FSU football: Grading our top 10 BOLD predictions for 2022 season
By Kelvin Hunt
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I post BOLD predictions before every season, and they are always fun to do as it involves some projecting and some luck.
Notice the word BOLD for those FSU football season predictions, so they were out of the ordinary for a reason.
The expectations for FSU football were between a pessimistic and wait-and-see mode for the 2022 season for most fans. However, I expected the team to perform better than most based on roster additions and experience returning.
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I said several times if stayed healthy in the trenches and at quarterback, I liked them to win eight games. The crazy thing is the season almost got derailed with an injury to Jordan Travis against Louisville, but the crisis got averted.
However, injuries still affected the season with the FSU defense having at least three starters affected by injuries for multiple games.
The predictions were BOLD, but it doesn’t look like I was too far off with a few of them. Let’s look back at those 10 predictions and see how close I was in predicting the future.