Can losing really teach a team more lessons than losing?
Can defeat point the proper way to play?
Maybe. Just as the FSU Seminoles, although they wouldn’t have said it at the time. It was 2010, Jimbo Fisher’s first season, and the Seminoles dropped a 37-35 shootout to the Tar Heels in Tallahassee.
Most the time that the two schools have played football, FSU has had its way. It has a 15-2 all time lead.
But not in 2010.
FSU lost its second straight game (losing to North Carolina State the week before) as T.J. Yates threw for 439 yards and three scores. Dwight Jones caught eight passes for 233 yards, including a 31-yarder to set up a winning field by Casey Barth with 55 seconds left.
The Seminoles had taken a 35-34 lead on Lonnie Pryor’s touchdown run.
FSU grew from that game, losing only the ACC title game that year. It lost four games in 2011, but it has lost only seven games since then.
Saturday will be the first time the two have played each other since.
