Florida State will look to avoid going winless for September on Saturday as the 0-2 Seminoles travel to BB&T Field to take on Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons are off to a 4-0 start and looking to make a major statement in front of their home crowd.
Florida State won last year’s contest by a 17-6 score and had to hold on in its last trip to Winston-Salem. Tyler Hunter saved that contest with an interception in the end zone in the game’s final minutes to preserve a 24-16 victory. Before the Deacons and Seminoles kick it off, make sure you’re completely caught up with our vast variety of content and analysis:
FSU Football: A First Look at Wake Forest
Q&A With the Winston-Salem Journal’s Conor O’Neill on FSU-Wake Forest
FSU Football: Goals Gone, but Don’t Expect Season to Spiral Out of Control
Jimbo Fisher: [We] Need to Step Up and Play Better This Week
Preview: FSU Travels to Wake in Hopes of Avoiding 0-3 Start
FSU at Wake Forest: Good Times, Bad Times
Staff Keys to the Game: FSU at Wake Forest
FSU-Wake Forest: Five Things to Watch
Staff Predictions for FSU-Wake Forest
Blackman Looks to Buck Road Trend for FSU QBs
In what will be our final piece prior to the 3:30 p.m. EST kickoff, we give you some quick facts surrounding the ACC showdown:
- Wake Forest has not started 5-0 since its ACC title season of 2006. FSU has not started 0-3 since legendary head coach Bobby Bowden’s first year on the job in 1976.
- Wake Forest was the only team ever to shut out Bowden at home, winning 30-0 in 2006.
- Wake Forest is just one of two ACC schools to beat the Seminoles in three straight seasons since FSU joined the conference in 1992. Wake won three straight from 2006-08. The other school to do so is Clemson from 2005-07.
- The only tie between FSU and Wake Forest came in the first meeting between the schools back in 1956 in Tallahassee, 14-14.
- Since the ACC went to divisions in 2005, Wake Forest is the only Atlantic division team to win the conference other than FSU and Clemson.
- Wake Forest’s last victory over a team ranked in either poll came against FSU in 2011. The Seminoles enter Saturday ranked 25th in the Amway Coaches Poll.
- Florida State has never started 0-2 in ACC play in consecutive years. That would be the case with a loss to Wake. The Seminoles have started 0-2 in conference just three times ever. Two of those times have come under current head coach Jimbo Fisher.
- Wake Forest hasn’t started 2-0 in ACC play since 2011.
- Florida State has won seven straight games in the state of North Carolina. The last win came in Raleigh last season over N.C. State, 24-20. The last loss also came in Raleigh to the Wolfpack, 17-16, in 2012.
- With a Wake Forest loss, head coach Dave Clawson would join Al Golden, Dave Doeren and Steve Addazio as the only coaches to lose to FSU in four straight seasons under Fisher.
- James Blackman becomes the first FSU quarterback to make his first career road start at Wake Forest since E.J. Manuel in 2009.
Mike Ferguson is the editor of The Daily Nole. Follow Mike on Twitter @MikeWFerguson
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