FSU football: A look back my 2020 schedule predictions

As FSU football is in their second bye week this season, we go back to take a look back at my predictions for the season.

Before the start of the season, with hope in my heart, a new job writing for this publication, and some of the most biased analysis ever, I, a lifelong FSU Seminoles fan, tried to predict wins and losses based on initial impressions from FSU and their opponents. (view here)

I got a lot of it wrong. Like, a lot, a lot. I was so wrong on so many levels, and it hurts me to my core.

I probably shouldn’t have set myself up for this. I was bold on Twitter and wanted to back it up, but this was a year totally controlled by COVID-19 and not the college football scriptwriters.

Shoot, the schedule I based my predictions off of was changed a few days later when Samford, our only out of conference opponent, canceled their season, and FSU had to quickly fill that spot.

I wouldn’t say that was where it went all wrong because with how this season has gone, maybe we would have lost to Samford. I say it went wrong in early March when three days into spring practice, the nation went into a shutdown, and there was no evaluation period for a staff that just joined the program a little less than three months prior.

Early on, the effects of that were felt, and preseason camp, and those early games were as much about player evaluation as they were about preparation. Unfortunately, that combination leads to losses mounting quickly.

We are seven weeks into the most volatile college football season in recent memory. With six games in hand and a 2-4 record, let’s take a look back at those predictions and see how we thought things have gone.