'Nole Your Enemies: South Florida Preview

[Brad]

Serious evalutaion by Tomahawk Nation:

'Nole Your Enemies: South Florida Preview- Will The Bulls' Offense be Offensive in 2009?

With only 40 days until the 2009 season starts, it's time to learn about the opponent's on Florida State's schedule.  We'll start with the teams Florida State did not play last year, leading off with in-state foe South Florida.  Today we're talking offense, tomorrow will be defense and special teams.

The Bulls went 8-5 in 2008.  They were perfect in the non-conference, with wins over two terrible defensive teams in Kansas and NC State, and an overtime victory against UCF.  In the worst BCS conference, however, they were just 2-5, and their two wins came over UConn and Syracuse.  To say that USF feasted on bad teams would be an understatement.  Yet voters, who often see nothing but a team's record and not the competition they face, had the Bulls as high as #10 at one point.  They would lose 4 of 5 down the stretch to finish unranked.

The Bulls were just 4-5 against BC conference teams and 2-4 against teams ranked inside the Fremeau Efficiency Index Top 40.  Put another way:

Link to full report - lengthy

[Southshore26]

Love it.... keep underestimating this team... See you in Doak...

[BullsWinBucsWin]

Yeah, I like to see this.

I think they believe our offensive line will be worse than most USF fans do, which is pretty amazing.

[Guest hm101]

darn for a second there i thought we might be able to win

[2000bull]

Man, we're horrible....we might as well give FSU the win and not even play ;D

[Paisa el Toro]

I think they believe our offensive line will be worse than most USF fans do, which is pretty amazing.

Well, without Rose, Savala, and Joyer coming in on offensive line, as originally expected, our injury-prone offensive line is going to have to stay extra, extra healthy. Our lack of depth at o-line has been concerning for the past few years.

[2000bull]

My favorite part of the article was how any mobile QB that was a 4 yr starter could break the bigeast total yardage record of pat white...did anyone else catch that? I'm sure the WV fans would love that statement.

[twillybull]

Funny, last I checked the Big East was just as tough as the lame ACC.

[Woogie53]

Funny, last I checked the Big East was just as tough as the lame ACC.

Ehhh....ACC > BE

no question there.

[outrunner]

Yeah, no bias in that article.