#Mike Norvell

Georgia finished off the 2022 college football season with an undefeated season and their second straight National Championship, the first team to do so since 2011 and 2012 Alabama. Kirby Smart now has the task of making history, leading a program to the first three-peat since Minnesota did so in the 1930's. However, Alabama will look to reload…

Now that the college football season is over, the offseason hype for the 2023-24 Florida State team has officially begun. Preseason top 10. The next ACC champions. Appearing in the College Football Playoff for the first time since its inception in 2014. Those are among the lofty expectations that the Seminoles have already received from national…

Georgia will chase a third consecutive national championship in 2023 as the favorite in the USA TODAY Sports way-too-early Top 25 for next season, ahead of the familiar run of teams that have come to dominate the Bowl Subdivision. The Bulldogs are followed by No. 2 Michigan, No. 3 Alabama, No. 4 Florida State and No. 5 Penn State. After an…

Below, we break down the way-too-early 2024 CFP National Championship futures odds with a look at the favorites, contenders, and some intriguing long shots based on our best college football odds. As the college football season comes to a close, the focus has already shifted to the 2023-24 campaign for the majority of teams. We may be a full…

With the college football season coming to an end Monday, it's time to look forward to the 2023-24 Florida State team. The Seminoles have already received a lot of hype from national pundits. Brandon Marcello, a national college football reporter from 247Sports, had FSU at No. 3 in his way-too-early 2023 rankings Sunday. Another national college…

This is the first installment in a mini-series I've written about some parts of the 2022 football season that stood out to me. I hope you enjoy reading and come back for part 2. On October 8, 2022, for a few hours shortly after 10 PM, a new sport briefly existed. It was called footballball. The goal of the game was simple. Two teams try to play…

Instead of cramming the rest of the bowl games into one article, I figured I'd split them up, with the Thursday and Friday games in this article, and predictions for the games on Saturday and Monday in one last MC&J picks piece that will drop in the near future. (All lines courtesy of Draftkings Sportsbook.) Both of these teams had their eyes on…

The No. 13-ranked Florida State Seminoles will be in action on Thursday night as they prepare for a matchup versus the Oklahoma Sooners in the Cheez It Bowl. In Florida, legal sports betting options remain halted but college football fans can still bet on the Cheez It Bowl with the top offshore betting sites. New members can claim free bets and…

College football fans in Oklahoma are still waiting for sports betting to become regulated but that doesn't mean that they can't get in on the action for tonight's game. The Oklahoma Sooners will travel to Camping World Stadium to battle the No. 13-ranked Florida State Seminoles in the 2022 Cheez It Bowl on Thursday night. With the Sooners in…

The Oklahoma Sooners will square off with the Florida State Seminoles on Thursday evening in the Cheez-It Bowl in Orlando. It's time to continue our college football odds series with an Oklahoma-Florida State prediction and pick. Oklahoma has struggled in their first season under Brent Venables, going an even 6-6 including a disappointing 3-6…

No. 13 Florida State (9-3, 5-3 ACC) will look to finish off its best season since 2016 by securing a 10th win on the year, facing off against the Oklahoma Sooners (6-6, 3-6 Big 12) in the Cheez-It Bowl in Orlando. FSU last faced off against the Sooners in 2011, a 23-13 loss for the Seminoles. Oklahoma leads the all-time series 6-1. It's FSU's first…

Oklahoma's season was anything but productive, and now it finds itself in the Cheez-It Bowl missing a ton of players due to opt-outs. The Seminoles will be more motivated, and that's why our college football betting picks are rolling with them. The amount of food-sponsored bowls seem to grow by the year, but they don't get any cheddar than this as…

Oklahoma and Florida State are two traditional powers in college football at different phases of rebuilds. In the third year under Mike Norvell, Florida State has already secured its first winning season since Jimbo Fisher left in 2017. Oklahoma just finished its worst season in more than 20 years in the first year under Brent Venables. The…

When the news came down last week that a 12-team College Football Playoff would be implemented starting with the 2024 season, coaches like Billy Napier (Florida), Mike Norvell (Florida State) and Mario Cristobal (Miami) were no doubt rejoicing. By tripling the access to the prestigious CFP, it means coaches at high-resourced Power 5 programs across…

With games happening sporadically over the next month, it's important to make very early college football bowl predictions. Betting lines will move drastically between now and the bowl games, which run from Dec. 16 through the Jan. 9 College Football Playoff title game. But with 43 total bowls, it's not hard to find early value. I've already made…

Georgia lands No. 1 spot in CFP followed by Michigan, TCU and Ohio StateGeorgia was a no brainer for the top spot in the final college football playoff rankings, but Dan Wolken explains how the rest of the field was set. Even after Southern California's loss to Utah made things unnecessarily complicated, the College Football Playoff selection…

What an awesome week two for college football! App State is back to beating over-ranked, under-performing Power 5 programs. Speaking of Texas should've beaten Alabama but did the thing Clemson used to do. Kentucky exposed Florida. And double overtimes in Lubbock and Provo ruined our covers. What a time! I went an ever impressive 5-5, bringing the…

Florida and No. 16 Florida State renew their rivalry in primetime as the two heated rivals meet on Black Friday for the first time in history. This meeting sees the Gators and Seminoles not only jockeying for bowl positioning but also the bragging rights that come with one of the most prestigious in-state rivalries in the sport. . These two…

Celebrated from coast to coast by sports fans, bag men, mafia kings and mathematicians, Joe vs. the Pro and the Hero is the greatest resource for college football shenanigans on the internet. This is the 13th season for Joe vs. the Pro and the Hero in its various forms. Joe is the reigning king of the picks, but we could only find a jester's cap'n'…

Offense: 35.4 PPG (23rd in FBS), 473.7 YPG (16th), 256.7 pass YPG (41st), 217.0 rush YPG (14th) Defense: 18.00 PPG (13th), 293.4 YPG (11th), 155.4 pass YPG (4th), 138.0 rush YPG (52nd) Key players: quarterback Jordan Travis (2526 passing yards, 21 passing touchdowns, four interceptions, 387 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns), running back Trey…

After finishing ACC play last week, the Florida State football team will now wrap up its regular season with two home games. The No. 19 Seminoles (7-3) will first face Louisiana (5-5), a member of the Sun Belt, in Doak Campbell Stadium at noon Saturday (TV: Bally Sports Sun). FSU will then host Florida in a rivalry clash on Black Friday at 7:30…

Florida State football is riding high. The Seminoles are coming off back-to-back-to-back blowout victories over Georgia Tech, Miami and Syracuse. Two of those have come in road games (the Hurricanes and Orange) for No. 19 FSU. The Seminoles have clinched their first winning season since 2017 and their first winning ACC season since 2016. Now the…

After going 5-1 in our early college football predictions and picks column, it's time to find more value in the closing lines for Saturday's action. We'll outline some line changes and touch on previous early-line bets that were advised and whether or not to grab those games ahead of the action this weekend. The first of our non-MAC early picks and…

The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns will travel to take on the Florida State Seminoles in a Saturday afternoon college football matchup at Doak S. Campbell Stadium. Let's continue our college football odds series and make our Louisiana-Florida State prediction and pick. Louisiana has gone 5-5 this season, staring down bowl eligibility with two games…

Florida State coach Mike Norvell would reach a noteworthy milestone if his team wins its next game. He would improve to a.500 record (16-16) with the Seminoles for the first time in his three seasons atop their football program. That accomplishment might seem ordinary or unimpressive. But it should be perceived as a significant feat when knowing…

college football odds series for our Florida State Miami prediction and pick. The Florida State Seminoles were not good enough to beat the top teams in the ACC's Atlantic Division. The Seminoles lost to Clemson, Wake Forest, and North Carolina State. There's no shame in that. Those programs are better than FSU, and they have been better for the…

college football odds series for our Florida State Syracuse prediction and pick. The Florida State Seminoles were able to vent a lot of frustrations in their most recent game. They unleashed a big ball of fury in a 45-3 win over the Miami Hurricanes. For all the times Florida State has failed to beat Miami in recent years, it decided to extract…

The college football season is here, and that means it's time for the final conference power rankings from around the country. How do things look in the ACC this year? Pittsburgh comes in as defending league champs, but quarterback Kenny Pickett is gone, while conference runner-up Wake Forest will be without QB Sam Hartman, the heart of its…

There is no time like the present to talk about the upcoming football season. A College GameDay announcement here, a TV time there. As we stare into the doldrums of the offseason chock full of high-minded rhetoric about the future of the NCAA and all the hand-wringing about NIL you can stand, it can be hard to remember that this is about actual…

Teams: Syracuse Orange (6-3, 3-2) vs. No. 23 Florida State Seminoles (6-3, 4-3) Day & Time: Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm Location: JMA Wireless Dome, Syracuse, N.Y. Line: The Draftkings Line has Syracuse as 6.5 underdogs at home. TV/Streaming: ACC Network, WatchESPN Radio: Cuse.com, TK 99/105, WAER 88.3, Sirius XM 136 or 194/SXM App…

Midweek MACtion continues as our early week college football predictions are here with some top picks to start your Week 11 slate. MACtion was good to us last week, and we can also look to cash in on early line value for the weekend slate to boot. Getting their first taste of midweek MACtion, both Eastern Michigan and Akron are back to treat fans…

For the second straight week, Florida State spent the week preparing for three quarterbacks. Last week not knowing if Georgia Tech starter Jeff Sims would play, but Seminoles prepared for the backup and the third string QB. Things will be the same this week, as Miami (4-4, 2-2 ACC) is dealing with an injury to starter Tyler Van Dyke heading into…

The Memphis Tigers are the first Group of Five team since 2015 to enter the New Year's Six with a loss. In the previous two seasons, their American Athletic Conference counterpart, the UCF Knights, earned matchups with a power-conference program. The Penn State Nittany Lions are the second Big Ten squad to face off with the best Group of Five…

Clemson football scored 27 consecutive points and then held on for a 34-28 cictory against Florida State The fifth-ranked Tigers (7-0, 5-0) scored a seventh straight victory in its series with Florida State (4-3, 2-3) and its 13th consecutive victory dating back to the 2021 season. The Tigers' much-improved offense has scored at least 30 points in…

It's a service academy weekend, and you know what that means: a low-scoring slog! Army and Air Force have gone Under their set total in eight consecutive meetings and that's not likely to change. That and more in this week's aptly-named Triple Option. The Initial College Football Playoff rankings are here and there are two Top-10 matchups involving…

There's nothing predictable about a weekend in the wild world of college football. There can be unexpected and shocking disappointments and unanticipated positive performances on fall Saturdays throughout the country. The unknown is where they are coming from because even if everyone knows they will happen guessing when and where they will happen…

The last time Florida State played at Miami, Mike Norvell endured what he described as one of his toughest coaching experiences. The Hurricanes clobbered the Seminoles in that 2020 game at Hard Rock Stadium, totaling 517 yards of offense in a 52-10 win. Norvell, who was one game removed from his debut as FSU's coach, watched it all in isolation…

The final Saturday in October will see Georgia Tech head south for its ACC cross-division matchup with Florida State. The Yellow Jackets are coming off a loss to Virginia last Thursday, while Florida State is coming off a bye week. The Seminoles are trying to get back to their winning ways this week against Georgia Tech. Florida State started the…

Florida State Seminoles football (4-3, 2-3 ACC) is rested up and off its second bye of the season, looking to snap a three-game losing streak this Saturday vs. the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (3-4, 2-2 ACC). FSU will also be looking to snap a two-game losing streak to Georgia Tech on Saturday at noon, having lost to the Yellow Jackets off a…

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where fans were introduced to the varied animal life- green dogs and rats -in Tuscaloosa: A new, attractive FBS coaching option materialized Monday when the Carolina Panthers fired Matt Rhule. He was a bad fit in the NFL-or at least a bad fit with a franchise that never gave…

The No. 22 Wake Forest Demon Deacons (3-1, 0-1 in ACC) head to Doak S. Campbell Stadium Saturday for a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff with the No. 23 Florida State Seminoles (4-0, 2-0 in ACC). Wake Forest narrowly lost to the Clemson Tigers at home 51-45 in overtime last week but covered as 8-point underdogs. Demon Deacons junior QB Sam Hitman lit up…

Florida State and NC State will both look to bounce back when the two ACC Atlantic foes clash Saturday. The Seminoles (4-1, 2-1 ACC) will be on the road to face the No. 14 Wolfpack (4-1, 0-1) in Carter-Finley Stadium. Both teams came into October undefeated. FSU dropped Duquesne (47-7), LSU (24-23), Louisville (35-31), Boston College (44-14) before…

Let's get this party started. College football betting is finally back after an excruciating seven-month absence, with Georgia fans basking in the glow of a national championship and successful bettors longing for the days of endless kickoffs and nonstop gridiron action. Sure, Week 0 was great, but this is where the real fun begins. Week 1 in…

FSU heads to NC State to take on the Wolfpack who are coming off a tough loss against Clemson last week. Will that loss shake up North Carolina State enough to affect them in this game? Our college football betting picks answer that and so much more. Photo By - USA TODAY Sports The North Carolina State Wolfpack saw thier summer bluster rendered…

ESPN's College Gameday is heading to Lawrence, Kansas this week over marquee games like Alabama-Texas A&M and the Red River Showdown between Oklahoma and Texas. Read on for our best ATS bets for Week 6. Alabama's Bryce Young and Oklahoma's Dillon Gabriel were knocked out of Week 5 with injuries. Bettors will need to scour over injury reports before…

Week 5 should be the best weekend of college football thus far in 2022. There are five games that feature matchups of Top 25 teams. Two more unranked, but undefeated power five schools, are playing ranked conference opponents. Those Carolina fans that can make the game Thursday night will get a chance to see the Gamecocks try to work out some…

Florida State will host Wake Forest on Saturday afternoon in a pivotal matchup between ACC contenders. Florida State is 4-0 overall and is coming off a dominant performance at home last weekend against Boston College. The Demon Deacons suffered their first loss of the season in Week 4 - an overtime defeat to Clemson. Wake Forest has won the last 2…

The Florida State Seminoles look to continue their perfect start to 2022 with a home win over Wake Forest on Saturday in nationally televised ACC action. Read more in our Wake Forest vs. Florida State betting picks. The tide has been turning recently in this ACC rivalry, but things could change again when the Wake Forest Demon Deacons travel to…

Moneyline: WF+200 FSU -300 FPI pick: Florida State 73.4% 1. Seminoles secondary on notice. Take a look at what Sam Hartman did to Clemson last week. Wake's quarterback passed for over 300 yards (for the third straight game), including a battery of accurate deep throws, and a school record 6 touchdown passes in the win. Florida State is a…

Wake Forest was super close to upsetting one of the best teams in the country last time out, and we don't think the books are giving it enough credit in Week 5. See why the Demon Deacons headline the Triple Option's college football picks. It was a nice bounce back for the Triple Option last week, so now we're going to carry that momentum into Week…