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So how come I never met this guy? He lives in Florida, is an FSU fan, a Mac user, and a Halo player. I’m sure we’d get along famously.
My Orlando friends have some ’splainin to do.

Last year at this time I stated:
We could go 2-7 next year, and if the two were Miami and Florida I’d call it a successful season.
Unfortunately, I was eerily prophetic on how bad this season would be. But as this game kicks off, there is hope.
The reader should be aware that I am watching [...]

Since Jeff Bowden took the job as Florida State’s offensive coordinator in 2000, FSU has never finished in the top ten. This past weekend, FSU was blown out and shut out at home by Wake Forest.
Yesterday, he did the honorable thing and resigned. (Later breaking news revealed that the FSU Boosters agreed to [...]

Which of the following teams are ahead of the Florida State Seminoles in one or more of the NCAA Football polls:

Boise State
ACC Rivals Clemson, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, AND Boston College
Rutgers
Every single team listed in 1, 2, and 3.

If you answered (4), you are unfortunately correct. Argh.

All quarters should begin with an FSU touchdown. That is my new policy. FSU ties it, 10 - 10, virtually guaranteeing this game comes down to a field goal.
A couple of very nice passes by Weatherford, and then we’re visiaully assaulted by Holly Rowe and her now-uncovered hathead. Could someone please keep [...]

First rule of the shotgun: catch the shotgun.
Really, this multiple camera angle approach on ESPN2 would be so much more interesting if there were a camera in the cheerleaders’ locker rooms. I really don’t care what the line judge is looking at.
First running yards of the season? A pointless run by Weatherford. [...]

On first sight, that Jenkins catch was out of bounds. Watching the replay, he had both feet in bounds, but the play is under review. I don’t think this one will get called back. Bad position for the good guys.
Or, we can just take fifteen yards back by sodomizing your QB. [...]

Miami flushed almost its entire coaching staff in the off season, booting everyone but Head Coach Larry Coker and the Ibis - possibly the dumbest mascot in all of college football, even counting the Delaware Blue Hens. The inexperience of this maiden coaching crew shows in the team’s play: Miami’s committed two very [...]

Both teams had so many chances to win this game and blew them all… we basically lost this one on a missed PAT in the first half.
That safety call was pretty much a crock, too.
But you get two coaches together like this, you know you;’re going to end up with a good game. At [...]

A guy in a hospital, coming out of the newborn ward and wearing a hospital-issue plasic bracelet, holds the elevator door to make your life easier and you trash his team?

I was really afraid coming into this game. We were coming off a three-loss roll, and Tech had one of the strongest defenses in the country. I needn’t have worried. Somehow, the offense put together a complete game and the defense held firm.
I had forgotten that Frank Beamer’s Hokies haven’t [...]

Where was this team last week? 27 - 3, and the Noles have clearly unlocked the Hokies’ defense. Play-calling and execution on offense have been excellent, and our defense has held. It’s looking good!

Bobby Bowden has a Florida State Trooper escort at every game for security. It seems to be the same one all year long - a plum assignment for a highly senior trooper. Brent Musberger attributes the following quote to Coach Bowden’s current escort:
Coach, if you end up going to Idaho for a bowl [...]

Shades of the 90’s!
FSU ran a punt back, seemingly hundreds of yards but probably only dozens, for a touchdown. On the following drive by Virginia Tech, FSU intercepted deep in their own territory. Weatherford strung together several medium-deep passes capped off with yet another touchdown. For a brief second I [...]

At halftime, we have a 3 - 3 tie. I expected Virginia Tech’s defense to play well, and FSU’s defensive effort has been a pleasant surprise. Only time will tell if we can keep it up.

After last week’s miserable performance, the Seminoles can tonight salvage a rough season and get a bid to a BCS bowl by beating Virginia Tech to win ACC Championship.
When FSU joined the ACC, it was primarily a basketball conference. The original teams, Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, Maryland, Clemson, Wake Forest, [...]

Hasn’t stopped sucking yet.

This is really starting to suck.

It’s 17-0, Gators leading, and I’m still wondering when the bus will arrive that was supposed to bring my football team to Gainesville.

The halfwits in the broadcast booth have just said that this game is less important than next week’s ACC Championship game. Steve Spurrier used to say the same thing about the SEC Championship game. The idiot commentators said that Bobby Bowden must now feel the same way this year, the first year [...]