Jameis Winston remains unbeaten and has top billing on this list.It lived up to its billing in a big way, and once again, Florida State prevailed.
The teams were never separated by more than one score, and Florida State got the last and decisive score to win 31-27.
The history
Florida State won its school-record 23rd straight game and its sixth in eight meetings with Notre Dame.
Florida State has won three straight games versus AP top-five teams for the first time since 1999-2000.
This was the first time Notre Dame lost a game it entered unbeaten and was playing in the regular season against the defending national champ (4-1-2 in those games all time).
The loss snapped an eight-game Notre Dame winning streak in games decided by six points or fewer.
The Fighting Irish fell to 2-6 all time against Florida State, their worst record against any team they’ve played at least five times.
Winston does it again
After a rather unimpressive first half, Jameis Winston was fantastic in the second half, completing 15 of his 16 pass attempts for 181 yards and a touchdown.
Winston was 2-of-6 on throws of 10 or more yards downfield in the first half, 9-of-9 on those passes in the second half.
Winston improved to 20-0 as a starting quarterback with the win.
That’s the longest win streak to start a career for any FBS quarterback in the past 15 seasons, one better than Alabama’s Greg McElroy.
Lose the yardage battle, win the game
Notre Dame outgained Florida State by 147 yards, the worst yardage margin for Florida State in any game under Jimbo Fisher (since the start of the 2010 season). Losing the yardage game is generally not a recipe for success in college football, but the Seminoles are 3-2 under Fisher when getting outgained by at least 100 yards.
One of the reasons Notre Dame outgained Florida State by so much was the play of quarterback Everett Golson.
Golson had his third game this season with at least 300 passing yards (he’d had only one prior to this season). He threw two touchdowns to Corey Robinson, who’d never had a multi-touchdown game before Saturday.
The Irish offense was slowed in the second half, scoring only three points in the final 22 minutes. Notre Dame had the potential game-winning touchdown wiped out by a penalty in the final seconds.
Golson fell to 16-2 as a starting quarterback. This was the first regular-season loss of Golson’s career.
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