College football 2018 Week 3 thread

FSU’s line is epically bad. Due to injuries, poor recruiting and stale S&C the past couple of years, the guys playing tackle are actually guards. And the guards are back ups or worse. They’re *thisclose* to starting walk-ons.

FSU was a lost team last year with a staff that quit early. This year, they’re playing a Top 5 schedule without any path offensively — they can’t play tempo, can’t protect the QB, can’t run block (and the receivers aren’t good blockers, either), all of which really limits the playbook. It’s gonna be bad...it’s hard to see a course to bowl eligibility and another winning season — both streaks that are active records — without something magically happening along the line.

 

That was a commonly believed/spouted line. If it had any legitimacy before this week, it is surely gone now.

 

It's a miracle that OL hasn't gotten Francois killed. Yet.

 

Film room is gonna hurt.

 

I don't know who should be more concerned the fans of FSU or Texas A&M.

Really surprised how much UCLA, Nebraska and the Noles have struggled. Sure glad for Helton he signed a five-year extension earlier this year at USC.

 

There was a crazy finish to that Arizona State-San Diego State game.
Arizona State had 9 yards of offense in the second half until there were about 4 minutes left. San Diego State scores to go up 28-14, ASU answers with a touchdown drive against the prevent defense, and San Diego State gets the ball back on the onside kick.
San Diego State breaks a 20-yard run to ice the game with 43 seconds left, but has the ball stripped at the end. ASU recovers and eventually hits a long pass down to the 1-yard line with 6 seconds left. SDSU defender is called for targeting and, as they're reviewing the penalty, the officials also decide the receiver dropped the ball.
End result is Arizona State gets the ball at the 35 instead of the 1, and a hail mary gets knocked down.
Fun ending to what looked like a run of the mill finish.

 

How many scholarships do D1 teams get? If they end up starting more than 1 walk-on on the line every coach should be fired.

 

You’re right. Starting was probably not accurate.

They lost both starting tackles after last year — one a surprise draft entrant who went in the fourth and the other dismissed from the team. Another player transferred and one quit outright.

Best I can tell they have 14 scholarship linemen, four of them true freshmen and another a senior who converted from DL this offseason. Both of their starting OTs before injuries hit were guards.

 

No one but me and — maybe @KJIM — cares enough to read this, but this digs in pretty comprehensively on the o-line debacle.

How did Florida State’s offensive line get this bad?

 

Different version of the same thing: Florida State misery: How did the football program get here?

Another story said the GoFundMe accounts (or whatever you call those things) set up to buy out Taggart's contract have a combined total of $10. And that somehow warranted a story.

 

People are stupid (they are) if they’re aiming to pin this on Taggart and his staff. He’s certainly guilty of being too charismatic and accessible a coach that fans ignored all the flaws in this team and the Top 5 schedule because dammit he did all the right things to ingratiate himself.