He might be the GOAT if he was committed to USF to kick. Their kicker had the game of his life until they inexplicably benched him.
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He might be the GOAT if he was committed to USF to kick. Their kicker had the game of his life until they inexplicably benched him.
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ESPN wrote a Tears article for us...
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Lots of good stuff here but here are a few of my favorites:
Florida State's win percentage has fallen by 82.9 percentage points at the moment, from 0.929 to 0.100. In the history of top-division college football, there have been 14,788 teams; only three have had their win percentage fall by more than that, and two played during World War I: 1917 Colorado State (from 6-0-1 to 0-7-1), 1919 Colorado Mines (from 4-0 to 0-4-2) and 2012 Southern Miss (from 12-2 to 0-12). The Seminoles are likely to finish 2-10, beating Charleston Southern this coming weekend and then losing to rival Florida. Those results would drop them to merely the eighth-largest win percentage collapse ever, behind four more teams from 1950 or earlier.
If you prefer advanced stats, FSU has also cratered by that measure: The Seminoles finished ninth in SP+ last season but are currently 92nd. In terms of percentile ratings, they've fallen from 94.1% to 33.0%. Granted, there's still a sliver of friendly preseason projections impacting the current ratings, so the Noles could fall even further over the last couple of games, but that 61.1% drop is still the 40th largest on record and the fourth largest of the 2000s behind 2018 Louisville (from 87.8% to 15.1%), 2012 Southern Miss (from 73.1% to 4.5%) and 2009 Ball State (from 75.6% to 12.5%).
Florida State probably isn't going to be this horrendously awful for long, in other words. It was almost impossible for this to happen once -- this genuinely is one of the greatest collapses this very old sport has ever seen -- and it probably won't happen again. But the odds of a full rebound under Norvell aren't great either.
From 13-0 to 1-9: How historically bad has Florida State's collapse been?
Bill Connelly puts the Seminoles' free fall in perspective and looks at other teams that have had similar drop-offs.
Lots of good stuff here but here are a few of my favorites:
Florida State's win percentage has fallen by 82.9 percentage points at the moment, from 0.929 to 0.100. In the history of top-division college football, there have been 14,788 teams; only three have had their win percentage fall by more than that, and two played during World War I: 1917 Colorado State (from 6-0-1 to 0-7-1), 1919 Colorado Mines (from 4-0 to 0-4-2) and 2012 Southern Miss (from 12-2 to 0-12). The Seminoles are likely to finish 2-10, beating Charleston Southern this coming weekend and then losing to rival Florida. Those results would drop them to merely the eighth-largest win percentage collapse ever, behind four more teams from 1950 or earlier.
If you prefer advanced stats, FSU has also cratered by that measure: The Seminoles finished ninth in SP+ last season but are currently 92nd. In terms of percentile ratings, they've fallen from 94.1% to 33.0%. Granted, there's still a sliver of friendly preseason projections impacting the current ratings, so the Noles could fall even further over the last couple of games, but that 61.1% drop is still the 40th largest on record and the fourth largest of the 2000s behind 2018 Louisville (from 87.8% to 15.1%), 2012 Southern Miss (from 73.1% to 4.5%) and 2009 Ball State (from 75.6% to 12.5%).
Florida State probably isn't going to be this horrendously awful for long, in other words. It was almost impossible for this to happen once -- this genuinely is one of the greatest collapses this very old sport has ever seen -- and it probably won't happen again. But the odds of a full rebound under Norvell aren't great either.
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Charleston Southern by 5 tuddys
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FSU should win...and the transitive property doesnt work.
But just for fun CSU beat a ranked FCS team, almost beat a second ranked team and FSU is a decent Cal FG kicker away from being 0-fer.
Stranger things have happened.
But just for fun CSU beat a ranked FCS team, almost beat a second ranked team and FSU is a decent Cal FG kicker away from being 0-fer.
Stranger things have happened.
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Apparently Mike Norvell agrees.
Mike Norvell on FSU's upcoming game against 1-9 FCS Charleston Southern:
"We’ve got to play our best game:”
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I'm very disappointed in your South Carolina heritage, sir.
Charleston Southern is now 1-10...
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Hopefully FSU will be too.
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The funniest possible outcome of F$U's season would be a loss to Charleson Southern and a victory over the Hogtown Gator.
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He go there and it wouldn’t move any needle. His fall off is about as hard as FSU’s.
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Felonious Monk
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That would be magnificent.
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Yeah that threw me off too..Is Venice Fla on the West side of the state or something? lol.
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Solomon Thomas and Kevin Wynn are flipping. I really dont know what FSU's plan is this offseason portal guys are known to be like 1.5-2x more expensive than recruits.
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