TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- For most of his first two years at Florida State, Jordan Travis tried to ignore the voice in his head, the one that kept telling him he wasn't good enough to play college football.
Maybe it started at Louisville, where he'd landed as a freshman, enmeshed in the chaos of Bobby Petrino's miserable final season there. It certainly got louder in 2019 after he transferred to FSU -- his "dream school" -- where the staff thought he had talent, but wasn't sure he was a true QB. The voice got loud enough that, when he took the practice field in 2020 with Mike Norvell and a new staff of coaches, he struggled to consistently throw a spiral.