With the calendar page officially turned to August, Florida State is sending out official scholarship offers to 2025 recruits:
Florida State was voted as the favorite to win the 2024 ACC Championship, with the conference’s preseason poll placing the Seminoles ahead of Clemson and Miami, respectively:
Coming off a 13-0 regular season and the 16th ACC championship in program history, Florida State topped the ACC preseason football poll, earning 81 of 170 first-place votes taken during last week’s ACC Kickoff in Charlotte.
Led by head coach Mike Norvell – the reigning Dodd Trophy and Bryant Award winner as the nation’s best coach – Florida State returns two All-Americans, nine all-conference players and the ACC Championship Game MVP after earning the seventh undefeated regular season and third 13-win season in program history in 2023. Last year’s team finished sixth in the country, FSU’s best finish since 2014, which was also the Noles last 13-win campaign.
FSU’s 16 ACC championships are the most since joining the ACC in 1992, while the Seminoles’ 10 undefeated regular seasons in that span are more than the rest of the conference combined (seven).
Brown, from Lake City, has started 16 games with 92 tackles over three seasons at Florida State. He started all 14 games for the Seminoles in 2023, recording 53 tackles, 2.0 sacks, one interception, one fumble recovery and four pass breakups to earn third-team All-ACC recognition. Brown had a career-high eight tackles in wins at Florida and Clemson, he grabbed his first career interception in a home victory against No. 16 Duke and he recovered a fumble in FSU’s 24-7 win at Pitt.
As a redshirt freshman in 2022, Brown’s blocked extra point against LSU with no time remaining secured FSU’s 24-23 victory over the Tigers. In the 2023 season opener vs. No. 5 LSU in Orlando, Brown had four tackles with 0.5 sack. Brown’s sack came on 4th-and-1 in the second quarter with LSU inside FSU’s red zone.
Florida State has won the award twice previously, in 1988 (Deion Sanders) and 1991 (Terrell Buckley).
Semifinalists for the Thorpe Award will be announced October 29, while the three finalists will be unveiled November 26. The Thorpe Award winner will be named during the ESPN Home Depot College Football Awards Show held on December 12.
Florida State will open the season August 24 in Dublin, Ireland, for the Aer Lingus College Football Classic against Georgia Tech.
