FSU Football: Top 5 Seminole standouts against North Carolina

I was going to put the whole offense here, but I don’t think there is an offense without Travis at the helm. He is a dynamic athlete in every sense of the word and elevates the play of everyone around him.

He was not statistically brilliant, only completing 8 of 19 throws, but the threat of his legs allowed for each of those catches to be big plays, accumulating 191 yards off of them, and kept the UNC defense mostly honest. If you don’t have Travis’s, the game goes sideways quickly.

Travis also created on the ground, again, getting 107 yards on 16 carries, but that also provided opportunities for the running backs. La’Damian Webb and Jashaun Corbin combined for 136 yards on 19 rushes.

This system allows, what we thought would be a terrible offensive line, to get out on the attack instead of sitting back and allowing people to run through them like we saw against Georgia Tech and Miami.

Drop back throws have been extremely limited in this new offense, but we haven’t needed them. Pure passing plays seem to be a sort of play action with just Travis.

Take the Preston Daniel pop pass, where, stuck behind the 10-yard line on a third and long, the offensive line attacked the blitz, Travis rolled away and threw across his body to a wide-open freshman walk-on who took it near midfield.

This explosiveness means that everyone has to be ready to make big plays, no matter who it is. Helton had two big catches, Ontaria Wilson had a 58-yard catch, and even Warren Thompson has made a few plays when his number’s been called.

The new offense under Travis allows for big plays in the running and passing game.