The Florida State Seminoles subjected everyone watching to a truly brutal first half of football on Saturday afternoon.
While the Syracuse Orange weren’t particularly impressive, the Seminoles were downright awful. The story of their half was terrible offensive line play, an inability to move the ball, and constant penalties.
It would be fair to say that Twitter was rather disgusted by the showing.
Any thoughts on what FSU does during the week? Because practice doesn't seem to be it.
— Pat Forde (@YahooForde) September 15, 2018
Florida State is approaching dumpster fire status
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) September 15, 2018
Florida State has committed 9 penalties already today. They have 3 first downs so far.
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) September 15, 2018
Florida State might be the dumbest team I've ever seen
— Nick Kostos (@TheKostos) September 15, 2018
The first half of Florida State v Syracuse is setting back football 100 years.
— Marc Ryan (@MarcRyanOnAir) September 15, 2018
On six possessions Florida State's offense has seven penalties, five three-and-outs, and one first down.
— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) September 15, 2018
With 6:26 to go in the second quarter, Florida State has 62 total yards against Syracuse.
Western Michigan had 621 yards against Syracuse in Week 1.
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) September 15, 2018
I need a 30 for 30 on the 2018 Florida State offense
— Alex Kolodziej (@AlexKoIodziej) September 15, 2018
Beginning to think that winning Florida State's QB battle is actually some sort of punishment https://t.co/ha2WC4IiRh
— Matt Brown (@MattBrownCFB) September 15, 2018
Hey, is there a name for when animals flee ahead of a natural disaster? Because if there is a name, that's what we should call what Jimbo Fisher did at Florida State.
— Pete Scantlebury (@PeteScantlebury) September 15, 2018
The best — or worst — was yet to come, however, as the Seminoles managed to let the clock run out at the end of the half despite sitting well within field goal range.
LOL Florida State couldn’t even get a FG attempt. What a total cluster****. This is some Butch Jones at his Tennessee worst stuff.
— Dan Wolken (@DanWolken) September 15, 2018
No big deal, pretty sure way it’s going Aguayo would have missed kick. https://t.co/nKw1GtIsSZ
— Maximiliano Bretos (@mbretosESPN) September 15, 2018
Does FSU practice?
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) September 15, 2018
The Seminoles ultimately ended the half down 6-0 thanks to their defense keeping them in the game. They had just 110 total yards of offense. And no, they have not had the chance to break out the turnover backpack so far in this one.
