South Florida vs. Florida Showdown: Battle of the State

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00:00Well, there's a big battle in the state of Florida.

00:03USF, fresh off their route of Boise State,

00:07takes on top-ranked Florida and D.J. Lagway.

00:10Both teams are 1-0.

00:12USF travels on the road.

00:14Coach, a lot of these kids go to high school with the Florida Gators.

00:18There's competition.

00:19They're 17-and-a-half-point dogs.

00:21They potentially, just maybe,

00:23can make it a fourth-quarter game against the Gators.

00:26You know, I was in Gainesville last Thursday.

00:28I was speaking at the Gator Quarterback Club,

00:30and they were saying,

00:31we get these two out of the first couple of games out of the way,

00:34and we'll get to the conference.

00:35All of a sudden, South, you see USF,

00:38South Florida beats the stew out of Boise State,

00:42and that becomes a big game.

00:43And you're exactly right.

00:45I've recruited Florida.

00:46I've coached at Florida State.

00:48Those guys, it's a Super Bowl.

00:50When you go to USF or UCF,

00:52you probably wanted to go to Florida or Florida State,

00:55and you didn't get offered.

00:56And so now this is your Super Bowl,

00:58and they will be inspired.

01:00And there are a lot of great football players down there,

01:02and I guarantee it'll be,

01:04it has a chance to be a heck of a football game.

01:08But Florida's ended with DJ Blackway.

01:11They won their last six regular season games last year.

01:14They were on a roll,

01:15and I do think he's got that program heading in the right direction.

01:18Maybe a sleeper in the conference to compete

01:21for maybe a conference championship game.

01:23It's possible.

01:25Now, a couple of factors I want to bring up.

01:27The mobility of Byron Brown, the quarterback at USF.

01:31He abused the Boise State defense on the ground,

01:33well over 70 yards and a touchdown run.

01:36The other factor as well is that USF played on a Thursday night.

01:40So from the underdog perspective,

01:42to have that extra day potentially of game planning and preparation

01:46has to benefit the Bulls,

01:48and their head coach, Alex Golish, no?

01:50Yeah, probably, but you know what?

01:53I mean, Florida opened up with Long Island University.

01:57I don't know what comes out of Long Island other than Ice-T,

02:00and I don't know much about their football team,

02:04but that wasn't much of a football game.

02:06They didn't have to play people the entire game.

02:09They could really focus if they needed to on USF.

02:12The question is, did Florida make sure,

02:15they've got to make sure they understand how good USF could be.

02:18So I think Florida is obviously the better football team,

02:21but they better stay focused because this will be a huge one for South Florida,

02:25and nothing would put Billy Napier back on the hot seat quicker than to lose to South Florida

02:32when everybody feels like now we're getting Florida back where they're supposed to be.

02:36And on week three, they do face off against Brian Kelly,

02:40and the LSU Tigers do not want to have a lost potential look-ahead spot for the Florida Gators.

02:47We'll see how this game plays out a little bit later in the week.

02:50The other matchup takes place in Lexington.

02:53Last year, Kentucky went into Oxford and knocked off Jackson Dart and the Ole Miss Rebels

02:58as a 17-and-a-half-point road underdog.

03:02Zach Calzada and the Wildcats are 1-0.

03:05So Ole Miss's new quarterback, Austin Simmons, can make a statement.

03:09How do you see this matchup playing out right now?

03:12Ole Miss, a 10-and-a-half-point road favorite in Lexington.

03:16Well, I just got this feeling that Ole Miss is going to be after Kentucky.

03:21Kentucky struggled last year.

03:23They projected to have a tough year.

03:25This year, again, quite possibly.

03:27I think Ole Miss gets after him.

03:29First of all, the quarterback, Austin Simmons, is an outstanding quarterback.

03:35He comes out of Pahokee, Florida.

03:38He started as a true ninth grader there.

03:40That's where Anquan Bolden, my dad coached him, Janoris Jenkins.

03:43I coached him at North Alabama.

03:45It's where the great football players come from.

03:48So I really think Ole Miss, not only will they beat Kentucky,

03:52but Lane Kiffin got embarrassed last year.

03:55And Kentucky knocked him out of a lot of stuff he thought he would have

03:58at the end of the year.

03:59Not only do they win, I think he's going to try to put as many points on Kentucky.

04:03So I got them.

04:04I'm going to take the over because I really like this quarterback.

04:08And I know what Lane Kiffin wants to do.

04:10So I'm going to go with it because I think they're going to try to put as many points

04:13as they can on this football team.

04:15So I'm going to go with it because I'm going to try to put as many points on it.

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