Georgia Tech kicker Aidan Birr knocked Florida State down six posts in the Top 25 Associated Press poll but didn’t completely sink Seminoles’s College Football Playoff chances.
Once-10th-ranked Florida State (0–1) became the first big victim of the new college football season on Aug. 24, but it has the benefit of the new 12-team playoff format. A program that just missed last year’s four-team playoff field, the 16th-ranked Seminoles still stand a fighting chance this year and won’t need the luck of the Irish despite the 24–21 loss in Dublin.
