In the first season for FSU football head coach Willie Taggart, the new offense that he brought in from his previous stops at both South Florida and Oregon – known by many as the ‘Gulf Coast offense’ – had plenty of ups and downs during a season that many in garnet and gold would like to forget took place.
While the passing game led by former quarterback Deondre Francois and an upstart group of receivers finished with a respectable ranking of 41st in the FBS, the running game was an abomination of epic proportions that finished with the fourth worst stats in the highest level of college football.