FSU football: What’s the Jordan Travis effect on this team?

Third Down Conversions

FSU went 10 of 16 on third downs against Jacksonville State, which equals a 62.5 percent conversion rate. Is that sustainable? Probably not, but it gives you a good understanding of what he brings to the table.

Every offense wants to have success on first and second downs to make third downs manageable.

Some of the success was likely due to the level of competition, but a large portion of it was their ability to stay in manageable down and distance on third down.

Again, they probably won’t convert those even, those manageable downs at that high of a rate against quality competition, but it does give them a realistic chance to do so more often.

If they can consistently avoid negative plays and convert on third downs, this offense will be difficult to stop. There’s a reason why Mike Norvell’s offenses have been ranked so highly in the past few years.

Memphis converted third downs 46 percent of the time in 2019 and averaged over 40 points per game.

I wrote FSU would have to outscore opponents the next couple of seasons until they can get the pieces in place for the defense to carry some of the load.