With the loss, the Seminoles’s 2024 record dropped to 1-8, and they’ve now lost eight games in a single season for the first time since 1975.
After their terrible start, it’s crazy to look back and realize that they were the No. 10 ranked team in the nation in the 2024 preseason polls. That now seems like a very distant and unbelievable memory.
On Saturday, Florida State got out to a 3-0 lead over the Tar Heels after Seminoles kicker Ryan Fitzgerald converted a field-goal attempt from 56 yards away.
That advantage turned out to be short-lived, however, as North Carolina proceeded to outscore Florida State 35-8 during the remainder of the matchup.
In the loss to the Tar Heels, eight of the Seminoles’s offensive drives resulted in a punt or a turnover, and during five of these drives, they were on the field for four plays or less.
The seat for Florida State head coach Mike Norvell was already hot before Saturday’s game, but that seat might now be fully engulfed after the team’s latest embarrassing loss.
If the Seminoles were showing any sort of fight during all of their losses this season, then Norvell’s job likely wouldn’t be in much danger. But Florida State has now lost five games this year by multiple scores, and it seems like the school is inching closer to needing a new head coach before the start of next season.
The good news is that the Seminoles should still be able to add at least one more win to their 2024 record since they have an upcoming matchup against Charleston Southern, a Division I FCS team with a 1-8 record, on Nov. 23.
There’s the bad news, which is that Florida State will likely suffer more losses next Saturday when they face No. 8 Notre Dame on the road and then when they host Florida in their final game of the season on Nov. 30.
It has been one of the worst years in the history of Florida State’s storied football program, and it doesn’t appear that things are going to get any better during the next few weeks.
