5 things learned from FSU loss to Miami

TALLAHASSEE — Florida State will fight until the final seconds tick off the clock. That point is not in question.

But plenty of what the Seminoles have done the last two weeks put themselves in a deficit from which it is impossible to climb out. After a double-overtime loss at Virginia, one where FSU trailed twice and had to rally, the Seminoles faced a 25-point deficit going into the fourth quarter against Miami before falling short 28-22 on Saturday night.

Rally is in FSU’s DNA but so are the self-inflicted mistakes.

“Whether it was just untimely penalties, some mistakes that we made were just a little too much to overcome there in the end,” FSU coach Mike Norvell said. “Thought our guys battled in the fourth quarter. I believed throughout that we would get a spark, that we would sta