uscbucsfan1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:17 pm
Noles1724 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2024 1:05 pm
that was the JV squad
• FSU’s four leading rushers (Trey Benson, Lawrance Toafili, Rodney Hill and Travis)
• All five players with at least 20 catches (Keon Coleman, Johnny Wilson and Jaheim Bell plus Benson and Toafili)
• Interception leader Jarrian Jones
• Four of the nine players with at least 40 tackles (Jared Verse, DJ Lundy, Akeem Dent and Renardo Green)
• FSU retains only 196 of its 2,039 rushing yards and 927 of its 3,373 receiving yards
FSU's D was extremely underrated.
FSU's offense was not good.
They were an decent team that had a ridiculously easy schedule and often looked bad winning that lost all offense when Travis went out. They weren't amazing with Travis, they looked good, not great, but when he was gone...the offense was bad. The one game where FSU looked awesome was the first game of the season, the quality dropped after that.
I get trying to cope and it's easier to create a conspiracy theory because your team went undefeated and still didn't get there, but no one outside of FSU fans thinks a full powered FSU stood a chance against UGA or Michigan...much less what we watched against Florida and Louisville.
There was a reason regular people (not including the media) were saying that FSU shouldn't get in during and after the Louisville game...it's not because of the illuminati, either.
If you believe Alabama conspired with ESPN/CFB playoff committee to keep FSU out...you deserve to be ridiculed like we ridiculed the UCF fans were when they had a parade.
I agree with this. FSU was definitely not among the top 4 in terms of talent without Travis. Whether they belonged because they went undefeated in the ACC is a different story. But the committee's job is to put the four best teams in their eyes in the playoffs, with conference titles as a major stepping stone (which is why Georgia was left out). Of the five major conference champions, FSU was arguably the weakest when you take Travis out of the equation. The ACC was dreadful this year, especially when Riley Leonard got hurt. If Leonard stayed healthy vs. FSU, they may have won that game. But if we just picked the four best teams without even considering conference titles, then I would say it shoulda been Michigan, Georgia, Washington, and Bama. Maybe even Ohio State or Oregon in that convo.
FSU would have not been able to move the ball at all against Michigan with their backup QBs. I would take a shot of Tequilla for every first down they got in that game, and I'd end up sober through four quarters. As for their defense, it looks good against poor competition. But Michigan's offense would move the ball on them just like other decent offenses did against FSU, such as BC, Miami, LSU, Clemson, and Duke. Let's not make FSU's defense look like the '85 Bears here. FSU did a good job of shutting down poor qbs, but against better qbs, while they did good, they didn't shut them down. Michigan woulda prolly scored 20 points on offense alone against FSU, and maybe another 7-14 off of turnovers and short-fields. I'd have a hard time seeing FSU score a single point.
