Florida State coach Jimbo Fisher thinks his Heisman Trophy winning quarterback from 2013, Jameis Winston, had a better year in 2014.
As far as Jimbo Fisher is concerned, numbers do lie.
As a redshirt freshman in 2013, Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston threw for 4,057 yards with an NCAA-leading 184.8 efficiency rating and completed 66.9 percent of his throws. He finished with 40 touchdowns and 10 interceptions, while also rushing for 219 yards and four scores.
This season, Winston—who sat out one game with a suspension—has thrown for 3,559 yards on 65.4 percent completions, with 24 touchdowns and 17 picks and he’s rushed for 82 yards and three touchdowns.
But if you ask Fisher, Florida State’s coach, which Winston he prefers and it’s an easy answer—this year’s version.
Fisher told SiriusXM College Sports last week:
"“I think he’s better I think he’s better this year than he was a year ago. Much better. The times in which he had to change gears—I mean, you’ve got to realize, that guy’s got five fourth-quarter comebacks in one year.“He dominated from the beginning. You measure guys by the days it ain’t going right or the guys around him ain’t going right. A lot of the issues he had, which he won’t say, had to do with guys having to grow up around him, whether it was offensive linemen, centers, inside guys, young receivers, backs, all that.“But he could flip a switch and take it to another level like a (Dan) Marino, like an (John) Elway, like a (Joe) Montana and just be like, ‘All right, we gotta drive three times in a row, we’ll drive three times in a row’ and be perfect. I mean, just go in second halves and do things and be unbelievable.“Very few guys in ball, in sports—I call it the Michael Jordan syndrome—Michael’s 7-for-18 with 14 points with six minutes to go, he goes 7-for-7, hits three foul shots, gets three steals and they win the game and he’s got 30 points.“To me, if I’m an NFL guy and all the resolve and things he went through, he shows you things today that you always wonder even when you get the great players out of college.“To me, this year was more amazing in my mind than last year was.”"
In any event, the Seminoles are 26-0 with Winston starting and have won 29 straight games since 2012.
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The Seminoles last lost was a 37-26 loss at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee to rival Florida on Nov. 24, 2012.
That means that by the time the Seminoles take the field in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1 to face No. 2-seeded Oregon in the College Football Playoff semifinals, it will have been 769 days since the last time Florida State lost a game.
Their current streak is tied for the 13th-longest in FBS history, matching 29-game runs by Michigan (1901-03) and Miami (1990-93).
Next on the list is the 30 straight games won by Texas from 1968-70.
The longest winning streak in FBS history is 47 games, accomplished by Oklahoma from 1953-57.
Florida State’s streak is the longest since USC won 34 in a row from 2003-05, a streak that has been … tweaked … by vacated games because of NCAA violations.
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