OTB: Junior Day Recap | Grading the Portal | Live reaction to Malzahn retirement
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The Florida State football news cycle has had a quick start to February with the retirement of offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn. This episode of On The Bench includes a live reaction to the news (near the end of the episode), recaps Junior Day, and grades the Seminoles' transfer portal haul. You can subscribe to On The Bench, X’s and Noles, and Beyond The Bench on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify. As always, five-star reviews and comments on Apple Podcasts are appreciated! Also, you can watch the show on YouTube now. We'll do live streams as well, and you can get notifications on when we're live by subscribing to our YouTube channel.
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| 0:31.9 | Music Good morning and welcome to On the Bench. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm your host for this episode, Brendan Cynone. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm joined by Zach Lusting, Chris Ney. |
| 0:58.1 | I'm still fighting through whatever this like three week long flu has been. |
| 1:01.6 | But I'll push through it, guys. |
| 1:03.2 | Don't worry about me. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm fine. |
| 1:05.5 | Welcome to Chile, Tallahassee. |
| 1:07.5 | If you're listening locally, |
| 1:10.1 | Zach got a little taste of snow this weekend when you came up for junior day. |
| 1:13.3 | That's pretty cool. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah, I was not expecting that, but we were just standing outside there outside the facility. |
| 1:19.5 | Then randomly, I'm like, is it snowing? |
| 1:21.8 | Like I didn't even know that that was on the forecast or anything. |
| 1:25.3 | And it started really coming down at one point. |
| 1:28.7 | Byerson, |
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| 1:30.6 | Chris did Snow Angels. |
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