SWC75
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- It’s over. We knew it would be bad and we really just wanted to get past this game to see if we could win at least one of the last two and get to a bowl. And now it’s done.
- We won’t play a team anywhere near that good again this year, (and maybe ever). Pittsburgh and Boston College are both pretty good and if we get to a bowl game, we’ll be playing somebody pretty good. But we’ll at least have a shot at winning those games. We had no shot today.
- That was like a trip to the dentist: we pretty much knew what to expect when we woke up this morning. The Georgia Tech game was like an auto accident: We never saw that coming, which made it worse. You look at Tech now and wonder how they ever did that to us.
- The team we lost to is the best looking college football team I’ve seen in 50+ years of watching the sport: better than Bobby Bowden’s FSU teams, even the national champions, better that any of the Miami, Nebraska or Penn State teams we’ve played. Better than the USC teams . (Well, that 1995 Nebraska team might make an interesting match.) They are bigger, stronger and faster than anyone I’ve seen and they play with the aggressive confidence of boxer with a knockout punch who goes right after his victim and tries to end it as soon as they can. Jameis Winston passes the ball like Peyton Manning and he’s so strong that tackling him is like trying to tackle a tree. Their running backs and receivers can break it all the way on any plays. Nobody is going to beat this team. Nobody. Losing to them, even by this margin is virtually meaningless. They may not be an NFL team but if there was another division, this team would be in it. And win it.
- I was afraid we’d give the Noles some unneeded help with turnovers and penalties but in fact this was our best game of the season in this regard. Hunt bobbled a snap and Drew Allen threw an interception after State had already scored all their points but we had only three penalties for 20 yards.
- We had some decent numbers in this game. First downs were 17-20. We gained 242 yards. Terrel Hunt was 10 for 18 with no interceptions. Dante McFarland had 81 yards rushing in 13 carries. He had a 28 yard run caught a 23 yard pass. Riley Dixon averaged 40 yards a punt.
- The fourth quarter page of the play-by play is interesting. There were 30 plays in the fourth quarter and we ran 26 of them. Yes, it was against the second or third teams. But Florida State's second or third team is probalby better than what we'll face the rest of the way.
- We did have 8 tackles for a loss, including 3 sacks.
- Like Shaf says: “Wipe it and play your butts off.”
5-5 with 2 (or 3) more
LET’S GO ORANGE!
- We won’t play a team anywhere near that good again this year, (and maybe ever). Pittsburgh and Boston College are both pretty good and if we get to a bowl game, we’ll be playing somebody pretty good. But we’ll at least have a shot at winning those games. We had no shot today.
- That was like a trip to the dentist: we pretty much knew what to expect when we woke up this morning. The Georgia Tech game was like an auto accident: We never saw that coming, which made it worse. You look at Tech now and wonder how they ever did that to us.
- The team we lost to is the best looking college football team I’ve seen in 50+ years of watching the sport: better than Bobby Bowden’s FSU teams, even the national champions, better that any of the Miami, Nebraska or Penn State teams we’ve played. Better than the USC teams . (Well, that 1995 Nebraska team might make an interesting match.) They are bigger, stronger and faster than anyone I’ve seen and they play with the aggressive confidence of boxer with a knockout punch who goes right after his victim and tries to end it as soon as they can. Jameis Winston passes the ball like Peyton Manning and he’s so strong that tackling him is like trying to tackle a tree. Their running backs and receivers can break it all the way on any plays. Nobody is going to beat this team. Nobody. Losing to them, even by this margin is virtually meaningless. They may not be an NFL team but if there was another division, this team would be in it. And win it.
- I was afraid we’d give the Noles some unneeded help with turnovers and penalties but in fact this was our best game of the season in this regard. Hunt bobbled a snap and Drew Allen threw an interception after State had already scored all their points but we had only three penalties for 20 yards.
- We had some decent numbers in this game. First downs were 17-20. We gained 242 yards. Terrel Hunt was 10 for 18 with no interceptions. Dante McFarland had 81 yards rushing in 13 carries. He had a 28 yard run caught a 23 yard pass. Riley Dixon averaged 40 yards a punt.
- The fourth quarter page of the play-by play is interesting. There were 30 plays in the fourth quarter and we ran 26 of them. Yes, it was against the second or third teams. But Florida State's second or third team is probalby better than what we'll face the rest of the way.
- We did have 8 tackles for a loss, including 3 sacks.
- Like Shaf says: “Wipe it and play your butts off.”
5-5 with 2 (or 3) more
LET’S GO ORANGE!
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