Sunday, September 9, 2012

FSU Rolls on wet, wild night over Savannah State

TALLAHASSEE, Florida - Now the season can really begin. With the 55-0 demolition of the helpless Savannah State Tigers on Saturday night, the No. 6 Florida State football team can officially turn its attention, for real, to the 2012 schedule.

It was so bad on Saturday night that most FSU starters were pulled after a 35-0 first quarter and the second half featured a running clock – which is typically is only used in high school football blowouts – right up until the game was called due to lightning with 8:59 left in the third quarter.

“Well, that’s a first,” Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher said. “I’ve never had that occur in my career.” Not many college coaches have experienced anything like what happened at Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday night.



The Seminoles came into the game as 70-point favorites, the highest known line in the history of college football. And while they didn’t get to that number – thanks to the final 24 minutes being canceled – they proved early and often that this was every bit the mismatch experts expected it to be.

“I don’t want to ever disrespect anybody,” Fisher said. “I thought Savannah played extremely hard … I think we tried to manage it. We threw it, controlled throw it. Put them in situations, ran the football. We wanted to run it anyway, and let the quarterbacks manage third downs and second-and-longs.




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