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Florida State is the BCS favorite. But if you look at how the ACC is faring so far, it does not look good. ACC results so far: Marshall over Maryland 31-20 North Carolina over Cincy 39-17 Mississippi over Ga Tech 25-17 (it wasn't that close) Arizona over Boston Col. 42-19 UCLA over Virginia Tech 42-12 so the ACC is 1-5 by a total score of 157-107. What I conclude is to bet on Auburn to beat Florida State.

In a nationally televised press conference on Thursday, State Attorney Willie Meggs announced that Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston will not be charged with sexual assault. While it sounded as if Meggs found the accuser ) to be generally believable, gaps in her memory coupled with the discovery of another man's (apparently the complainant's boyfriend) DNA meant the standard for charging and prosecuting Winston was not met. The case, which dates back to Dec. 7, 2012, is considered closed. In many ways, Meggs' press conference appeared to be damage control, with Meggs -- an elected official -- insisting the investigation...

The official Mormon religion -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- doesn't allow plural marriage anymore, but that didn't stop a local Florida State fan from lampooning the religion's polygamist past as the Seminoles prepare to travel to Brigham Young Saturday for a game against No. 7 Brigham Young. The avid FSU fan's name is Jim Lory, whose late father John Lory was a loyal Florida State supporter whom I've written about in the past. Several years ago before he passed away, John bought a giant theater marquee and put it in front of his old workshop...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State received four years' probation from the NCAA on Friday and will lose scholarships in football and forfeit games because of an academic cheating scandal. The NCAA infractions committee called the case "extremely serious" because of the large number of student-athletes involved in various men and women's sports, citing unethical conduct by three former staff members and a failure to monitor by the university. Academic fraud is considered among the most egregious of NCAA rules violations. The report says 61 Florida State athletes from all sports cheated on an online test from the fall of 2006...

Bobby Bowden enters his 32nd fall as Florida State's head coach, and it's not stretching the truth to say he looks forward to this season as much as he has any in the last decade. How strange it is, then, that the theme of this season is change. First, this will be the 77-year-old coach's first season as a Hall of Fame coach. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December in a class that included his first Heisman Trophy winner, quarterback Charlie Ward. The class was supposed to include his comrade in longevity, Penn State's...

Bowl Projections Date Game/Matchup Jan. 4 Rose: USC (BCS No. 1) vs. Texas (BCS No. 2) Jan. 3 Orange: Florida State (ACC champ) vs. Penn State (Big Ten champ) Jan. 2 Sugar: Georgia (SEC champ) vs. West Virginia (Big East champ) Jan. 2 Fiesta: Notre Dame (BCS at-large) vs. Ohio State (BCS at-large) Jan. 2 Capital One: Wisconsin (Big Ten No. 2) vs. Auburn (SEC No. 2) Jan. 2 Gator: Miami (ACC No. 2) vs. Louisville (Big East No. 2) Jan. 2 Outback: Iowa (Big Ten No. 3) vs. Florida (SEC) Jan. 2 Cotton: Texas Tech (Big 12 No. 2)...

Are you ready for some football? My predictions Texas by 30 USC by 3 Virginia Tech to be upset

Florida State President T.K. Wetherell threatened to take legal action after the ruling. "That the NCAA would now label our close bond with the Seminole people as culturally 'hostile and abusive' is both outrageous and insulting," Wetherell said in a written statement. "I intend to pursue all legal avenues to ensure that this unacceptable decision is overturned, and that this university will forever be associated with the 'unconquered' spirit of the Seminole Tribe of Florida."

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Wyatt Sexton, the Florida State quarterback who was found disheveled and disoriented on a city street last month, has been diagnosed with Lyme disease and will miss the upcoming season, the university said Saturday. Florida State coach Bobby Bowden said the university would seek a sixth year of eligibility for Sexton, who has already used his redshirt season. He is the Seminoles' only experienced quarterback. "It looks like Wyatt will need several months of treatment and will have to miss the season," Bowden said in a statement. A specialist in the field of Lyme disease, Dr. S....

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Before The Doors' Jim Morrison made it as a rock singer, he wanted to make films. Now, 34 years after his death, the state of Florida has found and restored what it believes to be the earliest film of Morrison, shot in the early 60s when he attended Florida State University. It was discovered when the Department of State went through 1,000 films in its archive and may have gone unnoticed if Jaime Madden hadn't noticed a familiarity in the way young Morrison was standing in part of the brief clip. "He said, 'Oh my god! This...

GAINESVILLE Florida's Board of Governors voted 10-3 today to reject a proposed chiropractic school at Florida State University that was sought by powerful lawmakers, but vehemently opposed by some FSU medical faculty. The board did not agree there was a need to create the nation's first chiropractic school at a public university, especially when state funding is so scarce and it could damage the school's reputation. The project has been embroiled in controversy since last year when state lawmakers put $9 million in the state budget for a school. Instead it was a pet project for then Senate President Jim...

New York – Almost half of all African-Americans believe that HIV, the virus that causes Aids, is man-made, more than a quarter believe it was produced in a government laboratory and one in eight think it was created and spread by the CIA, according to a study released by Rand Corporation and the University of Oregon. The paper's authors say these views are obstructing efforts to prevent the spread of HIV among African-Americans, the racial group most likely to contract the virus. "The findings are striking, and a wake-up call to the prevention community," Laura Bogart, a behavioural scientist who...

Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden has faced criticism for what he has said or for his decisions during football games. He now is in hot water over something he has written. Last month, Bowden wrote a letter of reference for former FSU running back Michael Gibson, who received six life sentences in 1994 for his attack on a woman in late 1993. The woman was raped, robbed, shot and left for dead in her apartment.... Gibson received six life sentences: four for rape, one for armed burglary and one for attempted felony murder. But the Florida Supreme Court recently ruled...

A move to expand the ACC makes the dream of an NCAA playoff in football a real possibility. Here's how it should work. THE GOOD NEWS in college athletics is the Atlantic Coast Conference is considering expanding from 9 teams to 12. The better news is that this would give the mid-Atlantic and East a premier conference to match the Big Ten, Southeastern Conference, Big 12, and PAC 10. The best news is that a bigger, stronger ACC that reaches into New York, New England and south Florida would make possible what all America wants: a playoff series to determine...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -Steve Bowden, eldest son of Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with former Alabama quarterback Brian Burgdorf in a scheme prosecutors said swindled $10 million from investors, including the FSU coach. Steve Bowden admitted to being part of a scam to sell unregistered securities through The Millennium Fund, which billed itself as being for "the privileged few." Assistant U.S. Attorney Adolph Dean said Steve Bowden brought in his father and three other investors who lost a total of $4.4 million. Bobby Bowden invested $1.6 million,...

So last night Ann Coulter gave a speech at Florida State, entitled "Liberalism and Terrorism:Two Stages of the Same Disease." Needless to say, it was awesome! Any Tallahassee Freepers who attended were very lucky, as there was a disgusting lack of promotion of this event. Im on campus monday through thursday, and I heard nothing about it until I happened to see a flyer in the polisci building. There was nothing in the school paper, the College Republican website, or on the Institute for Conservative Studies website--and they were the ones putting it on! Had I not called the ICS...