I have a lot of hope going forward. Here’s three reasons why:
1) The defense ain’t bad y’all.
Throw out the deer in the headlights performance against West Virginia in NC State’s first road game, and you will see that the defense is actually playing pretty well. Florida State has averaged 6.1 yards per play against every team on its schedule so far not named NC State, but it managed just 5.1 against the Pack. State is covering tighter and blitzing more, a combination that led to eight (!) sacks against the Seminoles. An egregious and inexcusable late hit extended one of FSU’s TD drives, and a diminutive, third-string corner’s refusal to line up correctly and even attempt to tackle Cam Akers led to FSU’s final TD.