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Yahoo Sports: Road Trippin': FSU's decade of pain comes full circle

Breaking down the second Saturday's big intersectional tilts: Florida State at Oklahoma. • Miles traveled. 1,021 from Tallahassee to Norman, a 17-hour drive through a whole lotta pine trees. That's just long enough, and boring enough, for them to convince themselves that, really, when you think about it, Florida State ought to be pretty dang good this year. • Respect the decibels. Gaylord Memorial Stadium doesn't exactly have a reputation for earth-shattering volume, even at 82,000, and FSU coach Jimbo Fisher didn't do anything to amplify the noise this week in practice. Instead of making everything around them louder, he ...

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