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Seminoles · ACC

Head coach Mike Norvell Year 6 with Florida State

Season Projection · 2026 W0

10,000 sims
6.3
Expected wins
6-6
Proj record
3 to 9
Win range (90%)
#48 (25–75)
Final rank (90%)
1%
Make playoff
2%
Win conference

Path to Glory

Tap a win or a loss on each pivotal game to see how the playoff probability shifts. Leave any game unset to average across both outcomes.

Make the playoff

1%

Baseline projection.

  • at Alabama
    Away · Sep 19
  • at Louisville
    Away · Oct 9
  • at Pittsburgh
    Away · Nov 14
  • vs SMU
    Home · Sep 7
  • vs Clemson
    Home · Oct 31

Pivotal games are the 5 with the largest playoff-probability swing, ranked by the model. Math: chained Bayesian log-odds update from the conditional simulation set; gets the directionally right answer but won't perfectly capture cross-game correlations until the full Monte Carlo pipeline lands.

Returning production · 2025

44 PCI
  • Quarterback 33% (2/6 players)
  • Offensive line 47% (9/19 players)
  • Skill (RB/WR/TE) 48% (16/33 players)
  • Front 7 (DL/LB) 39% (14/36 players)
  • Secondary 57% (13/23 players)
  • Special teams 57% (4/7 players)

PCI weights returning production by position group (QB/OL heaviest). 70%+ is healthy continuity; 45-70% is a normal rebuild; below 45% is a meaningful turnover.

Situational efficiency · 2025

FBS percentile rank
  • 3rd-down conversion 45.5% 94th — elite
  • Red-zone TD rate 19.9% 88th — strong
  • 4th-down aggression 50.5% 94th — elite
  • Late & close 5.5 yds/play 61th — average

Percentile is across all FBS teams with play-by-play data for the season. "Late & close" is yards per play in Q4+ with a one-score margin — a proxy for clutch offensive performance.

Schedule

Full 2026 slate. Tap a row for the matchup breakdown.

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More coming

Per-team pages get the full treatment in Phase 3: current rating, season projection histogram, schedule with win probabilities, and live overlays on Pylon stream days. For now, this page exists so stories and news have a permanent home as content rolls in.