28-7 right now in the 2nd quarter. Not many around here would typically care about this game however Duke needs to win out to play in the ACC title game against FSU. If they lose this week or next, then Georgia Tech is headed to ... uh... Charlotte? Where do they play the ACC title? Regardless... If Duke loses, Tech is playing in the title game.
I have to think FSU easily beats both. Duke's defense isnt good enough. And Tech's offense cant keep up.
I think GA Tech has a great chance of beating FSU. That offense can chew clock up. If they get the run game going they won't need to keep up. If Jameis continues his poor first half performance and tosses a pick or two, we could see FSU have it's reign of terror ended.
Quote:I think GA Tech has a great chance of beating FSU. That offense can chew clock up. If they get the run game going they won't need to keep up. If Jameis continues his poor first half performance and tosses a pick or two, we could see FSU have it's reign of terror ended.
This has been the narrative week after week. At some point it may catch up to them...they have to come out of the gate stronger.
Quote:I think GA Tech has a great chance of beating FSU. That offense can chew clock up. If they get the run game going they won't need to keep up. If Jameis continues his poor first half performance and tosses a pick or two, we could see FSU have it's reign of terror ended.
Didn't GT need Duke to win to get into the ACC Title game? I could be wrong.
Before last night they both had 2 conference losses. GT was 6-2 and done with the conference schedule, Duke was 4-2 with two games left, but held the tiebreaker over GT based on head-to-head. So GT definitely needed Duke to lose.
As an FSU fan, I wanted to play Duke because we've already had injury issues on the d-line and facing those option teams that chop block with regularity can be dangerous.
The big question will be how FSU approaches the next three games. Most of the year they played a lot of spread offenses so they made the nickel defense their base defense with Ramsay playing the Star position (nickelback) and serving as the third linebacker against pro-sets. Against Miami they went with a 3-4 defense in the first half out of respect for Duke Johnson and got shredded through the air. Miami would come out with multiple TE/FB and a RB and then spread out with empty sets to target the LB in the passing game. Then FSU went back to nickel in the second half even against the big sets and dared Miami to run it at them. We know how that went.
So is FSU going to go big against BC, UF, and GT or stay with the nickel package that has their best players on the field and dare them to run it? All can be very good on the ground and I'm not sure how Ramsay (6'1 204) is going to hold up primarily as a LB for three straight games.
Quote:Before last night they both had 2 conference losses. GT was 6-2 and done with the conference schedule, Duke was 4-2 with two games left, but held the tiebreaker over GT based on head-to-head. So GT definitely needed Duke to lose.
As an FSU fan, I wanted to play Duke because we've already had injury issues on the d-line and facing those option teams that chop block with regularity can be dangerous.
The big question will be how FSU approaches the next three games. Most of the year they played a lot of spread offenses so they made the nickel defense their base defense with Ramsay playing the Star position (nickelback) and serving as the third linebacker against pro-sets. Against Miami they went with a 3-4 defense in the first half out of respect for Duke Johnson and got shredded through the air. Miami would come out with multiple TE/FB and a RB and then spread out with empty sets to target the LB in the passing game. Then FSU went back to nickel in the second half even against the big sets and dared Miami to run it at them. We know how that went.
So is FSU going to go big against BC, UF, and GT or stay with the nickel package that has their best players on the field and dare them to run it? All can be very good on the ground and I'm not sure how Ramsay (6'1 204) is going to hold up primarily as a LB for three straight games.
Got ya. As an outsider I was hoping it would be GT.