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us all right. Florida Football, State of Florida. Last week

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we had a couple We had an in state showdown

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Speaker 2: My I mean USF.

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Speaker 1: Florida State gets off the Matt finally with their first win.

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Florida stabilizes themselves a little bit with a nice sec

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road win at Mississippi State FIU Falls fau Falls, and

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then Central Florida was off last week preparing for a

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high profile game this coming Saturday with Dion and the

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Buffaloes come to town here and we'll get to that

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in just a second. Our guest this week is Matt

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Merchelle of The Orlando Sentinel. He's going to give us

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a nice preview of the Colorado UCF game. Big Fox,

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Big Big Fox or a Big New The pregame show

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for Fox is going to be there in Orlando on

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Saturday morning, three point thirty game on Fox Saturday afternoons.

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A lot of buzz in and around the Bounce House

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and the UCF campus for this game. Dion Sanders coming

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back to town, coming back to the state of Florida where

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he grew up down in the Fort Myers area. Obviously

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played at Florida State back in the day. So a

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lot of hype here around. And obviously Colorado coming off

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a dramatic victory last week against Baylor at home.

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Speaker 2: Hail Mary at.

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Speaker 1: The last play of regulation sends the game to overtime

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and then Travis Hunter forces a fumble in overtime to

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win the game to finish off the game for Colorado.

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we'll talk to Matt about UCF where they're at, their

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possibilities to potentially being a major factor here in the.

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Speaker 1: So you'll enjoy our chat with Matt Merchelle Orlando Sentinel

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here in just a couple of minutes. All right, it's

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give me a little recap of last week around the state. Obviously,

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we'll start with in here in Tampa, UCF USF excuse me,

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in Miami. Miami comes came in number seven ranked, and

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you saw the reason why cam Ward is perceived to

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be such a difference maker for the Hurricanes. Tremendous game

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for Ward. Twenty four thirty four for four hundred and

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four yards, three touchdowns, Isaiah Horton eight catches for one

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zero eight and a touchdown. Boy, they've got they've got

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a very well balanced off with Ward. You got Damian

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Speaker 2: Give South Florida credit.

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Speaker 1: The game was a game at the half, twenty two

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to fifteen at the half, and then Miami just blew

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USF out in the second half, outscoring twenty eight nothing

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to win fifty to fifteen. Again, you see the balance

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of Miami. You saw the defensively for Miami. There's there's

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still some room to grow there, but they're pretty decent

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on defense. But boy, that offense is electric. Cam Ward

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played really well. There were some opportunities for uc have

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to tackle him in space and they just weren't able

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to do it. Make with some sacks, things like that

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when he breaks contained. He is a major threat in

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the offense there. And you know, again give credit to Miami.

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Took care of business fifty to fifteen Byron Brown for USF.

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the son of Martin Gramatica, with two long field goals,

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including a fifty eight yarder. Said kicked two fifty yard

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field goals. He's a freshman. But a critical missed field

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goal at the end of the first half by USF

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really took some momentum away from USF heading into halftime.

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just especially on defense. UCF was laboring on defense to

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contain Miami and give give cam Ward Mario in the

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crew credit. They came into USF, came into Tampa, took

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Speaker 1: Was disappointed in the crowd at Raymond James Stadium, a

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lot of empty seats.

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excited about this game, more people in the stands. They

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were probably lacking you know, fifteen to eighteen thousand people.

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seven thousand range. There was probably forty thousand people there.

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this kind of high profile home game in your building

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in state, rival top ten rated team. Uh not not

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the best look for the USF football program and Alex Golish.

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they hung in there for a half and then second half.

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the third quarter with an injury, and then after that

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it was there was no there was zero chance of

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a comeback there. Once Byron Brown left the game, they

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weren't gonna win the game anyway, But the game could

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have been closer, and the score was probably not indicative

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of how dominant, how competitive the game was. But Miami

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was clearly the better team there. And there you have it,

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Miami number seven ranked again. It looked very impressive. They

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moved to four, and oh they have a home game

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game against Virginia.

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Speaker 2: Tech, who has struggled coming out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech lost your lost lost to Rutgers. Greg Chiano

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coach at Rutgers. So nice win for Rutgers. At Virginia Tech.

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they would play so far this year. But again a

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tricky game, quick turnaround Friday night at home against Virginia

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Tech in a rivalry game. A lot of history with

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Virginia Tech over the years. USF will have to go

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back on the road. They go to Tulane on Saturday,

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USF having to deal with potentially some storm issues here.

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Hurricane Helene is is rolling up the Gulf of Mexico.

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in town and we'll see if that there's any major

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effect on the preparation for USF. They will have to

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travel to New Orleans again. They should be able to

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get to New Orleans on Friday without any issues, but

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we will see. But USF two and two again critical

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stretching their schedule from the AAC perspective at TWU Lane

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home to Memphis the next two games. So again, if

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they can get through these two games Byron Brown back healthy,

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and you beat Memphis and you beat Tulane, you got

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a legit chance to win this AAC and potentially maybe

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be a group of five under consideration for the group

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of five birth in the college football playoff.

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Speaker 2: But you have to win. You have to pretty much.

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Speaker 1: You're probably gonna have to run the table if not

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one loss potentially left in their schedule here if you're

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gonna have any chance at a playoff Berth, but at

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twuo lane Memphis the next two weeks is gonna be critical.

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Speaker 2: Memphis did lose at.

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Speaker 1: To Navy last week, so some hope there and again

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that Navy team surprised, so again keep an eye on

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Navy as well. So a big stretch for USF here

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in the next three weeks. Up here for that, all right,

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let's go. Let's head that Starkville, stark Vegas. My guy

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Mike Gray spart heist country you at Florida goes into

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Mississippi State and beats them forty five twenty eight. Great

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day for Graham Merch nineteen to twenty one three touchdowns.

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DJ Lagway comes in with another seven for seven, so

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they basically go twenty six or twenty eight throwing the ball.

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Played really well in the passing game, offensively knocked Blake

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Shaping out of the game. The Mississippi State quarterback defense

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wasn't great at Florida, but again good enough to get

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the w. They moved to two and two going into

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a bye week, a much needed win for Billy Napier.

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bottom two teams in the SEC, there would have probably

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been there probably would have been a coaching change heading

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into the bye week. They don't lose, They win two

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to two again gives Billy a little reprieve for a

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bye week critical game coming up following the bye week

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home to UCF. He was a very viable opponent, so

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we will see how Florida handles the bye week.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 1: Encouraging to see Graham Merch play well. The passing game

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got going, you got your tight ends involved, you get

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the running game got moving a little bit. Still a

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little concerned with the defense giving up twenty eight points

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Mississippi State, but for what's been happening in Gainesville.

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Speaker 2: They will take it.

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Speaker 1: Heading into a bye week probably quiets down the quiets

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down the vultures.

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Speaker 2: A little bit there in Gainesville.

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Speaker 1: But again, you gotta beat you almost have to beat

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Central Florida, which will be a tough game for them.

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Speaker 2: So we will see what the Gators do. Following the

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bye week.

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Speaker 1: Florida State a very uninspiring fourteen to nine win over Cal.

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They finally get their first win of the year. They

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hold Cal out of the end zone late in the game.

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Cal was driving to win the game. Mike Norvell, you know,

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interesting coaching decision. I didn't love what he did here.

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early fourth quarter, they score to go up thirteen to nine.

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try to get the game to six. I don't understand.

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does you no good. Two field goals still beat you

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if you're up six, at least two field goals tie

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you or a touchdown and the miss extra point.

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Speaker 2: Taija. So I had no idea why Mike Norvel didn't.

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Speaker 1: Go for two up thirteen to nine, but he did

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he kicked the extra point to go fourteen to nine.

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Florida had Florida State had to hang on big plays

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by Cal to get the ball inside the twenty five

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yard line, a couple of big sacks at the end

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by the Florida State defense, and they hold on by

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the skin of their teeth and they beat CAL fourteen

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to nine to move to one and three first you know,

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get there for obviously first conference win one and two

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in the conference.

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Speaker 2: They now head to SMU.

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Speaker 1: Which now will be a very interesting, tricky game that

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Florida State.

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Speaker 2: It's like a five or six point underdog.

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Speaker 1: Rhett Lashley, the coach at say they beat TCU last

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week very emphatically. You saw you may have seen the

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footage of Dykes Sonny Dyke's getting ejected from the game.

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The coach at TCU got ejected from the game. He

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TCU gets ejected in the game. You probably saw that

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clip on your highlight package last week. But again, tough

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game is gonna be another tough game for Florida State.

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Speaker 2: They just cannot score.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, what the ongoing issues

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in the passing game. But again, this will be a

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tough game for Florida State because SMU can score. Lastly,

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a lot of points there. So we will see if

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Florida State can get off the mat and get win

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number two to get to two and three. All right,

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Remember we talked about UCF coming off of bye dramatic

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thirty five thirty four win two weeks ago against TCU.

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They got home to Colorado Saturday, and again we're gonna

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talk to Matt mirchelle here in just a couple of

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minutes about all that's.

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Speaker 2: So we'll pass, We'll go, we'll go.

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Speaker 1: You'll get a full preview of that game and all

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the things surrounding that game. FAU falls to one in three,

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lose forty eight to fourteen at Yukon. Not a great

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not a great loss there. Yukon is one of the

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worst teams in America in the for in division in

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Division one. Again, not a good loss to get pounded

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like they did.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: They host Wagner next week, so hopefully they can get

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off the the mat there and rebound here with a

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win over Wagner. But again, not a good loss there

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for FAU. The Owls one in three at Yukon gets smoked.

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Last one we'll hit on. Is FIU a very demoralizing

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loss at home to Monmouth, a FCS team. They lose

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forty five forty two in their building. That's just in

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that's just a loss you can't have if you're the Panthers.

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You know, you played competitively early in the year, but

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you can't lose at home to Monmouth and you can't

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give up forty five points to Monmouth. So just not

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a great loss there for Mike McIntyre and the Panthers.

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So we'll see if they can rebound their home this

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week to lat Tech in a conference game here. So

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we'll see how the Panthers respond after a tough loss,

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bad loss, borderline embarrassing loss to Monmouth last week. So

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there's your recap again. Florida Football Insiders Podcast appreciate you

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Speaker 2: Coming up here. Not the outside of Colorado and.

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state of Florida, but we will have some games for

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you next week as well. I know we got again

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UCF and Florida play next week, so we will see there.

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Speaker 2: Then obviously we will see the rest of the state.

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Speaker 1: So big doings at Miami. Keep up the good work

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down there. Top seven ranked in the country, a team

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to be you reckon with for sure. In the ACC

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they are clearly the best team in the state through

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five weeks, so we will see if that can continue

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Matt is the beat reporter for the UCF Nights covers

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all things Orlando sports, but right this time of the year,

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he is all in on the UCF Nights. Fox is

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coming to Central Florida this week for their big new

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pregame show as well.

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Speaker 2: So welcome in, Matt. How are you doing today. I

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know it's a busy week for you, A lot of

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stuff going on. You got Fox coming in. We've got a.

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Speaker 1: Storm brewing a little bit, so you guys probably have

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to deal with the potential rain issues with that here

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in the state of Florida and where I'm at as well.

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So give me a little sense through four weeks. UCF

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had a bye week last week. Give me a little

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sense through four weeks. The mood of the of the

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of the team big dramatic. Winning their first Big twelve

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opener a couple of weeks ago thirty five thirty four

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at TCU. A wild game there that I know you

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were at. Give me a little sense of where UCF

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it is through four weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think right now there's a lot

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of confidence. This team is riding high. You know. I

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think obviously the win at TCU was huge for them.

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Uh this was a game where they fell behind really early.

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Looked very similar to how kind of things went last

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year on the road. You know, felt like maybe they

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weren't going to be able to find a way to

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do it. They come back and rally from twenty one

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points down in the third quarter, a dramatic win at

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the last, you know, with about thirty six seconds left

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to play, you know, and that built you know, that

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kind of really kind of reiterated what this team had

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been working on all through fall camp. You know, Gus Malzan,

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the coach, talked about he wanted to stress this team,

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He wanted to put them through adversity. He wanted to

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make sure that when stuff got tough, when times got

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tough for them, they were able to stand up and really,

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you know, respond to that. And I think you saw

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that in that TCU game. You know, they didn't they

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didn't lie down, and you know, they were out there

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fighting to the very end. I think the thing that

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really impressed me the most about this team in that

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game was the fact that they didn't change their personality

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or the DNA of this team. They are a running

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team and R. J. Harvey is the guy who kind of,

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you know, sparks the engine, gets the engine going, and

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they've stuck with the running game, and I think that

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was one of the things that really kind of helped

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them continue on and find a way to battle back.

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So they get a big game this week against Colorado.

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There was already gonna be a lot of buzz attached

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to it. Now you get Fox putting it on at

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three thirty, you get the big new kickoff pregame show

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is going to be on campus for the first time ever.

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Lots of attention, lots of buzz, and really UCF feels

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like this is the time that they can really kind

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of seize the moment and show the country really what

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they're all about.

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Speaker 1: And you also have the dramatics of last week with

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Colorado went in the dramatic game last week with the

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Hail Mary at the end in overtime against who did

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they play Baylor?

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Speaker 2: Baylor?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, so yeah, I mean, and you got Dion

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coming back to the state of Florida where he grew

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up and went to high school and is obviously his

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fame at Florida State. So lots of stuff going on,

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give the audience a sense of what the Bounce House

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will be like. Very interesting home field advantage for for UCF,

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one of the more unique home.

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Speaker 4: Field advantages in the country. Yeah, very much so. It's

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sellout game was a seliud beforehand. I mean I've seen

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tickets on you know, secondary markets going as high as

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you know, eleven hundred and twelve hundred dollars depending on

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what you want to be at. They announced yesterday that

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they don't have any more recruit tickets available.

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Speaker 2: That's huge.

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Speaker 4: I mean, when you you don't even have room to

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get into recruits, then I think they're expecting someone like

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three hundred recruits to come in. We've been told the

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press box is going to be full. They may even

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have to move some of the NFL scouts around just

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to make room for those guys. So it is going

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to be a packed house. That's going to be an

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unbelievable atmosphere in that stadium. You know, when they get

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going and the students start jumping up and down and

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getting obviously the bounce House reputation, that place is just

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going to rock and roll. And I think it's going

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to be a unique atmosphere. You know, it's one in

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one of the things that I don't know if Colorado

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has really experienced yet. So to get this opportunity to

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come in, you know, have that, you know, the atmosphere

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that's going to be unbelievable, plus have all the national attention.

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I just think it's going to be an unbelievable only

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think I can really compare it to and this is

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just is very similar going back to twenty eighteen, you

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know when ESPN's College Game Day was on campus for

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the first time, they were doing a game between UCF

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and since then both those two teams were ranked. You know,

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that was an unbelievable atmosphere. That was a night game,

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and I think that was what was probably one of

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the better games. I think this game will probably just

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as much, if not better, based on what things are going.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Talk about kJ Jefferson. Obviously we know UF was gonna

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lean on the running game. I'm sure he is part

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of I know he is part of that running.

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Speaker 2: Attack with his big body.

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Speaker 1: Talk about him in the passing game and maybe his

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leadership in the program. He's only been there less than

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a year or so, right about, you know, six eight

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months to talk about kJ Jefferson's leadership and his influence

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on the offense.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, his leadership has been huge, you know,

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and kJ, to his own right as admitted, you know,

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I mean he's had some struggles early on. You know,

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I think some of that has to do a little

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bit with the new system, some of it has to

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do with you know, it was nerves early on. You know,

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but even in a game against TCU where he was

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a slow start, he was able to utilize his legs,

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you know, I mean he was he was able to

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take off and run kind of help you know, take

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another dimension to this offense, you know, and that kind

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of opened things up at the passing game. Once the

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passing game got going, you saw him step up. You know,

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there was a moment in the first half. He admitted

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to us after the game he had been injured. You know,

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he got hurt. You know, whether it's a you know,

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I think we've heard you know, it was banged up ribs.

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You know, he got hit hard, you know, and it

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kind of took the wind out of it, but he

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didn't want to come out of the game. He told

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his teammates, I'm not coming out of the game. I'm

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gonna step in there. We're gonna keep playing and keep

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doing it. That was huge for him because that got

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his teammates on his side. They said, listen, you're going

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to stay in the game. We're going to make sure

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we go out there. And you saw what he was

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able to do, you know, in the second half, obviously

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maybe making a couple of big throws. That throw to

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Kobe Hutson, you know, with thirty six seconds for the

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game winning touchdown, you know, that was huge and you

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really kind of get out there and and handle the

486
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pressure and everything. So he's done a really good job

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so far. I mean, statistically, you know, passing Widse his

488
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numbers aren't, like, you know, outstanding, but he's he's not

489
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turned the ball over and that's something that Gus Malzanas

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talked about. If you can keep control of the ball,

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get the running game going and then kind of you know,

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mix things in, I think there's an opportunity to step

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for a really star performance.

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Speaker 1: You know, defensively, as part of this game, I think

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back to your point of running, is gonna be to

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keep Shader Sanders and Travis Hunter off the field on offense,

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utilize the clock.

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Speaker 2: Milk milk the clock.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got you're dealing with Shadur who's probably

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who's gonna be, who's a pro prospect gonna.

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Speaker 2: Play in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, we know, is gonna be, if not the

503
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Heisman Trophy favorite today one or two in the Heisman

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Trophy race. What you know, And obviously UCF gave up

505
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thirty four points to TCU, who's not perceived to be

506
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a great team this year. Talk about defensively, what are

507
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some of the things that you see that you know,

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if you can shore up a little bit on defense,

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you got a chance.

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Speaker 4: Well, I think for them, you know, Gus mentioned this

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right off the gate Monday, was they need to get

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pressure on Shador Sanders. You know, I mean we saw

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you know, Baylor was sacked him eight times last week.

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You know, he's been the most pressured quarterback in the

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Big Twelve right now. Their offensive line is really not

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that good. It was not great last year. I think

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he was sacked fifty six times last year with the

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worst than in the country. They're on that same part

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this year. They have not been able to fix the

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offensive line. U see if on the flip side defensively

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has only one sack this season, you know, so they

522
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need to be better. They need to apply more pressure

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on Sanders. And one of the things that Gus said

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is you can't let him get out of the pocket.

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You can't let him use his legs, because that's one

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of the things he does really well is he gets

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out of the pocket and when the play starts to

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break down, he's either able to run or he finds

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a receiver maybe who's able to get away from the

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protection and is able to you know, kind of throw.

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And you saw that obviously on the Ail Mary play

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to tie the game up against Baylors. So they've got

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to contain Sanders, make sure that he's feeling pressure at

534
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all times. I think with Travis Hunter, he's such an

535
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amazing athlete. I mean, the guy two way player, you

536
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know on offensive defense. He saw what he did with

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the with the key fumble and the overtime that really

538
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saved the game for Colorado, led to the win. I

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think for the defense. They just got to be physical

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with him as a receiver. They got to make sure

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that he doesn't get too many wide open chances to

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make catches. They got to make it very difficult on him.

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We know Colorado can't run the football. They're one of

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the worst running games attacks in the country. So you've

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got to really kind of shut down. You've got to

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really shut down Travis Hunter as much as you can.

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And then you know, again, those those guys are such

548
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,640
great athletes, as you mentioned, it's hard to just completely

549
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shut them down. But you've got to limit them to

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what kind of damage they can do.

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Speaker 2: Do you anticipate them blitzing more?

552
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Speaker 1: Obviously, with their lack of pressure from the front, forty

553
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anticipate blitzing. And obviously when you blitz that leaves you

554
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your corners exposed on the outside of one on one

555
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:26,960
And say what you want, Colorad's got good receivers other than.

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Speaker 2: Just Travis Hunt.

557
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Speaker 1: You got Jimmy Horn, you got the Western kid who

558
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caught the touchdown. They've got receivers. Now, if you can't pressure,

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he's gonna find some guys open. You anticipate more blitzing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just paked them to be more aggressive, you know,

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but not to the point of like leaving themselves open.

562
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Like you said, you know where you've got guys, you

563
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,920
know what I mean, you know, I think you know.

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What I was studying is the fact that Colorado's offensive

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line really much much of the pressures come from the

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right side. So I think UCF's gonna try to take

567
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advantage of that. I think they're gonna mix up some

568
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schemes as well. They went man to man against TCU

569
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in that first half, and you saw Josh Hoover for

570
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TCU was able to really move the ball up and

571
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down the field. Effectiveness was from quick passes and he

572
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was able to get you know, four or five six

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yard kind of completions and they moved the ball down

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the field.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 4: You see have switched to zone in the second half.

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It really confused tc and they're able to shut them

578
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,519
down a little bit. I expect that to be the

579
00:27:12,519 --> 00:27:15,640
same sort of situation against Colorado, maybe kind of showing

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them a little bit of man to man, go into zone,

581
00:27:17,839 --> 00:27:19,960
try to find ways to really kind of make confuse

582
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your door a little bit, and maybe try to get

583
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some turnovers here there. U s has done a good

584
00:27:23,519 --> 00:27:25,519
job of getting interceptions. If they can get a couple

585
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of picks flip the field, it'll make it a short field.

586
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Then they've got opportunities to put up points. My thing

587
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is they've got to score early and they've got to

588
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build up a little bit of a lead because you

589
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don't want Sanders to maybe get an opportunity to start

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getting someone metum and shut off the crowd.

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Speaker 2: My last question, i'll get you atty. If you look

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at the Big Twelve as a whole.

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Speaker 1: You know, nationally it probably looks like again it's early,

594
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so you never know, but looks like probably a one

595
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bid league when it comes to the college football playoff.

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Speaker 2: Obviously, Utah with a.

597
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Speaker 1: Huge win last week in Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Kansas

598
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State loses it by you. If you look at U

599
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,480
see a schedule, they got a great opportunity to hear.

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If you look at their schedule, they don't play Kansas State,

601
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they don't play Oklahoma State. They get BYU, they get Utah,

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and they get Colorado in their building. If they were

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able to hold serve with their with their home games

604
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and win the games on the road, which they would

605
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be probably favored to win down the road. They got

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an opportunity here to be a major factor here in

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the Big twelve.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they really do, you know. I mean, Gus, we

609
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were asked us about that little bit. He's trying to

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stay as typical as much Coasters. I'm only focused on

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Colorado this week.

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Speaker 2: But now you're right.

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Speaker 4: I mean you look at the fact if they beat Colorado,

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there's an opportunity maybe to be ranked, you know, based

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on how the game goes. They get Florida next week.

616
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You know, Florida team that's kind of struggled a little bit.

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They have an opportunity there that doesn't impact the Big Twelve,

618
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but still they could be you know, they could be

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going in there. Five min zero after that game, they

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get Cincinnati at home. Cincinnati hasn't been outstanding, so that's

621
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an opportunity. So all of a sudden, you go in

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that second half of that season where you've got those games,

623
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,640
as you mentioned, where maybe you're you're undefeated, You've got

624
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a really good chance of maybe kind of putting yourself

625
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out there for that playoff mix. So I think with

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they'd like to do is just keep they stay healthy

627
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and keep doing the things they're doing. They feel like

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they have a good opportunity. They can't get caught up

629
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in the buzz though. I mean they can't if this

630
00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:09,880
game gets too much for them and there's too much

631
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,799
hype and they lose this game. You know, you can't

632
00:29:11,839 --> 00:29:13,599
let that spin out to like it did last year

633
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,599
where they lost five games in a row. You just

634
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,240
got to find a way to kind of keep everything

635
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,759
compartmentalized and go out there weekend and week out and

636
00:29:19,799 --> 00:29:21,559
try to find a way to win. But this Big

637
00:29:21,599 --> 00:29:24,400
twelve League, honestly, I'm gonna tell you it is it

638
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:26,759
is so much parody. I mean we saw it last weekend.

639
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,119
Good teams losing the Oakloma State. As you mentioned, Kansas

640
00:29:30,119 --> 00:29:31,720
has not been great. They were supposed to be right

641
00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:34,559
high up. You know, you saw what's happened with Kansas State.

642
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:38,559
Arizona was high up. They've fallen down all average. Wes

643
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,079
Virginia's pretty average. So this league now has a lot

644
00:29:41,079 --> 00:29:43,160
of parody. So there's an opportunity for UCF to really

645
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,440
make a strong push and make its case for trying

646
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:46,720
to win the Big Toal Championship.

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Speaker 1: Well, Matt Michelle, enjoy the weekends festivities, get some sleep.

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Speaker 2: Friday night.

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Speaker 1: Don't be partying with all the with all the youngsters before.

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Speaker 2: Big Fox on Saturday. Now you can find all the match.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy the game Saturday and we will talk real soon.

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Speaker 4: Okay, sounds good. Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

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