Nearly 10 years ago, there was an ACC team that needed a miracle to beat LSU. The 4th and 16 play lives in Clemson lore, as the Tigers beat LSU 25-24 on December 31, 2012, and it was the beginning of the Clemson Tigers returning to the top of the college football mountain in 2016. Like Mike Norvell, Dabo Swinney also had his share of low moments in his first few years at Clemson.
Sunday night maybe just maybe, Florida State got their version of that signature win.
LSU came into the game unranked, but make no mistake they had a lot of NFL on that team, and they were playing in their home from away from home in the New Orleans Super Dome.
Florida State played their best game in over 5 years. They bullied LSU at the line of scrimmage in a way many didn’t think was possible.
We told you in August that Florida State could do some special things behind QB Jordan Travis.
Jordan Travis, QB – Florida State
Jordan Travis isn’t exactly under the radar, but in a conference stacked with talented QBs Travis’s name doesn’t come up very often as one of the conference’s best QBs. In that regard, we tend to forget during the 2nd half of last year Travis was playing some of the best football of his career. He completed nearly 63% of passes last year, and his decision-making took a leap forward. He’s a true dual-threat quarterback, and if he continues improving at the rate he did last year FSU could be one of the ACC’s surprise teams. The Noles are his team in 2022.
We can safely say, that Jordan Travis has become FSU’s version of the 2012 Clemson QB Tajh Boyd.
The QB that builds the foundation.
Travis was calm under pressure, and he showed his usual great mobility. He made 3rd down play after 3rd down play through the air, and he outplayed the talented LSU QB Jayden Daniels.
Both lines of scrimmage played as well as they have in years.
It wasn’t easy, as Florida State inexplicably pitched the ball as they were trying to close out the game resulting in a lost fumble.
LSU drove the field 99 yards and was an extra point away from tieing the game. If that XP goes, LSU is winning in OT. You just don’t recover from collapses like that.
Florida State didn’t collapse though. They blocked the XP in a finish for the ages.
The Noles are by no means a finished product, but games like this are where it starts.
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