FSU v Auburn National Championship Game Predictions

[thelakelander]

Both were great but I'll go with USC vs Texas. I don't know what the spreads for these games were but USC had been dominant for so long, it seemed like Texas was a bigger underdog that actually won.

[Bill Hoff]

Auburn played their best game, FSU did not. And we still won.

I'll take it : )

[tufsu1]

Agreed. Auburn really stepped it up on defense last night and had our guys confused for most of the first half.

One thing I have noticed all season is the amazing ability of Jeremy Pruitt to make in-game defensive adjustments.  This was very evident last night.

And no SEC fans, it is cold today but hell has not frozen over!

[JeffreyS]

Auburn's defense, and the fact that half of their touchdowns came from starting drives at FSU's 25 and 27 kept them close enough to make this a great game.

[pierre]

Auburn played much better on defense than I expected. I give their coaching staff credit. But Fisher and his coaches made better second half adjustments and controlled the second half. Great win!

[carpnter]

I saw some comments that they started using towels again to hide play calls like they were earlier in the season during the 2nd half.  Auburn was all over the snap count in the first half and the allegation was that they knew the plays FSU was running.  ESPN never showed the sideline so I don't know if this is accurate or not. 

[CityLife]

^My friend was sitting pretty close to the FSU bench. He said the coaches started using the towels either late in the 2nd quarter or in the 2nd half. Damyeune Craig of Auburn was FSU's QB coach last year, so he must have had some clue about FSU's hand signals. Really surprised that Jimbo didn't expect that to happen from the start.

Auburn played a great game, got some favorable calls from the refs, and caught 5 lucky bounces (3 fumbles and 2 punts), but FSU did a good job of hanging tough early when things could have gotten out of hand. Pretty impressive to win a title while playing a B- or C game. Feels amazing.

[JeffreyS]

Count them. Don't hate....

   :How many Hurricane fans does it take to change a lightbulb?

   :They don't change it, they just sit around and talk about how great the old one was.

[thelakelander]

Well you guys did catch a huge break with Auburn shanking that easy first half FG. Nevertheless, the better team won.

[JeffreyS]

[fieldafm]

My opinion is that in the BCS era, probably most thrillng was USC/UT, followed by UM/Ohio State then FSU/Auburn.

All in all, a fantastic season.  Scalp Em Noles!

[thelakelander]

Good one, JeffreyS!

Fieldafm, the UM/OSU game wasn't thrilling.  It was a freaking nightmare. It was just as bad as the UM/PSU game in the 80s and UM/Bama game in the early 90s. I can't stand OSU today and it's specifically because of that game.

[BridgeTroll]

I bet this guy doesnt like football...

The Florida State Seminoles: The Champions of Racist Mascots

Dave Zirin on January 7, 2014 - 12:54 PM ET

It's easy to oppose the name of the Washington Redskins and call for owner Dan Snyder to change his beloved bigoted brand. After all, it's a dictionary-defined slur bestowed on the NFL franchise by their arch-segregationist, minstrel-loving founder. When you have Native American organizations, leading sportswriters, Republicans as well as Democrats in Congress and even the president say the time has come to change the name, it is not exactly difficult to get on board.

But what about the Florida State Seminoles, whose football team on Monday night won the Vizio/Dow Chemical/Blackwater/Vivid Video BCS National Championship Game? The NCAA, since 2005, has had formal restrictions against naming teams after Native American tribes, and yet there were the Seminole faithful: thousands of overwhelmingly Caucasian fans with feathers in their hair, doing the Tomahawk chop and whooping war chants on national television. Their passions were stirred into a frenzy by a white person, face smeared with war paint, dressed as the legendary chief Osceola riding out on a horse. As Stewart Mandel of Sports Illustrated gushed, "Chief Osceola plants the flaming spear in the Rose Bowl. Awesome." (Osceola was adopted after the school quietly retired their previous Native American mascot "Sammy Seminole.")

http://www.thenation.com/blog/177800/florida-state-seminoles-champions-racist-mascoting#

[Tacachale]

Or at least teams appropriating Indian names and imagery to sell team spirit and T-shirts.

[carpnter]

Good one, JeffreyS!

Fieldafm, the UM/OSU game wasn't thrilling.  It was a freaking nightmare. It was just as bad as the UM/PSU game in the 80s and UM/Bama game in the early 90s. I can't stand OSU today and it's specifically because of that game.

Not a UM fan, but UM got screwed in the UM/OSU game.  The excuse from the official about having to review the play in his head before he threw the flag is a load of crap.