we talk about this stuff for nine straight months and then what happens an 11 and 1 Half Point Underdog goes to Dublin and wins on a walk-off field goal welcome back college football greatest sport on Earth this is Zandy Staples on three presented by Wendy's your instant reaction special edition to Georgia Tech 24 Florida State 21 and what a way to start the college football season I just this is what this is perfect this encapsulates everything we expect Florida State to come back we expect Florida State to to be the ACC champ so full disclosure I recorded a segment with the biggest podcast in the world for next week they asked me who I thought would win the ACC I said Florida state but I said I might look really stupid when this comes out because Georgia Tech may have beaten them and sure enough here I look very stupid but that's the thing about this sport you never know till they actually put the ball on the field Georgia Tech dominated up front dominated you had people on Friday saying Florida State's got the best D line in the country I don't know where that Cent came from by the way I think the thought was they'd have a pretty good dline the the hyperbole was was hitting this week pretty hard but Georgia Tech's offensive line stuff Florida State's dline in a locker just dominated that game up front dominated the line of scrimmage you heard Brent key after the game run the ball they averaged 5.3 yards a carry they didn't do anything crazy you know think about Haynes King had a lot of interceptions last season he had zero interceptions on Saturday zero he took good care of the ball they didn't do anything crazy when he got under pressure Buster faulon their offensive coordinator had built in answers and Hayes King knew how to find them just tremendous meanwhile Florida State well a lot of us said hey they're going to be fine DJ is going to come in the offense is going to keep going it may not be as good as it was with Jordan Travis throwing to Keon Coleman last year but it's still going to function I said I think they control the ball on the ground I said that in the pick I picked Florida State to cover I said I think they control the ball on the ground they absolutely did not control the ball on the Ground Georgia Tech defense new coordinator Tyler santui they were much better tackling than they were last season but also Flor State just didn't generate a push there was no fear for most of the game of Florida State throwing downfield it wasn't until late in the game when Florida state had that tying touchdown Drive where they threw over the middle twice on fourth down to convert that you saw really anything dangerous down the field Florida state was not trying to take a lot of shots early and Georgia Tech just sort of pinned their ears back and came and there wasn't much Florida State could do about that D dju did not handle the pressure well looked rattled wasn't moving very quickly in the pocket so a lot of you told us dju is going to be the same guy I was I was saying no no you put him in a different system maybe it's going to be different but hero 1980 he was one of the people telling us about hey I think he's going to be very similar the same problem showed up the same good thing showed up too like I mentioned those fourth down conversions those passes look great and that is the story of dju at Clemson at Oregon state is you see those great passes and you think okay there's going to come a point where you get a whole game of this and it just hasn't happened Lawrence in the chat FSU just got dominated run the ball well that's what people are going to try to do against Florida state they're going to try to run the ball now what do this mean grand scheme we'll find out we're going to completely overreact to this because it's the only result we have available we've got the rest of the week zero to go but not a lot of games of consequence so it won't be really till Thursday and Friday and next Saturday when we start getting more results then we start trying to put this in context but we're going to completely overreact to this we're going to say Florida State's dead Georgia Tech's going to win the ACC neither one is potentially true both are potentially true don't know yet it's week one and the thing about the way college football works now like Florida State can still make the playoff they could win out get an at large if they don't win the ACC they could win the ACC Georgia Tech very much alive now I will say this about Georgia Tech Georgia Tech has the hardest schedule in the ACC it is Bara the hardest ACC schedule and the hardest non-conference schedule because they played Notre Dame and Georg out a conference it is a very difficult slate but if they can play with the level of athletes that Florida state has guess what they can play with anybody on their schedule maybe not Georgia but I mean they fought Georgia pretty hard last year and this is probably a better Georgia Tech Team so it is going to be a fun season this is a great example of why I always say we talk about this stuff for nine months but we don't actually know anything we don't actually know anything but this was a a great example of that because it wasn't really fluky like Georgia Tech didn't win in a fluky way Georgia Tech went out and punched Florida state in the mouth over and over and over again and Florida State was responding for the most part but could not really do anything Dynamic to to pull away and then Georgia Tech takes the lead and Florida State comes back and then Georgia Tech just grinds out the game that's why Mike Norvell had to go for it by the way on those fourth Downs he had no choice he made the right decision there even if they hadn't converted those fourth Downs it would have been the right decision he had no faith in his defense to keep Georgia Tech from just grinding out the clock and that's exactly what Georgia Tech did anyway because all they needed was a field goal so they just ground down the clock until they had a a shot and Aiden Burr hit the field goal was very well coached game by Brent key great game plans from Buster faer and Tyler sanui they're two coordinators seeing a lot of criticism of Florida State play calling in the chat I okay here's the thing about the Florida state offensive play calling because Mike norell has looked like a pretty good play caller when he's calling place for Jordan Travis so you got to call it differently for dju and it apparently it limits some things now Florida state has a chance to bounce back from this they've got another ACC game week one like they are playing an ACC game nine days from now Labor Day Night Boston College comes to Tallahassee so they have a chance to be one in one in the ACC at the end of week one it's not what they want but if they're 0 and two it's going to be a disaster an absolute disaster Georgia Tech meanwhile it's a tough road but if you can do this you can play with Notre Dame you can play with Miami you can play with NC State you can play with anybody in the ACC for sure so let's not count out the yellow jackets at all and that is what makes this fun because over the next eight or nine days we are going to find more teams that surprise us in good ways and in bad ways it's going to be a journey of Discovery and it's going to be amazing we love this sport because it's populated by 18 to 22 year olds who are wildly unpredictable especially in large groups we got a great example of that in Dublin on Saturday great example of that by the way this instant reaction show brought to you by prize picks the most fun daily Fantasy game in America use the code Staples you play $5 you get $50 instantly I am not in prize picks mid season form I'll tell you that right now I had a play on this game it was three squares it was 100 win 500 Malik Benson more than 60 and a half receiving yards great catch to convert a fourth down in the fourth quarter but no no didn't get over 60 and a half Lawrence toi had the long touchdown around the first quarter I thought this 43 and a half rushing yards no problem did not get going the rest of the game and then Haynes King I had more than 1954 .5 passing yards well Georgia Tech was running the ball so well they did not need to throw some of Hayes King's best throws were under pressure dumping off to an open relief valve a safety valve that got them first downs but did not put up huge yardage it is going to be so much fun I'm not mid-season prize picks for him but I'm going to get I'm G to get going I'm gonna get I have faith but use that code Staples play $5 get $50 instantly all college football season the board gets populated right before the games and in the days before the games pick the game you want pick the player you want two or more squares the more squares you pick the higher the potential payout when we talk about prize picks all season we're gonna have a lot of fun with that we're going to have a lot of fun with all of this because it is just a beautiful beautiful game Saturday was a great example of that Saturday was a great example of why we watch because we can think we know something we can go an entire offseason January to almost September saying this is true this is true this is true we we believe these things to be true and then in three hours it's all gone Martin in the chat don't worry FS fans this game doesn't count because you guys got snubbed from the playoff last year did I get that right yeah FSU fans are going to have to eat this one for a little while because yeah you complained a lot about getting left out of the playoff since you got left out of the playoff you got beat 66-3 in the Orange Bowl by Georgia and just went and lost to Georgia Tech in Dublin so that doesn't support the argument doesn't mean you should have been left out of the playoff last year but it doesn't help your argument so maybe now let's turn the complaints inward try to fix the offense try to figure out how to go deep like who's who's the Deep threat that's the question for Florida State right now it was Keon Coleman last year I remember being there against LSU week one last year in Orlando and you knew coming out of the game Keon Coleman's that dude that's the guy everybody's GNA have to worry about who is that for Florida State now is it Malik Benson I don't know he had a nice catch there on that fourth down late in the game but they've got to find somebody who can stretch the field and they've got to take shots earlier they basically spent an entire half where Georgia Tech had zero fear of them going over the top zero fear you can't be that one Ryan in the chat says Andy FSU fans thought they were win by 21 points Vegas thought they'd win by 11 and a half we all got it wrong except you guys who took the Georg Tech money line but I want to see receipts because I don't necessarily believe you if you just say it in the chat but yeah most of this got it wrong like you're going to listen to me on pardon my take next week and I'm like yeah I think Florida State's going to win the ACC but at least I at least I couched it I'm like I might look stupid because we're recording this before the Florida state Georgia Tech game so thank you Georgia Tech for making me look stupid but thank you also Georgia Tech for reminding me why we love this freaking game so much because talk about it for nine months get all these things drilled into our heads this team is great this team is bad this team is mid we don't actually know until they Tee It Up well guess what boys and girls they have freaking teed it up now it's college football season it's going to be a lot of fun we'll talk to you on Monday [Music]