FSU football will play their next two games with the earliest possible time slot – showing how the Seminoles aren’t a featured team this season.
For the next two weekends, FSU football fans will have to make sure they are up bright and early to see the Seminoles in action – as the next two games for the Noles, at Duke this Saturday and at home against Louisville the following weekend – will kickoff at the earliest possible time as they are both scheduled to start at 12 p.m.
Adding the game earlier in the season against N.C. State, it will mean that half of the first six games this season will have a noon kickoff. Now, there was a time when kickoff off that early was the highest compliment a team could get. Some of the most memorable games for the Seminoles – including games against Miami, Florida, Notre Dame, Michigan and more – started at 12 p.m.
Now? It’s a sign that at 1-3, FSU football is not as much of a main attraction this season as they have been in years past.
With a remaining schedule that includes games against Syracuse, Delaware State and the possibility of having a game against Florida where each team as AT LEAST four losses, this could be the first of several early kickoffs seen as a way to get the Seminoles out of the way before the real games take place this season.
Look, I know most FSU football fans will wake up at 3:15 a.m. if they have to in order to watch the Seminoles play (and with a few more losses, that might be likely). It’s more the deeper idea that a team who is just four years removed from being the national champions of college football have been relegated to the appetizer game for the college football weekend.
Last weekend’s game against Miami was the first time since 2009 that the rivalry game – one that used to be the game of the season for the entire sport – was not broadcast nation wide by broadcast network ABC. Instead, it was sent to the midday spot on ESPN thanks in part to the Seminoles being 1-2 heading into the game.
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As someone who works in the media industry and has done so for over a dozen years, things will change if the Seminoles can find a way to turn things around. However, with just two big games left after the Louisville contest, you can be willing to bet that there will be more early kickoffs in store for FSU football this season.
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