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Unconquered with Doc Staples

Florida State Bullies Alabama 34–17 - Postgame Hot Takes

Unconquered with Doc Staples

Jason A. Staples

Football, Sports:football, Sports

4.8867 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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0:00.0

Oh, well, y'all, that was a whole lot of a very different experience from watching Florida State play in 2024.

0:27.4

Oh, wow. Well, here we are for the Hot Takes podcast after Florida State takes visiting Alabama out to the woodshed reverses the spread.

0:43.4

Wins 31 to 17 in the home opener and the home opener for the renovated Doke Campbell,

0:51.7

which by the way, looked and sounded amazing on television and caused some

0:56.1

serious problems for that Alabama offense at times. So, you know, Bravo. Kudos to all of you

1:02.5

who are at the game for really making a difference there.

1:13.8

Yeah, well, styles make fights, y'all.

1:16.1

Stiles make fights.

1:22.8

And Florida State absolutely took the fight to Alabama after that opening drive where Alabama was able to march downfield and sort of lean on them with that big offensive

1:26.6

line and everything else. And from that point forward, Florida State dominated that football game. And you

1:33.1

realize Alabama went up seven to nothing and then got outscored 31 to 10 from that point forward.

1:40.0

And you got to hand it to Mike Norvell and that grew because they, they came in and they,

1:45.6

they just did their work.

1:49.0

And I got to say, I mean, I got a, I got a text message from one of my old roommates,

1:53.2

uh, right after the game where he, he pointed out.

1:57.4

He said, it is rare for the football gods to meet out justice this pure.

2:04.5

And look, there will never be justice for that 2023 Florida State team.

2:09.1

But I have to say, getting things back on track this way against the program that was the beneficiary of the the the travesty of the snub does feel

2:23.0

like somewhat like the cosmos is getting rebalanced a little bit after that injustice

2:28.9

and you know wow and i you know we talked about this in the previews for the season and everything else that it was pretty clear that this was going to be a team that was just going to be a lot easier to root for, a team that's just going to be, that's going to fight and claw and kick.

2:46.2

And they might not be the most talented team that Florida States had, and they certainly aren't.

2:50.8

But they're going to be a team that is going to be a very tough out for whomever they play

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