Please make it then. Baylor lost to a WVU team that ended up unranked (and lost its bowl game) then they lost to a two-loss lower ranked team in the bowl game. FSU lost to the #2 in the country. A team that will be competing for the National Championship. I’d really like to know when winning stopped mattering for people. Why don’t we just play the game with dice and not bother those boys with actually getting on the field. Or we could add judges to it. The judges could just vote and decide who passed the “eye test”. Why should the actual score be the determining factor. And W/L records? Pffff. Not in something as important as football!
Did you watch the game? The defense was spent, but kept fighting. Several of the turnovers were from freshman struggling to gain extra yardage to try and come back. Did Jimbo stop killing his kids and change things up with less than 7 min to go and down 39? Yes, yes he did. Why risk getting his star quarterback (who claims to be coming back) hurt in a lost cause?
As for shaking hands after the game, funny that you don’t seem to care that Alabama did THE EXACT SAME FUCKING THING. Should they be dropped out of the rankings too? Baylor didn’t exactly hang out and get all buddy-buddy either. And let’s not forget Oregon’s “no means no” chant. Something their coach is promising discipline for. It’s a tough, physical game and not everybody wants to sing kumbaya after a tough loss. Deal.
And while that can certainly be true, it should be noted that 35 of Oregon’s points came on 5 turnovers. If that’s not shooting yourself in the foot, I don’t know what is.
So, my post-mortem:
FSU played reasonably well in the first half. Our defense was getting crushed and looked unprepared for the tempo of the game. That’s on the coaching. Oregon (as noted above) did EXACTLY what they’ve done all year. And with 20+ days to prepare, we were not ready for it. No excuses. The defense has simply got to get better. We have the talent, we need the coaching.
On offense, we were struggling a bit, but started to get rhythm when the fumble-a-thon started. Someone above is saying that Oregon shut FSU down. Really? FSU put up 528 yards of offense - including more passing yards than Oregon. We had 180 yards of rushing and frankly, that would have been higher had we not had to abandon the run starting in the late third quarter (you don’t come back from 20+ down by rushing the ball). My biggest problem with the offense was the lack of early red-zone production. We need to develop plays to deal with a shortened field. It’s been a consistent problem this season and was a known focus of the Oregon D (bend don’t break). Again with 20+ days to prepare, the fact that the offense struggled comes down a LOT to coaching. Nick O’Leary getting hurt during pre-game warmups didn’t help and there’s not much you can do about that.
The refs were atrocious. While I saw a ton of missed/bad calls for both sides, the tackling of Nick O’Leary in the end zone during the first half was particularly egregious. The refs didn’t cause the fumbles though, so you can’t blame the loss on them.
Oregon played extremely well. They were well-coached and mentally prepared. They executed their game plan to near perfection and avoided beating themselves. Early mistakes (Mariota’s INT) were handled calmly and corrected. They adjusted well at halftime and didn’t let up. Good for them and I wish them luck in Dallas.
TLDR? FSU got outcoached before kickoff and subsequently outplayed during the game while creating a host of problems for themselves with turnovers that directly led to points for Oregon.
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