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W2WF: Florida State (2017)
May 20, 2020 | Football, #ForBoston Files
Remembering Welles is an honor more than an obligation.
The following was originally published on October 26, 2017:
The past two weeks have been a rise for the Boston College football team. The Eagles are soaring after two offensive explosions delivered conference wins over quality opponents, and excitement is permeating through all areas. It creates an atmosphere of close-knit confidence among young and emerging stars like AJ Dillon, Anthony Brown and Kobay White.
"Right before he got (to BC), I reached out to him and started building a relationship," Dillon said of his progressing relationship with Brown. "Last year, we talked on my official visit and joked about our initials (of 'A.B.' and 'A.D.'). Against Louisville, I had a good game, and (against Virginia), Anthony had a good game. I feel like it's all coming together, and I'm really looking forward to what we do this weekend as a team."
It's a well-earned self-respect. Dillon, Brown and White are among the nation's freshmen leaders in their respective offensive categories after breakout performances. The past two weeks brought the Eagles back into the national conversation, and it allows the players and coaches to hang their respective hat on their consistent messages delivered since preseason.
"In the last couple of weeks, certainly offensively, we've been able to make more plays," head coach Steve Addazio told the ACC media this week. "(Brown) is settling in a little bit. We have a series of players that are young players, that we're going into week nine and they're starting to get a little bit more comfort. We're making a few more plays, and it's giving us more explosive diversity on offense."
The trajectory points upward even as BC prepares for arguably its most crucial checkpoint in an uncharacteristically 2-4 Florida State team. The Seminoles started the year as the preseason No. 3-ranked team and were expected to compete for a College Football Playoff spot. An injury to Deondre Francois and subsequent layoff due to Hurricane Irma derailed those dreams, however, and they come to Boston in absolute need of a victory.
"We have to learn to handle those moments and do our best in those exact moments," FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher said. "I always say you can be 3-for-3 in a baseball game (and) have no significant hits. You can be 0-for-3 and get the hit with two outs in the ninth that drives in two runs and be a hero. I think that's what we're going through. The kids have to learn that and they have to understand that."
A win on Friday catapults BC into the Atlantic Division conversation. It would be the first win over the Seminoles since 2009, and it would bring bowl eligibility one step closer. It represents a potential win over an ACC blue blood program and a possible third straight victory - something that hasn't happened since 2013.
But nothing is given, especially against a team like FSU. This is a huge game, and it's going to be a wild night, under the lights, at Alumni Stadium on national television.
*****
Weekly Storylines
Who are you? Who-ooh. Who-ooh.
Florida State enters Friday on the heels of a last-second loss to Louisville. It dropped the Seminoles to 2-4 overall and 2-3 in ACC play. Record wise, it's the worst start since 2009 and is already tied for most losses by a team with Jimbo Fisher as head coach.
The record stems from a number of different reasons, and it starts with a razor thin margin for error. Three of FSU's four losses are by a touchdown or less, including a 27-21 loss to NC State after a three-week layoff. A four-point loss to Miami and last week's loss to Louisville bookend the team's two wins - both by a touchdown - over Wake Forest and Duke.
"Positive attitude - you explain to (the players) what you have to play for and why you have to do it," Fisher said. "These are character tests. Character reveals who you are and what you are. Sometimes things happen to you in life. It's how you deal with them. These are great learning lessons for these kids. (They) explain why this will help them later in life down the road. It will help our football team now and help them personally."
Florida State had to throw untested freshman quarterback James Blackman into that razor thin environment after losing Francois in the season-opening loss to Alabama. It's new territory for the Seminoles, who hadn't started a true freshman since 1985, and although he's been good, there's been the same steep learning curve most young players experience.
He started his career with two solid starts, including 278 yards against NC State, but struggled with interceptions since the Miami game. He's thrown two picks in each of his past three games, with completion percentage dipping to 57% last week against Louisville. On Friday, he heads into a matchup with a ball-hawking defense ranked in among the nation's elite against the pass, including No. 4 nationally in interceptions.
But Blackman can menace defenses, and he's been dominant in the fourth quarter. He has 385 yards passing with four touchdowns in the fourth without an interception, and he brought FSU back from down two scores last week against Louisville. He leads all freshmen QBs with in that regard, and he's one of only 12 signal callers in the nation with those statistics.
"The young quarterback is getting better each week," Steve Addazio said. "They have strong running backs, (and) their tight end (Ryan Izzo) has a lot of experience. (Wide receiver) Auden Tate, I think, is a phenomenal player, a six-five, 225-pound target."
Blackman might not have the overall statistics to blow minds, but he's incredibly talented. ESPN rated him as the No. 24 quarterback recruit in the nation last season, and he gains more experience with each week. If he strings together a performance and plays four 60 minutes like he has in the fourth quarter, he can eviscerate a defense. That creates an exciting matchup for the BC defense.
Pounding the rock
Expect FSU to provide a steady dose of the running game. The Seminoles only rushed 36 carries in their first two games but are averaging over 32 carries in the four games since. Cam Akers had back-to-back 100-yard games against Miami and Duke, and Jacques Patrick quickly broke out following a 120-yard performance against Wake Forest. But Patrick suffered an injury against Louisville and is out for the season.
Even if fifth-year senior Ryan Green or sophomore Amir Rasul see touches, Patrick's injury Florida State will center its offense around a true freshman quarterback and a true freshman running back. That's a worst nightmare scenario for some teams, but Akers was the top-rated running back recruit by both ESPN and 247Sports last year, making him capable of taking a game over on his own.
"Florida State has a lot of great players on their roster," Boston College head coach Steve Addazio said. "They had a tough blow this year, losing their quarterback, but you can see that there's some talented players on their roster right now. I mean this was a team predicted to be a national championship caliber team early in the year."
BC does have a potential mismatch over FSU's left tackle, where the Seminoles start a redshirt freshman in Josh Ball. Ball is a mammoth, standing six feet eight inches and weighing 325 pounds. The Eagles counter with a defensive line anchored by Zach Allen and Harold Landry, who have a combined 17 tackles for losses and nine sacks.
Landry sustained a foot injury but is listed as probable, and he remains one of the nation's most watched defensive linemen. Allen, meanwhile, is tied for the team lead in tackles and tackles for losses; his 65 tackles are tied with linebacker Ty Schwab while he splits evenly in tackles for losses with Landry.
"(FSU) is very physical and very athletic," Allen said of the matchup this week. "You know you have to be on point every play. You can't take a play off or they'll break it. Dalvin Cook last year took it deep on us. You always have to be fundamentally sound."
Papa was a rollin' stone
FSU's defense is as solid as any team in the nation with a lethal combination of size and skill in a 3-4 formation. Every single backer is six feet four inches tall, and the majority weigh around the 230-245 pound range. They combine with a secondary built strong up the middle with leading tackler Derwin James and a defensive line that simply knows how to occupy space.
James, a redshirt sophomore, is the team's leading tackler, followed shortly by linebackers Matthew Thomas and Josh Sweat. James plays free safety, meaning he's the type of up-the-middle player who can step up and make plays while Thomas and Sweat are the outside linebackers trusted to send the extra rusher on blitz packages.
It's a defense that's solid against both the run and pass. Florida State ranks in the top half of bowl subdivision teams in both areas, and its scoring defense only allows 22.5 points per game. It ranks as the No. 33 team in total defense, once again establishing the program as one of the nation's elite units.
BC will counter with the momentum built over the past couple of weeks, specifically on third downs. The Eagles are 19-for-37 in the past two weeks in situational football, allowing them to control time of possession and wear out defenses with good, old-fashioned football theory.
"Anthony did a good job (against Virginia) and we made a couple conversions with his feet, made some with his arm," Steve Addazio said. "That's football today (and) he's doing a good job with that. We have taken some third and mediums, third and shorts and threw the ball on them a little bit which has been good. We still hammered away a little bit at the run game but we were able to make some plays in the throw game."
The Eagles will need to execute longer drives and drag Florida State through long stretches. BC needs to wear out a defense using basic football strategy, which in turn allows it to run more complex plays. Getting the offensive line, now approaching its seventh game with the same starting lineup, rolling is a huge key.
"It kind of all is together," Addazio said. "We fired a little bit more on all cylinders last week. We certainly saw glimpses of it the week before."
For Welles
Americans waking up on Sept. 11, 2001 had no idea their world would change forever that day. They had no way to see what was coming, the horrors of which laid bare in front of them. Life before that morning would shortly end, and a new reality would begin. There was no way of going back, and there was no way of knowing what would happen from there.
People who never met Welles Crowther learned who he was that day, even if they didn't immediately know his name. They lived to tell of the man who helped save their lives by sacrificing his own, identifiable only by a red bandana. They lived to tell the story, eventually identifying a man who was eventually found amongst the remains of a day that went on for years.
Boston College will honor that man on Friday night as part of its "Service Day" home game against Florida State. Their uniforms will accessorize with a red bandanna pattern in honor of Crowther, while American Heroes Channel will present the Red Bandanna Award to its newest honoree. This year, it's Jay Redman, a retired Navy Seal Lieutenant who founded the Combat Wounded Coalition to support veterans overcoming adversity.
When I started writing about Boston College athletics, I learned something pretty quick. From Welles Crowther to Mark Herzlich to Pete Frates, Boston College men and women always rise to a challenge. When faced with personal adversity, they fight their individual battles for others with similar situations. It's a selflessness through service only achieved when those moments come calling.
Life before 9/11 changed in a single instant. The people he saved lived to tell about it, but Welles Crowther never got to see it himself. As years fade, its impact is never diminished. So we remember. We honor the memory and respect Welles' spirit by coming together to celebrate service, emblematic on Friday with the red bandanna pattern that will adorn the Boston College Eagles.
*****
Meteorology 101
It always seems like picture-perfect seasonal weather follows stormy showers and wind. Friday features clear skies and absolutely perfect temperatures at night after a week of turbulent wind and rain.
Game time temperatures will be in the 50s with overnight lows dipping into the 40s, or as my wife calls it, "leggings and boots weather." We've been waiting on this weather for a solid month since the calendar turned to autumn, and it's finally here.
I can't begin to tell everyone how excited I am for this weather, though my Florida friends joke about needing a parka in that weather.
*****
Scoreboard Watching
The Eagles' long march through 2017 finally eases up a little bit after Friday. Next week is a bye week, which allows them to reset a little bit before heading into the final three games of the season.
The college football schedule is intense this weekend, though, and should allow for some great viewing after BC finishes up on Friday. No. 14 NC State, BC's next opponent, heads to No. 9 Notre Dame on Saturday for a nationally-ranked game with potential College Football Playoff implications at 3:30 p.m.
The teams have identical 6-1 records in a year where only six undefeated teams remain. This game becomes a de facto elimination game, then, as the Wolfpack head to South Bend.
That's the headliner in a week that's fast-becoming crunch time in the ACC. No. 8 Miami heads to North Carolina for a bid to remain undefeated, though the Hurricanes aren't the highest-ranked team in the ACC. That's No. 7 Clemson, who hosts Georgia Tech. Miami's game is at 12 p.m. before Clemson kicks off in the nightcap at 8 p.m.
Louisville is at Wake Forest in a key game for both teams' bowl bids; the Demon Deacons are 4-3 overall but only have a lone conference win over BC, while Louisville can clinch bowl eligibility with a win.
Virginia heads to Pittsburgh looking to clinch bowl eligibility for the first time since 2011. The Panthers beat Duke last week, 24-17, to avoid losing for the sixth time this season. They can only afford one more loss if they hope to become bowl eligible.
All in all, these games are all huge. The Atlantic Division has three 2-3 teams sitting behind Syracuse's 2-2 record, and three of those four teams have four losses. In the Coastal Division, two 2-1 teams sit right behind 3-1 Georgia Tech, though no team has more than two losses overall. That would indicate what everyone always believed, that the ACC is the most competitive conference in the nation.
*****
Prediction Time/Pregame Zen
This is the out you've been waiting your whole life for. -Jake Taylor, "Major League"
There's a palpable excitement heading into Friday's game because Boston College simply believes it can beat any opponent. The Eagles are soaring with an offense that just amassed points in bunches and a defense that shut down a 5-1 football team.
To me, that's well-deserved cause for excitement, but it's also caution. Those last two games are in the past. It's great to talk about them, but those games can't do the talking. BC is only as good as the current game in front of them, and that game is against an opponent that is always one of the ACC's best.
I know Florida State's record isn't as strong as past years, but the Seminoles should probably have more wins. This is a team with immeasurable talent and other-worldly skill. It's a team routinely with some of the best natural athletes in college football. Their record can be 6-0, 3-3, 2-4 or 0-6, and I would still consider them a strong competitor every week.
Friday night is going to be downright fun in the lead up. It's the type of game every player dreams of in front of an electric atmosphere honoring the very best of what Boston College stands for.
The past two weeks have been a rise for the Boston College football team. The Eagles are soaring after two offensive explosions delivered conference wins over quality opponents, and excitement is permeating through all areas. It creates an atmosphere of close-knit confidence among young and emerging stars like AJ Dillon, Anthony Brown and Kobay White.
"Right before he got (to BC), I reached out to him and started building a relationship," Dillon said of his progressing relationship with Brown. "Last year, we talked on my official visit and joked about our initials (of 'A.B.' and 'A.D.'). Against Louisville, I had a good game, and (against Virginia), Anthony had a good game. I feel like it's all coming together, and I'm really looking forward to what we do this weekend as a team."
It's a well-earned self-respect. Dillon, Brown and White are among the nation's freshmen leaders in their respective offensive categories after breakout performances. The past two weeks brought the Eagles back into the national conversation, and it allows the players and coaches to hang their respective hat on their consistent messages delivered since preseason.
"In the last couple of weeks, certainly offensively, we've been able to make more plays," head coach Steve Addazio told the ACC media this week. "(Brown) is settling in a little bit. We have a series of players that are young players, that we're going into week nine and they're starting to get a little bit more comfort. We're making a few more plays, and it's giving us more explosive diversity on offense."
The trajectory points upward even as BC prepares for arguably its most crucial checkpoint in an uncharacteristically 2-4 Florida State team. The Seminoles started the year as the preseason No. 3-ranked team and were expected to compete for a College Football Playoff spot. An injury to Deondre Francois and subsequent layoff due to Hurricane Irma derailed those dreams, however, and they come to Boston in absolute need of a victory.
"We have to learn to handle those moments and do our best in those exact moments," FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher said. "I always say you can be 3-for-3 in a baseball game (and) have no significant hits. You can be 0-for-3 and get the hit with two outs in the ninth that drives in two runs and be a hero. I think that's what we're going through. The kids have to learn that and they have to understand that."
A win on Friday catapults BC into the Atlantic Division conversation. It would be the first win over the Seminoles since 2009, and it would bring bowl eligibility one step closer. It represents a potential win over an ACC blue blood program and a possible third straight victory - something that hasn't happened since 2013.
But nothing is given, especially against a team like FSU. This is a huge game, and it's going to be a wild night, under the lights, at Alumni Stadium on national television.
*****
Weekly Storylines
Who are you? Who-ooh. Who-ooh.
Florida State enters Friday on the heels of a last-second loss to Louisville. It dropped the Seminoles to 2-4 overall and 2-3 in ACC play. Record wise, it's the worst start since 2009 and is already tied for most losses by a team with Jimbo Fisher as head coach.
The record stems from a number of different reasons, and it starts with a razor thin margin for error. Three of FSU's four losses are by a touchdown or less, including a 27-21 loss to NC State after a three-week layoff. A four-point loss to Miami and last week's loss to Louisville bookend the team's two wins - both by a touchdown - over Wake Forest and Duke.
"Positive attitude - you explain to (the players) what you have to play for and why you have to do it," Fisher said. "These are character tests. Character reveals who you are and what you are. Sometimes things happen to you in life. It's how you deal with them. These are great learning lessons for these kids. (They) explain why this will help them later in life down the road. It will help our football team now and help them personally."
Florida State had to throw untested freshman quarterback James Blackman into that razor thin environment after losing Francois in the season-opening loss to Alabama. It's new territory for the Seminoles, who hadn't started a true freshman since 1985, and although he's been good, there's been the same steep learning curve most young players experience.
He started his career with two solid starts, including 278 yards against NC State, but struggled with interceptions since the Miami game. He's thrown two picks in each of his past three games, with completion percentage dipping to 57% last week against Louisville. On Friday, he heads into a matchup with a ball-hawking defense ranked in among the nation's elite against the pass, including No. 4 nationally in interceptions.
But Blackman can menace defenses, and he's been dominant in the fourth quarter. He has 385 yards passing with four touchdowns in the fourth without an interception, and he brought FSU back from down two scores last week against Louisville. He leads all freshmen QBs with in that regard, and he's one of only 12 signal callers in the nation with those statistics.
"The young quarterback is getting better each week," Steve Addazio said. "They have strong running backs, (and) their tight end (Ryan Izzo) has a lot of experience. (Wide receiver) Auden Tate, I think, is a phenomenal player, a six-five, 225-pound target."
Blackman might not have the overall statistics to blow minds, but he's incredibly talented. ESPN rated him as the No. 24 quarterback recruit in the nation last season, and he gains more experience with each week. If he strings together a performance and plays four 60 minutes like he has in the fourth quarter, he can eviscerate a defense. That creates an exciting matchup for the BC defense.
Pounding the rock
Expect FSU to provide a steady dose of the running game. The Seminoles only rushed 36 carries in their first two games but are averaging over 32 carries in the four games since. Cam Akers had back-to-back 100-yard games against Miami and Duke, and Jacques Patrick quickly broke out following a 120-yard performance against Wake Forest. But Patrick suffered an injury against Louisville and is out for the season.
Even if fifth-year senior Ryan Green or sophomore Amir Rasul see touches, Patrick's injury Florida State will center its offense around a true freshman quarterback and a true freshman running back. That's a worst nightmare scenario for some teams, but Akers was the top-rated running back recruit by both ESPN and 247Sports last year, making him capable of taking a game over on his own.
"Florida State has a lot of great players on their roster," Boston College head coach Steve Addazio said. "They had a tough blow this year, losing their quarterback, but you can see that there's some talented players on their roster right now. I mean this was a team predicted to be a national championship caliber team early in the year."
BC does have a potential mismatch over FSU's left tackle, where the Seminoles start a redshirt freshman in Josh Ball. Ball is a mammoth, standing six feet eight inches and weighing 325 pounds. The Eagles counter with a defensive line anchored by Zach Allen and Harold Landry, who have a combined 17 tackles for losses and nine sacks.
Landry sustained a foot injury but is listed as probable, and he remains one of the nation's most watched defensive linemen. Allen, meanwhile, is tied for the team lead in tackles and tackles for losses; his 65 tackles are tied with linebacker Ty Schwab while he splits evenly in tackles for losses with Landry.
"(FSU) is very physical and very athletic," Allen said of the matchup this week. "You know you have to be on point every play. You can't take a play off or they'll break it. Dalvin Cook last year took it deep on us. You always have to be fundamentally sound."
Papa was a rollin' stone
FSU's defense is as solid as any team in the nation with a lethal combination of size and skill in a 3-4 formation. Every single backer is six feet four inches tall, and the majority weigh around the 230-245 pound range. They combine with a secondary built strong up the middle with leading tackler Derwin James and a defensive line that simply knows how to occupy space.
James, a redshirt sophomore, is the team's leading tackler, followed shortly by linebackers Matthew Thomas and Josh Sweat. James plays free safety, meaning he's the type of up-the-middle player who can step up and make plays while Thomas and Sweat are the outside linebackers trusted to send the extra rusher on blitz packages.
It's a defense that's solid against both the run and pass. Florida State ranks in the top half of bowl subdivision teams in both areas, and its scoring defense only allows 22.5 points per game. It ranks as the No. 33 team in total defense, once again establishing the program as one of the nation's elite units.
BC will counter with the momentum built over the past couple of weeks, specifically on third downs. The Eagles are 19-for-37 in the past two weeks in situational football, allowing them to control time of possession and wear out defenses with good, old-fashioned football theory.
"Anthony did a good job (against Virginia) and we made a couple conversions with his feet, made some with his arm," Steve Addazio said. "That's football today (and) he's doing a good job with that. We have taken some third and mediums, third and shorts and threw the ball on them a little bit which has been good. We still hammered away a little bit at the run game but we were able to make some plays in the throw game."
The Eagles will need to execute longer drives and drag Florida State through long stretches. BC needs to wear out a defense using basic football strategy, which in turn allows it to run more complex plays. Getting the offensive line, now approaching its seventh game with the same starting lineup, rolling is a huge key.
"It kind of all is together," Addazio said. "We fired a little bit more on all cylinders last week. We certainly saw glimpses of it the week before."
For Welles
Americans waking up on Sept. 11, 2001 had no idea their world would change forever that day. They had no way to see what was coming, the horrors of which laid bare in front of them. Life before that morning would shortly end, and a new reality would begin. There was no way of going back, and there was no way of knowing what would happen from there.
People who never met Welles Crowther learned who he was that day, even if they didn't immediately know his name. They lived to tell of the man who helped save their lives by sacrificing his own, identifiable only by a red bandana. They lived to tell the story, eventually identifying a man who was eventually found amongst the remains of a day that went on for years.
Boston College will honor that man on Friday night as part of its "Service Day" home game against Florida State. Their uniforms will accessorize with a red bandanna pattern in honor of Crowther, while American Heroes Channel will present the Red Bandanna Award to its newest honoree. This year, it's Jay Redman, a retired Navy Seal Lieutenant who founded the Combat Wounded Coalition to support veterans overcoming adversity.
When I started writing about Boston College athletics, I learned something pretty quick. From Welles Crowther to Mark Herzlich to Pete Frates, Boston College men and women always rise to a challenge. When faced with personal adversity, they fight their individual battles for others with similar situations. It's a selflessness through service only achieved when those moments come calling.
Life before 9/11 changed in a single instant. The people he saved lived to tell about it, but Welles Crowther never got to see it himself. As years fade, its impact is never diminished. So we remember. We honor the memory and respect Welles' spirit by coming together to celebrate service, emblematic on Friday with the red bandanna pattern that will adorn the Boston College Eagles.
*****
Meteorology 101
It always seems like picture-perfect seasonal weather follows stormy showers and wind. Friday features clear skies and absolutely perfect temperatures at night after a week of turbulent wind and rain.
Game time temperatures will be in the 50s with overnight lows dipping into the 40s, or as my wife calls it, "leggings and boots weather." We've been waiting on this weather for a solid month since the calendar turned to autumn, and it's finally here.
I can't begin to tell everyone how excited I am for this weather, though my Florida friends joke about needing a parka in that weather.
*****
Scoreboard Watching
The Eagles' long march through 2017 finally eases up a little bit after Friday. Next week is a bye week, which allows them to reset a little bit before heading into the final three games of the season.
The college football schedule is intense this weekend, though, and should allow for some great viewing after BC finishes up on Friday. No. 14 NC State, BC's next opponent, heads to No. 9 Notre Dame on Saturday for a nationally-ranked game with potential College Football Playoff implications at 3:30 p.m.
The teams have identical 6-1 records in a year where only six undefeated teams remain. This game becomes a de facto elimination game, then, as the Wolfpack head to South Bend.
That's the headliner in a week that's fast-becoming crunch time in the ACC. No. 8 Miami heads to North Carolina for a bid to remain undefeated, though the Hurricanes aren't the highest-ranked team in the ACC. That's No. 7 Clemson, who hosts Georgia Tech. Miami's game is at 12 p.m. before Clemson kicks off in the nightcap at 8 p.m.
Louisville is at Wake Forest in a key game for both teams' bowl bids; the Demon Deacons are 4-3 overall but only have a lone conference win over BC, while Louisville can clinch bowl eligibility with a win.
Virginia heads to Pittsburgh looking to clinch bowl eligibility for the first time since 2011. The Panthers beat Duke last week, 24-17, to avoid losing for the sixth time this season. They can only afford one more loss if they hope to become bowl eligible.
All in all, these games are all huge. The Atlantic Division has three 2-3 teams sitting behind Syracuse's 2-2 record, and three of those four teams have four losses. In the Coastal Division, two 2-1 teams sit right behind 3-1 Georgia Tech, though no team has more than two losses overall. That would indicate what everyone always believed, that the ACC is the most competitive conference in the nation.
*****
Prediction Time/Pregame Zen
This is the out you've been waiting your whole life for. -Jake Taylor, "Major League"
There's a palpable excitement heading into Friday's game because Boston College simply believes it can beat any opponent. The Eagles are soaring with an offense that just amassed points in bunches and a defense that shut down a 5-1 football team.
To me, that's well-deserved cause for excitement, but it's also caution. Those last two games are in the past. It's great to talk about them, but those games can't do the talking. BC is only as good as the current game in front of them, and that game is against an opponent that is always one of the ACC's best.
I know Florida State's record isn't as strong as past years, but the Seminoles should probably have more wins. This is a team with immeasurable talent and other-worldly skill. It's a team routinely with some of the best natural athletes in college football. Their record can be 6-0, 3-3, 2-4 or 0-6, and I would still consider them a strong competitor every week.
Friday night is going to be downright fun in the lead up. It's the type of game every player dreams of in front of an electric atmosphere honoring the very best of what Boston College stands for.
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