last night said both
of them are still working their ways back. We'll see where they are later
in the week. Obviously, the I'm not playing against Clemson would be a
major loss. I don't want to speculate where it's gonna go. I would,
but I would guess that one of the two play I kept. I'm
not sure which one, but that's my guest. Ritt Now, early in
the week one that two play and then a Keem Dent went down with a
hamstring injury and we have not really got an update on him, but we
got we saw that he was ruled up by Pete Damil early in the day
on Saturday, So we'll see his status this week. I would say usually,
again just not trying to play a doctor here, but usually hamstring injuries
or not one week recoveries, yea now usually are ruled out during the game.
That's usually not a one week recovery, So you would you know be
safe to probably infer that makes the availability is probably be pretty limited at best.
Yeah, I think that's fair to say. Good thing about Florida State
is though, essen as you've got depth, You've got a lot of offensive
line depth. You've got a lot of depth on both lines of scrimmages,
and obviously going into this game and Clemson, the lines of scrimmage are going
to be critical element of this game, how this game is determined. Just
giving your overall assessment of the Florida State offensive and defensive lines, especially going
to into an environment like they're gonna be going into Saturday Clemson. Yeah,
you mentioned depth you need done against the Clemson team, who's historically great on
the offensive and defensive lines, They're gonna get up. They're probably the best
best pass rush State faces this year because you know, Mason Spits was up
for LSU, so that was a major loss for them. I want to
see like they struggle a little bit to get Joint Travis protected last week a
little bit the run game the off fund and open a bunch of holes in
the run game. The run game is not taken off for Florida States.
That's be interesting to see what happens there. And last week we saw Boston
College run at will when they wanted to against Florida State, especially a quarterback
run. So club Nick is an underrated athlete, so I could see him
pulling the bond running a little bit more this week, just becauld based off
the week, the off what Castallanos did last week. So it could be
interesting to see because I think, like you mentioned that when Floyd's State and
Clemson play, it's more like an SEC matchup where what happens upfront matters more
than anything else that happens. Yeah, and again look at looking at the
skill players. Obviously Florida State has the you know, the guys on the
outside, Johnny Wilson, Keon Coleman. We'll see what Bell's situation is at
tight end. He'll be he could be a major factor if he's available.
Talk about the struggles. I know there's been some public you know, you
guys have written about it, the struggles of Johnny Wilson, you know,
consistently catching the ball. Great athlete, we you know, six foot seven,
he's very difficult to cover in the red zone, especially talking about the
challenges he's been having hold on the ball in the passing game. Yeah.
First, I'm Gettelius he I think he had two drops against Southern Missy just
there was no credited drops, but there was a couple of plays where he
hit the ball and hit the he hit the ground and the ground caused the
ball to come out. Last game, great game, bounced back, hundred
yard game, which is funny. People are having a huge panic thing about
him, but he's at two hundred, one hundred year games. Obviously,
the one game at zero receptions, then Keyon Coleman last game had zero receptions.
So I think it's just how the offense is going to operate at times.
You have so many weapons, you got to feed them all. Jaane
Bell had to like a seventy yard game and I touchdown, So you gotta
the boss gonna spread out a lot tasks me games unfortunately, where Kean Coleman
is gonna be the one that's focused on and people didn't take them away.
I saw Boston Collegers not letting you play one on one with Southern miss and
LSU. I don't understand why they did that three different times in the red
zone. I'm just like, oh, believe you one on one, Let's
see what happens, You're not gonna win that. Not to get ski On
Coleman. Man's an athlete right now, and I think that'll be something.
I think Florida stay it's gonna lean on, especially if they are a little
bit beat up up front. Quick throws more jump ball kind of situations in
the red zone. So I definitely think you're gonna see Keyon Coleman get get
targeted again, big best player in these In these big games, as you
know, you gotta get your best players the ball as often as possible.
And this is gonna be an opportunity I think for for Keyon Coleman to have
some opportunities against the Clemson DBS. Let's talk about a couple more things.
We'll get you out of here. Talk about special teams. Ryan Fitzgerald has
had a good start of the year. It seems like talk about the importance
of obviously making the makeable feel goals, things like that red zone conversion,
things like that with the special teams and the return game and Ryan Fitzgerald,
I think last year is one rough patch where as you know, kickers confidence,
you know, hangs on what and then it's hard to's not I want
it hard to come back. But when you when that's all you concentrate on
and all the outside noise is all over you, it's a concentration thing.
It's a focusing and he's done a good job of like honing back in.
I think the end of the season, making that game winning field goal against
Oklahoma and the Cheese A Bowl has carried over. He's changed his strategy midway
last year where he was running up a little bit less too, and it's
been working for him. He returned to what he was doing before before the
season because he changed up if someone else told him to do that, and
it was not working for him clearly. But he's doing a much better job
now. He has great concentration. So talking about special teams, you know,
we talked to Petpucas and up norvell Yashi and they both said that they
believe the return game is close to breaking one, which would would be obviously
helped the offense in a game like a Clemson because you want to you can
want to play shorter fields. You want to have shorter fields against any team
obviously, but especially against Clemson. It'd be interesting to see how they work
on that squid kick last week which they allowed to Boston College to recover because
Ray Benson just didn't fall on the ball. Then there was Keian Coleman's muff
punt it looked like at the end of the game where luckily went out of
bounds. Otherwise, Boston College is in prime field goal position all right,
like or a few yards away from field goal position. Eventually run out to
the clock and get the kick and win the game and pull off the major
upset. So there's some things that special teams are close on. They look
they're close, but there's still things they need to be worked on, all
right. Last thing I want to ask you, obviously, is Florida State
that we've heard all the hype over the off season. Everybody thinks, you
know, all the senior guys came back, all the all the veteran guys
didn't go to the NFL, the transfer guys they brought in, we're veteran
guys. Is Florida State ready for this moment? Obviously? The LSU game
was big because but it was more of a home game, even though it's
a neutral site game, more of a home game in Orlando. This is
your first true monster road game in Clemson. If you win this game and
you look at the path moving forward, it's a pretty good path to be
able to get to the playoff. Is Florida State ready for this moment to
go to Death Valley and beat the knock off the bully, the bully that's
been on the block for the last bunch of handful of years. Is Florida
State ready to go to Death Valley and knock off the bully? I still
I'm gonna lean. I'm leaning yes now, but that's a less emphatic yes.
And it would have been last week before the Boston College because that was
the first year road game and we saw the struggles. So I don't think
they make complacent because it's clemes in. But they you've seen, we saw
the margin of area for this Florida State team is still not huge. I
think that's true of any college football powerhouse. And now is we've seen the
margin of area strength because the translate for it, because the talent across spread
across college football now, so that the Florida States out what the margin of
error is and that's much dinner, which cleans in. So it's gonna be
interesting. I think on paper, Florida States another team, but you're going
to the place you have at one in ten years. You're going to the
place a team that's won six straight games over you, so that that there's
a psychological factor, like you know, we want to prove not the little
brother anymore. So I lean, yes, I do think Floyda State pulls
us off, but I'm not as sold on it as I was before last
week. And you will be in the building in Death Valley. It's a
twelve o'clock kickoff. I believe that's is in an ABC game. Is an
ABC game, And hopefully the hurricane is not come you know that'd be They're
they're talking about another tropical storm over there. I'm like, I don't need
a third one in four weeks to deal with before a game. Yeah,
we're essence. Obviously essen's up in Tallahassee. We had the storm a couple
of weeks ago, and then obviously you've got some of the remnants of the
storm over the weekend up in Boston. And so you're right, you might
have three you might have three out of four weeks to have some some weather
issues. So hopefully that won't be the case. So hopefully we'll have beautiful
weather and all that good stuff. Tell everybody, Tell all the fans where
they can find all your great work with the Tallahassee Democrat. Yeah, obviously
you can find this Tallassee Democrat dot com under no Sports where we have a
great football section. There's something coming every day. Then my Twitter is at
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You can find me there. I post everything on there and you can
easily find everything. Well. Essen, enjoy the trip to Clemson. Uh,
let's get let's get a W for the Knowles. Obviously, I think
this will be a great again. This is another signature moment here for Mike
Norvell if he can get it done to really establish at Florida State is back
to the UH, the standard and the glory days that we all know and
hope for again. So appreciate the time, Essen, enjoy the coverage and
let's go Knowles man, let's get let's get it done. Thanks for having
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