{"id":21042,"date":"2025-10-26T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T09:39:20","slug":"florida-states-tommy-castellanos-was-a-cheat-code-on-a-wild-td-vs-pitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21042\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida State&#8217;s Tommy Castellanos was a cheat code on a wild TD vs. Pitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/florida-states-tommy-castellanos-backed-000541127.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida State quarterback Tommy Castellanos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida State quarterback Tommy Castellanos<\/a> is a fun player to watch with an incredible arm, but the play he made under pressure at the end of the first half against Pitt on Saturday that was straight out of a video game.<\/p>\n<p>With six seconds left in the second quarter and a 14-14 game, <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2025\/10\/09\/college-football-week-7-picks-against-spread-oregon-indiana\/86570292007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:No. 25 Florida State was at the Panthers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">No. 25 Florida State was at the Panthers<\/a>&#8216; 25-yard line facing second-and-10. Almost instantly after the snap, Pitt&#8217;s rush put Castellanos under some quick pressure and forced the quarterback to roll out to his left.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MORE COLLEGE FOOTBALL: <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/refs-overturned-huge-jeremiah-smith-172959717.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Refs overturned a huge Jeremiah Smith catch, and Ohio State fans were livid;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Refs overturned a huge Jeremiah Smith catch, and Ohio State fans were livid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As he was about to be sacked, Castellanos did his best magician impression and somehow managed to get a huge side-arm-esque pass off. Despite the pressure and chaos, Castellanos was a cheat code with an impressive throw, caught by Landon Thomas for a 25-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>But Castellanos. Just&#8230; wow.<\/p>\n<p>College football Twitter loved it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/ncaaf\/teams\/florida-state-seminoles\/3409\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida State;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida State<\/a> had a 21-14 lead over Pitt going into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaf\/2025\/10\/11\/florida-state-tommy-castellanos-touchdown-pitt-cheat-code\/86646844007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Florida State&#039;s Tommy Castellanos was a cheat code on a wild TD vs. Pitt;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Florida State&#8217;s Tommy Castellanos was a cheat code on a wild TD vs. Pitt<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State quarterback Tommy Castellanos is a fun player to watch with an incredible arm, but the play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1320,16692,232,234,233,11058],"class_list":["post-21042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-state","tag-landon-thomas","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tommy-castellanos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042","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=21042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}