Florida State Equals Michigan
October 25th, 2015 at 3:33 AM ^
I predicted this upset (NOT in THIS manner!) to several of my buddies who are FSU fans earlier today, as they have not been impressive all year, and, they rarely play well in night games on the road in the ACC.
FSU's "best" win this year is by 5 points over Miami (YTTerribleM), which they had to overcome in the 4th qtr. at home. They also had to hang on to escape a very bad Wake Forest team as well.
October 25th, 2015 at 5:30 AM ^
October 25th, 2015 at 7:36 AM ^
After what FSU has been doing the last few years, this ending is fitting. I am glad you get to enjoy it. GT's coach couldn't believe it happened and he was blushing. He knows it was luck, unlike another coach...
October 25th, 2015 at 4:19 AM ^
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October 25th, 2015 at 7:38 AM ^
I am really hoping for FSU fans to be less classy and post all kinds of crazy posts. I would love to read the TWIS.
October 25th, 2015 at 8:18 AM ^
It's one thing to lose on a blocked FG returned for a TD, but given that FSU has the world's most impressive resume of last minute FG related losses this is actually worse to me than the muffed/blocked punt. It's one thing when your team loses on a fluke once in a lifetime manner. It is a completely different thing when your team loses in the exact same manner in which it always loses (with the rare exceptions of doing things like getting the life choked out of them by Oregon notwithstanding). Wide Right, Wide Right II: Wide Righter, Wide Right III: Rise of the Revenge, etc. Different games, same movie played on a horrible, horrible endless loop.
October 25th, 2015 at 12:40 PM ^
October 25th, 2015 at 9:21 AM ^
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October 25th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
October 25th, 2015 at 10:36 AM ^
When I saw it happening last night, I just kinda shrugged. Old news.
October 25th, 2015 at 9:27 AM ^
October 25th, 2015 at 9:29 AM ^
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October 25th, 2015 at 9:56 AM ^
I thought we moved on from this game.... I really want to be done thinking about it.
October 25th, 2015 at 10:14 AM ^
As many have stated
1) Rivalry Game
2) We were winning not tied
3) Blooper gift, not earned by the other team. GT blocked and had a sweet run back
4) Emotional turnabout - We went from celebrating a victory to bemoaning a loss. They were thinking - worst case overtime.
Both are unlikely events and suck for fans of the respective losing teams but ours is an event that may never well happen again, and I don't believe has ever happened before to end a game.
October 25th, 2015 at 12:53 PM ^
Can't find an appropriate thread for this question and don't want to start another one on the botched punt, but I have a rules question (if anybody knows how this would work.)
I believe in the last minute of games there is a 10 second runoff for offensive plays. So if instead of punting Michigan had lined up in an offensive alignment and intentionally had a false start and/or other penalties (like snapping the ball with 40 men on the field) that they would have to throw a flag on, would that have resulted in a 10 second runoff and end of game, or since it was 4th down would there have been an untimed down?
Also with the 10 second runoff, on 3rd down with just trying to run out the clock, would it be advisable to tell a player to commit a penalty if we don't get the first down? You know, like pay back McDowell for that completely unnecessary push down of (I think) Chesson?
I'm not trying to beat a dead horse. I'm trying to learn and grow.
October 25th, 2015 at 1:35 PM ^
Otherwise you just could just false start 6 times in a row once the clock gets down to 1 minute remaining.
October 25th, 2015 at 2:12 PM ^
Ours was worse because:
a) we were winning.
b) ours was a rivalry game.
c) a field goal returned for a touchdown to win the game has been seen before in recent history.
d) the officiating in the FSU game wasn't an abomination.
October 25th, 2015 at 5:48 PM ^
Since down votes won't mean a lot for me anyway, I'll go ahead and say ours was more related to the defense setting up a strategy to make it happen while this one was a bit more fluky.