{"id":62927,"date":"2025-11-27T20:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62927\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T20:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T20:06:09","slug":"florida-can-play-spoiler-as-florida-state-seeks-bowl-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62927\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida can play spoiler as Florida State seeks bowl eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Florida State<\/a> coaching staff received a boost Sunday when the school decided to retain coach Mike Norvell for another season, but the Seminoles will be looking for a monetary bump this Saturday.<\/p>\n

A bowl berth.<\/p>\n

Needing one more victory to become eligible, the Seminoles (5-6) will try to earn that when they visit the rival Florida Gators<\/a> (3-8) on Saturday in Gainesville.<\/p>\n

A Seminoles win would leave Florida with its fewest wins in a season since the 1979 team went 0-10-1.<\/p>\n

But the Atlantic Coast Conference school’s first item of business after losing 21-11 at North Carolina State last week was keeping Norvell, who is 38-33 since his tenure began in 2020.<\/p>\n

The sixth-year coach vows to get the ship righted.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to let them down,” Norvell said on Monday. “I know what it’s got to be, and we’re going to get it done.”<\/p>\n

The Seminoles have dropped six of eight, with the season beginning its unraveling on Sept. 26 in a 46-38 double-overtime loss at Virginia.<\/p>\n

“Obviously, this week is a huge week,” Norvell said. “I’ve got an elite level of confidence in where we’re going and what we’re going to be able to accomplish.<\/p>\n

“I believe we’re close, (but) you lose six games, and it sucks.”<\/p>\n

The Seminoles’ Tommy Castellanos has passed for 2,520 yards and rushed for 480 — both team highs. Receiver Duce Robinson tops the ACC with 1,021 yards on 19.3 yards per reception.<\/p>\n

Florida won last year’s game 31-11 in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

Running back Jadan Baugh has been the brightest spot for the Gators this season, totaling 904 rushing yards and leading the team with eight scores (six rushing, two receiving).<\/p>\n

“It’s been difficult the whole season,” Baugh said. “But we continue to just keep coming in the facility and giving our best. … Florida State, it’s another day in the office, going in there, keeping our head on straight and preparing the right way.”<\/p>\n

Florida interim coach Billy Gonzales has been eyeing Baugh’s attempt to become the Gators’; first 1,000-yard rusher since Kelvin Taylor ran for 1,035 yards in 2015.<\/p>\n

“I think that’s big,” Gonzales said. “I think individual accolades are always nice to attain, but I think if you asked the team right now if we’d rather have a win or a 1,000-yard rusher, they’d probably say both. But I’d definitely lean more on a W.”<\/p>\n

–Field Level Media<\/p>\n

\n Copyright 2025 STATS LLC and Field Level Media. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Field Level Media is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Florida State coaching staff received a boost Sunday when the school decided to retain coach Mike Norvell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143,28,2530,30,29,3731],"class_list":{"0":"post-62927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-gators","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-florida-state-seminoles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927","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=62927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}