Speaker 1: Well, well, well, welcome back to the Florida Football Insiders podcast,
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Jason down here in Tampa, we are here talking all
things State of Florida college football, and talk a little
NFL as well. We'll talk a little Bucks, Jags Dolphins
at the end of the podcast as well. But let's
get right to it. The Miami Hurricanes have done it
yet again. The ball was in their court, everything was
right in front of them. They had a manageable schedule,
very winnable games. But yet once again, Mario Cristal Ball
and the Miami Hurricanes have faltered again in November. They
fall twenty six twenty in Dallas against SMU, a terrible
penalty at the end of the game, a late hit
which leads to the SMU tying fuel goal to get
the game into overtime, and in overtime, the SMU runs
the ball down Miami's throat punches it in after Miami
throws an interception in overtime. So once again, the Canes
have now lost two acc games. They have taken a
major hit to their college football playoff hopes. Mario Cristobal
has a losing record in the month of November as
the head coach at Miami. Hard to believe. This is
just a devastating loss for this Miami program. When again
the tremendous wins at the beginning of the year, beating Florida,
beating Notre Dame. We thought that Notre Dame game would
have some weight in the college football playoff rankings. It
does not. They are ranked eighteenth in the playoff rankings.
Notre Dame is the ten seed as of the first
rankings release, which was on Tuesday night. So many people
thought that committee and many people thought me included that
that Miami win over Notre Dame, being that they both
have two losses, would weigh a little more prominent than
it did. But it did not. The Committee is obviously
telling the country that they do not think Miami is
head to head as good as Notre Dame, and it's hard,
it's hard to argue at this point to tear again,
the Louisville loss at home was not terrible on that
Friday night, but you cannot lose this game in Dallas
if you're if you're the Canes. Mario Carson Beck throws
a couple more picks. Again, Uh, just just just a
kind of game. Too many penalties, in opportune penalties and again, uh,
just not buttoned up if you're if you're Miami. So
a tough road to hoe here for the Canes. I
think the Canes. I think I saw a analytics breakdown
somewhere around a five percent chance to make the ACC
title game. The ACC had a terrible week last week,
with Georgia Tech losing, obviously Miami losing. It's probably going
to be a one bid league unless some more chaos
ensoes here in the month of November. So just a
terrible Saturday for if you're a Miami Hurricane fan, as
they now fall to six and two on the year,
and again at home against Syracuse. They're gonna be a
huge favorite at home, but again probably doesn't matter. They're
gonna need a lot of help here if you're Miami.
One to even have an opportunity for an ac ACC
title game appearance, and two, even more importantly, a college
football playoff, berth is in serious, serious jeopardy. So tough,
tough loss there for the Miami Hurricanes. All right, let's
go up to the cocktail party up in Jacksonville, Florida.
Florida Georgia, the renewing of the rivalry in Jacksonville on Saturday.
In a pretty competitive game, Florida falls to Georgia twenty
four to twenty. Florida falls to three and five member.
Billy Gonzales, the interim coach, give Florida credit. They played well.
They were up early in this game. The game was very,
very competitive if you are a point spread player, depending
on which side you had. If you had Florida plus
the seven and a half, you loved it. And if
you had Georgia mine seven seven and a half, you
hated it. When Gunner Stockton basically slides down at the
one yard line in the in the waning moments, would
have it would have been a walk in touchdown the
right football play. So give Stockton and in that coaching
staff credit for coaching them up correctly. That's the right
football play to do is to is to slide short
of the end zone to guarantee there's no chance Florida
gets the ball back. But if you were playing the
game against the number depending how if you had Florida
like I like I did, it was a good slide.
I loved it. If you had Georgia, Uh, that was
it was a freight a slide he didn't want to see.
So Florida, Florida falls twenty four to twenty Eugene Wilson
nine catches one twenty one in a touchdown. Uh. Again,
back to what Georgia has been all year. They've kind
of had been slow starters, have fallen behind, but once
again the resiliency and the fight of Georgia continues to
show itself. Uh. Georgia is uh soundly in the college
football playoff hunt. The Gators fall to three and five.
They will head to Kentucky this weekend to face the
Kentucky Wildcats, who went to Auburn last week and beat
Hugh Freeze in his last game at Auburn as he
was fired on Sunday. They went ten to three. But
again give give give the Gators a little bit of
credit here the spirit, they were competitive again, They've got
players have not heard much this. This coaching carousel is
going to be a fascinating dominoes here as we moved
through the month of November and December of where these
where these programs go again. You got LSU available, you
have Auburn, you have Florida, you have Penn State again.
You're gonna have some a couple more jobs, I am
sure here in the next three four weeks. So be
fascinating how these athletic directors, in these in these boosters
and these university presidents manage this coaching search here that's
coming up again. Obviously Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffin's name is
the name that all the Gator fans I am sure
would be at the number one on the list. You're
gonna hear names like Jeff Brom, Eli Drinkwitz. I think
Jeff Brom would be a terrific second or third option. Again,
we will see here if John Gruden's name gets mentioned
in the Florida search, if there's any momentum there on
that front here in the next couple of weeks. So
for me, those are the four names that you're gonna
hear potentially for that job. I don't think they're they're
going defense. I think they're going offense. I think they're
going established head coach. And I think with Brom, drink
Wits and potentially Gruden, those three names are names that
you could you definitely could sell to you to your
fan base and as well as from a player recruitment perspective,
have the opportunity to continue recruiting. So again, Florida falls
to three and five, twenty four to twenty losers in
Jacksonville to the Georgia Bulldogs. Let's go down to central floor.
Florida u CF and Orlando u CF falls in Waco
thirty to three to Baylor. They fall to four and
four on the year, one and four in the one
and four in the Big twelve. Again, like we've said
all year long, this is going to be a rebuilt.
This is a rebuilding year here in Orlando with Scott
Frost continue to you know, they've got to get this
roster up to date. You got to get the funding
and stuff back where it needs to be to be
competitive in the Big Twelve. Not much to say here.
They will host Houston on Friday in Orlando at the
Bounce House. So the UCF Knights fall to four and
four on the campaign at the bottom of the Big
Twelve standings there all right, Before we get to the
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Florida Football Insiders Podcast Centi, All right, let's get back
to the recaps. Florida State eight wins forty two to
seven against Wake Forest up in Tallahassee. They finally get
off the losing streak. Thamas Castellanos twelve sixteen to two
seventy one in a touchdown. He obviously came back from
the tough hit he took up in Stanford a couple
of weeks back over on the West Coast. Deuce Robinson
five catches, one and a touchdown again. You know, a
game they had to have again. You got to break
the losing streak again. You're you're probably you're better than
wake Forest. It's a it's a good job of emphatically
beating wake Forest. The Knoles are kind of just playing
out the string here. But if you're Mike Norvel, you
got to keep this team playing well here to finish
the year. You're going to Clemson this week again, both
these teams are coming in with losing records. One of
these two teams probably won't make a bowl game. Both
teams may not make a bowl game. How the wins
have changed again? Seven eight weeks ago, ten weeks ago,
we were thinking this game was going to be for
a potential two berths in the college football Playoff. We
would we were both many people thought Florida State after
the Alabama win and with preseason rankings with Clemson were
that this game was going to be for how to
would have a lot of uh uh, first of all
acc title ramifications and more as importantly playoff college football
playoff implications. And boy, these two programs have just continued
to slide. Clemson loses last week forty six forty five
to Duke Dabbo. Feeling a ton of heat up in Clemson,
And obviously we know Florida State is coming off of
a four game losing streak uh and and and a
lot of a lot of swirling around about Mike Norvell's
future still know Obviously Michael Alferd, the a D gave
the comment a couple of weeks back that there was
gonna be a full assessment at the end of the year.
About the program. So we will again, we don't, we don't.
We've not heard anything anything further out of the administration
in Tallahassee. This one's going to be a close call
here about Norvell's future. You know, you can make the
argument to keep them and you can also make the
argument to get rid of him and move on in
a different direction. Obviously, finances will be a major component here.
I think the number somewhere between forty and fifty million
dollars as far as a buyout goes. And again, Florida
State is not the most flush program in America with finances.
But we will see how this these last four weeks unfold,
These last month could have a big bearing on where
things go in the month of December and Tallahassee. All right, FIU,
They lose to Missouri State in a midweek game last week.
They lose twenty eight twenty one to Missouri State. They
fall to three and five with the Panthers. They will
head to Middle Tennessee this Saturday. Again they've been They've
been on that midweek circuit playing those midweek games the
last couple of weeks. Now they have basically a mini
buy heading to Middle Tennessee on Saturday. Keyon Jenkins continues
to lead this FIU Panther team on offense, but again
fall twenty eight to twenty one to Missouri State again
to go to three and five in Conference USA F AU.
They fall to three and they're coming off of a
bye week. Excuse me, they're three and five. They are
their last game. They lost Nate to Navy competitively forty
two thirty two. Coming off of bye, They're gonna be
home to Tulsa on Saturday in Boca ratone. The uh,
the Owls will will face the Tulsa Hurricanes in Boca
on Saturday. USF coming off of a bye They're they're
gonna be hosting on Thursday night. They are gonna be
hosting UTSA. ESPN will be here for the game. So
that will give Alex golshan company a little more uh
some national exposure uh for USF again coming off the
the Memphis loss the and I think that's gonna be
the situation where Alex Golish did not kick the field
goal in the fourth quarter. I think he's gonna rue
the day potentially that he didn't do that. Memphis continues
to win. Memphis is in the playoff in the first
playoff ranking, they are the group of five representative. Again,
lots of chaos still going on in the American with
Tulane losing, Navy losing. So you got a bunch of
teams with one loss in Memphis with no losses. Huge
game coming up from Memphis against Navy here in a
couple of weeks. But again, I think Alex, if this
season does not end in a playoff run, I think
Alex Golish is gonna you still gonna. You still got
an opportunity to get to the American Championship game. I
think that's what you got to reach. Obviously, you could
have a second opportunity at Memphis in the title game.
But if they if USF season does not finish like
they do, he will rue the day he didn't kick
the field goal up seven points early fourth quarter in
Memphis a couple of weeks back. So but again, you
gotta take care of business against ut s A. U
t s A is who knocked off Tulane last week.
So again you cannot play with your food here. You
gotta take care of business at home. You canna have
a national TV audience on Thursday night with ESPN in town.
You'll have ESPN on campus doing some Sports Center stuff
on Thursday as well. So again, if you're USF, you
gotta continue to take care of business, and you have to.
You have to get You're gonna have to go to
Navy next week, which is gonna be the probably the
game that determines if you get to the uh. These
next two weeks are gonna determine if you get to
the American Title Game. So you gotta take care of
business this week to make next week's game what it
what what you want it to be if you're USF
up there in Annapolis. So there's your recaps of your
of your height, of your Florida again, your Florida teams again.
Miami eighteenth in the college football rankings, which is not
a great great sign for the Hurricanes. They're gonna need
a lot of help to make a move. They don't
have much on their schedule left to be able to
improve their stock. They do have a late game at
Pittsburgh in late November, which could potentially help them a
little bit, but before that it's gonna be a lot
of Syracuses and some bad teams. So again it's a
terrible loss for Mario. They did. He continues to struggle
with those in his tenure as a head coach, both
in Oregon and now at Miami. Two years in a
row here at Miami, where Mario and the Canes have
just not been able to take care of business against
teams that they're clearly better than. So a little NFL
quick NFL update. The Bucks, coming off of a bye,
will face the New England Patriots, who are on fire
here in Raymond James Stadium on Sunday. That's probably gonna
be a Romo and Nance game on CBS. Again. This
would be a great a great measuring stick for both
these teams. Again, the Bucks trying to get healthy. Luke
Gettikey was not activated off of IR, but his window
to potentially come off of IR is open. We will
see if he becomes available later in the week. Bucky Irving,
Chris Godwin, we don't know yet what their statuses are.
But if you're the Buccaneers, this is a young and
up and coming team in New England. Drake May is
playing really well. Rabel and Company coming to town. This
is a team you should You should beat this team
at home in your building. I know that Patriots are good,
but this is a game you should win. Baker will
be much more healthy than he was two weeks ago
coming out of the New Orleans game. You'll get a
couple more guys back, potentially get get a keyback, potentially
get Bucky Irving back. But again, this is still a
game you can win. You should be able to take
care of business at home. I love the Bucks here
minus two and a half and go from there. So
big big interconference game here in Raymond James On Sunday
at one o'clock. Jaguars with a dramatic thirty to twenty
nine overtime win in Las Vegas over the weekend. Again,
the Jags slow start by both teams in the second
half was a wild second half. Trevor Lawrence two rushing touchdowns,
Brock Hours three touchdowns for the Raiders. Jaguars take the
ball down the field in overtime and score. The Raiders
take the ball down in overtime and score, and the
Raiders decided to go for two passes blocked batted down
at the line of scrimmage on the two point play
by the Jacksonville defensive line to get the win. Huge
win for Liam Cohene to move to five and three.
They will now go to Houston again, a big divisional game.
You can pretty much put Houston out of their misery
if you can win this game. We don't know the
status of CJ. Stroud, who was knocked out with a
concussion last week against Denver. We will see where he
is at. But again, big big game for the Jaguars.
Jaguars made a move at the trade deadline. They got
Jacoby Myers from the Raiders, who they just played over
the weekend for a mid round pick down the road.
So again big opportunity here for the Jaguars, who right
now are in the playoffs as the seventh seed in
the AFC at five and three. Dolphins lose last Thursday
night at home, not a very good formance to the
Baltimore Ravens. They lose twenty eight to six. Chris Grear,
the GM, was immediately fired after the game. He was fired,
I believe. On Friday, they traded Jalen Phillips, the defensive lineman,
to the Philadelphia Eagles. Surprise, they didn't trade potentially Jalen
Wattell or Bradley Chubb, but they did not. They did
not find an appropriate shuitor there and compensation wise, so
the Dolphins moved to two and seven. They again they
will host the Buffalo Bills, who came off the big
win over the Kansas City Chiefs over the weekend, and
again just gonna play out the string here in Miami.
Little to no chance Mike McDaniel returns, but Chris Greer
has been fired, has been let go, and the Dolphins
fall yet again in Miami host the Buffalo Division rival,
host the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, which will be a
heavy Buffalo Bills crowd in my opinion. They will you know,
obviously that building will not be full in hard rock,
be a lot of Buffalo Bill fans in the building
for a weekend in the sun as well. There. So
all right, there's your recap again. Appreciate you finding US
Florida Football Insiders podcast. No guests this week. Again, the
Miami loss was the headliner of the week, falling in
Dallas to SMU in overtime, Gator's valiant effort in Jacksonville
fall just short, and the Knoles with a nice win,
but again in USF. The other playoff storyline here is
USF gotta take care of business this week to set
up the big game in Annapolis next week, and we
will have that game fully covered for you next week
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