OT: Ian Book out for ND against FSU this week
According to Irish Daily:
The Irish will face another hurdle this weekend as starting quarterback Ian Book will be out for Saturday’s game against Florida State, according to multiple sources,
The 6-foot, 203-pounder suffered multiple injuries to his midsection during this past week's game at Northwestern, which will prevent him from playing in Saturday’s game.
The article goes on to say that he may be ready for Syracuse. B. Wimbush is the guy in the interim, as expected.
Notre Dame has looked, IMO, pretty decent under Ian Book, but they become a much more beatable team with Wimbush at the helm. His 55% completion rating, 1 passing TD and 4 INTs maybe open the door for a strange FSU upset?
FSU is bad though...
Thoughts?
November 8th, 2018 at 9:31 AM ^
All this does is makes me want to bubble wrap Shea... Still, FSU is ass this year. I hope they lose and lose their bowl streak..
November 8th, 2018 at 9:44 AM ^
Nope. At this point, with the weak schedule and no conference championship, if ND losses they are out of the playoff. Full stop.
November 8th, 2018 at 9:54 AM ^
Agreed, 1-loss and ND is done
November 8th, 2018 at 9:55 AM ^
FSU is terrible and will Have nowhere to go on offense
November 8th, 2018 at 10:02 AM ^
FSU's O-line is still a disaster. Book being out will probably take this from being a 28-6 game to a 17-6 game. Cuse and USC will be more interesting
November 8th, 2018 at 10:09 AM ^
Lucky for them they're playing Florida State.
If he were out next week, this would be a more interesting story.
November 8th, 2018 at 10:27 AM ^
Not even worth discussion if you ask me. Beat Rutgers...
November 8th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
Slackbot: I think you mean Rutger
November 8th, 2018 at 10:33 AM ^
ND defense is still dominant. FSU blows.
Hope Syracuse can knock them off next week, though
November 8th, 2018 at 11:55 AM ^
Dominant is a bit much. They're good, probably about as good as Iowa/Mississippi State but not quite Michigan State/Kentucky. ND's best defensive game of the season came against us and the mitigating circumstances there have been covered.
Losing Book brings their offense down to average and as discussed, their defense is solid but not DOMINANT.
November 8th, 2018 at 10:55 AM ^
I could start at QB for the Irish and easily win this game. I'd probably pay to see Rutgers and FSU have at it.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:00 AM ^
Won’t matter, FSU sucks. It will only matter if he’s out for Syracuse.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:28 AM ^
ND will still win those jump balls, and a well rested Wimbush probably rattles off 50-60 yards on the ground to assist an already potent rushing attack.
27-10 ND.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:34 AM ^
Hmmm...interesting...
FSU sucks, but Syracuse doesn't. And USC sucks, too, but hey...who knows.
November 8th, 2018 at 11:46 AM ^
FSU is a poor football team, ND will beat them by at least 2 scores probably 3+
November 8th, 2018 at 11:50 AM ^
Probably a weekend where you can get away with it. FSU has looked like hot garbage multiple times this year, and ND has the type of defense to make it a long night for Francois (or whoever is the starter there anymore).
November 8th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^
I would have an ounce of hope if FSU wasn't utter garbage this season.
November 8th, 2018 at 12:18 PM ^
FSU has enough talent to win.
BUT ND did beat Michigan with Wimbush. So this is a nonissue.
November 8th, 2018 at 1:11 PM ^
You might be right on both of your statements. Though Notre Dame wasn't very good with Wimbush and struggled to defeat Vanderbilt and Ball State with him as their starter. So it might be an issue.
I believe Notre Dame defeated Michigan mostly because our offense just wasn't ready to play a decent defense in first game of the season.
November 8th, 2018 at 12:20 PM ^
Keep dreaming. FSU is a POS grease fire.
November 8th, 2018 at 12:33 PM ^
FSU is terrible. I don’t think it represents Michigan well if FSU wins. Who cares? One more down in front of Michigan!
November 8th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
I don’t want ND to lose. Why give the commitee a reason to keep Michigan out. Plus REVENGE TOUR 2018!!
November 8th, 2018 at 12:36 PM ^
I really don’t think it matters. FSU is horrible defensively. And they won’t score more than 17 on the ND defense
November 8th, 2018 at 1:02 PM ^
My thoughts are that after McCaffery got injured I have become paranoid about injuries in the final two games before we play OSU.
Tell Patterson not to run much vs Rutgers and then pull him once we have a nice lead.
November 8th, 2018 at 1:14 PM ^
Could be a very ugly game. Pulling for fsu (which is rare) but think notre dame will win. We gotta win The Game!!
GO BLUE!!
November 8th, 2018 at 1:45 PM ^
Florida St does have about 10 NFL players on the roster,so they have guys that can play.The system and OL are horrible
November 8th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
The last season FSU missed going to a bowl game was 1981, when they went 6-5. That has to be the longest streak in the nation.
Of course, that would have gotten them into some minor bowl today; if bowls were as numerous back then as they are now, the last time they would have missed a bowl was in Bowden's first season in 1976 when they went 5-6.
Per 247, recruiting class rankings for FSU and ND:
2014: FSU 4; ND 11
2015: FSU 3; ND 13
2016: FSU 3; ND 15
2017: FSU 6; ND 10
2018: FSU 11; ND 10
November 8th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
Notre Dame. Easily.
November 8th, 2018 at 2:03 PM ^
FSU is a terrible team. But, they still have an assload of talent. They could easily beat ND.
November 8th, 2018 at 5:21 PM ^
Assload of talent? Yes. Easily beat ND? No.
Everything on that FSU team is completely out of sorts. I'm guessing too that some guys have probably decided they're done with this season, after getting their asses whipped by Clemson and NC State. And in that situation, it doesn't matter how talented you are.
With Wimbush at QB, the game could stay somewhat close. But I have a lot of trouble seeing how in the hell FSU is going to move the ball on ND's defense.
November 8th, 2018 at 2:23 PM ^
With Wimbush in, this is closer to the ND that had one-score wins over BALL STATE and VANDERBILT (...sigh and Michigan sigh...). FSU is hot garbage, so it probably won't matter. But if FSU can keep it close with their defense containing Wimbush...stranger things have happened, man.
November 8th, 2018 at 5:11 PM ^
FSU has no shortage of talent, but they are such a discombobulated team that I have a really hard time envisioning them winning this game. After the Clemson game, I'd bet some of those guys have just mailed it in for the rest of the season. Even if their defense played decently, which it can certainly do, their offense can't get anything done. And going on the road against a top-5 team with an extremely good defense....not going to happen unless ND turns the ball over several times deep in their own territory and FSU can find a way to convert.
This game feels like a 21-7 kind of game, where Wimbush keeps the score closer than it ought to be, but the end result is never really in doubt because outside of a few plays here and there, FSU can't move the ball.
Now, if Book is out next week too against Syracuse, then things get reeeeeally interesting.
November 8th, 2018 at 6:50 PM ^
Ian Booker*
November 8th, 2018 at 8:51 PM ^
Yeah...you'd expect the CFP chairman to know the names of the highest-profile position players of the contenders by this point. Looked like he was reading from notes, too. Glad this guy has a say in who makes the cut. *eye roll*
November 8th, 2018 at 9:25 PM ^
FSU has a little of the feel of a powder keg. They are still very talented but Taggart hasn’t been able to piece it together. I think ND wins but it may be a little dicey. This is basically FSU’s super bowl right now.
November 9th, 2018 at 9:49 PM ^
FSU, you have one job...... you know what to do!