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Speaker 1: All Right, welcome in Florida Football Insider's podcast, a Little
Hurricane Milton Edition. We are recording this Tuesday night. We
are bound to get you a podcast this week, so
earlier than than normally a Wednesday nighter, but we're gonna
get this out for you on Wednesday morning. So without
further ado, We're gonna not gonna have a recap because
the guy I'm gonna talk to, We're gonna recap last
week's games. Talk a little history, talk a little drama,
little hurricane stuff with my guy. TJ. Reeves, host of
the Big Twelve, Big Twelve Game Day Show on Saturdays
on tune in.
Speaker 3: Yep, you know, with.
Speaker 1: UCF, part of the Big Twelve. He's also the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers radio sideline reporter. Don't know how he's gonna
get to New Orleans yet. Is he getting to New
Orleans yet? All that still do be determined. You know,
the Buccaneers are in New Orleans prepping for the game
on Sunday with the Saints. Welcome in my friend.
Speaker 3: Hey, listen, it's always good to be with you sports
right now, our secondary we understand that. So you and
I are doing this obviously with Hurricane Milton bearing down
on the state of Florida, somewhere on the state of Florida,
and you know, we're kind of in the mode right
now where we want to be safe and you're not
rooting for this to do anything to anybody else, but
you're almost relieved that it looks like it's not going
to be a direct hit, at least to the northern
part of Tampa Bay. We'll see this thing could change
Wednesday into Wednesday night when it makes landfall. Everybody be safe,
be smart, evacuate if they have to evacuate. We're still
doing this at a time where people can still evacuate
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saying it, because the cliche is come hell or high water,
come Hurricane Milton and high water. We're gonna bring you
the Florida Football Insiders podcast, my friend. So I'm here
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Speaker 1: Hopefully if you guys, some of you guys may be
listening later in the week with a generator on. We
appreciate the listening podcast platform. We appreciate it. Give you
a little levity and a little relief. I know, yes,
a lot of people are gonna be going through some
tough times in the next several days here in the
state of Florida. So hopefully we can provide a little
relief and a little insight for you. As we lead
into the weekend, We're gonna recap last week. We got
some wild games in the state of Florida last week.
So let's get right to it, mister Reeves, all right,
First of all, tell the audience tune in Radio on Saturdays,
Correct with the pregame show Big.
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on tune In. They do a five day a week
morning show that is live in the morning and also replays.
They also play live broadcasts of the schools and their
games a Game of the week format. I host the
Saturday Morning preview, the three hour Saturday Morning Preview, So
we're going to be previewing everything that goes on in
the Big Twelve. Think has happened for UCF in Cincinnati,
And we'll get into this with all the games. Is
that game being played Saturday afternoons? It moved to Saturday night?
You and I don't know that right now on Tuesday,
depending on what goes on with Hurricane Milton, but that
becomes an enormous game for UCF off the back to
back losses. If they have any hope of salvaging the
Big Twelve season here, they got to bow their back
and beat Cincinnati. So again, I love I do a
lot of different things, a lot of different places, but
I love previewing the Big Twelve every Saturday in this
relationship with tune in. And it's a fascinating conference because
just when you thought it was going to be Utah
and Oklahoma State and then everybody else, Oklahoma State now
has three consecutive losses to start the Big Twelve season,
and Utah took a loss to Arizona. So I don't
think it's wrong to say that between Arizona, Utah, Iowa
State BYU there's sixteen teams in this conference. Out of
those four or five teams, it's wide open. Jason. Right now,
you've got a.
Speaker 1: Massive game Colorado Colorado Kansas State. Yes, Colorado's back in
the mix now be the winner.
Speaker 3: Of that game is clearly in the mix. So can
Coach Prime's team stand prosperity. When last we saw them,
speaking of Orlando, they bashed the UCF Knights in the
second half of that game. And now I have've had a
week off. Kansas State, when last we saw them ripped
Oklahoma State, They've had a week off. This is a
late night game Saturday night, so that will be fascinating
as well because the winner again is very relevant at
the top of the Big twelve.
Speaker 1: Before we get into the Florida teams, a quick thought
the carnage last week, a week we didn't think was
going to be a very good week on the calendar
schedule wise, turned out to be an unbelievable week, with
Alabama falling at Vanderbilt, Arkansas beating Tennessee the drum. I mean,
we had some drama the wild finish, which we're gonna
get into at Miami and Cal. Just give me a
thought or two about last week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was crazy and it was looking like had
Cal hung on if if that the whole top ten
was going to be jumbled with all the different upsets.
It's the first time in over forty years the two
SEC teams both lose in the top five, top five
teams to an unranked team on the same Saturday. I
still hadn't figured out days later how Vanderbilt did all
that to Alabama, especially outscoring them offensively, and then Arkansas
was the opposite. It was more like suffocate, suffocate, Tennessee,
play defense, low scoring game and they win. And that's
some backdrop for the Tennessee Florida game. But you're right,
I mean, this thing is shades of two thousand and seven.
Remember nobody could stand prosperity up at the top in
two thousand and seven, and that is the year that
we ended up having a two loss LSU play a
two loss Ohio State for the BCS National Title game,
a game that I was at the BCS Title game
in the Superdome that seven year. Remember, had usf get
all the way up to the number two spot and
lose Boston College, West Virginia. They all got up to
the number two spot and everybody kept losing as the
number two team, when you only needed to be number
one or number two to go to it. I don't
know that we're to that extent yet, but it is
a crazy time right now in college football.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Berkeley Saturday night, late night,
ten thirty start. I know you were asleep probably when
this game ended.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Yes, it didn't end.
Speaker 1: Till almost two o'clock in the morning, if not a
little bit after.
Speaker 3: Most of the country that was in the Eastern time
zone probably gave up on this with calri by twenty
five points in the second half, only to wake up
Sunday and go, what minute, What a job, What a
job by Miami Mario Christobaul's team and cam Ward, the
transfer quarterback, cool under pressure as they ripped off three
touchdowns in the final nine minutes and are now very relevant. Jason,
the Canes are very relevant for the ACC title and
the College Football Playoff with that comeback.
Speaker 1: And you wonder, is this one of those years where
a team of destiny Miami got to break the week
before with the replay overturn against Virginia Tech. They come
back from twenty down with nine minutes to go, even
when the referees call a bogus, unsportsmanlike foul against Miami
on the last drive that pushed them back another fifteen
yards that they had to overcome that you had a
close It ended up being the right call where linemen
were close to being downfield on the winning touchdown, But
it was the right.
Speaker 3: Call, right, non call right? They were actually blocking guys,
so they're allowed to be downfield right. There was some
controversy on the internet camp stuff, but.
Speaker 1: Cam Ward was about a half a leg from being
over the line of script on a throw that led
to the five yard line first in goal.
Speaker 3: I mean, but still they looked like a team of destiny,
like you said. Now, I did not get to hear
your official take on Florida Football Insiders here or the
Powers on Sports podcast and do a great job with these.
Did you agree with the overturn on the Virginia Tech
play when they called on the field touchdown. Did you
believe there was enough on that replay to overturn it
and cost Miami the perfect season because that's the last
play of the game. I called it the fail Mary two,
the sequel to the bad Seahawks Packers ending with the
replacement refs on Monday Night Football. That was fail Mary
one where they got it wrong here. I thought they
got it right on the field and replay got it wrong.
What did you think it was?
Speaker 1: It was close, man, I mean, there's absolutely an argument
to be made. Whatever they called on the field could
not be conclusively overturned. We talked to coach Levitt last week,
Jim Levitt, and I asked him, I said, would you
have been taking off in handcuffs if they had overturn that?
And he goes yup, they've been going to jail if
they'd overturned that against me.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: But I and I made this comment to coach lev
two and I know that this will never be admitted,
never be talked about. But with eight, with Miami being
the clear cut favorite in the ACCU, did the acc
Conference figure out a way to overturn that call to
keep Miami the national Championships?
Speaker 3: I don't. I don't think it's a factor in that room. No.
But but as long as they took they took forever
to overrule that you give fuel to the conspiracy theorist
on exactly what you're talking about, that there are tens
of millions of dollars at stake in the College Football
Playoff and if Miami takes the l there, it greatly
damages the AC case outside of the ACC Championship game
and the automatic bid. So it's really Miami and Clemson
and what they don't play. They don't play in the
regular season, and the Canes don't play this weekend, and
then Miami has an interesting couple of games at Louisville
and then the rivalry game at home at the end
of the month with Florida State. Although Florida State is
a hot mess. Florida State is a dumpster fire right now.
But still, I mean, the Canes have a couple of
land mines coming up. But the fascinating thing is, Jason,
they don't play Clemson in the regular season here, so
we'll see if they can get to the finish line unbeaten.
Speaker 1: And again give Mario christapall credit, this will been a
game he'd have lost the last couple of years. They
would not have figured out a way to win this game.
And you know, cam Ward clearly is the difference in
Miami with the quarterback play.
Speaker 3: The thing they don't is he in the Heisman conversation
right now? Cam Ward, Oh, absolutely, he's one. He's probably
one or two in the country. I think for the Heisman,
probably him and Travis Hunter. Today is probably one two
in the in the Heisman Trophy. Racing my view through
through six weeks, it's early. Dors Sanders has to be
in the conversation somewhere. Probably not top two. Jalen Milroe
at Alabama. I know they lost last week, but but
I mean they still are going to have a bunch
of big games and a chance to get back in it.
But other than that, today maybe talking cam, you're talking
Travis Hunter. I don't know. We'll see for the highest.
Speaker 1: Miami, probably from Boise State, the running.
Speaker 3: Ashton Genty is his name. Who did I did? I
see the stats that they looked back at Derrick Henry
mark Ingram and there was another running back that's recently
won the Heisman, And they looked at their first six games,
and in all six of their games, I'm just gonna
do this off the top of my head, none of
them had more than six hundred yards rushing and none
of them had more than like six touchdowns. Derek Henry
had six touchdowns, mark Ingram had like five through six games.
Through six games, Ashton genty has eleven hundred yards and
like twelve or thirteen touchdowns are righty, it's crazy what
the numbers are. You can talk about level of competition.
He belongs in the conversation right now, at least at
Boise State.
Speaker 1: We'll saying they're in the hunt for the twelfth spot
for the for the non.
Speaker 3: Pat the automatic group of five right right on the
highest ranked team. So we'll see on that.
Speaker 1: And here's a note for our football fans and state
of Florida, Tampa Bay Buccaneer fans. The offensive coordinator at
Boise State, one former Buccaneer head coach, Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 3: How about that?
Speaker 1: How about it? It is interesting a former Boise State
head coach back, that's correct, lives out there. They coached
them out of retirement to be the OEC.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's it's fascinating where they are. They are
working on the group of five thing, and we're eventually
going to work our way to Memphis and USF and
how that might could factor in for the Group of
five for Memphis and the American Conference. But yeah, it's
something to keep an eye on right now that there
is going to be one automatic qualifier for the College
Football Playoff. It's the highest rank of those teams that
are not in the Power for conferences.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Florida State. One in five.
Clemson beats them pretty good. Interesting if you're a if
you're a betting person, a late field goal by Clemson
to cover the number just so happened. They take a
field goal like a minute and a half left in
the game to cover the number. But boy, just give
me a thought or two about what a disasters year
up in town.
Speaker 3: The thing that I was struck by is that game
should have been a thirty point game, and Florida State
was very fortunate that Clemson was kicking field goals. They
couldn't convert a third down a couple of times the
red zone, Florida State blocked the field goal, and it's
like Clemson was almost just toying with them in the
fourth quarter and had the game won. As the debo
revenge Tours coming back around, and I really don't know
what to make of it. I mean, they're not going
to fire Mike Norvel, but I mean they owe him
sixty million dollars after giving him a new deal. What
are these presidents and boards and boosters doing agreeing to
these deals over and over again. Where to get rid
of a coach, you've got to pay them forty to
fifty sixty million dollars. How do we not get one
of those deals? Jason Powers? So they're not getting rid
of Norvel, But this this season unraveled so quickly with
his stubbornness, and he's even saying on the record that
when Dju the quarterback is healthy, they're going to go
back to him. What I mean, why do you say
that right now? I don't understand that. With as bad
as that offense is, how much he's regressed as a quarterback.
How do you give your team any hope when you're
talking about you can say, well, when he's healthy, we'll
evaluate it week to week on how he looks in
practice and how the games look. How do you declare,
as he did earlier this week, that when Dju's healthy,
he's going to be our guy. It just it's strange
with Norvell, right.
Speaker 1: And it'll be interesting to see if his philosophy of
how he assembles his roster moving forward too much portal.
In my opinion, you got to recruit high school kids
and supplement it a little bit of spot here and
there with the portal. You cannot live and die in
the portal.
Speaker 3: Every year, and that's what Dabos Sweeney wants to prove
right now because he doesn't have transfers and he wants
to demonstrate to everybody you can win at the highest
level without having to go into the transfer portal. In
his case, it's extreme at all, but certainly not as
deep as Florida State did. And they've got a group
of talented individuals that aren't playing well as a team
obviously at this point.
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to Gainesville. Impressive win by the Gators over UCF on
Saturday night. Again, now what they had control of the game.
Speaker 3: I'm laughing because three weeks ago we were writing the
obituary for Billy Napier. They win at Mississippi State. Who's awful.
They take a week off, and a lot of people
were pointing to this game, a game where for much
of the week on the points spread lines on all
of the different betting outlets, UCF was favored in Gainesville
and Florida really dominated the game. I mean, final score
maybe not as indicative of Again here we go. They
were three or four touchdowns better in that game than UCF.
Just better talent on defense for sure kJ Jefferson has regressed.
Obviously this ties back into UCF. Billy Napier needed that
desperately because now he's going into this stretch. What is
it again, Tennessee, Georgia and no particular where Texas is involved,
Old miss is involved. It is a it is a
monster end of the season where how many wins are
there for Florida starting in Knoxville this coming Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Give me a story on this rivalry Knoxville, I mean Florida, Tennessee.
How was is a storied rivalry in the SEC over
the years. Spurrier and hellh yeah for Spurrier and Manning,
urban Meyer and company. Oh yeah, give me a little
story about fin so.
Speaker 3: So nostalgia for you. This is thirty years ago. Now,
my god, am I that old? I am the five
day a week sports radio host in Tampa Bay, which
is a massive Florida Gator town. At that time. Remember USF,
South Florida is not even playing football yet to a
few years later they have a football program. So it
was primarily Florida, Florida State in Miami conversation all the
time in the college football season, and I had seen
what Tennessee had done to Florida previously in Knoxville, and
Florida was rolling in with Steve Spurrier and company, Danny
warfolin company in the nineteen ninety four game in Knoxville.
And I remember over and over again fighting with Florida fans.
I think this is Tennessee. I think this is Tennessee outright,
the equalizer at home and you and I went back
and double checked, and look, Jack Jackson returned the opening
kickoff almost for a touchdown. Danny Warfol lit Tennessee up.
That was Todd Hilton as the Tennessee quarterback, eventually replaced
in that game by some guy named Peyton Manning as
a freshman. Late in the game, Tennessee donut did not score.
And I still remember this for those that are that
are watching and hearing this, that remember the famous Tampa
Bay sportscasters of the early early days nineteen seventies, eighties,
early nineties, Andy Hardy was the famous Channel thirteen local
sportscaster in Tampa Bay. Had had the slicked back hair
and the whole thing. Andy Hardy was the was the
was the guy on Channel thirteen week nights at six
and eleven. All Right, I remember the day after that
game was a Buccaneer home game. And again, I'm a
five day week sports radio host, and it wasn't well
known what I looked like. You knew what I sounded
like on the radio, but it wasn't well known what
I looked like because I wasn't on TV. This is
back thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: Young good looking man for Planting School.
Speaker 3: So the plant High grad is walking up to Andy
Hardy who's standing there smiling at me, and I said, Andy,
I'm TJ Reeves. He goes, I know who you are.
He goes, You're gonna have a rough one on Monday
with the Gator fans. That's what he said to me
on the Sunday. That's the first time I met Andy
Hardy is He's like, you're gonna have a rough one
with the Gator fans. I said, you're absolutely right. He goes,
I heard you all week and he goes, none of
it turned out to people right. So it's very true.
That's thirty years ago. And by the way, the Gators
in that stretch owned Peyton Manning. He never beat them.
By the way, the Gator fan famous phrases you couldn't
spell Citrus Bowl without ut for Tennessee and Peyton Manning.
So they ridiculed him. They beat him over and over
again with Tennessee. So there's it's interesting in this rivalry
because Urban Meyer had a ton of success against Tennessee.
But as of late, the Balls, you know, have had
some success with Jeremy Pruitt, even before he disgraced himself
and now Josh Hipel in this series. This is at Knoxville.
This is Tennessee angry off the loss. Again, Napier's team
got their act together. So do I say it again,
I'm fearful of how they look in Knoxville. Thirty years later,
I'm saying the same thing about Florida and Knoxville.
Speaker 1: Jason and I also want to give a shout out
to our guy Vince Ferrara. If you're at Tennessee coverage,
go to ninety nine point one the Sports Animal and Knoxville.
Google that our guy Vince Ferra is the morning show
host there does a stuff pregame and post games Tampa.
Speaker 3: Brother from another mother, Vince up there in Knoxville. And
again for the Balls, this is a high wire act. Yeah,
this is a high wire act for the SEC title game.
They've already lost a game now and they haven't even
gotten into the mix with Georgia and some of the
rest of their schedule Alabama later in the year. So
this is they gotta have this Saturday night in primetime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's go to Memphis and USF.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, yeah, Memphis and USF.
Speaker 1: Right, So quick update. The game has been moved from
Friday to Saturday already.
Speaker 3: We hope, we think. We think it's Saturday. We think
it's Saturday at three third eight. We know it's not
Friday night. It was to have been an ESPN standalone game,
but right now it is part of their onslaught of
games on Saturday afternoon, and that is to be determined.
It has not been announced officially yet, and that is
because of Hurricane Milton, and we don't know what's gonna happen, Jason,
And the biggest key about this is, let's say there
is a southward turn of the hurricane, as we played
meteorologists on Florida Football Insiders here on the pod. But
there is still the need for Tampa Police, Hillsboro County Sheriffs,
the EMS, the fire to go elsewhere and help how
do you staff a game at Raymond James Stadium on
Friday night or Saturday when you don't have enough police
for traffic control, for safety in the stadium, you don't
have enough EMS personnel for safety in the stadium, etc.
It takes several hundred people to staff a game like
this at Raymond James Stadium. So that's why it's fluid.
It's fluid as to whether or not they're going to
play Jason Saturday afternoon. So at the time we're taping this,
they hope to play Saturday afternoon. Maybe it's Saturday night,
and dare we say it's maybe Sunday. And there is
precedent for that. Two years ago with Hurricane Ian as
it came ashore in southwest Florida, we didn't know. They
didn't know in Gainesville if this wasn't gonna hit and
come right through Gainesville. So they postponed their Saturday game
with Eastern Washington and out of conference Payday game and
played Sunday afternoon two years ago in late September. So
it's not unheard of that the game could be Sunday.
Saying it's Sunday, we're saying stay tuned and it's a
huge game for Memphis trying to stay alive in the
American Athletic Conference because they already have a loss. They
took a loss to Navy. They can't take a second loss.
With Army and Navy both undefeated up at the top,
Tulane looking very good at the top as well. Memphis
doesn't play Army later in the year. They do play
Tulane at Tulama. It's a big game for Memphis, for
my alma mater when they come to town. Whenever this
game is gonna be played.
Speaker 1: Give me a thought or two about just the last
two to three weeks for USP. A lot of hype
going into the Miami game. They played them well for
a half, got blown out in the second half, and
then completely laid an egg on the road at Tulane.
Speaker 3: Yeahulaane, Tulane smoked them, and then Tulane turned around and
smoked Alabama, Birmingham UAB. So Tulane appears to be good.
You were at that Miami game. How much did it
take out of them the second half, the fourth quarter?
And I know the quarterback Byron Brown is also injured.
Now it's debatable as to whether he can play in
this Memphis game. But do you believe that Miami game
took a lot out of us F real quick?
Speaker 1: I do. Emotionally, I think as much physically. I think
emotionally it did because I think I think there was
a real path in theory if they could have beaten Miami,
you know, and they played them well for a half.
You beat Miami, you beat Tulane, you beat Memphis, all
of a sudden, you got a real shot here in
the in the AAC. But what I was just really
disappointed how bad they played at Tulane, and Tulane's been
good the last several years.
Speaker 3: They were never in it. They were down, they were
down what thirty one nothing in the second quarter, and
never in it. So now USF schedule a little more
favorable here after this Memphis game. If they somehow could
win this, if if they play UAB at home, who's
a mess under former Buccaneer quarterback Trent Dilferd, then you're
at FAU. Now that's a revenge game from FAU beating
them badly with Tom Herman's team and running the score
up on them. Remember Herman kicked an onside kick in
Tampa last year up by thirty five points in the
second half, and I don't think they've forgotten that on
Foller Avenue at USF. But then the problem for the
Bulls is then they have Navy here at home as well.
I mean, there's a lot of land mines and they
have the one loss already in American Conference play, and
this will not be easy. Memphis can throw the football
with Seth Hennegan and that warpspeeds. The Bulls better be
ready to score some points and outscore Memphis comes Saturday
or Sunday or whenever they play this.
Speaker 1: Jason, Yeah, there's a lot. There was a lot of
excitement three weeks ago. Now there's a big, a big
needle in the balloon that just took the air out
of that program. The last reason we got to see
we got to see them recover and rebound to get back,
because you don't want this to turn into a five
to six game losing streak because of a Miami game.
Speaker 3: So well, right, and if Brown the quarterback is hurt,
I mean they have a couple of other weapons. But uh,
I mean Alex Goldish was a hot name at the
beginning of the year, and now you've taken some losses
and I don't know how hot a name he is
right now at the moment. And let's see, Well, I mean,
what kind of crowd is there for the Memphis game,
depending on when it's played. Uh, stay tuned, stay tuned
on that.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned FAU. FAU play Saturday, North Texas. We
won't get into that much, but they're home against North Texas.
FIU is playing. We're recording this Tuesday night. They're playing
right now, and it's seventeen sixteen. They're down one point
at Liberty, so they're playing one of the Tuesday night games.
They're down seventeen sixteen at Liberty, which Liberty is four notes.
So that's a good start for a good first half
for FYU Mike McIntyre, So keep that up. But they're
playing right now Tuesday night.
Speaker 3: Right, you'll know that result as the week goes on.
And again, you know, we gotta remain vigilant here because
you're mentioning about FAU and their game or UCF and
their game. What's this hurricane gonna do once it makes
landfall in Florida, Hawes that affect any other football it
might be going on the state as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, listen to TJ Reeves Florida Football Insiders podcast.
He's sidelight. He'll be in New Orleans Sunday with the
Buccaneers and the Saints. He also hosts the Big twelve
Game Day pregame show on Saturday mornings nine to twelve
Eastern Time on two. You can get on the tune
in that for free and listen to that if you're
looking for anything Big Twelve related. TJ does a great
job putting together coaches, interviews, analysts, all kind of stuff.
Thank you, give me a Give me a thought about
a guy who got out of the state of four
In the Big Twelve. Roco Beck takes his all undefeated
Iowa state team up to West Virginia where his dad
is getting inducted into the Westerrnginia Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3: What bet, What a weekend love. The Beck family have
known the Becks for the better part of twenty years,
ever since Roco was born. He's a Tampa's Tampa. How
did he get out of our area? I'm sorry, Mike Norvel,
was it recruiting rock O becked? How about Alex Goldish?
How about Jeff Scott? Before that?
Speaker 1: How would they not Jeff.
Speaker 3: How were they not recruiting Roco becked at Wiregrass Ranch
High School in the Tampa Bay area and Rocco now
distinguishing himself in his red shirt sophomore year at at
Iowa State as a dual threat. Again, this is one
of the marquee games right now, with Iowa State undefeated
and a chance to win in Morgantown. And Anthony's got
to be conflicted. I mean, he is all about WVU
most of the time, but this is his son. This
is his son rolling into Morgantown. And they did the
Hall of Fame induction two weeks ago, but Anthony couldn't
be there because he was at Rocko's game. Now they're
gonna honor him at halftime as part of the Hall
of Fame class as a former All Big Eiaes tight end,
a former number one pick in the NFL Draft. What
a story this is. If Iowa State can get to
six and oh and a West Virginia team that blasted
Oklahoma State last week on the road fastenning game. Our
buddy Timmy b Tim Brando, and Devin Gardner are working
the game on Fox. I'm fascinated to watch that one.
Saturday night as well.
Speaker 1: And again this is a monster weekend for golege football.
Got you got Texas, Oklahoma, Yeah, I'm in Oregon, Ohio State.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: And the Iowa State game is a big game. Colorado
Kansas State's a really good game. You got Penn State
at USC, big game, So you got at This is
a big weekend, a big slate of games.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, throughout a lot of Now, the thing is
a lot of jockeying for who's gonna beware. But just
like the Alabama loss to Vanderbilt all right in recent
years that may have croaked you for the college football
playoff with only four teams, it doesn't croak you now
to take a loss, right, So for whoever loses some
of those games that you were talking about, Oklahoma, Texas, Oregon,
Ohio State. If Penn State takes a loss at USC,
who took a loss last week to Minnesota, it doesn't
croak your season to take a loss here. It didn't
croak Tennessee either to lose at Arkansas. So stay tuned
because the playoff is what we're gonna remember more when
we get to December. And how do those teams over
those four weekends fair in the playoff is what we'll
remember more starting this year.
Speaker 1: All right, last thing, we'll get you down to do
a couple of NFL nuggets with the Florida teams. Obviously,
Miami wins in New England. They're on a bye week
this week. We don't know what the status of two
is coming out of the by probably won't play for
another couple of weeks, I would imagine at the earliest.
Jacksonville finally gets their first win, almost blows the fourteen
point lead in the fourth quarter against the Colts, but
they figure out a way to get it done. And
then your Buccaneers a wild game last Thursday night in Atlanta.
Give me a thought or two about the Buccaneers Atlanta game.
Speaker 3: There on the sidelines, I mean, they had that, should have,
could have, would have They had it three different times
at the end with the black field goal. Bucky Irving
gets the first down late in the game and the
clock's rolling, and then he fumbles right after that, gets
stripped on first down, and then they still get the
Levante David interception right after that and can't run the clockouts.
Speaker 1: So the missface mask kid offsetting penalty give.
Speaker 3: The Falcons credit but it should have never come down
to the last second field goal to put it in overtime,
much less the overtime TD And now they've had to
relocate to New Orleans with the threat of the hurricane,
practicing preparing all week in New Orleans for the game
in the Superdome. And we have found out late word
that Derek Carr's injury on Monday Night Football right is
going to be a significant injury. Correct.
Speaker 1: The reports are he's gonna be out multiple weeks. So
you're probably gonna see Jake Ayner, the second year kid
out of Fresno State, Wow, who played a little bit
last night on the Monday night game. You'll see him
play most likely.
Speaker 3: But Buccaneer fans, what do we keep saying about first
time starters and rookie quarterbacks. We saw it with we
saw it with bow Knicks. It's whatever bugaboo voodoo juju
there is with first time quarterbacks or rookie quarterbacks. So
that's gonna be in the super Dome, and I'm I'm
fascinated to see because this is now a very winnable game.
Can Antwine winfield come back? We'll know that answer later
this week. He's been hurt the last four games he's missed.
They miss him badly.
Speaker 1: Nancy coming back.
Speaker 3: Maybe so if the Bucks get a little healthier here,
this could be advantage Buccaneers in the super Dome to
get back on the winning track and get to four
and two.
Speaker 1: And I'll give our fans a little baseball nugget about
a kid from the state of Florida. Pete Alonso, the
first baseman for the Mets.
Speaker 3: High School plan high school baby.
Speaker 1: And he in a home run on Tuesday night early
in the Phillies Mets game in Game three in New
York tonight.
Speaker 3: So love it you cover all here Peter Alonzo playing
high school along with Wade Boggs and me and fascinating
Aaron Murray, the former.
Speaker 1: Georgian Williams, the wide receiver from usc is a plant
high school.
Speaker 3: Love it cover it all on Florida Football Insiders. It's
gonna be a wild weekend. Everybody be safe with Hurricane
Milton as it comes ashore. We don't know what kind
of damage we hope. We hope that it's not severe
wherever it is, obviously, and then what happens with USF
and Memphis, UCF and Cincinnati stay tuned, stay tuned later
in the week.
Speaker 1: All right, check out. It's part of my other podcast,
I do Powers on Sports podcasts. I have a former
my buddy, Anthony Blevins, who's a former NFL assistant coach.
He's on the podcast if We Can Talk All Things NFL.
A lot of a lot of storylines NFL. TJ. You're
the host of the Last Ward on Sports part of
that podcast platform. I know you're doing Three Dog Thursday
as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, too many podcasts. Probably just follow me on social
media at Buck's Sideline Guy, b uc Bucks Sideline Guy,
and again the tune in Big twelve Game Day shows Saturday.
He's nine to noon Eastern time every Saturday previewing the
action as well. Can't wait to watch all of this unfold.
Everybody stay safe, Jason, stay safe, Everybody in the audience,
stay safe with the hurricane. Let's come out on the
other side. There's gonna be damage, there's gonna be floodwater.
Speaker 1: We understand your neighbors, Help your neighbors.
Speaker 3: If help the neighbors out and help those out that
don't have power, that don't have food, et cetera. Let's
get through this as best we can for the next
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there Sunday in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: You got it, one o'clock game right.
Speaker 3: Yes, sir? All right, God willing appreciate you.
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