Takeaways from FSU’s loss to Clemson
By BOB FERRANTE
Editor The Osceola
Florida State’s youth movement was on display on Saturday. A redshirt freshman quarterback, Brock Glenn, connected with a true freshman tight end, Landen Thomas, for a 35-yard catch and run. And the drive was capped off by Glenn’s 13-yard dart to Amaree Williams for the true freshman’s first catch and touchdown.
It was a pretty eight-play, 75-yard drive that ate up nearly four minutes and responded after falling behind 17-0 to Clemson.
But the rest of the half? FSU generated just nine offensive yards.
Baby steps. The freshmen showed heart, the energy was high but the result was a sobering and familiar one as No. 15 Clemson was in control despite a fourth-quarter FSU touchdown drive and held off the Seminoles 29-13 on Saturday night.
Cade Klubnik had 235 passing yards and 62 rushing yards. He had a 57-yard touchdown pass to Antonio Williams and a 23-yard touchdown pass to T.J. Moore.
The Seminoles (1-5, 1-4 ACC) scored in the teens for a fifth straight game and fell well short of 300 offensive yards for a sixth straight game. FSU finished with 250 offensive yards.
Glenn was under pressure frequently but was more decisive and accurate. He completed more passes on Saturday (23) than he did in his first two starts plus some mop up duty in other games (19).
The redshirt freshman finished 23 of 41 for 228 yards and touchdowns to Thomas and Ja’Khi Douglas.
“I think it was good but a lot to improve on,” Glenn said. “Obviously game experience is very important. And I think there’s a lot that I can learn from and a lot that the whole offense can learn from. So we’ll be able to use this bye to clean up some details and clean up everything that we got to fix.”
The experience can only do him well going into the bye week and moving forward. Nearly every FSU drive started on its own 25, forcing Glenn and the offense to work their way down the field.
Thomas earned his first start and grabbed seven catches for 80 yards. Amaree Williams had the touchdown. Sophomore Hykeem Williams caught four passes for 53 yards. Redshirt freshman Andre’ Otto picked up the start, his first at FSU.
