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USCJacket said:
DJU made more plays than people (FSU fans) give him credit for. Converting 2 4th and longs when down 7 for example. His stats were not bad. 19/27 for 193 yards. He’s just not a mobile QB.

FSU is going to have their hands full Monday night. Castellanos is a very good dual threat QB (as we all saw last year). He’s now in the perfect system with Bill O’Brien calling plays. Would not surprise me to see BC win.
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DJU made his living off the game against Notre Dame when he was at Clemson.
If that was still Jordan Travis at QB for FSU on Saturday, we might have gotten shredded. And, truthfully, we got a couple of huge breaks on the fumble and the errant snap on the last drive. Even the FSU players have no idea how Shelley held on to that punt when he got lit up at the 10.
FSU will get it figured out. They have some good running backs. But plugging a new QB into a new system with a whole bunch of other new pieces probably was going to take something more than an intrasquad scrimmage to help get figured out.
For their part, FSU does have some big games left. So finishing with no worse than two losses is now going to be really tricky. But I think they'll be all right.
For us, if we have to keep bringing the kitchen sink to stop the run, someone will game plan against us for that. That's my worry defensively. Offensively, we can run the ball. We know it; they know it. Geep Wade as OL coach was one of the most underrated hires for this staff.
But Saturday, against the Panthers of the concrete campus, I just don't have the anxiety. It's a first game as a full time head coach for Dell McGee (lot of folks at Southern hoped he would get the job after Fritz left and he was in the bowl game interim guy). And I think the talent gap is greater between Tech and State than it was for Tech and FSU - and FSU looked like a damn NFL team coming on the field. I really thought we might get blown out from that and the first five minutes in.

There are some interesting names on the other sideline, beyond Watson and Gibson. Joshua Black was one of the two OL commits Clown did not keep when taking over in 2018. CJ Beasley is a pretty good running back who transferred from Coastal Carolina, IIRC.
And the coaching staff has Rod Rook-Chungong (in a player development role) and a grad assistant named Taquon Marshall, plus former Tech assistants Kevin Sherrer and Jim Chaney (who was an analyst).

I just ... don't have the worry going into this game as I did before, say, Northern Illinois. Of course, the biggest difference from that is the talent between the headset earpieces. I also don't get the feeling this is going to be close to a repeat of Bowling Green from last year. But it also may not be quite the repeat of Bowling Green from 18.
 
I don't understand the Jordan would have shredded us and also I think FSU had a few breaks. We had a sack and had an unfortunate facemask and then the interference call to me was baloney and then their kicker on that (slippery slippery} field LOL kicks 52 and 59 yarders - wow!!!!!
 
georgytech said:
From G State page
PANTHERS VS. POWER 5: This is Georgia State's 17th game against an opponent from the Power Four or Five conference and fourth vs. the ACC. The Panthers have also faced foes from the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac 12.
> Most notably, the Panthers' 38-30 victory at Tennessee in the 2019 season opener is the program's only win over a Power Five team. In that game, Georgia State trailed 17-14 at the half but outscored the Vols 24-13 in the second half, sealing the win on a 22-yard touchdown run by QB Dan Ellington with five minutes left.
> GSU has also held second-half leads vs. North Carolina in 2022 (scored 25 straight points to take a 28-21 lead late in third quarter), at Auburn in 2021 (led 24-19 until the Tigers scored the go-ahead touchdown on a fourth-down play with 45 seconds left) and at No. 9 Wisconsin in 2016 (led 17-13 with under eight minutes left).
> Georgia State will host Vanderbilt on Sept. 14, giving the Panthers two games against Power 5 opponents for the third time in the last four years and the fifth time overall:

2013: West Virginia, Alabama
2014: Washington, Clemson
2021: North Carolina, Auburn
2022: South Carolina, North Carolina (home)
2024: Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt (home)
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I was at that Auburn game. It wasn’t the Georgia State played well, Auburn played like dog öööö the whole game.
 
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swampsting said:
DJU made his living off the game against Notre Dame when he was at Clemson.
If that was still Jordan Travis at QB for FSU on Saturday, we might have gotten shredded. And, truthfully, we got a couple of huge breaks on the fumble and the errant snap on the last drive. Even the FSU players have no idea how Shelley held on to that punt when he got lit up at the 10.
FSU will get it figured out. They have some good running backs. But plugging a new QB into a new system with a whole bunch of other new pieces probably was going to take something more than an intrasquad scrimmage to help get figured out.
For their part, FSU does have some big games left. So finishing with no worse than two losses is now going to be really tricky. But I think they'll be all right.
For us, if we have to keep bringing the kitchen sink to stop the run, someone will game plan against us for that. That's my worry defensively. Offensively, we can run the ball. We know it; they know it. Geep Wade as OL coach was one of the most underrated hires for this staff.
But Saturday, against the Panthers of the concrete campus, I just don't have the anxiety. It's a first game as a full time head coach for Dell McGee (lot of folks at Southern hoped he would get the job after Fritz left and he was in the bowl game interim guy). And I think the talent gap is greater between Tech and State than it was for Tech and FSU - and FSU looked like a damn NFL team coming on the field. I really thought we might get blown out from that and the first five minutes in.

There are some interesting names on the other sideline, beyond Watson and Gibson. Joshua Black was one of the two OL commits Clown did not keep when taking over in 2018. CJ Beasley is a pretty good running back who transferred from Coastal Carolina, IIRC.
And the coaching staff has Rod Rook-Chungong (in a player development role) and a grad assistant named Taquon Marshall, plus former Tech assistants Kevin Sherrer and Jim Chaney (who was an analyst).

I just ... don't have the worry going into this game as I did before, say, Northern Illinois. Of course, the biggest difference from that is the talent between the headset earpieces. I also don't get the feeling this is going to be close to a repeat of Bowling Green from last year. But it also may not be quite the repeat of Bowling Green from 18.
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Maybe shredded.....how did Travis and FSU do against BC last season?
 
BuzzCzar said:
They dont sell them at games any more?
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No. And you can't really see your phone during a day game to look at the line ups and rosters. I used to really like looking at the rosters in the program to see who was who, pretty much all game. Now, if you aren't a starter or play a lot, I have no clue who you are.
 
JJacket said:
No. And you can't really see your phone during a day game to look at the line ups and rosters. I used to really like looking at the rosters in the program to see who was who, pretty much all game. Now, if you aren't a starter or play a lot, I have no clue who you are.
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Lame. Thanks, internet!!
And NIL! Guess the ROI on NIL is higher than ROI on programs... still, that's weak

Sell one program all season. Dont worry about the opposing team inserts crap. Love your team, tho. Every player and their families would prob like a program, too.
 
JJacket said:
Maybe shredded.....how did Travis and FSU do against BC last season?
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How did we do against BC? At home, no less
They won, on the road.

Even good to great teams have that at least one game where they are lucky to get out with their hides intact.
 
79tech said:
I don't understand the Jordan would have shredded us and also I think FSU had a few breaks. We had a sack and had an unfortunate facemask and then the interference call to me was baloney and then their kicker on that (slippery slippery} field LOL kicks 52 and 59 yarders - wow!!!!!
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Interference call was probably right. Facemask calls aren't unfortunate.
Besides, they missed some big plays. DJU had some guys wide open and didn't throw to them early.
He missed reads an experienced QB - like Travis - makes. Plus, he's glacier slow. If we have DJU and they have Haynes King, I think they win. DJU can spin it, but he also has a lot of progress to make as a QB.
And they should have pounced on that fumble. Their dude tried to scoop it instead of falling on it. That was a huge break our way. Very well may have changed the outcome.
We played well enough to win. We were going to have play to close to perfect to pull that one off and we were not far from it.
But our margin for error is still very thin against better competition. We can't go -3 in turnovers against Night School this weekend, but if we're even close in turnover margin, it shouldn't be close on the scoreboard.
 
JJacket said:
Yes they did. What does that have to do with BC / FSU?
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because who gives a öööö about BC-FSU from last year? FSU won. Won ugly but who gives a öööö? Sometimes you gotta win ugly.
 
swampsting said:
Interference call was probably right. Facemask calls aren't unfortunate.
Besides, they missed some big plays. DJU had some guys wide open and didn't throw to them early.
He missed reads an experienced QB - like Travis - makes. Plus, he's glacier slow. If we have DJU and they have Haynes King, I think they win. DJU can spin it, but he also has a lot of progress to make as a QB.
And they should have pounced on that fumble. Their dude tried to scoop it instead of falling on it. That was a huge break our way. Very well may have changed the outcome.
We played well enough to win. We were going to have play to close to perfect to pull that one off and we were not far from it.
But our margin for error is still very thin against better competition. We can't go -3 in turnovers against Night School this weekend, but if we're even close in turnover margin, it shouldn't be close on the scoreboard.
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In my experience, in college ball, there is ALWAYS someone wide open. You really see it when you're in person at a game, and up higher to see the field. It is what separates the Trevor Lawrence type players from the DJU type players
 
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