It has been a decade since the Seminoles last won at Death Valley.
That was also the last time Florida State won a national championship.
If head coach Mike Norvell’s team is undefeated after this game (Florida State also faces SEC West power LSU on Sept. 3), it will be proof the ACC school, coming off its first double-digit win season since 2016, is a contender again.
Take the Over, whatever it is.
This has all the makings of a shoot-out, as two of the country’s premier quarterbacks — USC’s Caleb Williams and Notre Dame’s Sam Hartman — descend on South Bend, Ind., in prime time.
Between them, they accounted for 91 touchdowns last year, and neither team is expected to have a particularly strong defense.
First to 40 wins.
The Tigers’ Brian Kelly beat the Crimson Tide’s Nick Saban for the first time in three meetings last November.
The victory ultimately sealed the SEC West crown for LSU in Kelly’s first season on the Bayou and eliminated Alabama from the College Football Playoff.
For the time being, there is uncertainty at the top of the loaded division.
An LSU victory for the second straight year in this rivalry could signal a changing of the guard.
The Tigers haven’t beaten the Tide in back-to-back seasons since 2010 and 2011.
This is by far the toughest game on Georgia’s otherwise soft schedule, a trip to Knoxville, to face the other of the top two projected teams in the SEC East.
The Bulldogs have won the past six meetings, and they haven’t been close, coming by an average of 26.1 points.
But Tennessee took a major step forward last year, with its first 11-win season since 2001, and appears to have finally found the right head coach, Josh Heupel.
Odds are at least one of these rivals will be undefeated in this Thanksgiving-weekend showdown that typically determines the Big Ten East champion.
Michigan has won the past two encounters in lopsided fashion, after dropping eight in a row.
Ohio State will be out for revenge in this year’s edition of “The Game” — which features arguably the two greatest threats to Georgia winning an unprecedented third straight title.