My concern about FSU (who I hope wins, for the record) is that they have the same apparent flaw that I saw in Oregon as the season progressed - they were so explosive and dynamic that they jumped out to insurmountable leads and never had to fight and claw their way out of a hole. I say this anecdotally, because I don't think I watched an entire FSU game all season.

Can the 'Noles overcome adversity if they get punched in the mouth? As much as I want the entire Auburn football program to implode Monday night (not the least of which in an effort to take their recruiting down a notch), the one thing you can't say about them is that they don't know how to come back to win. Granted, they nearly gave up a 20 pt lead to us and practically self-destructed in the final 16 minutes of the game, save one fluke play.

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Posted by S1C EM

Athens, GA

Member since Nov 2007

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Posted on 1/3/14 at 9:32 am to VoxDawg

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they were so explosive and dynamic that they jumped out to insurmountable leads and never had to fight and claw their way out of a hole. I say this anecdotally, because I don't think I watched an entire FSU game all season.

I doubt you will see your question get answered on Monday. FSU will not ever have to make much of a comeback. Everyone keeps focusing on their offense. These guys have the best D in college football to go with it and 9 NFL draft picks or some such (kinda like us last year, but with superior coaching). They will play to stop the run early and force Marshall to throw it....because they have the number 1 secondary in the nation. Same gameplan we tried, except our secondary makes guys like Vad Lee look like number 1 draft picks.