The biggest thing to me on Saturday is that we didn't get physically overpowered the way we did against Indiana on the lines. Perhaps that says more about FSU than it does us, but Hinton had more time to throw, our backs had a few holes to run through, and we bottled up their run game to an acceptable degree (Cook's injury can't be discounted there).
The game in many ways was there for the taking. It seemed like the bigger breaks of the game went in their favor--the big play for the TD, us somehow not blocking that punt, them getting the call on the incomplete pass/fumble play. Again, the injury to Cook is probably the biggest break that went against them, forcing them to have to rely on some other, less-talented five star recruit in his absence.
Traditionally, for us to pull an upset like that requires a significant advantage in turnover margin, including some short field scoring drives. We had no short field drives that I can recall (and I'd be interested to know what our best starting field position of the day was). Having several sustained drives was impressive. Having a significantly greater number of first downs was more impressive--my best recollection was that we had 24 first downs to their 15 or so. To be fair, they did have some significant penalty yardage, but we moved the ball pretty effectively. (And if we could combine Hinton's playmaking ability with Wolford's passing accuracy, we'd have an incredible weapon at our disposal.)
The last thing that stands out is the effect that three poor 3rd quarters has had on our record. All three losses were the result of being outplayed coming out of the half and getting into a hole we can't dig all the way out of. I don't know how we fix that, and I suspect our relative inexperience/youth has something to do with it, but that is something that the coaching staff needs to address.