{"id":444004,"date":"2026-11-01T04:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444004\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T04:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T04:20:21","slug":"tait-reynolds-seals-clemsons-36-24-victory-over-florida-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/444004\/","title":{"rendered":"Tait Reynolds seals Clemson&#8217;s 36-24 victory over Florida State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)  Tait Reynolds threw a pair of touchdown passes, his first in more than a month, as <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/CLEM\/clemson-tigers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clemson<\/a> jumped out early and held off a late rally, defeating <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-football\/teams\/FSU\/florida-state-seminoles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida State<\/a> 36-24 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman quarterback had not thrown a touchdown pass in four games, but he connected with Christian Bentancur and Olsen Patt-Henry on first-half touchdown passes as Clemson led 23-10 after 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds sealed the win with a weaving 79-yard touchdown run on third-and-12 with 3:17 left for Clemson (5-3, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Conference). He completed 18 of 32 passes for 189 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan Hauser made five field-goal attempts &#8211; from 50, 49, 46, 35 and 35 &#8211; as Clemson won its third straight game in the series with Florida State. Hauser has made 23 of 24 field-goal attempts in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Ashton Daniels threw three interceptions and also fumbled. He completed 21 of 33 passes for 350 yards, a 46-yard touchdown pass to Micahi Danzy, a 41-yard TD pass to Jasen Lopez and a 13-yard touchdown run but Florida State (3-5, 1-4) lost its third straight game.<\/p>\n<p>Clemson starting left guard Elyjah Thurmon laid on the grass for about 10 minutes in the second quarter before being strapped to a backboard. He gave a thumbs up while being driven off the field on a cart.<\/p>\n<p>Clemson scored on 8 of 13 drives, before taking the victory formation in the final minute, in its most efficient performance against a Power 4 opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State played its first game without leading rusher Ousmane Kromah. The Seminoles managed just 65 yards rushing on 29 carries.<\/p>\n<p>Clemson: at Syracuse on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida State: at Boston College on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for Top 25 poll alerts here, visit the Top 25 here and see AP\u2019s full college football coverage here<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Tait Reynolds threw a pair of touchdown passes, his first in more than a month,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6786,143,28,30,29,3731],"class_list":["post-444004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-clemson-tigers","tag-college-football","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-state-seminoles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444004","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=444004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}