Florida State football headed to Dublin for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic vs. Georgia Tech looking to move past a sour ending to the 2023 season.
However, the Yellow Jackets had other plans as the team projected to finish ninth in the ACC Preseason Poll pulled off the upset over the No. 10 Seminoles Saturday at Aviva Stadium.
And the Yellow Jackets did it in walk-off fashion as kicker Aidan Birr hit a 44-yard field goal to seal a 24-21 victory for Georgia Tech and ultimately make the flight back to Tallahassee for the Seminoles a long one. Florida State did not have the ball for the last 6:33 of the game as Georgia Tech ran the clock down on the ground.
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Considering the significance a loss like this can have on the Seminoles’ resume for the College Football Playoff and how last year ended for FSU, social media did not hold back from adding its two cents following Saturday’s loss vs. Georgia Tech:
College football reacts to Georgia Tech upsetting No. 10 FSU in Dublin
Here’s a snippet of the reactions on social media as FSU suffered a Week 0 upset in Dublin in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic to Georgia Tech:
Florida State would be killing Georgia Tech if their starters didn’t opt out
— jxke. 🧸 (@cantguardjake) August 24, 2024
Florida State is preparing to sue the Republic of Ireland.
— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) August 24, 2024
Florida State ended the 2023 season like cowards and started the 2024 season getting bullied.
Who was smart enough to see this coming?
— Brandon Walker (@BFW) August 24, 2024
Weird stat: no college football team suing to leave its current conference has won its season opener in Ireland
— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) August 24, 2024
Man, tough loss for the Noles over in Ireland to a good GT team.
The great news is with the new 12 team playoff, there’s still plenty of opportunities to climb back into the bracket. Regroup and keep battlin!
— Kirk Herbstreit (@KirkHerbstreit) August 24, 2024
Football operating expenses per most recent NCAA financial reports:
Florida State $75.6M
Georgia Tech $35.4M
💰doesn’t buy everything.
— David Teel (@ByDavidTeel) August 24, 2024
Florida State is the first team to ever have outright possession of 17th place in the ACC football standings.
— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) August 24, 2024
Per our elite @ESPNStatsInfogrouo: Florida State was 17-1 in season openers as a Top-10 team against unranked opponents, with the lone loss coming in 1989 against Southern Miss. Haynes King joins Brett Favre in pulling the rare upset.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 24, 2024
All I’m saying is that this probably isn’t how you want to start your season after spending the entire offseason bragging about how you’re too good for your conference
— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) August 24, 2024
It was pretty obvious FSU was going to take a step back after what they lost off last years team, but that was shockingly bad from the Noles.
— Chris Fallica (@chrisfallica) August 24, 2024
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