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Meh.

ND is over-rated as usual, and it's a quasi-conference game anyway. FSU didn't schedule it. The ACC did.

Memphis, Charleston Southern and Florida ain't murderous.

I suppose it’s just low in body bags, but I put value on that. Two teams that won 10 games last year and a program that’s *usually* talent rich/good. It ain’t bad. 

Where do you guess FSU goes from here?  Are they still a pretty decent team, or just mediocre, or worse?  Wrose case, I think, they lose to BC and spiral downwards, and even up 4-8.  The BC game could be pivotal for team morale.  Memphis won't be a pastry.

I agree on the BC game being pivotal.  I'll also say that while @847badgerfan has a point here:

Meh.

ND is over-rated as usual, and it's a quasi-conference game anyway. FSU didn't schedule it. The ACC did.

Memphis, Charleston Southern and Florida ain't murderous.

There are two sides to that coin as you already pointed out:

Having P4 teams on one's schedule is credible even if they happen to be off that year.  They COULD lose any of those but CSU.

SoS is, IMHO, always difficult to assess because it depends on the strength of the team in question.  Badge is right that if FSU is a NC Contender, this isn't a terribly tough schedule.  If they are actually THAT good and the loss in Ireland was just a fluke, then the only real concerns on the schedule are MAYBE Clemson, MAYBE Miami, and ND.  

OTOH, if the loss in Ireland is more indicative of the actual status of FSU, this is a ROUGH schedule because there aren't a lot of gimmies.  

If they stuff BC in a trash can at home a week from tonight, then they have a week off to figure everything out before two more homes games against Memphis and California and a road game at SMU.  They *SHOULD* be 4-1 when they play Clemson in October.  Or the wheels could come off.  

I wouldn't put too much stock into the first game, especially one in Ireland. On the Tech side I greatly enjoyed watching their quarterback, who both looked like he had never played football before and was also very effective. He looked surprised every time something went right. 

apparently, the bye week really helped FSU

against Nebraska

Rushes-yards      FSU    41-54  UNL    63-472

I know you are just being coy but it has a lot more to do with Nebraska being a MUCH better team in 1981 than Ohio State.  It doesn't jump off the page because the Cornhuskers and Buckeyes both finished 9-3 with Nebraska #11 and tOSU #15 but:

Nebraska played a brutal schedule that year as well.  They opened in Iowa City with a loss to the BigTen Champions to be.  Then they blew out FSU before losing at home to a PSU team that would ultimately finish #3 in the Nation.  Their fourth OOC game was at home against Auburn.  They ran the table in the Big8 and their third loss of the season came in the Orange Bowl to the 1981 National Champions, Clemson.  

Ohio State missed Iowa on the BigTen schedule (long story, everybody else played 9 league games, tOSU and Iowa didn't and it ended up being HUGE because the Buckeyes and Hawkeyes tied for the league title).  The Buckeyes' other two losses came to middling Wisconsin and Minnesota* teams and they barely got their ninth win in the Liberty Bowl against Navy.  

*Minnesota:
The Gophers are a weird story that year.  They took out tOSU 35-31 at home and they also beat Iowa 12-10 in Iowa City which means that they beat BOTH of the league's co-champions.  Despite that, they finished sub .500 in the league at 4-5 and tied with MSU for 6th/7th place because they lost to:

• 3-6/3-8 Indiana
• 4-5/5-6 Michigan State
• 6-3/7-5 Wisconsin
• 6-3/7-4 Illinois
• 6-3/9-3 Michigan

I wouldn't put too much stock into the first game, especially one in Ireland. On the Tech side I greatly enjoyed watching their quarterback, who both looked like he had never played football before and was also very effective. He looked surprised every time something went right.

That kid helped topple a Bama team that played for a natty. And he also looked surprised about that.

I think we need a term for a QB who is nice on a mid-level team, but too inconsistent for one trying to be serious.

Edit: Well shit. I messed that up. The Ga. Tech kid was the starter who got hurt for that A&M team. His backup beat A&M, went to Auburn where he didn’t get the job/got hurt and now is a modestly, productive FCS quarterback. 

Yeah that didn't sound right.

Overall I liked Haynes King at A&M, it was a shame he got hurt and then got replaced.  He was their next savior... until he wasn't.

Believe me I'm used to seeing those come and go at Texas, too.