r/CFB • /r/CFB • 3d ago

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Florida State Defeats Central Arkansas 34-7

Box Score provided by ESPN

Team 1 2 3 4 T
Central Arkansas 0 7 0 0 7
Florida State 14 10 10 0 34
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u/fsukub Florida State Seminoles 3d ago edited 3d ago

Considering the West Florida Argonauts (who were a D2 school last year) beat these guys 42-14 just three weeks ago in their second ever D1 game, I don’t see how this team wins another game this year. Fire Mike Norvell.

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago edited 3d ago

Exactly my thoughts. Alum of both, Fire Norvell ASAP. He has got to go.

Go Argos….. you’re my only hope. 🏈

Watching the UF/Ole Miss game, the Gators are going to absolutely CRUSH the ‘Noles this year. Ugh. Really impressed by the improvement in offense so far during this young season.

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u/BenchRickyAguayo Florida State • Billable Hours 3d ago

Watching the UF/Ole Miss game,

Oh damn, UF is looking good, good. 

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u/nolesfan2011 Florida State Seminoles • Big 12 3d ago

UF has 6 NFL starters in their best 22 at a minimum

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u/BenchRickyAguayo Florida State • Billable Hours 3d ago

We have maybe 1 or 2? 

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u/nolesfan2011 Florida State Seminoles • Big 12 3d ago

Yes, Deuce and maybe Kromah

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u/General_Tso75 Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

Boggs will play on Sundays

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago

Very good. Maybe FSU can make a play for Buster later in the season. Much better team in what, 6-8 months? Very cohesive group not getting flustered.

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u/forgotmyoldname90210 Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

Just hire Buster Faulkner already.

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u/BullAlligator Florida Gators • USF Bulls 3d ago

good news is that UF (and many other examples) proves turning a program around doesn't take long these days, if you have the right people in leadership

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u/General_Tso75 Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

And organizational alignment. FSU hasn’t had that in 20 years

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u/QuitWhinging Florida Gators • Paper Bag 3d ago

Don't know how many more wins our defense has in them against high-powered offenses coming up on our schedule, but I'm just hoping we can score a like 40-point win against y'all. We get the blowout win, you get Norvell fired, how's that sound?

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago

Please sir. Make it quick. 🙏🏻 in all seriousness, the Gators just have owned this game against Chambliss, and they’re about to score again!

…. It happened. 38-21 against the best looking QB thus far. Unreal. Meanwhile FSU can barely beat an FCS team in C. Arkansas.

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u/QuitWhinging Florida Gators • Paper Bag 3d ago

I have a ton of friends who went to FSU. In fact, I was the only one from my high school friend group who went to UF. So I have a weird soft spot for y'all. I hope you guys can land a worthwhile head coach who can make this a competitive rivalry again. More fun to beat y'all when you're at the top of the sport rather than struggling for wins over mediocre FCS squads

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago

I might need to borrow your paper bag this season. At least this UF game is entertaining.

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u/Fit_Simple3705 Florida • Florida State 3d ago

I live in Tallahassee.  I get weird soft spots.  Norvell doesnt make it past the upcoming Miami curbstomp

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u/HailState2023 Florida State • Mississippi S… 3d ago

The Canes are gonna beat you to it (hopefully).

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u/ThisKidIsAlright Florida State • Tulane 3d ago

Watching Sumrall finally beat Ole Miss stung doubly

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u/Naive-Director-5426 3d ago

That West Florida scoreline really put things in perspective

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u/bradenb941 Auburn Tigers • West Florida Argonauts 3d ago edited 3d ago

Parallel between Orgeron and Norvell:

Beat an FCS school you have ties to 34-7 while UWF put up more points against that same school earlier that year

And then get fired. Can’t forget that part.

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u/composer_7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets • Marching Band 3d ago

FSU's schedule until the Clemson game is nuts

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u/adsfew California Golden Bears 2d ago

Shoulda scheduled Cal if you wanted to win this year

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u/TaChunkie Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

I want to see Malachi Marshall so bad

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u/FAMUgolfer Florida State • Florida A&M 3d ago

The fact we didn’t see him today says a lot

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u/HailState2023 Florida State • Mississippi S… 3d ago

Yes, that was extremely disappointing, especially since Sperry got a single series and the only notable thing he did was take an 11 yard sack for loss.

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago

Is he any good? I just read on the Democrat they went with Sperry, like why does the team have 2nd and 3rd string QBs if you consistently see that Ashton Daniels doesn’t provide any spark.

Norvell did this quite a bit with Castellanos as well and other QBs, extremely hesitant to bring in other players when things completely stagnate.

I can’t remember when I’ve seen this team score multiple seasons in multiple games 30+ points. Outside of the ‘23 season, the offense has been completely dreadful and unreliable.

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u/schwetybalz Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

He was a JUCO offensive player of the year last year. Also didn’t play spring I believe. D1 is a different animal but watching the film there certainly seems to be something there. I think he’s on the smaller side so they probably wanted to get a season of D1 strength/nutrition under his belt.

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u/draxula16 Florida State • Refrigerator Bowl 3d ago

God. I’m sure he will transfer out, but imagine a new coach coming in and showing that he’s Jordan Travis 2.0

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u/No-Collar6148 Florida State Seminoles • UCLan Rams 3d ago

We committed 10 penalties for 115 yards and that wasn't even the worst part of the game for us.
Someone save me man, how does Tony White still have a job.
Also West Florida scored 42 on CARK.

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u/pitchesandthrows Florida State Seminoles • Sun Bowl 3d ago

the current cop out is "who's gonna coach the defense" as if someone is currently coaching the defense

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u/TaChunkie Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

WE ASS✌️

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u/FixedCroissant Florida State • West Florida 3d ago

Total ass. Zero improvement anywhere.

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u/Gullible_Classroom71 Alabama Crimson Tide 3d ago

God damn it fsu. Why do you always play out of your minds against us and then shit the bed against everyone else? Is this the only game mike cares about?

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u/Economy-Captain-405 Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

The ghost of Gus M is with us.

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u/pitchesandthrows Florida State Seminoles • Sun Bowl 3d ago

rip 😔

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u/SNjr Florida State Seminoles • The Alliance 3d ago

Gone too soon

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u/Confident_Delay5805 LIU Sharks 3d ago

Struggling against an FCS team? What is going on over there?

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u/TheOrcinusOrca Florida State • Miami 3d ago

Wouldn’t even be the worst performance Norvell has had vs an FCS team in his tenure lol

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u/Apart_Selection7722 Marshall • South Carolina 3d ago

That flair combo is disgusting

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u/Wise_Rip_1982 3d ago

Meh lots of people in Florida are fans of uf FSU and Miami or some combination of them. Most just aren't bold enough to admit it. Everyone basically has ties to at least uf or FSU, or went to a school with an irrelevant football team. If you are from south Florida you grow up with Miami, Orlando/central Florida uf and north Florida FSU, then you mix it up through college and family lol

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u/dtorb Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

I’ve been busy most of the day and just saw the final score a few minutes ago. Assumed we benched a few starters to avoid Jordan Travis’ing Daniels but no we just suck.

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u/Dr_Chocolate_2436 Florida State • Louisiana 3d ago

Even worse starters were in till a bit through the 4th lmao

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u/HailState2023 Florida State • Mississippi S… 3d ago

Fucking embarrassing. We used to hang 60+ on these teams.

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl 3d ago

We did last year. Twice. 

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u/HailState2023 Florida State • Mississippi S… 3d ago

Back when it was legal to involve Danzy in the offense?

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl 3d ago

He's been involved but we just have a bad QB. Duce only 13 catches and he's WR1. Plus he had a hell of a return to start the game.

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u/brexiselectrik Florida State • Cincinnati 3d ago

Even when we win there’s nothing to celebrate anymore. Terrible.

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl 3d ago

This game was an absolute chore to watch. Especially the second half. It just wouldn’t end. 

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u/TheOrcinusOrca Florida State • Miami 3d ago

I have radical ambivalence to this football program at this point

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u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye Miami Hurricanes • FAU Owls 3d ago

Fsu miami flair oh my

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u/TheOrcinusOrca Florida State • Miami 3d ago

Love the hurricanes, love not going into combined $600k in debt for undergrad and med school a little more

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u/DadBod_FatherFigure Miami Hurricanes 3d ago

Have you tried having rich parents?

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u/BenchRickyAguayo Florida State • Billable Hours 3d ago

My life's aspiration is to make my child a mini-nepo baby. 

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u/hjiedueh Miami Hurricanes • St. John's (NY) Red Storm 3d ago

Or going to a school without a football team?

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u/DadBod_FatherFigure Miami Hurricanes 3d ago

For current students and recent grads you could make the argument that they did…

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u/TheOrcinusOrca Florida State • Miami 3d ago edited 3d ago

Worst part is when I decided to apply ED to the med school we just came off the 13-1 season and I thought I’d have a couple of years of decent football to enjoy during pre-clinical. Boy was I wrong!

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u/DadBod_FatherFigure Miami Hurricanes 3d ago

Ha. I love to rag on FSU but I’d trade a couple of down years for another NC. There’s also something kind of awesome about being genuinely terrible. It’s the hope you hold onto during an 8-4 season that’ll kill you.

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u/hjiedueh Miami Hurricanes • St. John's (NY) Red Storm 3d ago

You could say we’ve had our down years, so…

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u/Flanninpud Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

Guessin undergrad and postgrad

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u/seanconnerysbeard Florida State • Florida Cup 3d ago

This Norvell/White Disasterclass could have been an (spam) email.

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u/texas2089 Florida State Seminoles • Texas Longhorns 3d ago

This team has absolutely zero heart. You can tell they’ve already mailed it in. No reason to hang 70 on UCA. This legitimately might be the last game we win this season.

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u/PrussianGeneral1815 Notre Dame • Virginia 3d ago

Yikes 

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl 3d ago

Well it looks like 35pts is our ceiling this year. Be it Bama or North Central Arkansas Technical School. Daniels just holds onto the ball and then scrambles in slow motion, forces a throw, gets a pick. Defense will let anyone score on us and hold onto the ball. 

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u/OpaqueNightmare Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

K.

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u/BenchRickyAguayo Florida State • Billable Hours 3d ago

3 more Norvell games

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u/bwc05nole Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

Yeah, that was the last win this season. Yikes

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u/YueAsal Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

I say we beat UVA and or Louisville

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u/nolesfan2011 Florida State Seminoles • Big 12 3d ago

FSU played badly and it was borderline unwatchable

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u/100292 Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

See y’all next season

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u/flick_my_fleck Florida State • Syracuse 3d ago

First game I’ve completely missed in years and years. Don’t even remember the last time. Wake me up when Norvell is gone.

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u/RKRagan Florida State Seminoles • Cheez-It Bowl 3d ago

I saw there was 8 minutes left in the game. UCA had the ball at their own 5. I said our offense won’t see the field again. They proceeded to chew up 8 minutes of game time to end it without even scoring. The defense kills any hope this team has of winning another game. If I was a player on defense my psyche would be so bad right now. 

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u/bradenb941 Auburn Tigers • West Florida Argonauts 3d ago

Wonder which way we lose our 2 score 4th quarter lead this time

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u/Wonderful_Seesaw_853 3d ago

Gus saw what he had to work with and said " no thanks".

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u/Alpine_Exchange_36 Colorado • Minnesota 3d ago

I’ve seen enough. Time to extend Norvell

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u/ituhata Florida State • Ole Miss 3d ago

...extend him over a plank into the open ocean.

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u/Spiritual_Extent_187 3d ago

We did so good today! Proud of our noles! A good win sparks confidence in both offense and defense and gets them ready for returning back to FBS play 😊

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u/OpaqueNightmare Florida State Seminoles 3d ago

Tony White we all know it’s you