FSU football (5-5) went into its game Saturday against Boston College as a wounded animal. They had just suffered a demoralizing defeat against their rival Miami with their coach Willie Taggart getting fired the next day.
On top of that, the Noles had not won a conference road game since October 2017 against Duke.
They were going to a place where the weather was colder than a wooly mammoth’s toenails, against an offense than runs the ball 68 percent of the time with two huge running backs.
Their run defense as been OK this year at times this year, but those variables had the Noles as +2.