Florida State 2025 Football Schedule: Best & Worst Scenarios, Season Prediction

Who does Florida State miss from the ACC schedule?

Boston College, Cal, Duke, Georgia Tech, Louisville, North Carolina, SMU, Syracuse

How good is SMU going to be this season? If it’s CFP-good again, missing the Mustangs is a major plus. There’s no Bill Belichick UNC team, and not playing Syracuse and Georgia Tech is a positive. Boston College, Cal, and Duke were all bowl teams, and Louisville is a huge miss from the ACC slate.

Florida State football schedule, the good and the bad

The Good: Again, missing Louisville is strong. At the very least, the Seminoles will get to late September with at least as many wins as 2024 after facing East Texas A&M and Kent State.

Overall it’s a very manageable slate to bounce back. There are only two road games from eight date - and they’re against Virginia and Stanford teams that didn’t go bowling - until …

The Bad: November 8th. That’s when FSU has to go to Clemson for the first of a run of three road games in four weeks. The Tigers, NC State, Florida. That’s November along with the home date against Virginia Tech. That, and for a team that needs to start out strong, hosting Alabama isn’t a good thing.

Florida State Football Schedule: Best and worst case scenarios

Best Case Scenario: Florida State beats the Crimson Tide and goes on a roll. All of a sudden, this is the comeback story of the season as it shockingly starts 8-0 going into the date against Clemson. Realistically it drops a game or two before going to Florida, but it’s all good enough to get to the ACC Championship.

Worst Case Scenario: Florida State loses to Alabama, drops the date to Miami, suffered a loss to Pitt, and it’s a 4-4 start before Clemson. And then the wheels come off with losses in two of the last four games and the team barely gets bowl eligible.

What Will Happen: (Jan. 29) No, this won’t be like 2024, but it won’t quite be like 2023, either. Even with the Alabama game it’ll a strong start - it’ll lose to the Tide and flip a coin on Miami, but the end of November will be a bear.

This will truly be a wait-and-see team, but with this schedule and this program, anything less than 8-4 won’t do.

The What Will Happen will be updated several times this offseason