re: FSU having a "week 0" game last year- Why is this brought up so much??

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I keep reading this so-called advantage FSU had last year by playing a game before LSU,

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I haven't read much about that in quite a while

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but did it ever occur to anyone the advantages that LSU might've had?

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No, because there isn't really much of one.

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For one, that week 0 game gave LSU actual game film on FSU, while FSU had nothing for LSU which was made even more challenging due to LSU's entire new staff and quarterback.

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An advantage that is significantly offset by the lack of actual game experience by LSU's entirely new staff, multiple players including two freshmen O-linemen, several transfer players on defense and a transfer quarterback.

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In addition, several FSU players got dinged up in that week 0 game while LSU was obviously completely fresh.

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Players get dinged up in practice and every game of the season.

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In fact FSU's most dependable LB Amari Gainer suffered an injury and was out for LSU. If you watched UNC beat South Carolina last night you saw how good Gainer is.

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The same thing could have happened on FSU's first defensive series. I am told those things happen in games, seems like something like that happened to LSU.

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It's very doubtful Jayden Daniels has the rushing performance he had if Gainer played

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It's very doubtful Jayden Daniels has the rushing performance he had if Gainer played.

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It's more doubtful he has any real impact on Daniels.

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So the advantages work both ways. I call it a wash.

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And you would be wrong.

There is a reason virtually every coach prefers to open with a team they have an advantage over.

If FSU didn’t see a week 0 game as a perceived advantage then why did they schedule it just a few months before the start of the season?

Next asinine question.

Coaches have a saying…the biggest improvement is made between week 1 and week 2.

I can’t wait until you’re gone tomorrow, troll.

LSU has zero advantage looking at tape. FSU played a glorified high school their first game. All teams make the biggest jump from game one to game two

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You woke up at 4:53am with the Tigers on your mind

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I woke up at 5:00am, just like I do every morning, and posted at 5:53am. You do realize some of us are in EST right?

Why can’t we get some worthwhile opposing fans to come post ahead of these OOC games anymore? It’s sad that people like this fool are all we get here ahead of a matchup like this anymore.

It’s saying y’all had a game to get things figured out but fsu still won the game and I’m happy with last season for bk’s first year.

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I woke up at 5:00am, just like I do every morning, and posted at 5:53am. You do realize some of us are in EST right?

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and the point still stands that you woke up during the arse crack of dawn with the Tigers on your mind pu$$y

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and the point still stands that you woke up during the arse crack of dawn with the Tigers on your mind pu$$y

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So waking up on game day (in Orlando) and having the game on my mind in the first hour of the day is weird?

I guess tailgating is weird too right? Those obsessed fans!

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I don't disagree, but the point is BOTH teams had advantages and both teams had disadvantages.

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Sure. But playing your 2nd game versus playing your first is a much bigger advantage. If you say otherwise you obviously never played organized sports before.