State of the State: Big 3 College Football
Oct 5, 2026 · 15 min · 6 segments
FSU won in a massive way against UVA on Saturday but what does it mean for Mike Novell and his tenure at FSU? TJ Pittinger (Double Fries No Slaw & College Football Addiction), Ali Peek (A Peek Inside…
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I'll tell you, the first drive of watching this live, certainly didn't think this was the way it was gonna go down.
They punted three times in the first quarter, and then it feels like a switch flipped, and obviously they scored the next and final 38 points of the game.
But moved pretty quickly, and then the 'Noles came out and, uh, yeah, I mean, they played really well.
Like, you know, to, to really look at the game in a vacuum, it was certainly their best performance of the year.
We talked about how impressive that was when Texas did it a couple of weeks ago.
I don't care how good or bad Virginia is, 10 sacks is 10 sacks, and that does not happen in games often.
You think about all the great running backs that Florida State's had, they've never had one go for five touchdowns, and they had a quarterback do that this week, one of them being an 81-yarder.
I think that Mike Norvell, for all the crap that I've talked about him, has called three really good offensive games in a row.
You went up and put 36 on Bama two weeks ago, uh, on the road, and Ashton Nails threw for 377 yards.
Last week, they scored on every single possession except for a tipped interception and, uh, when the backups were in, they punted once.
So, and, and then this week you put up 38 and could have scored more, uh, if you didn't take your foot off the gas in the fourth quarter, which I was, I was fine with the way that it played out.
They put together that with a really good defensive effort, and Virginia was an absolute wreck offensively.
I'll tell you, the first drive of watching this live, certainly didn't think this was the way it was gonna go down.
They punted three times in the first quarter, and then it feels like a switch flipped, and obviously they scored the next and final 38 points of the game.
But moved pretty quickly, and then the 'Noles came out and, uh, yeah, I mean, they played really well.
Like, you know, to, to really look at the game in a vacuum, it was certainly their best performance of the year.
We talked about how impressive that was when Texas did it a couple of weeks ago.
I don't care how good or bad Virginia is, 10 sacks is 10 sacks, and that does not happen in games often.
You think about all the great running backs that Florida State's had, they've never had one go for five touchdowns, and they had a quarterback do that this week, one of them being an 81-yarder.
I think that Mike Norvell, for all the crap that I've talked about him, has called three really good offensive games in a row.
You went up and put 36 on Bama two weeks ago, uh, on the road, and Ashton Nails threw for 377 yards.
Last week, they scored on every single possession except for a tipped interception and, uh, when the backups were in, they punted once.
So, and, and then this week you put up 38 and could have scored more, uh, if you didn't take your foot off the gas in the fourth quarter, which I was, I was fine with the way that it played out.
They put together that with a really good defensive effort, and Virginia was an absolute wreck offensively.
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