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Speaker 1: Welcome to week seven. Hard to believe we've already hit
the halfway point of the college football season. Florida Football
Insiders Podcast, appreciate you finding us. I'm your host, Jason.
Down in Tampa. We are going to recap the four
and three week by the State of Florida teams. We'll
give you a little info on the Buccaneers, Dolphins, and
Jags as well. But a great week of football in
the State of Florida. We had a big up not
a big upset, but we had a much needed win
for Billy Napier. We had a statement win by the
Miami Hurricanes. Us F takes care of business. FAU takes
care of business. Central Florida loses a tough one. FIU loses,
But again we are at the halfway point of the
college football season. The Miami Hurricanes are now a top
two or three team in the country. By all accounts,
many people think the Hurricanes are now the best team
in the country as we hit the halfway point. But again,
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the rest. So appreciate you finding us again. We're gonna
talk all things state of Florida college football. No guests
this week, We're just gonna have I'll just give you
some breakdowns of all the games. We'll preview this week's
coming up games and for week seven, and then we'll
do a little NFL recap Week six recap of the
week five recap of the National Football League. So all right,
let's start in Gainesville, where Billion Napier gets a much
needed win, a convincing twenty nine to twenty one win
over the University of Texas and arch Manning Gators moved
to two and three. A very very impressive performance by
the Gators, physically imposing dominated most of the game. Game
got a little dicey there at the end. Arch had
the ball at the end with a chance to tie,
but again the Gators put together a complete performance, their
best performance of the year by far. Dj Lagway throws
for two hundred ninety eight yards, Jayden Ball runs for
one hundred and seven in a touchdown, and we finally,
the Gator Nation finally gets to see their heralded freshman,
Dallas Wilson, Tampa high school kid made his debut. He'd
had a footage I believe, through basically training camp in
the first five weeks of the year. He debuts with
a tremendous performance. Six catches for one hundred and eleven
and two touchdowns. You can clearly see watching the game
on TV. This guy is a difference maker. This guy
is electric. He is what we're used to seeing at
Florida at wide receiver back in the day with Spurrier
and Urban Meyer, the guys like Reedell Anthony Jacques Green,
you know, guys like Percy Harvin, those kind of guys.
This guy has all the electricity. He's a route runner,
he can catch, he makes back. He made a couple
of spectacular deep ball plays. This presence of Dallas Wilson
in this offense just opens up the offense for others,
for ball for Eugene Wilson, for the other receivers that
they have. You can call any play in the playbook.
You can push the ball down the field, things that
they were struggling to do before. And if Lagway can
play consistent like he did on Saturday, this Gator team
can beat anybody else left on their schedule. So again,
great performance by the Gators. Fifty on third down which
was big, thirty four minutes of time of possession which
was also a key factor here, and that Gator defense
was dynamic again, holding arch Manning in check. I think
six sacks on the day, a couple turnovers, a couple
of interceptions, I know. So just a really really solid
performance by the Gators, probably their best performance in maybe
a year year and a half, and again much needed
to win for Billy Napier. Again, the dogs are out
for Billy. He's gonna have to win more of these
games down the road to save his job. But again,
a good start, a game he had to have or
it would have been one hundred percent probably over for Billy.
The Gators have another opportunity as they go to two
and three They now go to Texas A and M
this week. Who comes into this game five and ohero
another great opportunity for the Gators or Gators for about
a seven and a half point underdog, but again in
College Station Saturday night will be an electric atmosphere and
this is a game I think Florida can win too.
Again if they can. The issue with Billy Napier has
not been these one off performances is can you string
four or five six of these in a row to
where you play really well on both sides of the
ball each week. So they get another opportunity in another
tough environment in College Station. Again, if they played like
they played Saturday, they'll have every chance in the world
to win that game. Remember Marcel Reid and an M
went to Gainesville last year and beat the Gators pretty soundly,
so a little revenge for the Gators potential. But again
I think the addition of Dallas Wilson is huge. You're
gonna have to run the ball again with ball, but again,
a three pronged attack was excellent for the Gators. As
they move to two and three, let's go up to
Tallahassee for the huge showdown game. Seminoles Miami Hurricanes. Hurricanes
moved to five and zero get out of Tallahassee with
a twenty eight to twenty two victory over the Seminoles.
This game wasn't probably as close as the score might indicate.
I mean, Miami was up twenty eight to three late
third quarter of this game was in complete control of
Miami for the first three quarters. Give Florida State credit.
They did make a substantial comeback in the fourth quarter
behind Castellanos. Part of that's probably Miami playing a little
too conservative, a little too loose on the back end
as far as defensively, a little soft defensively, But getting
give Florida State credit. This game was really never in
danger of Florida State winning the game. But again the
score ended up being twenty eight twenty two and again
dominant performance by Miami in my opinion. Again, Carson Beck
was great four touchdown passes two hundred and forty one yards,
Malachai Tony seven catches for one oh seven and two touchdowns.
The big plays of the of the Miami Hurricanes were huge.
Here two long bombs for touchdowns. You know I did
not like early in the game. Florida State goes down
and kicks a field goal in the first possession. They're
playing pretty good defense in early, you know, late first quarter,
early second quarter. I can't remember exactly when it was.
I believe it was early in the second quarter. Mike Norvel,
in my opinion, a terrible decision on fourth and like
five or six goes forward on like the Miami forty
three yard line. Should have absolutely punted in my opinion,
the defense was still playing well. They don't make the
first down. The next play, Miami goes over the top
for like a fifty five yard touchdown. I believe it
was the I don't think it was a fleet flicker,
but they threw a long bombed up to Tony. I
could not stand the decision to go forth there. Should
have absolutely punted Miami deep into the inside their own
ten yard line. But again give Miami credit. They they
manhandled Florida State on the offensive defensive lines. Thirteen penalties
for Miami. We are not great. Too many penalties. You
got to clean that up. If you're Mario Cristobal. Florida
State now has two acc losses. They fall to three
and two, and they're gonna have a very, very difficult
path in order to get to the a SEC title game.
Obviously they have to win the rest of their games
to have any hope. But again, the path to the
a SEC title game is gonna be brutally tough because
you got at Miami, you got Georgia Tech, you got Louisville,
you got Virginia who's playing great, uh and you again
you lose the tie record both Virginia and Miami. Now,
so I think it's gonna be a long road to
hoe if you're the Seminoles to find a way to
an ACC title game, I don't know if they have
any playoff aspirations if they can't get to the least
the a CEC title game. Even if they were to
go ten to two, I'm not sure there's enough good
wins on that schedule left. Remember, you get you're gonna
have a you know, not a lot of big Clemson's
the next big one on the schedule. From a from
a uh, you know, potential name recognitions perspective, you gotta
have Clemson keep winning. But this ACC is not gonna
be great the rest of the way with their schedule
in front of them. For Florista, so crippling crippling loss
from Mike Norvell and the Seminoles. They host Pittsburgh on Saturday.
Obviously it's a game you have to win. But again,
just not enough stoutness in the offensive and defensive lines
for the Seminoles. Castellano was a little little sporadic in
his performance in the first three quarters on Saturday night
in Tallasta. But again, give this Miami team all the credit.
Beck was very composed, played really well. They didn't they
didn't beat themselves. The defenses we know, we've we've commented
week in week out about the improvement of this Miami defense.
Those do two defensive line linemen for for Miami potential
all Americans, Bain and Mesador. They've got some goods. They
got a lot of team speed. The secondary has much improved.
So again, a great opportunity for the Hurricanes. There's not
a reason in the world the Hurricanes should not be
in the a CC title game at I mean, they're
gonna be favored in every game. They played Louisville, not
this Friday, but next Friday. So they've got about about
a twelve day uh you know, preparation period, basically a
half bye week or basically a bye week leading into
the Louisville game. They're gonna be heavy favorites in every
game they play this year. Ever, they don't play Clemson,
don't play Georgia Tech. So the path to the ACC
Title game in the College Football Playoff is staring right
in the face. And unless they have an epic collapse,
they're going They're gonna be goin to going to the
College Football Playoff in my view. So again, great performance
there to move to five and zero for the Hurricanes,
and Florida State moves to three and two hosting pitt
on Saturday in Tallahassee. Friday night in Tampa, USF goes
to four and one, handles Charlotte fifty four to twenty six,
Byron Brown leading ball carriers seventeen carries, one to sixty
two in a touchdown, four passing touchdowns as well six
hundred and thirty yards of offense four hundred yards are rushing. Again,
the game was never really in doubt. I don't like
that Byron Brown was still in the game so late
in the game when the game was wrapped up. And
I also don't like that Byron Brown as your leading
rusher at seventeen carries and one hundred and sixty yards.
You got to keep this guy, you know, for the
next six weeks, six eight weeks. You gotta keep this
guy healthy, and that just every time he takes a hit,
you worry if he's gonna get up. I mean, he's
a big guy, but just all the hits accumulate, and
I really wonder if they got to figure out a
way to get some of this running back, some more
carries and take some less of the pounding off of
Byron Brown. They have a tricky game on this Friday
night at in Denton, Texas against North Texas, who's also
five and zero dead even game in the points spread department.
I think North Texas like a one point favorite. But again,
you gotta win this game of USF. You're a good team.
The defense continues to play pretty well. Give Charlotte credit,
they hung around a little bit, but again, Florida USF
was clearly the better team against Charlotte. You gotta go
on the road to Denton. You're then you're then gonna
have to go on the road to Memphis here in
about three weeks, and then you're gonna have to go
on the road to Navy in mid mid November. So
if you want to get to the college football Playoff,
it's right there in front of you to do it.
You got three great opportunities on the road to do it.
So we'll be tough to win all three of those
road games. But again, if you can get to the
AAC title game at ten and two at worst, and
you can get to the title game and win the
title game, I think got a great shot with your
win over Florida. Again, you need Florida to keep winning
some games as well to help your cause as well.
So but again, nice performance by USF taking care of business.
Moved to four and one heading to North Texas on Friday,
UCF falls to three and two and to two and
Big twelve play. They lose a tough one to Kansas
in Orlando on Saturday night, twenty seven to twenty. Miles
Montgomery rushed twenty two times for one ten and two scores,
didn't throw the ball much. Kind of a back and
forth games or UCF had the early lead, given Jay
Jalen Daniels credit for Kansas for authoring the comeback. They
end up winning that game twenty seven to twenty. They
are at Cincinnati on Saturday, which will be a very
tough test for them because Cincinnati's playing really well. They
just beat Iowa State last weekend and up on the
road at Cincinnati will not be easy for Scott Frost.
But uc F falls to three and two, oh to
two in the Big Twelve. FIU falls to two and three.
They lose fifty one ten at Yukon Jim Morin in
the Yukon Huskies, a loud three hundred and seventy seven
yards passing five turnovers was the death nail for the
for the Panthers. Keat Owens ran sixteen times, sixty seven
yards in a touchdown. Keegan Davis led the defense with
two sacks for FIU. But again, you don't you don't
expect to go up there and lose fifty one to
ten to a decent Connecticut team, not a great Connecticut team.
So tough game there for the Panthers. Not the result
you're looking for. They will play, not they will not
play Saturday, but they'll play next Tuesday night at Western
Kentucky and the Hilltoppers. That game will be on TV
on Tuesday night. You'll start to see more Tuesdays and
Wednesday games here the next several weeks. So FIU will
be on the road at Western Kentucky on Tuesday, October
fourteenth against the Hilltime as they go to two and three.
Last one we'll hit on in the college world here.
FAU moves to two and three. Nice win twenty seven
to twenty one on the road at Rice. Caden Veldt
Camp twohundred ninety yards, three touchdown passes, Easton Messer the
wide receiver, eleven catches for one to ten. The Owls
were eight for fourteen on third down, which is very good.
Zach Kittling Kittley, excuse me. He gets a nice win
on the road conference game. Twenty fifth year of football
at FAU. They're celebrating throughout the year. They will be
home to my alma mater, Trent Doper and the UAB
Blazers come to Boca on the weekend for the UAB ballas.
Again another winnable game there as UAB struggling out the
gate in the conference again, a good opportunity for the
Owls to get to five hundred and get a second
conference win. Again. Caden Veldt Camp's done a nice job
at quarterback, has thrown some interceptions but he's piled up
a lot of yards and a lot of you know,
touchdown totals have been really good. Uh, we'll see how fau.
They will visit South Florida. I believe not this week
after the UAB game. I believe they come to Tampa
to face South Florida at Raymond James Stadium. So there's
your college update again. A a very good week for
the state of Florida. Four and three in the state.
Great nice wins by my eight, great win by Miami,
nice win by Florida. Uh, pressure off, a little bit
of a billion Aapier, But again, you gotta follow it up.
You gotta win the You gotta win a couple more
of these games, in my opinion, and it still may
not be enough for billion Napier. But again, if you
can play a complimentary football like they did on Saturday,
you'll have a great chance in the rest of these games. Again,
a murders row schedule, A and M Mississippi State, Tennessee,
Kentucky and not Kentucky, Georgia, Florida State, Ole miss You
still got a gaunt lit in front of you if
you're Billy Napier. But again, play well. If you play well,
You're You're as good as most of these teams in
this conference in my view. So big, big game in
College station for the Florida Gators and again the Seminoles
have to keep It's gonna be a you have to
flush it out, flush it. You can't let that loss
turning into a third loss if you're Florida State. To
have any hope of any major postseason opportunity, you got
to run the table there. If you're Florida State and
Miami just got to keep playing. Don't beat yourself. If
you don't beat yourself, Miami, nobody else is gonna beat
you that's left on that schedule in my view, and
you'll be a top one or two seed in the
college Football playoff here in a couple of months if
you're Mario christaball in that program. So great to see
the Hurricanes back on the top of the national national
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ten am Eastern Time. Quick NFL update. Bucks moved to
four and one, dramatic thirty eight to thirty five win
in Seattle. Baker Mayfield continues to be the cardiac kid
late in the game, his fourth come back in the
last minute, last two minutes of the game. They score late,
get a huge interception by Levante David against Sam Darnold.
Bucks moved to four and one. We'll host of San
Francisco forty nine Ers four to twenty five and Raymond
James on Sunday. How about the Jaguars with a dramatic
thirty one to twenty eight win over Kansas City on
Monday Night Football Trevor Lawrence kind of the broken play
where he fell down twice, got up and still scored
on the run late and in the last twenty five
to thirty seconds of that game. Jaguars also moved to
four and one in the AFC South then, and the
Colts are tied at the top of the South at
four and one again, the Jaguars will host the Seahawks,
who just played the Buccaneers on Sunday in Jacksonville. So
great job by Liam Cohen in that organization to get
back on track and become relevant. Move to four and one.
Miami Dolphins lose another one. They blew a huge lead
in Carolina. The Dolphins fall to one in four. A
lot of heat on Mike McDaniel. I know their bye
week is coming up here in another two or three weeks.
Wouldn't shock me if he gets let go with the
bye week if the losing continues. Apparently there was a
very hard conversation between McDaniel and the owner on Monday
following the loss. Again, they blew a huge lead in
Carolina to a not a very good Carolina Panther team.
Dolphins fall to one in four. The LA Chargers and
Hardball come to town to Miami on Sunday. There in
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