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2018 Football Preview – ACC – Seminoles
Looking for 2018 Florida State Seminoles predictions? For a long time Florida State was the bully of the ACC. Now Clemson really has it rolling though and they couldn’t even hold on to their coach. Things are a little off in Tallahassee and they enter the season looking for a return to more normal levels of success.
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Head Coach: Willie Taggart
2018 Record: 7-6
Florida State Seminoles Odds to win the 2018 FBS Championship: 28/1
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Florida State has been recruiting well enough to surprise this season but they seemed to really lose “it” last season.
2018 Florida State Seminoles Predictions: Team Strengths
Breath of Fresh Air: With all due respect to Jimbo Fisher, it never seemed to be a perfect fit for him at FSU. Even when they won a championshio with Jameis Winston. Since that year it was a slow erosion.
Willie Taggart is a Florida guy through and through and I think he can get the program back to a level footing with Clemson in the ACC.
Last year nothing seemed to go right with starting QB Deandre Francois getting hurt so early, forcing James Blackman into action. He showed skill but also that he wasn’t ready.
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They might still be figuring out who gets the snaps but there is a nice air of positivity for the Seminoles right now.
Born to Run: Taggart is a proponent of running the ball and he inherits a nice backfield to work with.
Cam Akers was one of the hottest recruit of recent memory but his freshman season was nothing special. Only twice did he carry the ball 20 or more times and he had just 4 100 yard games. There is no reason he can’t achieve that in pretty much every game this season.
Jacques Patrick brings the thunder in the running game and I think Taggart is going to let him continue to do so. Taggart is content to keep running things down opponents throats if they can’t stop.
2018 Florida State Seminoles Predictions: Team Weaknesses
What Happened to the Defense?: It used to be that Florida State was teeming with defensive prospect…and not the kind that get drafted in the seventh round.
This year they have only one player on the All ACC first team defense, compared to four for Clemson, that pretty much says it all.
All in all they have only three starters returning on defense this season and how that unit comes together and whether it can be elite is going to determine how good this Seminoles team can be.
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Florida State might be a cliche in the sennse that they say if you have two quarterbacks than you might not really have one.
Also, they will be looking to implement a different offense this season so it remains to be seen whether they even have the right guy at all. At USF Taggart let Quinton Flowers put up some obscene numbers.
Florida State might capture lightning in a bottle or this season might be a real slog. It is really hard to tell before they have thier first taste of real action.
Florida State Seminoles Prediction: 7-5
Unfortunately for fans in Tallahassee I am not predicting much improvement and I might even be being optimistic.
I am giving the Noles the opener against Virginia Tech but that is really because they are at home. It could certainly be a coin flip.
They will lose to Clemson at home and Miami of the road and those two will probably knock them out of an serious contention in the ACC title race. A roadie at Notre Dame is likely a loss too.
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I like the long term outlook for Florida State with Taggart at the helm but I think you might want to think of them as a fade team this season.
2018 Florida State Seminoles Football Schedule
- 9/3/18 8:00 PM ET Virginia Tech
- 9/8/18 7:20 PM ET Samford
- 9/15/18 12:00 PM ET @Syracuse
- 9/22/18 TBD Northern Illinois
- 9/29/18 TBD @Louisville
- 10/6/18 TBD @Miami
- 10/20/18 TBD Wake Fprest
- 10/27/18 TBD Clemson
- 11/3/18 TBD @NC State
- 11/10/18 7:30 PM ET @Notre Dame
- 11/17/18 TBD Boston College
- 11/24/18 TBD Florida
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