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.