The FSU offense was among the best in college football over the first three weeks. However, they have failed to deliver when the team needed them the most over the past two weeks in losing efforts. A large component of those losses is six turnovers(really five, since one was on the final play of the UVA game).
FSU moved the ball with ease against a bad UVA defense and had chunks of success against Miami. Admittedly, one of those turnovers in the UVA game was fluky, but the two interceptions by Thomas Castellanos in the Miami game were inexcusable.
One thing we wrote about in the offseason was how the coaching staff wanted Castellanos to follow the Jordan Travis blueprint, and one of the key factors was not turning the ball over. Jordan Travis was a master of that, making good decisions with the football and not giving the opposing team momentum.
It’s something Coach Mike Norvell stressed in interviews before the season, saying, “Tommy just needs to stay within himself and try not to do too much.” Ironically, it’s something he did well over the first two weeks, and we pointed out how underappreciated it was here.
The offense isn’t far off, and it’s relatively easy to fix with a few small changes. We look at three of them here.