Florida State went into Death Valley on Saturday night and simply crushed the 5th ranked Clemson Tigers. The Noles were led by another remarkable peformance by Jameis Winston who completed 22 of 34 for 444 yards and 3 touchdowns. He…
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Top 5 Individual Performances Versus Clemson
This is the second in a series of Top 5s against Clemson that will lead up to the showdown in Death Valley this weekend. We’ll look at great individual performances in the Clemson series today. Again the results are from…
The Prescription For the ACC’s Ills
With all due respect to the fine higher learning institutions in the Atlantic Coast Conference, from a football perspective a Florida State and Clemson matchup like this is what this conference needs. All other conferences in the nation have…
Top 5 Plays Against Clemson
I’m going to do a series of Top 5s against Clemson leading up to the showdown next weekend. First up will be the Top 5 plays FSU has made against Clemson. The criteria is jumbled and unscientific. I take awesomeness…
Revisiting the Impact Freshman
It’s not technically the halfway mark for the Florida State Seminoles, but with a bye week and the massive showdown with Clemson looming, I figured now would be a good time to revisit a post from the pre-season. A few…
Fun With Stats
One of my favorite things to do ever since I was a kid was to take early season baseball stats and look at the season projections. It was a pure entertainment move that would give me a chuckle. Even now…
Good, Bad and Ugly (“Don’t let the door hit ya” Edition)
The reality of Maryland’s move to the Big 10 is it’s a really great move for them. They’ll make gobs of money. They’ll play bigger programs and probably be on TV more. And on and on. However, after yesterday, the…
Getting In A Groove
Pick your catchphrase – in a groove, in the zone, heating up, unconscious. One of the amazing things about this impressive start to the season that the Florida State offense has been the runs they go in the middle of…
Fittingly Random and Necessarily Meaningless Thoughts
1. And as we bid a fond farewell to our soon to be former conference brethren Maryland Terrapins as they leave for BIG having compiled an O-fer record at Doak Campbell, we can only observe how appropriate it was for…
Infamously Random and Suspiciously Meaningless Thoughts
1. Right around the time the score was 17-3 in favor of Boston College, I’m not sure but I think I heard the collective Seminole Nation saying to themselves “We’re 22.5 point favorites over this team eh?” 2. To cure…
Rushing to Judgement
We’re already a quarter of the way through the 2013 Florida State football season and there has been little to find issue with thus far. The offense has been explosive and put up fantastic numbers regardless of the competition. However,…
Good, Bad and Ugly (Cats Don’t Like Water Edition)
These types of games are hard. Not physically, necessarily. But more mentally and emotionally. Mentally , it’s hard to really analyze them much. Everything that wasn’t 100% dominating is considered very bad. Everything that was as dominating as expected can’t necessarily…