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FSU Football: Why blowout loss to Clemson was what Noles needed

When the story is written on the 2018 FSU football team, it’s going to be the story of a team who suffered their first losing campaign in over four decades and can be summed up in one moment – a 49 point loss at home to a Clemson team that beat them by just three points in the game in Tallahassee just two years before.

It’s a game that was the sign that things were going to end in a losing season – the Seminoles won just one of their final four games to finish with a 5-7 record – and squarely put the focus of venom and hate from both critics and some fans of the Seminoles right on the shoulders of head coach Willie Taggart.