With the loss, the Seminoles’s 2024 document dropped to 1-8, and so they’ve now misplaced eight video games in a single season for the primary time since 1975.
After their horrible begin, it is loopy to look again and notice that they have been the No. 10 ranked crew within the nation within the 2024 preseason polls. That now looks like a really distant and unbelievable reminiscence.
On Saturday, Florida State obtained out to a 3-0 lead over the Tar Heels after Seminoles kicker Ryan Fitzgerald transformed a field-goal try from 56 yards away.
That benefit turned out to be short-lived, nevertheless, as North Carolina proceeded to outscore Florida State 35-8 through the the rest of the matchup.
Within the loss to the Tar Heels, eight of the Seminoles’s offensive drives resulted in a punt or a turnover, and through 5 of those drives, they have been on the sector for 4 performs or much less.
The seat for Florida State head coach Mike Norvell was already sizzling earlier than Saturday’s sport, however that seat may now be absolutely engulfed after the crew’s newest embarrassing loss.
If the Seminoles have been exhibiting any kind of struggle throughout all of their losses this season, then Norvell’s job doubtless would not be in a lot hazard. However Florida State has now misplaced 5 video games this 12 months by a number of scores, and it looks like the varsity is inching nearer to needing a brand new head coach earlier than the beginning of subsequent season.
The excellent news is that the Seminoles ought to nonetheless be capable of add not less than another win to their 2024 document since they’ve an upcoming matchup towards Charleston Southern, a Division I FCS crew with a 1-8 document, on Nov. 23.
There’s the unhealthy information, which is that Florida State will doubtless endure extra losses subsequent Saturday once they face No. 8 Notre Dame on the highway after which once they host Florida of their remaining sport of the season on Nov. 30.
It has been one of many worst years within the historical past of Florida State’s storied soccer program, and it does not seem that issues are going to get any higher through the subsequent few weeks.