Georgia Tech Upsets FSU - Josh Pate Rapid Reaction (Late Kick Cut)

Intro Georgia Tech what does this say Colin 24 Florida State 21 so the double digigit favorite seols go down in Ireland it counts even if it's in another country you got to have your head on a swivel this time of year uh there are beliefs and then there are just these working theories and I've always been of the opinion that even though we go through all of spring and we go through all of Summer and you go through media days and you go through fall Camp the best you can hope to have on these teams are really these loose sets of working theories for instance there was a strong working Theory out there in the college football ether that am I reading this piece of paper right Florida state had the best defensive line in the country well that was one way to look at it the other way to look at it is the view that Georgia Tech had yesterday and they said no I H not so fast this was a Greg Maddox special of a game for those of you who weren't around Greg Maddox used to routinely get them out of there in under two hours and they'd make a 9:30 uh dinner time if they were on the road or whatever Greg Maddox wasted no time Greg Maddox didn't even seek the strike out Greg Maddox wanted you putting the ball in play the first two or three pitches of the bat CA that just gets the game over quicker that gets him back to the Dugout quicker listen to this our first paper pop stat of the Year 14 total drives in this game seven drives were four plus minutes only two drives were less than two minutes now I'm about to hit you with the first padlock stat of the Year FSU in the final 2 1 minutes and 19 seconds of this Stats game one drive final 21 minutes 619 to go in the third quarter from that point on FSU touched the ball one time the rest of the game 67 runs 43 passes in this game so the most glaring aspect of this to me was line of scrimmage play I think most of you who watch this game you think the same thing you oh man Georgia Tech really put him on skates yeah yeah that's part of what stood out but that wasn't the alarming part that was just a football game we'll see that happen every week this year to varying degrees uh you want a padlock stat number two and then I'll tell you what alarmed me padlock stat number two Georgia Tech imagine seeing this stat for those of you who are new around here the padlock stat is if I were to tell you this stat the day before the game you'd pretty well know how the game was going to turn out Georgia Tech 190 to 98 rushing Advantage Georgia Tech 89- 20 89 to 20 they out rushed Florida state in the second half um that wasn't supposed to happen now here's the alarming part those are just stats that's just a football game the alarming part is the closer you got to this Florida State program over the past month the more confident folks sounded about their running game and the more confident folks sounded about their impenetrable defensive front maybe my word not theirs but we heard Pete thill on game day yesterday you think P Pete thill didn't make that up Pete thill was regurgitating Intel that was given to to him probably from inside the program folks around the FSU program folks on the FSU beat folks working for different team websites they were getting drug over the coals last night their members in some cases asking for refunds why because they felt misled because a lot of folks who report on this team misled me you told me that we were going to be good and then I saw us and we weren't and so this could be one of two things I have my suspicions to which one it is Wishcasting sometimes a collective media beat around a team will just get caught wishcasting wishcasting is absent any real information you just start making it up as you go and you end up painting a picture of a team that ends up further and further away from what the reality of that team is now the reason I don't think that's what this was was because most time if coaches if there any anywhere near smart enough to reain it in if they start to sense that the hype bubble around their programs getting too big they'll go pop it themselves they'll read an article they'll look at a gallery on a message board they'll go look at a segment we do whatever the case may be and they'll reach out and say Hey you might want to pump the brakes now pump it just a little bit you're going to make me look terrible because you're going to build us up to be something we aren't and then week one's going to come and we're going to disappoint everyone and folks are going to be mad at me because of the hype you built so sure the folks around Florida State and the media beat there they could have been wishcasting Pete THL could have been wishcasting he could have just decided on the flight over to Dublin you know I'm going to go on national TV and I'm going to say I think this team's got the best defensive line in the country yeah that's one Theory the other Theory the one I happen to prescribe to is they were just regurgitating Intel that people inside the program gave them now that is a little more alarming because that means folks inside Florida State thought they had the best defensive line in the country folks inside Florida state folks who you know do football for a living those folks thought that they were going to dominate up front those folks thought that line of scrimmage and Run game were going to be their bread and butter here and if DJ's not great if DJ can't stretch the field vertically that's okay we'll just Rock fight this thing early and then we'll we'll give our offense time to round into form and that is a little more alarming because that paints a picture of a coaching staff that may not have a firm grasp on what the football team was I don't know which the case is I just know collectively a lot of folks got Hoodwinked on this and um I'm not as close to the program obviously as like a lot of other people were talking about but even I watched it and I said whoa this does not at all match up with what I heard and what I thought I should expect here so the other side to that is maybe maybe it's not quite as bad as it seems because I was texting back and forth with uh Danny canel yesterday he's still alive um I'm not going to go as far as to say he's okay but I can confirm he's still with us this is not a Daniel canel Memorial show just yet but I was texting back and forth with him and look honestly it's it's my job to nurse him back to health emotionally in times like these and so I did say Daniel now one of the big mistakes that people make I I didn't necessarily mean this but one of the big mistakes people make is sometimes when there's an upset early in the year everyone talks about how the favorite was overrated but hardly anyone takes time to acknowledge maybe the underdog was underrated maybe Georgia Tech just a whole lot better I think there's a healthy dose of both in play right now but I will say um solid solid Who Can Harness Atlanta golf clap for Brent key and Georgia Tech we've always asked the show we've always the question on this show who's who's going to figure out how to harness Atlanta Texas A&M is the biggest sleeping giant program in the sport I've always thought Arizona States up there and there are a couple of other North Carolina like if North Carolina ever got right I think they could be a really really solid program Georgia Tech's pretty high on that list they always have been for me I grew up in Georgia grew up hour south of Atlanta I've always had a I thought a pretty good read on the program I thought uh Jeff Collins for example I thought there was a half decent chance he'd come in there and he'd do that a lot of stuff happened that I didn't necessarily expect and it didn't end up being Jeff Collins so now um Brent key takes over and what if I told you well first off we have a Post-It pop here Boom the first Post-it pop of the year Georgia Techs all of a sudden 5 and0 versus ranked ACC teams under Brent key hello that stat kind of snuck up on a lot of you I'm not done uh they've completely remade the program most of you found that out for the first time yesterday they had listen to this now they had five scoring drives all of last year that were 10 plays and six plus minutes or longer all of 2023 they had five scoring drives that were 10 plays six minutes or longer they had three of them yesterday three of them in one afternoon so who can harness Atlanta well maybe it's maybe it was Brink key after all harnessing Atlanta just simply means do you understand how inexcusable it is that we for a long time have had a major power four power five program at the intersection of the SEC and the ACC which is Atlanta Georgia right there in the heart of the hottest geographical recruiting bed in the South um and it's been irrelevant Georgia Tech hasn't even been the biggest name in their own City in college football for a long time I always looked at it and I said why and all people could ever tell me is well academics and I I used to always tell them um you're you're telling me that's the only place I mean this is right smack dab in the middle of David Shaw dominating at Stanford by the way you're telling me that's the only place it's a little tough to get into you're telling me that you can't find 20 to 25 kids any given year that are qualified to get into Georgia Tech that can also do a few things on the football field I always thought that was stupid it is it has been stupid for a long time so George Tech man let's see what they do this year I'm going to show you where they are on the JP poll a little bit later where does Florida State go from here is a question that I'm not asking tonight only because I've seen it asked everywhere else today so it's semantics I'm not I'm not um not taking a shot at anyone but I want to ask you guys now who are big expansionists out there do you really believe in this 12 team playoff or not cuz some of the same folks out there who sold me on one game Whats Next not being the end of the world for a team because you can afford to lose are painting it as the end of the world because Florida State lost Florida State may lose four games this year for all I know or they may never lose again for all I know but what's next for Florida State well you get back to work and you go play Boston College as best I can tell that's what's next for Florida State it's not like they lost a boxing match and their next one's a year and a half from now it's it's not like they had their soul suck out of him well they better not have but everybody's piling on DJ OU angal for being basically the quarterback he's been his entire career that was the least surprising thing to me yesterday that that DJ OU angal didn't take over the game he's not a guy who takes over games uh he is a guy who probably needs help from his Supporting Cast and didn't get enough of it and look if I didn't know any better and I watched that game yesterday it's almost like watching that Bama team back in 2021 where Bryce Young had to go herob ball on every play because it seems like after the ball gets snapped everyone just Waits on him to do something well that this is not the cat to do that so it's going to have to be a collective effort there at Florida State but man three tackles for loss and zero sacks for that defensive front meanwhile Georgia Tech racks up seven tackles for loss they're that much better than you are you serious you got to have some pride in that defensive line room it it takes more it takes more than just going into spring and then everyone writing positive articles about you and then you just kind of surf it's like ride a wave into the season the rent's due every day you don't get to do some things and then rest on those Laurels you guys haven't done anything by the way you're not last year's team you haven't done anything so you got a spear on the side of your helmet because they thought you were good enough to wear it that's not how football works like that's not how being a big-time team at Florida State works so now the ACC picture just to give you some updated odds courtesy of our friends at FanDuel Clemson is now favored to win this conference Miami is right on their heels second Florida State and NC State are tied for having the third best odds and Florida State just lost a conference game and Louisville and Virginia Tech are what one two three four fifth and sixth respectively uh Rett Lashley and the boys barely escaped Nevada last night with a win they're at plus 1200 so now all a sudden 1 2 3 4 5 six we got two four we got seven teams plus 12200 or better odds we got six teams in the single digit odds which just means the ACCC all of a sudden looks like a Richard man's version of the Big 12 in a sense that you got a bunch of teams that perception could make a move I also thought Brad Crawford had a really good point today and he pointed out that Florida State's got a conference loss now so down the road they don't play Virginia Tech they don't play NC State so both of those teams could lose a game as long as they Georgia Tech and both of them play Georgia Tech they'd have a tiebreaker over Florida State just to give you an idea of the eightball that Florida State kind of put themselves behind now Florida State wins every one of their remaining games they'll go to the ACC Championship Game can they win those games what are they going to look like against Boston College we shall see [Music]