Florida State lost its starting quarterback for the season in Week 1 and haven’t even played a game since then, but these things don’t seem to have shaken Vegas’ confidence in them for this week. NC State enters this week as an 11-point underdog to the Seminoles.
This is a difficult game to figure for the reasons I mentioned above—will three weeks of off time have FSU out of sorts a bit? Maybe they will be a bit rusty at the outset, though that doesn’t necessarily matter, either.
We have only a week’s worth of data on the Seminoles, but I feel pretty confident in saying that their defense is good—probably good enough for them to overcome whatever mistakes the new starting quarterback forces the team to endure.