Cook Breaks Record in Florida State’s 31-13 Win Over Gators

The Gators have their hands full. He knows that the fans of the victor get bragging rights in every corner of the state. The first cut the lead to 10-3 at the break and the second followed a Chauncey Gardner interception of FSU quarterback Deondre Francois that set the Gators (8-3) up in Florida State territory.

First: Are you a national championship contender? The guys gave us tremendous energy. Fisher had been part of two week’s worth of speculative reports he was the top candidate to become the next head coach at LSU, but the Tigers ended all speculation Saturday when they promoted interim head coach Ed Orgeron. He came in leading all freshman defenders in sacks this season. “I just think we’re the overall better team”. It marks the first time since 2004 against North Carolina that FSU has held an opponent without a third-down conversion. That’s what rivalries are all about. The rivalry is alive and well around the office – and with Tallahassee being so close to Gainesville, there are no shortage of Gator fans invading the state’s capital either. That is putting two strong performances back-to-back. “Thank goodness [his team didn’t play FSU in 2016]”. “And for me and all the other underclassmen, we’re gonna do everything that we can”. You know what I mean?

It was the final regular-season game in 1963, 1965, 1973 and 1977 and went to that slot on a permanent basis in 1980. “We had great play from our bench”.

“We’re on a big stage, we’re not going out like this”, Alston said after Temple’s 89-86 victory over No. 25 Florida State on Thursday in the first game of the NIT Season Tip-Off. A four-deep running back rotation has been boiled down to Scarlett and Lamical Perine.

“They dominated the line of scrimmage”, Appleby said.

EB: This matchup favors the Seminoles for the simple reason that the Gators offensive line is not even at 50 percent strength.

“He’s phenomenal, man”, the ACC offensive assistant said. They did a very good job.

Williams is arguably the most athletic player on the Illini team. He plays the game the way it’s supposed to be played. “Because mistakes are going to happen”. If that tandem can wear down the Seminoles the way they wore down LSU a week ago, Florida will be in a much better position. It was his third consecutive 100-yard rushing game, his eighth of the year and his 21st in his three-year career.

Win turnover battle by (+2)… “So athletic. They can make shots, too”. They finished the game 0 for 12 on third downs.

That’s a relatively new adjective for Cook, who had just 447 receiving yards coming into 2016. The 31 given up to Arkansas a few weeks back is the second-most points yielded by the Gators all season - a healthy Tennessee scored 38 on them early. The defenses were a little ahead of the offenses, there were always a lot of turnovers and penalties and I’m not sure I’d want to watch a Florida-FSU game like that. It certainly can be done.

FSView: Last season, Florida’s inability to properly defend FSU’s pass rush proved quite costly, as the “Noles were able to forcibly rough up former Gators” quarterback Treon Harris.

At least six explosive plays… Doing so moves the sticks and helps accomplish the things written above as well.

Fisher is now 6-1 all-time against Florida since taking over in 2010, and he also improved to 17-1 in that same span against programs from the state of Florida.

The one final word the ACC blog has on Cook: pioneer.