First Team: WR Duce Robinson. The only Seminole on the first team, and fairly earned. He was first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America last season with 56 catches for 1,081 yards and six touchdowns. He's back for his senior year. That's the most important part.

Second Team: CB Ja'Bril Rawls, LB Chris Jones, DE Mandrell Desir. All three are players we've highlighted as critical to FSU's defensive identity in 2026. Jones was plug-and-play from Southern Miss. Rawls had a breakout season. Mandrell's 6.5 freshman sacks speak for themselves.

Fourth Team: WR Micahi Danzy, DT Daniel Lyons, RB Ousmane Kromah. These are players with real talent who haven't yet put together a dominant full season. Athlon clearly sees the upside without fully committing to it.

Ashton Daniels did not make any of the four All-ACC teams. That's not a shock given his modest career numbers (23 career starts, 24 touchdowns and 22 interceptions combined across four seasons), but it reflects the persistent national skepticism about whether he can be the quarterback FSU needs him to be.

To be fair to Daniels, placing the entire burden of FSU's expectations on him is unfair. He's working with an entirely new offensive line, a rebuilt roster, and a head coach reclaiming the play-calling duties. But the position is the position. Until he performs in games that matter, the preseason omissions will continue.

Norvell said it directly this spring: "Devin and Jasen, they're going to play. They would have to almost regress from where it is right now." That's a head coach publicly committing to two true freshmen playing time. Take note.

Devin Carter is a legacy player whose father played for FSU in the late 1980s. He had 670 receiving yards and five touchdowns as a high school senior. He's competing for the No. 3 or No. 4 spot in the receiver rotation behind Robinson and Danzy.

Jasen Lopez is a four-star out of Miami who had 87 receptions, 1,300 yards, and 14 touchdowns as a high school junior, and also returned a punt for a touchdown. His special teams impact is likely to get him on the field quickly.

The four-star defensive back out of Sarasota is the one to watch in the secondary. The comparison being drawn inside the program is to Charles Lester III, who played in 10 games as a reserve DB and on special teams in 2024. The DB room has questions. Kennon has the talent to carve out a role.

Wynn is entering his redshirt freshman season after an injury limited him to four games in 2025. He's a 6-foot-2, 326-pound four-star lineman from Georgia who showed promise in limited action. Defensive tackle is a rotational spot by nature, and there's room for him to contribute as the season progresses.

Lajae Jones played 19 minutes, scored 3 points on 1-of-3 shooting, grabbed three rebounds, had two assists, and finished with a +/- of +19. The Warriors won by 32. Jones didn't fill the stat sheet but the team was dominant, and a +19 in 19 minutes is a solid debut line for a second-round rookie.

Robert McCray V had a tough night: 0-of-6 from the field, 0-of-3 from three, and a -10 +/- in just over 10 minutes. Summer League is a long process and one bad game is noise, not signal. But he'll need to bounce back.

John Butler Jr. came off the bench for the Milwaukee Bucks against the Warriors Blue squad, playing just under nine minutes and scoring 5 points on 2-of-5 shooting. He also grabbed an offensive rebound and finished with a +/- of +9. A solid cameo for a player looking to earn a spot on the Bucks' radar.

Butler Jr. and the Bucks face the Brooklyn Nets at 3 p.m. ET (Prime Video/ESPN+). McCray and the Lakers take on the Miami Heat at 4:30 p.m. ET (ESPN/Prime Video). Jones and the Warriors Gold face the Spurs at 7 p.m. ET (Prime Video/ESPN+). Three FSU alumni on court today.

FGCU right-hander Sebastian Lippman committed to FSU on Saturday, becoming the sixth transfer addition this summer and the second pitcher after UConn's Cayden Suchy. Lippman is a 6-foot-1 righty originally from Plainview, N.Y., who was previously at Georgia Tech before spending this past season at FGCU.

The headline is the fastball: reportedly sitting mid-to-high 90s (94-97 mph per a 2025 post) with a splitter, changeup, and curveball rounding out the arsenal. At FGCU he worked 40 innings, posted a 3.38 ERA, and struck out 50 batters with a .219 opponent average.

He's been excellent in the Cape Cod League this summer, the gold standard of summer wood-bat competition. In four relief appearances for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks, he's thrown 11 innings with a 1.64 ERA, 14 strikeouts, and only four walks. That Cape Cod performance is more meaningful than the FGCU regular season stats.

Link Jarrett now has: Cayden Suchy (UConn, Friday starter), Cooper Malamazian (Indiana, SS), Ty Peeples (Georgia, OF), Coy Clements (Pearl River CC, C), Jackson McKenzie (FAMU, 1B), and now Lippman. Six portal additions addressing six roster needs. The machine keeps building.

Parker Messick, an All-American at FSU in 2021 and 2022, is pitching in his first MLB All-Star Game on July 14 in Philadelphia. The Cleveland Guardians lefty is 7-5 with a 2.85 ERA, 101 innings pitched, and 106 strikeouts in 17 starts this season.

His record undersells him. Cleveland has struggled to score runs, but Messick has delivered quality starts consistently, taken a no-hitter into the ninth in April, and has not allowed more than three walks in any start. He's one of 26 first-time All-Stars named to this year's roster.

Context: Messick was also the ACC Pitcher of the Year in 2021 at FSU, the same award Wes Mendes won this year. The pipeline from Jarrett's program to the major leagues is not an accident. It's a system.

Neither school wanted to play in the other's backyard. Georgia wasn't interested in Tampa, Orlando, or Miami. FSU wasn't interested in Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Nashville offered a genuine neutral site in the Southeast, far enough from both footprints that neither team gets a home-field advantage.

The new Nissan Stadium opens in 2027. It's 2.1 million square feet with a translucent enclosed roof and promises the closest viewing experience of any NFL stadium. The facility would be in its inaugural season when FSU and Georgia play there, which gives the game an event-level feel beyond just the matchup.

Broadway is a short walk from the stadium via the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge. The expectation is a fan experience similar to what FSU fans had when the program played LSU in New Orleans, with a full city weekend built around the game.

The financials aren't finalized but are described as very lucrative for both programs. FSU's preference remains to host games at Doak, but the paycheck in this case justifies a neutral site.

The game replaces what was originally going to be a trip to Athens in 2028. Under the original agreement, Georgia was coming to Tallahassee in 2027 and FSU was going to Athens in 2028. The shift to nine-game conference schedules in both the ACC and SEC made the original home-and-home impossible. Nashville is the solution.

CBS Sports ranked the greatest college football team from each decade and co-named FSU and Nebraska as the champions of the 1990s, with the two programs deemed too close to separate. Their reasoning: FSU won national titles in 1993 and 1999, reached the national championship game five times in the decade, and under Bobby Bowden assembled arguably the most complete sustained run of any program in the era.

The other decade winners: Army (1940s), Notre Dame (1950s and 1960s), Oklahoma (1970s), Clemson (1980s), Ohio State (2000s), Alabama (2010s), Georgia (2020s).

The 1990s argument for FSU is airtight. Twelve consecutive top-five finishes from 1987 to 2000, back-to-back Heisman Trophy winners in 1993 and 1994, and nine first-round draft picks from the 1994 team alone. That was a different program in a different era. The current rebuild exists to someday restore that standard.

Tomahawk Nation revealed the first wave of results from their fan-voting survey on the 50 greatest games in program history. The 50-41 range includes: the 1993 Orange Bowl national title game, the 1999 Sugar Bowl national title win, the 1987 Fiesta Bowl over Nebraska, the 2013 BCS title game over Auburn, and several landmark regular season wins from the Bowden era.

The most interesting debate from the early reveals: where does the 2023 regular season end up? The 13-0 team that went undefeated and was left out of the playoff hasn't yet appeared on the list, which means Tomahawk Nation's voters ranked it outside the top 50 either as a season rather than individual game, or because the year ended without a meaningful bowl win. Worth watching as they count down to No. 1.