Looks like Florida State has its own version of 45-23(+1)

I am glad he transferred, reminded me of Plaxico Burress last night

3 touchdowns for Keon Coleman and still it feels like he wasn't thrown to enough.

He called it 'a total failure from a coaching standpoint and a player standpoint,' so pretty on-brand for him, I'd say.

"The buck stops with me, and I've got to get our football team to understand and recognize that you've got to play this game for four quarters with a mentality. [...]  We just did not, for some reason. We thought we were somebody else. We thought we were the two-time national champion Georgia Bulldogs or something. I don't know what we thought, but we were mistaken. [...] it's how you respond to them. They have a chance to respond to this very disappointing performance in the second half.  So the choices they will have to make will be ones that start tomorrow."

Dude went from "It's me" to "we" to "it's them and they suck" in the space of a few sentences.

Playing nasty in the trenches (within the rules, of course) - is a very good thing.

I have to admit that the FSU team looked tough.  The RBs, receivers and QB all put their shoulders down, broke tackles and played with aggression.  Hassan Haskins-esque.  Games like that make fans out of people.   

I miss playing ND or someone tough early in the season. The NCAA is structured so that it doesn't make sense to have a tough match up early, but I wish it was.    I still have nightmares about Terrell Buckley, Raghib Ismail and Cordell Stewart, but I remember all of those games vividly.  Who remembers Connecticut, Middle Tennessee, Air Force, Army, etc.  

It is amazing how different the games look on tv versus in person. 

Hell, Jared Verse is a dark horse Heisman candidate. Talk about a man among boys.

Jordan Travis has a 6'7'' monster to throw to PLUS Keon Coleman, an ideal "fuck it chuck it" target.

Travis is 100% going to New York at the end of this year with that offense

I don’t know about dark horse, I believe he was actually top 3 at the start of the season for heisman favorites. 

That was my freshman year, too.  Went to the game with the guys in my dorm hall.  One of my buddies kept humming their stupid war chant thing in the stairwell of Markley.  We told him to shut up but he was doing it unconsciously.

I sat with a friend who is an FSU professor and watched that '91 humiliation, and she has rubbed it in ever since. But my wife, as it happens, went on to become an FSU faculty member herself. One of our first tough experiences here came in '08, during a very bad year for Bobby Bowden, when she got asked to screw the lightbulb out of her ceiling to save money during the budget crunch and he got a million dollar bonus the same week. Over time, grudgingly, I have come to think that Norvell's a good coach, though; he's certainly shown up for the right things here in Tallahassee and won over a lot of us who don't like (say) the fact that the city and country just gave FSU 21 million to put in better seats for boosters from a general fund that's supposed to address crying local needs. Last night made me a little more of a believer, though, I have to admit. I found myself wishing M had more big-stakes games early in the season; FSU is going to be a seasoned bunch come playoff time. 

Suddenly, the ACC doesn't appear to be in all that bad a spot--I know a lot of people in other sports are delighted about the stimulus that Stanford is going to bring the conference in many of them. Academic stature heightened--if you did a combined average simple US News rank for both conferences, the ACC might well come out on top; the 'pre-eminent academic conference' boat looks like it has sailed for the B1G a bit. Will be interesting to see how Clemson looks tonight. 

Why shouldn’t they?

FSU looks damn good. Their offense was already going to be good this season. Trey Benson is probably going to be 1st RB taken in the draft. Jordan Travis is athletic as hell, and may not be the best passer, though he has improved, and his targets are a matchup nightmare for anybody.

Jared Verse coming back to college still blows my mind as he was probably a top 10 pick last year…legit could be an argument for #1 depending if a team needs a QB or not. 

Their defense was the major question mark but they were impressive. Long season but that’s definitely a playoff team. Only weakness might be discipline, but they are gonna score a lot this season. 

I didn't hear that Florida State transferred from the ACC to the SEC.  Did I miss the press release?

I always go back and forth on which win vs osu was bigger. 2021 or 2023? 

I don’t remember who wrote it, but someone was saying that the most important thing to any given recruit is relationships and coaching continuity.

The fact that Brian Kelly lost a game is great. But the fact that when Brian Kelly loses a game he shits all over his players…is what’s really going to help us here.