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Pittsburgh Upsets Florida State in Shocking Victory
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We'll start in Tallahassee, Coach, with the upset of the day in the conference.
00:05
Pittsburgh upsets Florida State.
00:07
They hand the Seminoles their third straight loss, third straight conference loss since the Week 5 loss in Charlottesville.
00:15
Pitt was a 10.5-point underdog.
00:17
They stepped up and win it outright, 34-31.
00:21
Amazing effort by Pat Narduzzi and the Pitt Panthers.
00:25
Well, he's gone with a true freshman quarterback, and for the second weekend in a row, he's thrown for over 300 yards.
00:33
You know, the story seems to be what's wrong with Florida State, but it might be what's right with Pittsburgh.
00:40
They found him a true freshman quarterback playing very well, but I'm pretty sure now that at Florida State,
00:46
the anomaly was the first win, not the upset losses now, because now we're seeing an FSU team that doesn't seem to be able to stop anybody
00:56
and get them off the field with their defense.
01:00
And we'll see.
01:01
Entering that matchup, Florida State was still averaging well over 4.5 yards per carry.
01:06
Pitt entered that matchup only allowing 74 rushing yards per game.
01:10
That was a dominant offensive effort, though, by the Pitt Panthers, to coach's point, back-to-back efforts over Boston College
01:18
and then on the road in Tallahassee.
01:20
Even though Florida State did tie the game up in the second quarter, Mason Heinsteichel stepped up.
01:26
Coach, he got the first win over Florida State since dating back to Dan Marino in 1981,
01:33
a significant win, a significant victory,
01:36
but more importantly, a player that we have to keep an eye out for the next few weeks.
01:42
You know, I feel like, you know, Eli Holstein, we said that last year after about seven games,
01:46
but this kid seems to be the real deal.
01:48
And by the way, I was on that Florida State staff when we played that of Pittsburgh in 1981.
01:55
And that quarter, Marino was a pretty dag-up good college quarterback.
01:58
But, you know, he has done well.
02:00
And I'm just fascinated how many head coaches hit the panic button
02:05
or at least cry to their media and to their fans when they lose a quarterback,
02:10
and Narducci just steps up, give me another one, put him in, let's go with it,
02:14
and then puts confidence in him.
02:17
And when the quarterback makes a mistake, keep right on going, work through an interception,
02:21
work through a mistake.
02:22
And now Pitt's in a chance to be one of those teams that might slide up there.
02:28
And I want to say have that, be that team that might have a chance to play against Miami
02:32
in the championship game.
02:34
And when you see Pittsburgh, you know, putting up offensive numbers,
02:38
we know that for years they were known as a defensive-minded team.
02:41
Now we see Florida State on the flip side, coach.
02:44
All of a sudden, in three straight weeks, that defense seems to have fallen apart.
02:49
Offense isn't as consistent.
02:50
The rushing attack isn't as dominant.
02:53
They're losing the turnover battle.
02:55
How does this affect the team moving forward as it relates to the defensive side of the ball
03:00
in weeks number eight through potentially week number 13?
03:05
Yeah, I think we mentioned like TC, Tommy College of Standards,
03:09
only got 12 yards of offense.
03:12
That was a problem there.
03:13
But I think the big problem at Florida State now is motivation.
03:17
Can we keep our kids' heads in the game?
03:19
Can we not lose the team?
03:21
Remember last year, after not having the quarterback situation work out,
03:26
Mike Norvell pretty much lost the entire team.
03:29
Nobody played well.
03:30
The entire team collapsed, and the season collapsed.
03:33
Now he's got to win three out of the last six to get to a bowl game
03:38
and salvage the season at this point.
03:41
And it's hard to find three wins there the way Florida State is playing.
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