OTB: Wivalry Game
On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Florida State travels to Clemson this weekend for its ninth game of the 2025 season. The 4-4 Seminoles and 3-5 Tigers play at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday on the ACC Network. This episode of On The Bench previews the rivalry game and its potential impacts. It also recaps the latest recruiting commitments and de-commitments.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to On the Bench, I'm your host for this episode, Running Sonone. I'm joined by Zach Wallstein, Chris Nees. |
| 0:29.6 | FSU Clemson, it's Rival Week. Sorry, Colin. Rivalry Week. Try saying Rivalry Week. |
| 0:35.6 | Rivalry Week. |
| 0:36.6 | Rivalry week. Rivalry week. Try saying rival week. Rivalry week. Rivalry week. Can you say it? Rivalry week. |
| 0:44.0 | Rivalry week. That's going to be the headline. All right. Got it. Got it. All right. So FSU goes up to Clemson at 7 p.m. |
| 0:53.7 | And it is a rivalry game. But it's one that certainly |
| 0:57.9 | lacks a little bit of its normal. FSU's four and four. Clemson's three and five. I will say |
| 1:03.2 | some of the advanced analytics if you're into that sort of thing, show FSU and Clemson as teams that |
| 1:08.6 | should have more wins than they do just in terms of like on-field play. |
| 1:12.0 | I'm not even just talking about like roster talent or whatnot. |
| 1:15.6 | But the record is the record. |
| 1:17.6 | And as we get into this, you know, I think we'll do a little bit of a matchup type of type of deal boys. |
| 1:21.5 | But I think like big picture, if we want to look at how Mike Norville could somehow earn trust back, |
| 1:29.2 | and I'm dubious of how I would eventually feel trust that he will get the program in the right way. |
| 1:36.3 | There's a long build. |
| 1:38.2 | But going up to Clemson, winning is not just a must, but I think the rest of the way you have to win pretty convincingly. |
| 1:43.3 | And it starts now. And so that's kind of a starting point for us. It's like, what do you need to see? What does a result, a resounding win do for you if that happens? And even like, let's talk about the other side of it, too, a narrow win, a loss. Like, let's just like project how we're going to feel come Sunday morning. Okay. So if they win, I'll feel like they won a game and. Oh, my God. Better. I mean, seriously, like, I'm not, it's not. Clemson has not beat a power four team at home this season. Let's not turn Clemson and something. They're not. Like they are talented. There's plenty of talent on that roster. |
| 2:18.9 | But they have played horrible football. |
| 2:21.4 | They're three and five for a reason. |
| 2:23.1 | They're one and four at home. |
| 2:24.4 | That only win is Troy. |
| 2:25.9 | Like they are not Clemson of old. |
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