Originally posted by GTCrew:
If this is the official positive thoughts thread, here goes.
1. Tenuta has done well against FSU. IIRC in recent history UNC has only been competitive against FSU when he was there. Big differences in the scores for UNC vs FSU the year before, during, and the year after IIRC. Then he comes here and Gergia Tech's D keeps GT in the game until the end (I was there, we had no O).
2. Jones is not going to outrun our D unless we have some bad angles, and that is not true of many Defenses FSU will face. If you take out the 44 yard run, his YPC was not all that good against Maryland. IMHO, the guys they have hurt would have given us real problems, but we should be able to stop Jones enough (no doubt Jones will get some yards with his power) to make Rix beat us. I know FSU is deep, but Reid is fourth string for a reason. There is a drop off from the 1st to the 4th string, even at FSU.
3. We have the speed at WR to get the separation required for the deep ball to work. If Ball and Smith/Curry are on next Saturday we have a real legit chance to beat this team with a few big plays and solid D.