The Florida State Seminoles host the North Carolina Tar Heels at Doak Campbell Stadium this afternoon as 2.5 point underdogs. Most oddsmakers are predicting that UNC coach Mack Brown will finally get his first win against the Noles on his 12th attempt, ending another FSU streak in their never-ending nightmare of a season. Kick-off is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. and will be televised ACCN.

The Seminoles (1-7, 1-6) have beaten North Carolina (4-4, 1-3) in their last two meetings and hold a 17-3-1 lead in the all-time series. In their last meeting in 2021, FSU entered the game in Chapel Hill as an 18-point underdog and emerged as a 10-point winner. From Tomahawk Nation’s game summary:

“I really think it’s a new team,” Mike Norvell said afterward State of Florida Football’s 35-25 win at North Carolina. And a new team was exactly what Florida State football looked like. In the first four weeks of the season, the Seminoles were unable to put together any winning plays. In Chapel Hill that was all they did. The Seminoles were 7-10 on third down, 3-3 in the red zone, did not allow a sack and committed no turnovers. Norvell said: “Tonight we played winning football.”

The Seminoles entered Chapel Hill as 18-point underdogs and left the game as 10-point winners. How does this happen? Believe. “You believe. They believe in what we do and how we do it. We want these guys to do their best,” Norvell said.

A surprise also happens when the best player on the field is your quarterback. Jordan Travis was by far the best player on the field in Chapel Hill. Travis was 11-13 for 145 yards and three touchdowns. He also set a career high with 121 rushing yards. After Norvell’s first ever road win, Travis was FSU’s turf captain and cut a piece of UNC’s turf to return to FSU’s turf graveyard. After the game, the QB said, “I am so blessed to be a part of this Florida State football team.”

According to FanDuel The Seminoles are 2.5 point underdogs against the Tar Heels, with the over/under ratio at 49.5.

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Florida State vs. North Carolina: Game Notes

• Florida State returns home for the ACC finals against North Carolina on Saturday afternoon. FSU is the first team in the country to play its entire conference schedule and the only team to face a conference opponent in eight of its first nine games in 2024.
• The Seminoles have won eight straight games in November after posting a perfect 4-0 record in both 2022 and 2023, improving head coach Mike Norvell’s career record to 24-5 (.828) in the final month of the regular season ).
• Florida State is the only team in the ACC and one of two nationally to score a kickoff return touchdown in each of the last three seasons. Samuel Singleton Jr. extended FSU’s streak to three straight with a 95-yard kickoff return touchdown to open the second half at Duke. Last year, Deuce Spann had a 99-yard kickoff return touchdown at home against the Blue Devils, and in 2022, Trey Benson recorded FSU’s first kickoff return touchdown since the 2013 season when he scored the opening kickoff return. Returned a 93-yard touchdown for a score against Boston College.
• The Seminoles rank first in the nation with five blocked kicks this season, thanks to four field goals and a punt block, having blocked a field goal against Cal, one against SMU and two against Clemson, and added a punt block against Duke . Florida State is one of only two teams in the country to have blocked at least one kick in four different games against FBS opponents, and its four-game streak with at least one blocked kick between the SMU and Duke games is the longest in the nation this season. FSU’s 14 blocked kicks under Mike Norvell rank 6th nationally and 2nd among P4 conference programs since the start of the 2020 season.
• With a net punting average of 46.58 yards per punt, Florida State ranks first in the country. Alex Mastromanno’s average of 49.6 yards per punt ranks No. 1 in the country, and Mastromanno also leads the country in punts over 50 yards with 21. He has by far the most 50-yard punts with one or fewer touchbacks this season and is the second closest punter has 15.
• Ryan Fitzgerald is the only kicker in the country to make four field goals of at least 52 yards. He is one of five kickers with four 50-yard field goals in 2024 and the third kicker in FSU history with at least four 50-yard field goals in a single season. He is one of five kickers nationally to still hit perfect field goals this season and have at least nine attempts.

• Florida State held Duke to 70 passing yards and recorded a season-high eight pass breakdowns and 180 yards of total offense. The total number of passing yards is the fewest an ACC team has allowed against a P4 conference opponent this season, and the Seminoles’ total number of pass breakups was the most since registering 10 in the win in the 2023 ACC Championship Game.

• Florida State recorded 7.0 sacks in the win over Cal, the most in a game since 7.0 in the 2023 ACC Championship Game and the most sacks allowed by the Bears in a game since Oct. 19, 2019. the most by an ACC team against an FBS opponent this season and the ninth-highest single-game sacks total nationally in 2024.
• Ten Florida State players have made their first collegiate start in 2024. Linebacker Blake Nichelson has started five games and wide receiver Hykeem Williams has made five straight starts. Defensive back KJ Kirkland has started five of the last six games, and offensive lineman Jaylen Early has also started five games this season. Tight end Landen Thomas has started three straight games. Offensive lineman André Otto made his first start against Clemson and started again at Duke. Linebacker Justin Cryer started his first two careers at Duke and Miami. Wide receiver Jalen Brown started the first two games of the season, while tight ends Brian Courtney and Jackson West made their first career starts against Memphis.

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