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FSU gained a grand total of 3 minutes for BOTH the ensuing drives after the muffs. 2:05 after the first muff, and :55 after the second muff. You make it sound like FSU chewed up 15 minutes.

And again, zero points.

To say the two muffs were the difference in the game is just blaming something that appears convenient, but it's not the reality of why LSU lost.

You completely cut off the fact (deliberately i presume) we would have had the ball at our own 16 with over 3 minutes left in the 1st half instead we ended up getting the ball at our own 8 with a minute left and THAT is a huge difference.

Again, we could have driven down and potentially gotten points if we didnt muff the punt having that much time. The fact FSU didnt score is irrelevant to the fact getting the ball with 3+ minutes in your own territory in a half left is a lot different approach offensively than inside your own 10 yard with a minute left. Thats a completely lost possession for us.

I also didnt say these were the ONLY reasons we lost, it was part of it, but I said special teams as a WHOLE were the reason we lost. We lost by 1 point and had 2 muffed punts a blocked XPA and a blocked chip shot FG. That's 4 points we basically gave away because we didnt block someone twice and at least a true possession we could have had all due to special teams mishaps in a 1 point game along with the lost time there.

This post was edited on 8/29/23 at 4:11 pm

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Posted by Trevholden

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Posted on 8/30/23 at 8:44 am to thunderbird1100

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You completely cut off the fact (deliberately i presume) we would have had the ball at our own 16 with over 3 minutes left in the 1st half instead we ended up getting the ball at our own 8 with a minute left and THAT is a huge difference.

Again, we could have driven down and potentially gotten points if we didnt muff the punt having that much time. The fact FSU didnt score is irrelevant to the fact getting the ball with 3+ minutes in your own territory in a half left is a lot different approach offensively than inside your own 10 yard with a minute left. Thats a completely lost possession for us.

That's fine, but again, this is a "could've". Speculating what could've happened is something everyone does, but it doesn't mean it should've or would've happened. And it definitely doesn't prove anything about LSU being better or that they deserved to win the game.

What about FSU's mistakes? Didn't they make mistakes too? Didn't they get called for 7 penalties to LSU's 4? Didn't they miss blocking assignments, whiff on some tackles on key plays, and have drops like LSU? Didn't they fumble the ball at LSU's 1 yard line? And wasn't that fumble completely unforced? Wouldn't you say FSU punching it in from the 1 is a much more legit "shoulda/woulda" than LSU punching it in from 84 yards away from their own 16? Or 50+ yards away from FG range for the LSU kicker that, as someone pointed out earlier, was experiencing trajectory problems even on chip shots? Presuming any kind of score there is silly.

The bottom line is, both teams screwed up at various points, but FSU was the better team for much more of the game than LSU was.

This post was edited on 8/30/23 at 8:51 am

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