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FSU football: Offense explodes to lead Noles past Jacksonville State

By Kelvin Hunt

TALLAHASSEE, FL - OCTOBER 10: Florida State Seminoles fans cheer during a game against the Miami Hurricanes at Doak Campbell Stadium on October 10, 2015 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
TALLAHASSEE, FL - OCTOBER 10: Florida State Seminoles fans cheer during a game against the Miami Hurricanes at Doak Campbell Stadium on October 10, 2015 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images) /
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FSU football managed to get its first official win in the Mike Norvell era. The ‘Noles offense came alive after the first quarter behind Jordan Travis.

FSU football fans got its first taste of victory behind a 41-24 showing Saturday evening. Fans wanted a change at quarterback and got one when freshman Tate Rodemaker replaced James Blackman as the starter against Jacksonville State.

However, the freshman’s first start didn’t go well as he threw a pick-six interception on FSU’s first offensive possession.

The Noles missed a 49-yard field goal on their second possession and had a three-and-out on their third possession.

At that point, the Noles were down 14-0 and it looked like they were about to get their doors blown off because the defense was getting pushed around.

The defense managed to force a punt on back-to-back drives and the FSU offense took over after Jordan Travis was inserted at the quarterback position.

The Noles rattled off touchdown drives on back-to-back possessions before halftime, and scored touchdowns on the next three drives in the third quarter to go up 34-24 with Ryan Fitzgerald missing the extra point.

FSU was able to establish a running behind freshman Lawrance Toafili, La’Damian Webb, and Jashaun Corbin. Both Toafili and Webb found the end zone as the Noles had over 200 rushing yards in the game. Toafili’s touchdown is below:

Thoughts

If you watched the game live, there was a very real feeling the Noles were about to get blown out by an FCS team playing in their first game of the season.

The offense looks different from the competent quarterback play, but there is something terribly wrong with the FSU football defense. Adam Fuller has a lot of work to do and some questions to answer. There’s no reason we should be consistently seeing this in games:

I wrote earlier this week, things will turnaround in Tallahassee if they were to get better quarterback play. It was Jacksonville State, but it still progressed, which was something all FSU football fans needed to see.

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I think the most important takeaway was the team didn’t quit when they got hit with a crazy amount of adversity early in the game.

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