TrueFloridian
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IThe FSU boards are saying the same crap about UM...UM lost Njoku, Coley, Isadora on O and the entire starting secondary on D. I do not believe the secondary will be as good as last year at UM simply because they haven't played together. Talent wise I think it's similar. The problem with not playing together is that Um will end up giving up a few more big plays than last season. I also think UM will create more turnovers this season because the Dline is up there with any team ever. Now, on offense losing Isadora isn't that big of a deal if Donaldson steps up. I think FSU has a bigger loss on the OL with Johnson. Losing Coley is bigger than losing Rudolph. Rudolph was a classic overrated FSU WR we see time and time again. He isn't athletic (look at the combine numbers) and has a strange body type for football. Coley made big time plays in big time games. UM fans are hoping Thomas, Harley, Mullins and Cager are going to make up for the loses of Coley and Njoku. That's a big maybe by game 3. I get a chubby thinking about 4 going 80 yards on those Noles but he's a true frosh. Richards had 4 catches for 50 something yards last year against FSU.
Let's look at matchups and key losses...
1) Coley bigger loss than Rudolph +1 FSU
2) Cook bigger loss than Yearby/Gus +4 UM
3) Johnson bigger loss than Isadora +1 UM
4) Walker loss +2 UM
5) Njoku loss +2 FSU
6) FSU gets back James +3 FSU
7) UM gets back Cager + 1 UM
8) UM loss entire secondary + 2 FSU
FSU OL vs UM DL advantage UM
FSU DL vs UM OL advantage FSU (FSU will have a healthy Sweat and depth)
FSU RBs vs. UM LBs advantage UM (UM finally has depth and experience)
FSU LB's vs UM RB's equal (UMs lacks depth and FSU returns all starters)
FSU WRs vs UMs Sec. equal (New starters everywhere on both teams)
FSU Sec vs. UMs WRs equal (FSU has depth at CB and James, UM has Richards but loses Coley, can the Frosh/Cager/Mullins step up?)
FSU QB vs UM QB advantage FSU
Special Teams equal (UM better on returns but unknown at Punter)
On paper this match up is pretty equal no matter how you look at it.
Njoku is an excellent talent no doubt. However chris herndon will step right in and produce just as much
That's why I only gave it a +2 instead of a 3.