Quick Preview - Game vs FSU

The most important part of this game is our offensive development. Despite the woeful performance against Virginia (who is looking pretty good since they beat us, FYI) - we showed some improvement against Georgia Southern and we had a bye week to get healthy and practice our youngins.

The good news is that Jonathan Cooper and Kyle Jolly are both back and ready to play. They should both be starting on the offensive line, and that means a lot for our running game and our passing game.

Unfortunately, Pianalto still isn't 100%, but might be used in a limited basis. He would have been a great guy to get back.

Dwight Jones has also had 2 weeks of being healthy to integrate into the passing corps, so expect him to get some passes thrown his way - here's to hoping he lives up to his potential.

On the injury front - Jamal Womble had a fracture on his wrist that required surgery a week ago - he should be gone for a good part of the rest of the season. AJ Blue had a very serious injury - similar to Brandon Tate's a year ago - and will almost definitely miss the rest of the season. It's very disappointing, but these guys are young, and they were our #3 & #4 RBs, so we'll be okay. I would expect Anthony Elzy and Johnny White to be the backup RBs behind Draughn and Houston now. We'll miss that AJ Blue wildcat/QB look though. Heal up buddy.

I think we can beat FSU - I wouldn't predict us to win necessarily, because of how disappointed I've been by UNC. But FSU is a plenty disappointing team in it's own right. The question is - which FSU team will show up? The one that trounced top-10 at the time BYU? Or the one that has struggled mightily since?

They have some speed on defense, there's no question there. Here's to hoping we've gotten enough practice in on the young O-Line that, along with the new additions, that we can pound the ball downhill some and get some momentum on offense. Our defense should be able to keep FSU from scoring more than 17 points or so.

My prediction: FSU - 17 UNC - 10.

Here's to hoping I'm wrong!

David