{"id":66318,"date":"2022-09-05T04:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/florida-state-hangs-on-for-24-17-win-in-brian-kellys-first-game-at-lsu\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T04:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:18:37","slug":"florida-state-hangs-on-for-24-17-win-in-brian-kellys-first-game-at-lsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/florida-state-hangs-on-for-24-17-win-in-brian-kellys-first-game-at-lsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State hangs on for 24-17 win in Brian Kelly’s first game at LSU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brian Kelly’s first game at LSU was a special teams disaster.<\/p>\n

The Tigers lost 24-23 to Florida State on Sunday night after they had two kicks blocked and dropped two points. The final blocked kick came on a game-tying extra point with no time left after Jaray Jenkins caught a two-yard TD pass from Jayden Daniels.<\/p>\n

LSU and Kelly could have gone for two and the win but instead played for overtime in New Orleans. That turned out to be the wrong decision as Florida State’s Shyheim Brown prevented the kick from getting to the uprights.<\/p>\n

The blocked extra point ruined what could have been a drive that went down in LSU lore. The Tigers drove 99 yards in 80 seconds to pull within one after Florida State’s Treshaun Ward dropped a pitch near the goal line. That fumble came after Tigers WR Malik Nabers appeared to cost LSU any chance at winning the game when he fumbled his second punt with less than 2:30 to go and Florida State recovered.<\/p>\n

The wild closing minutes of the game were not indicative of what transpired for most of it. Both teams tended to struggle when they got near each other’s end zone and LSU’s passing offense looked lost until it went to a no-huddle look midway through the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

A huge win for Florida State<\/h2>\n

Florida State QB Jordan Travis played what might have been the best game of his career against the Tigers. Travis was 20-of-33 passing for 260 yards and two TDs and also rushed for 31 yards.<\/p>\n

The win was easily the biggest for coach Mike Norvell in his tenure at Florida State. While this isn’t close to the LSU team that blitzed through college football in 2019, Florida State has been desperate for a signature win in recent years. The Seminoles haven’t won more than five games in each of Norway’s two seasons and have gone to just one bowl game in the five seasons since Jimbo Fisher left for Texas A&M.<\/p>\n

A win over LSU in the Tigers’ back yard could be the spark Florida State needs to start climbing back to where it once was in the college football landscape. The Seminoles have winnable games against Louisville and Boston College to end September before facing three consecutive ranked opponents in Wake Forest, North Carolina State and Clemson to open October. We’ll have a good idea of \u200b\u200bjust how good FSU is by the middle of next month.<\/p>\n