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Speaker 3: All Right, Welcome in Week two Florida Football Insiders Podcast.
Appreciate your finding us on your favorite podcast platform. What
a week for the state of Florida college football programs.
We had a rebirth of college football here in the
state of Florida, a return to the top of the
national chatter with the big wins by Florida State over Alabama,
the Miami win over Notre Dame on Sunday night, Florida
taking care of business. And then the weekend got started
with a USF beatdown of Boise State. So a tremendous
week here in the state of Florida. Here in the
college football world. We got the NFL starting up this
week with the with the Dolphins, the Bucks and Jaguars,
so we got lots to talk about here on the
Florida Football Insiders Podcast. Again, we're gonna do. We're gonna
give you a quick recap of the games last week,
and we're gonna preview next week's games. We got a
good guest for you, Mark Moses, host of the Mark
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up in Tallahassee down in Miami here in Tampa as well. Again,
I'm your host, Jason, So let's get right to it.
Let's start up in Tallahassee the upset of the week.
Nobody thought Florida State could win the game. I think
a lot of people thought Florida State would be competitive.
But Florida State emphatically beats the Alabama Cripson tied thirty
one seventeen. Thomas Castellanos backs up his talk during the
summer of Nick Saban ain't walking through that door and
takes care of business. Castellanos is was a absolute difference
maker for the Seminoles. Only had to throw the ball
fourteen times, he ran the ball sixteen times. Florida State
rushed for over two hundred thirty yards on the ground,
held out Alabama to under one hundred yards on the ground.
And again, for me, what I really liked to see
was two things. The physicality on the offensive a defensive
lines by Florida State. They were very physical. They were
clearly the more physical team in this game. And the
competitive spirit of Florida State, something you did not see
much of last year following during the two and ten season.
You saw competitiveness, You saw an edge, You saw a
grit about Florida State that you had not seen since
the twenty twenty three year. Remember, folks, Alabama took the
opening kickoff and went seven I think seventeen plays eight
and a half minutes, and shoved it in the end
zone on Florida State to make it seven to nothing.
This time last year would have been an easy scenario
of you would have seen Florida State kind of give
in there not respond, But that is not what the
twenty twenty five Seminoles did. They responded with a touchdown
drive and once that game got tied, the Florida State
dominance in the trenches became very apparent. Again. Uh credit
full credit to Mike Norvell in that staff. Remember Gus
Malzon new offensive coordinator, instilling a physical, tough running game.
Speaker 1: You had.
Speaker 3: Tony White is a new defensive coordinator. Again, I like
what I saw from Tony White with the pressures and
the ability to cover in the secondary. So again, just
a complete effort. They kicked the ball well, made the
field one field wall attempt, they punted the ball pretty well,
but again just in a spirit and a competitive edge
that you did not see much of in Tallahassee last
year was very apparent in this game. So again, great
start for Florida State. One to zero on the year.
They will play East Texas A and M this week
up in Tallahassee. Again, want to give a condolences to
the to Ethan Pritchard, who is a reserve linebacker who
was shot over the weekend on Sunday night up in
Talla right outside of Tallahassee, visiting his family. He's in stable, can.
We don't have a whole lot of updates on him yet.
He is, you know, sounds like he's gonna be okay,
but again, little bit of tragedy following the game. The
huge win in Tallahassee is something that that community, that
fan base needed desperately following the two and ten year
in twenty twenty four. So shout out to the Seminoles
for getting it done again. Off to a great start
and if you look at their schedule, there's an opportunity
here to have a big year in Tallahassee with who
they don't have to play with the games they have
in their building. So we will keep up with the
Seminoles as they move hopefully to two and zero this
week with East Texas A and M. All right, let's
head down to Gainesville. The Gators take care of business
fifty five, nothing over long, Island a result, we expect.
A couple of things that were impressive to me. One,
DJ Lagway was very efficient fifteen of eighteen through for
three touchdowns, Jade and Bad nine carries for one oh four.
You saw the spectacular catch by Vernell Brown during the game,
but again no messing around here with Long Island. Took
care of business, had a defensive touchdown I think the
second or third play of the game on a fumble return,
so a good job there. But again and also very
very good with minimal penalties. I don't even think they
committed a penalty in the game. But again, a great
start for Billy Napier. A game you should have won
when they did. They took care of business and left
no doubt that they were the better team. USF Bulls
come to town this week in a very interesting game.
A little interstate rivalry as well, so we will get
a better perspective of where Florida is at. But again,
a very good start for Billy Napier. This is kind
of the start of their gauntlet. USF Miami at I'm sorry.
They go to LSU next week, then they go to Miami,
and then they have Texas coming to the swamp. So
the next four or five weeks you will know a
lot about this Florida Gator team. But again a good
start by the Gators, winning fifty five to nothing. USF
Bulls go to Gainesville this week as well, which will
be an interesting game. Let's head down to Miami. The
Canes in the rekindling of the rivalry with Notre Dame.
Another great game twenty seven to twenty four win against
Miami against Notre Dame on Sunday night down in hard Rock.
Carter Davis the game winning forty seven yard field goal
late with about a minute to go. An impressive kick,
A tremendous kick by Davis, who had come in struggling
during his year last year at FAU, but he delivered
with two big field goals. They did have a boxed
field goal snap early in the game, but again Carson
Beck looked good. Twenty of thirty one twoh five and
two touchdowns, no turnovers. He looked very comfortable in that offense.
How about Malachai Tony, the freshman wide receiver, the little
slot receiver, big touchdown catch, a couple other big catches
in the game. He is definitely gonna be a weapon.
For them somebody they are gonna focus on. So again,
strong performance by the offensive a defensive lines. I liked
what I saw in the trenches there. We know Mario
Christabaal is known for his abilities to coach up the
offensive line. I thought they were really good in the
defensive improvements. I think we're very evident. Corey Heatherman comes
over from Minnesota as the new DC. They played really
well on defense, the defensive line with some pressures throughout
the game. They have two big recruits on They have
two big players on the defensive line, Bain and another
guy who played really well. But again I was impressed
with the defense. They weren't unbelievable, but they were good.
Like I told you on the podcast last week, they
don't have to be top ten in the nation good.
They've just got to be top thirty or thirty five
in the country good on defense if they can do that.
With what I saw on offense, with the balance of
the running game and the short passing attack, they did
throw the ball over the top of a couple of times,
which I liked. I think this Miami team has a
real opportunity to be a major thread in the ACC
now that Clemson lost. You don't have Clemson on the schedule,
you don't have Georgia Tech. You've got Florida and your
building in a couple of weeks. Then you got to
go to Tallahassee in early October. So I think it's
a great each start for Mario, kind of a signature
win for Mario as the coach here. I think there's
a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of confidence coming
out of South Florida after the twenty seven to twenty
four win. They played Bethune Cookman this week should be
a kind of a no brainer game for them. Again.
You want to be able to get a lot of
guys in the game, recover from this Notre Dame game,
take care of business against Bethune Cookman, and then you
got the Gators in a huge, huge game in two
weeks in the UH I'm sorry, in three weeks in
hard rock leading into the ACC Conference schedule. So great
start for Miami twenty seven to twenty four win over
Notre Dame and again Mark Moses will expound on his
thoughts a little bit more about the about where the
Canes are. Here are just a few minutes usf they
start out the Labor Day weekend with an emphatic thirty
four to seven win over Boise. Byron Brown throws for
two to ten runs for forty three runs for two touchdowns.
That's the Byron b we all anticipated seeing, and the
improving on defense was evident as well. Todd Orlando another
year with that defensive scheme. They looked more organized, they
looked more disciplined. They didn't miss a lot of tackles,
which was good. So I like that. The one thing
I did not like in this game. I know Alex
Golis has been is an aggressive coach. I did not
like his I thought he was a little reckless early
in the game going forward on his own thirty seven,
did not convert. That led to the only boys he
touchdown of the game. Your defense was playing well. I
didn't like that he went forward on his own thirty
seven and didn't convert. That's the one thing that could
get him in trouble here. As we moved through the schedule, Member,
they go to Florida this week, then they go to
Miami next week. They go to Miami next week. So again,
you can't be reckless. I know you want to be
aggressive on fourth down, but you can't be reckless in
your own territory like he was. I didn't like that.
But again, an emphatic win for Alex Golis, his biggest
win for me as the head coach so far. US
year three. More depth, more skill players. Again, if they
can be competitive in the trenches on the offensive and
defensive lines, they'll have an opportunity to be competitive at
Miami and at Florida. They go to Gainesville this week
to see the Gators in DJ Lagway, so that will
be a big test for the USF Bulls. If again,
if USF can can somehow split between the Miami and
the Florida game go one and one, I think they'll
have a great chance in the American Conference and they
could be a darling in the Non as far as
a playoff bid from the non Power four. So again,
good start. USF goes to one to zero. They do
go to the swamp this week, all right. UCF gets
off to Scott Frost two point zero. ERA off to
a seven with a win seventeen to ten struggle against
Jacksonville State on Thursday night. Tavin Jackson, the Indiana transfer quarterback,
comes in the game. Can't I remember Camp answer. The
FAU transfer starts the game, but Tavan Jackson comes in
the game throws for two to eighty two and two touchdowns.
He's probably gonna be the starting quarterback, I would guess
moving forward. They do play North Carolina A and T again.
This is probably gonna be a transition year, rebuild year
in Orlando with UCF. But again they win the game
seventeen to ten. They have North Carolina A and T
coming to town this week before they before Bill Belichick
and the crew comes to town later in the year,
and the big twelfth schedule gets going. So again one
to zero start for UCF Scott Frost game. They needed
to win for their confidence and to get that program
back in. They're going to the right direction and maybe
they found a quarterback in Tavan Jackson after his performance
last week FAU. They they head up to Maryland. They
lose thirty nine to seven to the Terrapins. Willie Taggert
and company start off the year zero to one. The
highlight of this game, it's not necessarily highlight. The low
light would be Belcamp, the quarterback, the transfer quarterback who
they like through Foreig interceptions. Easton Messer was a bright
Spot fifteen catches for eighty seven yards. Uh the slot
receiver for FAU. But again FAU starts out oh to one.
They host fam You, Florida A and m UH in
week two, so game they probably should win, but again
FAU starts off, oh to one. You got to keep
the turnovers down and all that kind of good stuff.
They will they will see FIU here in a couple
of weeks, but uh, FAU starts out oh to one,
fam You coming up this week. Last one we want
to highlight is FIU. FIU starts off their their their
their season. Forty two to nine win over Bethune Cookman
Keon Owens eleven carries, seventy one yards and two touchdowns
is the highlight offensively for the for the FIU and
the Panthers. Uh. The they again they start off the year,
good start. They head up to see up to Happy
Valley this week to see the number two rank Penn
State and Nitney Lyons, Franklin, Drew Aller in company. Will
be a tough task for Willie Simmons and the crew
heading up to FIU, but again good start for FIU.
Forty two to nine win. They'll get a nice payday
when they go to Penn State, but again it will
be a very tough task heading up to Happy Valley
to see Penn State this week there as well. So
there's your recap again. We're gonna talk to Mark Moses
here in just a minute give his thoughts on the
Florida State, Miami, Florida, Central Florida USF, give his thoughts
on where he sees those programs after week one. Again,
the theme of the week for me is rebirth. A
fantastic week for the state of Florida college teams getting
back on the national map with the big wins by
Florida State and Miami and Florida doing what they need
to do in USF taking care of b so great start.
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Speaker 3: All right, welcome back Florida Football Insiders podcast again.
Speaker 1: We had a great week in the state of Florida.
Speaker 3: The Florida teams have put themselves back on the map
in the national discussion playoff perspective. The huge win by
Florida State, big win by Miami. UCF gets off the
schnide with it with a close game win in Scott
Frost's returned to Orlando. The Gators take care of business
and the USF Bulls with a huge win on Thursday
night against Boys in Tampa. We're gonna break that down
a little bit further. No better person to do that
than Mark Moses, host of the Mark Moses Show. He
he covers the state of Florida college football inside and out,
very close to the Florida program, covers my I mean
Florida State as well on his Mark Moses Show, which
which you can listen to on demand every day of
the week on the Mark Moses Show.
Speaker 1: Welcome in, mister Moses.
Speaker 4: You keep saying my name like I'm Beatlejuice or I'm
the candy Man, like I'm gonna appear in your home
if you say it three times.
Speaker 1: In a row.
Speaker 5: Dude, it was a fun weekend.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 4: I was a little exhausted by last night where I'm like,
all right, I'm good.
Speaker 5: I don't need to sit through this.
Speaker 3: North Carolina DC Belichick gets a wake up call to
the college world.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, you're not kidding around. I mean, it was a
great weekend.
Speaker 4: And my number one takeaway, and I want your thoughts
on this, My number one takeaway is we live in
a new world.
Speaker 5: Forget nil transfer portal.
Speaker 4: The playoff is now this idea of all right, in
the olden times when you had the college Football Playoff BCS,
you lose a game, you're out seasons over now with.
Speaker 5: Ohio State where they won the title, ash, you're with
two losses.
Speaker 4: Yep, hey, like if you're Notre Dame, all right, we
lost by three on the road, and we just we
didn't start. We didn't start well, but we finished well
and we only lost my field goal. Notre Dame's not done.
I don't think BAM was completely done. I think this
is the new one. All right, you lose, fine, season's
not over. It's a long han. That's how we look
at it, Jason, where this is the new world. You
could lose two or three games and you're okay moving forward.
Speaker 5: You could still make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I agree.
Speaker 3: I mean two threes pushing it two. You can lose
two and be okay. The third ones then you get
in some debate of who you beat and how'd you
play when you lost and all that stuff. But no doubt,
I think Miami Notre Dame is a great example of that.
I think either one of those teams, you're lose in
a close game, you don't get blown out. I think
I think both those teams are still in great shape.
Let's start there with Miami. On Sunday Night in Hard Rock,
how impressed were you that Carson Beck looked like Carson
Beck from twenty twenty three as opposed to Carson back
twenty twenty four with all the intercepts to me, he
looked very comfortable and as impressive. How about the improvement
with that Miami defense. They weren't fantastic, but they were
much improved.
Speaker 5: Look, they won the game. You know this. They lose
that game the last couple of years with Miro Chris.
Speaker 4: That feels like it's his first big signature win as
a coach on national TV.
Speaker 5: But here's what's funny again. Okay, you're Notre Dame.
Speaker 4: You're on the road, and that is one of the
most hostile environments you can be in. It's a pro
type fan base where everyone's especially Labor Day weekend, no
one's working.
Speaker 5: People have been tailgating. They're ready to kill Notre Dame.
But what's interesting again? All right, your Notre Dame. We're
on the road.
Speaker 4: We at a true freshman quarterback who was pretty much
in high school last year.
Speaker 5: We did two turnovers, We coughed it up twice.
Speaker 4: Okay, Miami before half, the guy has to make this
Odell Beckham junior type catch for the score, and then
we still almost won the football game. It was tied
twenty four to twenty four. I thought beck was good.
He's not. He's not cam Ward. No he's not, but
he played well. He made the plays when he had to.
But Notre Dame still could have won the game. But
I'm gonna give credit to Miami. They won the football
game when they had to make a drive late in
the game. They went down the field and they hit
the field goal to get the w. I'll give him
all the credit in the world. But right now, do
I think Miami's good enough to win the ACC?
Speaker 5: I have to see it.
Speaker 4: They still remember last year they were nine and oh,
nine and oh and then shot themselves in the foot
where they had no defense. Defense played well for about
forty minutes, and then they started to fall apart late
in that game. What happens when they take on what
happens when they take on Florida in a couple of weeks.
With that way, what's that matchup going to be?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: I'm happy for Miami.
Speaker 4: I don't know everyone's doing this now, but it's a
good win.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's a great win.
Speaker 4: I think they got it done, but I have to
see him in a couple of weeks how they're gonna play.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: I thought Miami looked good in the trenches, the offensive
and defensive lines were good.
Speaker 1: Again to me, that will be a key here.
Speaker 3: And if you're Miami, I hate to say this, you
could afford to lose the Florida game and still be
like back to your point, you could. I mean, you
don't want to lose the Florida game, but you could
afford to lose it. No Clemson, no Georgia Tech on
the schedule. You do have a trip to Tallahassee in
early October, which now looks to be a much more
you know, vaunting task is to.
Speaker 1: Have to go up there to win a game.
Speaker 3: But again, like you mentioned, good start for Mario, but
you got to you gotta keep building on it. You
can't slip up. They like to slip on the banana
peel once in a while too, right.
Speaker 4: Did you notice also during the game was every player
in Miami for the transfer portal. It felt like any
time someone made a play Jason transfer portal guy. This
guy played here, who's actually on the team from last year?
Speaker 1: Well, the one guy, Malik Tony, he's a freshman. He
was a good he's a good little player.
Speaker 4: Right, oh yeah, he was fantastic in this football game.
I remember in the broadcast they were saying, Oh, we're
not sure if he'll be part of the game plan.
Speaker 1: Oh he was.
Speaker 4: He's like he was like Tyreek Hill. That guy is
a He has a chance to be great for the
Miami Hurricane.
Speaker 1: No doubt.
Speaker 3: All right, let's head up to Tallahassee again. The stunner
of the weekend in my opinion nationwide was Florida State
beating Alabama outright in the way they beat him. They
physically dominated them. After that first drive by Alabama where
they went eight and a half minutes scored, Florida State responded,
they didn't quit, which they did last year on many
occasions that team quit. They were they were together, they
were physical, they were competitive, and that time and Tommy
Castelano's kind of remind you of Nick Marshall back at
Auburn with Gus Mauzon, maybe a little Jordan Travis with
his camaraderie within the team.
Speaker 1: Give me a thought or two about the FSU Alabama game.
Speaker 4: You and me talked about this on TV all off season,
where there's so many question marks of this team coming
off two and ten, and then you bring in Gus
Malsan and then it's like, all right, so who's the
coach is it Mike Norvell is agus Malsan And it
was interesting. There was there was no buzz around the
whole state during fall camp because it was completely shut down.
No one saw video, no one saw nothing. So going
to this game, remember Alabama was a thirteen point favorite
going into this poinked eighth in the country, everyone picked Bama.
The only one who picked Florida State was Lee Corso
because that's his school, right from his hard No, what
I don't I don't want to hear this from any
Florida State fan. Oh I knew this was gonna come. No,
you didn't, No, And I, dude, I don't know about you.
Yesterday on Labor Day, I'm driving around and I actually
saw Florida State flags on cars yea for the first time,
for the first time since December of twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5: Right, like, oh, that's right. We have a football team
that was a big win.
Speaker 4: And they showed video where those Bama players on defense
they gave up on plays, multi like, what the hell
is going?
Speaker 5: You've seen?
Speaker 4: The best I canna describe it is Nick Saban has
lost football games, but they always put up an effort.
Speaker 5: Right, there were still efforts.
Speaker 4: And now in the last ten games of Kaylin de bor,
I think he's five and five, Like what at least
see what's funny is it was a one possession game
in the fourth quarter and then Gus mal Zan said,
I'm going back to my Auburn bread and butter. We're
gonna run the football, and they ran it right down
their throat, down their throat.
Speaker 3: Jason, when's the last time you've seen this stat with
an Alabama defense? Castellanos had more rushing attent sixteen than
he did pass attempts fourteen for the game.
Speaker 1: How about that? And they won?
Speaker 4: Dude, I saw him play at UCF and then he's
at Boston College. It's his third team. So you can't
be like, oh, we don't have tape on this guy.
He's played for multiple teams multiple My question is, Okay,
if you're a Florida State fan, you should be excited.
Gus Malsan knows how to beat Bama. That's why he
was put on this earth. Now moving forward, you're not
gonna like sneak up on anyone. And is this offensive scheme?
Is this going to work weekend and week out when
you take on tape now they have tape on you. Now,
is this gonna work moving forward? And you know what,
you're in the ACC with a lot.
Speaker 5: Of trash teams. Maybe it does. I mean you brought
it up earlier.
Speaker 3: Uh what is it?
Speaker 5: Florida State versus Miami.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a hell of a matchup over Yeah, so
you went into that game fire, Mike Norvell.
Speaker 5: You leave the game fire, Kaylin de Bor. That's what's
so interesting with this. But look, Bama, Okay, they lose, Bama,
give them.
Speaker 4: They're gonna play some cupcakes and let's see what they
look like in a couple weeks.
Speaker 5: But that was it. That might have been the worst
loss of the weekend was by the Alabama Crimson time.
Speaker 3: And like the way they lost, the effort level was
not great. I don't think their quarterback is any better
than average Ty Simpson. To me, he's just average at best.
I think that's gonna be an issue for them moving forward.
You know, is it more of an Was this more
of a Florida State earned the winner?
Speaker 1: Are you more disappointed how Alabama played?
Speaker 4: It still makes no sense of Florida State. So they
win ten games, then they come back to win thirteen games.
Then they win two games, and now they destroyed Bama.
What what are you talking about? I don't I'll be
interesting to see moving forward. What's the betting lines with
Florida State? And would you touch it if you're a
gangling man?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I again, it's one game. It's a big win. Now
let's see what they do moving forward. But at least
at least they have a pulse again, exactly.
Speaker 1: There's some enthusiasm in Tallahassee. There's some hope for sure,
for sure. All right, let's go down to Gainesville. They
played me, you and nine other eyes from Long Island.
Speaker 4: I know, man, but won, but they won big. You
know this, everyone watching knows this. Last couple of years,
I'd say six seven years or so, they play a cupcake,
they win twenty eight ten, you know, thirty one, seventeen.
This is the first time in a long time they
just stomped yeah, or destroyed him. And there was a
point that game where all right, the first score, scoop
and score on defense.
Speaker 5: They're up. Then I think Boss scores.
Speaker 4: Then it turns into this like weird kicking competition where
the Gators keep going for field goals and the crowd's like, hey,
we didn't sign up for field goal attack for scoring
and then DJ Lagway three straight scoring drives, three straight
touchdown passes and the game was over. Yeah, and man,
he he had some throws in that game. He is
the I know everyone hypes that quarterback at Texas, but
I'm telling you that quarterback.
Speaker 5: In Gainesville is the real deal. And it's gonna be
interesting moving forward where they're next four. And I want
to get your thoughts.
Speaker 4: So you got round the quarterback of South Florida coming
to the Swamp and they look great against Boise. Then
you're at LSU, who beat Clemson and I know people
are saying they should be number one in the country.
Then you go to Miami, then you take on Texas.
That's your next four. The Jacksonville Jaguars don't have that
type of schedule.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Florida can go three and one, they'll be top five
in the country. If they go four and oh, they'll
be top two in the country. After that four game stretch,
I think, all.
Speaker 4: Right, if you go three and one, Jason, who's your
one loss of those four?
Speaker 1: I think the LSU game is going to be extremely
tough to win. The game in LSU.
Speaker 3: I think I think they could beat Miami. I think
Texas coming to Gainesville that's a winnable game. And obviously
I think USF is a winnable game. I think the
LSU trip is going to be the one that's going
to be extremely difficult.
Speaker 4: And like I said at the top, hey just just
be competitive for four quarters. Just hey, if you lose
by a touchdown late, fine, just don't be Alabama.
Speaker 5: Don't look like how Alabama looked.
Speaker 4: And I think you're if you go three, If you
go three and one, I will take that. If the
Gators go nine and three, they're in the playoff. During
the playoff, I don't care unless.
Speaker 1: They lose the Mississippi Standards somebody like that.
Speaker 3: If they go nine and three with three really good losses,
I'm with you. You can absolutely make the argument they're
going to be in the playoff. Talk to a quick little,
quick little preview USF Florida this weekend. What are the
what does USF especially have to do to potentially get.
Speaker 1: This game to the fourth quarter to pull it upset.
Speaker 4: You got to get pressure on Lagway, you gotta play deep,
You've got to hit him a couple of times. You
got to stop the run. I mean this, you gotta
make Florida look Vanilla.
Speaker 1: One dimension.
Speaker 4: You got one dimensional and then get them to the
fourth quarter. And then and you know the Gators, you
know they have tape on brown Now where they're gonna
they're gonna stack that box.
Speaker 5: I think, all right, you're gonna beat us with our legs.
Let's find out.
Speaker 4: It's one thing being at home against Boise, it's another
thing under the lights being there at the Swamp.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm excited for the game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love I'm excited to see what happens because
that's a big win for South Florida.
Speaker 5: We will find out coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: And remember you were there, probably there a couple of
years ago. Florida.
Speaker 3: USF had Florida beat in the Swamp a couple of
years ago and botched it in the fourth quarter. A
couple turnovers, mitskick, but they had them beat. So to
be interesting to USF will not be scared to go
into that building because that'll be a packed house. A
lot of USF fans will come up. Florida fans will
be there with the excitement. I think this is a
game Florida should win, but a game that could be
tricky if you get to the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: I think the Gators also for the first time since
twenty twenty. Sorry, I forget what year it is after
a while, Yeah, let's couple so twenty twenty when they
had Cayle Trask and they should have made the playoffs.
And that was a dangerous offense with multiple first round
you know, tight end wide receiver they got drafted. This
wide receiving corps is scary. You saw the catch by Brown.
I know Miami had a similar catch. You know, Brown's
Odell Beckham type catch as well. They are dangerous a
wide receiver and they have a quarterback and get that ball.
That's why it's gonna be interesting moving forward.
Speaker 1: No doubt then.
Speaker 3: And they can They got good running backs too, they
can run the ball as well. So yeah, so again,
a lot of a lot of excitement and Gamesville, Tallahassee.
Last place we want to hit on was come down
here to Tampa where I'm at. USF kicked off the
weekend with an emphatic win against Boise. Most people thought
Boise would be a decent game, but they thumped Boise again.
No gent we know for Boise, but boy, Byron Brown
re established himself as a as a legit quarterback with
his legs. You know, I worry about Florida's USF's ability
to throw the ball consistently. That's the one area why
I think Byron Brown's got to keep improving. Give me
a thought about just the emphatic win by USF over Boise.
Speaker 4: It was such a shocker on opening night because remember
Boise made the playoff last year. Now look lose the
Heisman runner up? What and genty goes to the Raiders.
But you're thinking, all right, Boise's been competitive their top
twenty five.
Speaker 5: They were ranked the twenty five point of the game.
Speaker 4: Okay, I know there are a lot of Boise State
fans there and early looked like a football game.
Speaker 5: They got punch right in the mouth and.
Speaker 4: The whole country saw that, the whole country. It was
wild that they got that win. But you look at
the start of the season where again, all right, you
had Boise ranked they have to go to Florida.
Speaker 5: Then I think you you go to Miami.
Speaker 1: Ye go to Miami.
Speaker 4: The next two weeks a lot of people are saying, oh,
the probably start zero to three, and then they go
to the American Conference. They'll probably win eight wins, you know,
and they'll probably go eight and four. Hey, that performance
was so good, you know, maybe they're in these games
against Florida Miami. If you look, if you could go
one and two or I somehow miraculously go two and one, yes,
then maybe you can win the American Conference.
Speaker 5: Yes, what are your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Man? I'm with you again.
Speaker 3: If they could somehow split Florida in Miami, they would
be the clear cut favorite in the American And that's
and if you could go ten and two with a
win over Florida or Miami and Boise, you could be
that power. You could be that twelfth seed that nons
pow er four entrance into the playoff. Serious playoff consideration.
If you can go ten and two and win the
American you.
Speaker 4: Know, it's funny trivia question. Okay, the group of five?
Where did they get into the playoff? Remember they were
the fourth seed, I believe because Boise what does take?
And the twelfth seed was the ACC champ here Clemson
with three losses. That's what turned out. That's why it's fascinating.
The committee said, oh the hell with the conference champion.
Speaker 1: Right, they've changed that format a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, because all four of them lost last year
as the Pies.
Speaker 1: What four right, no doubt?
Speaker 3: What do you One thing I will bring up that
I didn't like Alex Golish. I know he's an aggressive coach.
He got away with it last week, but you can't
be reckless. He went forward on his own thirty eight
yard line early in the game when his defense was
playing good, didn't make it and that led to Boys's
only touchdown. You cannot be that reckless this week in
Gainesville or next week in Miami moving forward against really
good teams. I know your coaches want to be aggressive,
but you can't be reckless.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, and that shows you the respect they
had for Boise, meaning they had none. They knew it
the trenches we could even though it didn't convert. Hey,
we're gonna set the tone. We're gonna go for that.
You can't do that at the swamp, No way, they'll
eat you alive. You've got to play smart. See it's hard.
Can't put yourself in those situations and you can't make
them mistakes.
Speaker 5: You've got to play perfect football if you're gonna beat
the Gators this week.
Speaker 1: Alright, last thought, I'll get you out of here.
Speaker 3: Give me a thought UCF Scott Frost two point zero returns.
They struggled but got through the Jacksonville State game win
seventeen ten. I know you know that program very well.
Give me a thought or two about how you think, Scott.
This is probably gonna be a transition year, I would
think as far as Scott Frost re establishing the culture
and all that good stuff, Give me a thought or
two about Scott Frost coming back to Orlando.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm just excited hopefully moving forward. We don't
have a two hour and ten minute lightning delay.
Speaker 5: I was amazed.
Speaker 4: So the South Florida game, no delays. We're fine, right,
and then in Orlando again non stop raining and lightning.
Speaker 5: That game kicked off at seven, did not finish.
Speaker 4: Till twelve fifteen in the morning, and it was a
football game where they scored late to win.
Speaker 5: What was it, seventeen ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're still not sure who the starting quarterback is.
It's fascinating. Yesterday Frost at his presser did not name someone. Right,
they know what they're gonna do. This is a complete rebuild.
This is one of those things. Hey, if they can
get to a bowl game, you will take that for
year one of Scott Frost. Kind of like the first
time in twenty sixteen, what he did was a six
and six get to a ball game.
Speaker 5: He said, it is presser. Hey, we're not going twelve
to zero. We're not.
Speaker 4: And you saw that game. They struggled at home against
a lesser opponent in Jacksonville State.
Speaker 5: If they would have.
Speaker 4: Taken on a real team, if any other team in
the big twelve TCU Iowa State, they would have gotten
killed in that game. They're fortunate they took on that
they have, like I don't know, Adjason, Powers A and
T coming to town. Right then then they have Bill Belichick. Hey,
maybe they could win that game. Now ten seven, it's
gonna be a long re build. They got to figure
out the quarterback position. But I'm happy he's back there.
I am, And I think the biggest question you saw
Gus Malls on why couldn't he do that at UCF.
Why what's going on here? Why couldn't we play that
way when he was the coach here in the last
couple of years.
Speaker 5: That's my question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. All right, Mark Moses promotes
the show a little bit.
Speaker 3: I know, tell everybody where they can find you on
Twitter and where the show can be found at all.
Speaker 4: Right, just just search Mark Moses's show, all right, you
will find it anywhere you know, Apple Podcasts, YouTube. I'm
big on Facebook with people forty five to seventy five.
Speaker 5: That's a big, okay it is.
Speaker 4: I have thousands of followers on there, so Jason, yeah,
it's gonna be fun. I just want to say good
luck on the football season, buddy. This is gonna be
fun till February.
Speaker 1: I started out five and one of my picks man
five and one. Last week was the one.
Speaker 5: What was the one you missed on Arch I took.
Speaker 1: I took Texas and Manning two in Ohio state.
Speaker 3: But I called but I called LSU outright, I called
Miami outright. Had FSU had the under in the USF game.
And I had a little teaser with South Carolina Nebraska.
So I had a good week.
Speaker 4: And look it was fourteen to seven. They got stopped
at the goal line.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's weird.
Speaker 4: I told somebody Dad, if Quinton Ewers would start, I
think Texas wins that game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's ever and Sark did not have
his best moment play calling on Saturday in Columbus. I
didn't think either. All right, last thing I'll get you
out of. Give me a quick thought on your We
talked a little NFL on this show too, with the
Florida teams. Give me a quick thought on your Bears.
Speaker 1: You excited about Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams. What do you
think about your Bears?
Speaker 5: You were talking South Florida schedule?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 4: They start Monday night football against Minnesota, then they go
to Detroit, then they have Dallas the four to fifteen game.
Speaker 5: Just that's the first three weeks of the season. It's sane.
Speaker 4: If they look one, he'd love two and one two one,
lose to Detroit and beat Dallas and Minnesota at home.
Speaker 5: I'll take that if that's what's.
Speaker 1: Go You like, you like Ben Jonty, like where they're going.
Speaker 5: Well, I have to say he has to win a
football game.
Speaker 4: It's like it's like arch Manning, win a game before
we give him the Heisman.
Speaker 5: Let's see him like complete some passes.
Speaker 1: Dank Marcos, I thought you were gonna I thought you
were gonna be over the moon. Man. I thought you
were gonna be predicting fourteen and three man, Chicago guy.
Speaker 4: If we get the seventh seed and go to the playoffs,
I will take that. We have not won a playoff
game since twenty ten. Yeah, it's not Miami Dolphins bad,
but like, hey, hey that's almost you know, it's almost
at sweet sixteen. You know, Kinsingira bar mitzvah. It's been
a long time, buddy, we won.
Speaker 1: It is all right, Mark Moses, have a great rest
of the football season.
Speaker 3: We'll have you on frequently during the during the on
the PO podcast here as we move through the season.
Have a great week and we will see everybody next
time on the Florida Football Insiders Podcast.
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