Live Updates: No 8 Florida State at Virginia - Pregame Notes from Scott Stadium
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- No. 8 Florida State Seminoles football begins Atlantic Coast Conference play against Virginia at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. on Friday evening at 7 p.m. The game between the Seminoles and the Cavaliers will be shown on ESPN. For more on how to watch, stream, or listen to the game, click here.Noles247 will provide updates from Scott Stadium. Updates will include pregame notes such as availability, injuries, starters, and more. We will have play-by-play throughout the game, including stats and highlights. We will also have extensive coverage after the game concludes.The Seminoles enter the game with a 3-0 record. FSU opened the season with a 31-17 victory over then-No. 8 Alabama at Doak Campbell Stadium. They followed that up with victories at home over East Texas A&M (77-3) and Kent State (66-10).The Cavaliers are 3-1 on the season, including 1-0 in ACC play. They opened the season with a 48-7 victory over Coastal Carolina at home. They then lost at NC State, 35-31, in what was a non-conference game between the two ACC schools. They returned home and defeated William & Mary (55-16) and Stanford (48-20). The victory over Stanford was their league opener.FSU is led by head coach Mike Norvell. He is 36-27 in six seasons at FSU and 74-41 overall in 10 seasons as a head coach. UVA is guided by head coach Tony Elliott, who is 14-24 in four seasons as the head coach in Charlottesville - which marked his first head coaching job. Friday's game marks the first-ever meeting for each coach against the other school as a head coach.The Seminoles lead the all-time series with UVA, 15-4, including a 6-3 mark in Charlottesville. UVA won the last meeting between the two teams, which was held in Charlottesville during the 2019 season.At No. 8 in the AP poll, Florida State is the highest ranked team to come to Scott Stadium since then-No. 7 Notre Dame did so in 2021, and highest ranked ACC opponent at Scott Stadium since then-No. 5 Louisville in 2016.Florida State (58.0 ppg) and Virginia (45.5 ppg) are the top-2 scoring teams in the ACC.To learn more about Virginia, you can read the 2-4-7 here.
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