1. Florida State is playing UL-Monroe on Saturday. The Noles will win and move to 6-6, extending their bowl streak to 36 years in an otherwise awful season. Good! This is a rescheduled game after an earlier matchup was postponed due to a hurricane.
ESPN’s preseason ad somehow predicted Jimbo Fisher not making it through the ULM game ... sort of
Incredible foresight.
2. FSU has an interim coach for that game, because Jimbo Fisher left on Friday to take the head coaching job at Texas A&M.
3. Here’s a clip from an actual, honest-to-goodness ESPN commercial from before the season.
Wait, is that a clay UL-Monroe fan blowing a clay Jimbo Fisher out of the frame? That’d be so weird if that were predicted in a commercial several months ago. Let’s enhance and see for ourselves.
Oh, yeah.
Confirmed: ESPN had a spot months ago that featured a UL-Monroe Warhawks fan getting Fisher out of the picture at Florida State. You couldn’t script this stuff, but the network did. Bravo on some psychic powers.
A hat tip to The Ringer’s Rodger Sherman for being the one to notice this:
Here’s the full commercial:
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