Bulls Win Big!

I feel as though this is rapidly becoming a blog about Bulls football, rather than a blog about my life, but whatever.

This weekend was fantastic! In case you didn't hear-the Bulls beat the Florida State Seminoles 17-7 this Saturday! It's by far the biggest win in the 13 years of our football program and we came in as the definite under dogs.

Why our victory was so huge:

1. Though we won our first three games of the season, it was always by huge margins because we've only really played less difficult teams. FSU was our first real challenge of the season.
2. On top of that, the Noles were ranked number 18 and are part of Florida's "Big Three." The last time we played a Big Three team was when we lost to the Miami Hurricanes in 2005.
3. Our senior starting quarterback, Matt Grothe, tore his ACL last week and is out for the season.
4. It was the first career start for our back up quarterback, B.J. Daniels, a redshirt freshmen who happens to be from Tallahassee.
5. We didn't play home at Ray-J, we beat the Noles on their home turf at Doak Campbell Stadium.

Our defense was unstoppable. George Selvie and newcomer Jason Pierre-Paul plowed into Noles QB Christian Ponder and the rest of the Noles offensive line again and again holding on to a 14-0 lead until the third quarter. Watching B.J. Daniels dominate the team he grew up supporting was fantastic. He made some rookie mistakes, which is actually kind of awesome because it means despite how great he was and the victory he brought us, he's going to get even better!

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the game and had an absolute blast (though my throat kind of hates me right now). It was disgustingly hot for most of the game, but we barely noticed, and sometime in the third quarter the clouds rolled in and the rains cooled us down. To be honest though, it could have poured the entire time or been 30 degrees hotter and it wouldn't have mattered, the game was just that good. And it wasn't just good, it was CLEAN. I was thrilled by how the FSU fans acted towards us, and want thank all of them for their hospitality; it was great to be in Tally with you all. I'm just thrilled that pretty much everyone was able to have a healthy competitive spirit without being ugly about it.

A word from the head coaches:
Bobby Bowden (FSU): "Dangum, they're good. They beat the heck out of us today."
Jim Leavitt (USF): "It changes history."

Hanging out with our Noles friends (who were kind enough to let us crash on Friday night) before the game.

The Bulls enter Doak Campbell ready to play!

The final score! Bulls-17 Seminoles-7!

Paul and I after the game; we didn't want to leave!

Basically, I'm still riding the high from yesteday's game and looking forward to the rest of the season and watching B.J. Daniels come into his own as starting QB.

This Saturday we play Syracuse away, and our next home game is Cincinnati on October 15th! We also get to take on the Miami Hurricanes on November 28th.