CFB Preview: Boise State vs. South Florida on Thursday Night

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00:00Oh, Thursday night college football.

00:01Now get it.

00:02It's only Wednesday we understand, but you wake up tomorrow morning,

00:05you got way more games on on a Thursday than you would like to see

00:08because last Saturday we only got a few.

00:10Now we start to get the party started.

00:12One of those big games, Joe Ranieri does start with Boise State and South Florida.

00:16You take a look last year, Boise State made it into the college football playoff.

00:18South Florida's still looking to try to find their way,

00:21but they're going to bring back a quarterback that only played a handful of games last year,

00:25and that was Byron Brown who can certainly run,

00:27and I do think he ends up scoring a touchdown that game, hint, hint,

00:30but also from another perspective for Boise State,

00:33you take a look at Maddox Madsen who was the starting quarterback last year,

00:36but at the same time, you're saying to yourself,

00:39well, all I had to do was hand it off to this kid in the back

00:41who was the best running back in college football, no longer there.

00:43He has to step up.

00:4562 and a half, Joe, in the sports landscape right now.

00:47If you're looking from book to book to book on that total,

00:50we're expecting points.

00:51We're expecting fireworks tomorrow.

00:52Well, they're going to have to figure it out in a big way with Boise State

00:57because no longer do they have Ashton Gentry to cover the load,

01:02and they also lost their number one wide receiver from a year ago,

01:08which basically means, Donnie,

01:10that they're going to have to figure out a way to replace over 3,500 yards of offense last year.

01:15That is not going to be good.

01:16I mean, Gentry alone had 29 touchdowns,

01:19and they haven't really figured out.

01:22They've got a whole lot of new wide receivers from Madsen.

01:25Two offensive linemen from a year ago don't look like they're playing in this game.

01:30They are still injured.

01:31So a lot of question marks.

01:33And on the other side, I love what they have done in South Park.

01:37Alex Grolson, year three, has really turned that program around.

01:43They were a laughingstock three years ago.

01:46He's come in.

01:47They've gone back-to-back bowl games.

01:48And Byron Brown is as healthy as he's been so far in college.

01:53And just ask Nick Saban how much fun it was trying to contain Byron Brown a couple of years ago,

01:59and Alabama went to Tampa to take them on.

02:02So I like it.

02:04They spent a lot of the offseason building up the defensive side of the ball.

02:08And here's maybe the kicker, Donnie.

02:09You ready?

02:10At kickoff, 100 degrees, Tampa, with the humidity.

02:15I am fairly certain Boise State, yeah, they don't have that kind of heat where they come from.

02:22Might be a bit of a problem in the second half when their legs go out from under them.

02:26That's what if you say they're going to do.

02:27So I'm full of things.

02:29You may be a little bit older.

02:30But then you can see the video.

02:31You might think of the from this area,

02:32Okay.

02:33So we're going to get the minute back.

02:34After that, let's see.

02:35I'm going to go.

02:36I'm going to go.

02:37So I'm to come to the table.

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