{"id":159908,"date":"2026-02-18T15:21:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:21:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:21:25","slug":"fsu-football-predicted-to-play-cincinnati-in-2026-pop-tarts-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159908\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU Football predicted to play Cincinnati in 2026 Pop-Tarts Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 17, 2026, 12:06 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">After a disappointing 5-7 season and a declined bowl invite by the 2025 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/3409\/\" data-autotag=\"06ee9050-e06d-4638-a179-a4d7f17000df\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Florida State Seminoles<\/a>, fans are looking to 2026 for a better year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/news\/2026-way-too-early-college-football-bowl-projections-full-list-of-matchups-playoff-predictions\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brett McMurphy of On3<\/a> has published numerous bowl game projections, and in his newest piece, he predicts that the Seminoles will play in the Pop-Tarts Bowl in Orlando, Florida, facing the Cincinnati Bearcats. Previously, the Seminoles defeated the Oklahoma Sooners at Camping World Stadium in 2022 after a 9-3 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In their last bowl game appearance in 2023, the Georgia Bulldogs crushed the Seminoles in the Orange Bowl, 63-3. Mike Norvell is 1-5 in all of his bowl game appearances, and 1-1 in Florida State&#8217;s bowl games. In their history, Florida State 28-17-2 in 47 bowl games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It remains to be seen whether either of these predictions will come to fruition in the end against a notably tough ACC and out-of-conference schedule.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771428085_334_87125517007-renewalby-andersonlogo.png\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Contact\/Follow us @FSUWire on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Florida State news, notes, and opinions. You can also follow Jacob on X at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jsmith_sports\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@jsmith_sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 17, 2026, 12:06 p.m. ET After a disappointing 5-7 season and a declined bowl invite by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[31,5114,303,298,4842,299,43,2860,924,2859,49,300,9810,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-159908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-accessfree","tag-sstssportscollegefsufootball","tag-sstsnfootball","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagatlantic-coast-conference-football","tag-tagcollege-sports","tag-tagfacebook","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles","tag-tagflorida-state-seminoles-football","tag-tagmike-norvell","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagtwitter","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}