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On The Bench: An FSU football podcast network
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Florida State improved to 5-5 with a 34-14 win over Virginia Tech (3-7, 2-4 ACC) on Saturday at Doak Campbell Stadium. It was the Seminoles' final home game of 2025, ending the season with a 5-2 home record.
FSU travels to NC State (5-5, 2-4 ACC) and Florida (3-7, 2-5 SEC) for the final two games, looking for a win to become bowl-eligible. FSU is yet to win a road game this season. The Seminoles and Wolfpack play at 8:00 p.m. on Friday at Carter-Finley Stadium.
This episode of On The Bench recaps Florida State's win over the Hokies and if/how it impacts Mike Norvell's coaching tenure. The episode also discusses Duce Robinson's dominance, a strong game from Elijah Herring, and Ethan Pritchard's emotional return to Doak. It wraps up with potential bowl destinations, if FSU were to get to six wins, and recruiting updates.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to On the Bench. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome to On the Bench |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host for this episode |
| 0:26.6 | I must have hosted correctly, but I did not |
| 0:28.3 | corrected it. Good. It's going to be a good episode. I got the energy today. |
| 0:32.0 | Brennan-Sinone, I'm joined by Zach Blasstein, Chris Ney. |
| 0:35.6 | Chris, you little grumpy grouchy this morning? |
| 0:57.1 | No. Zach, what do you think on this? Look at the body posture. You've been part of the pre-show festivities. I think you're trying to instigate him. He was in a good mood before he hopped on. Okay. All right. Sorry. I will stop instigating. Thank you, Zach, for mentioning that because you would hate for anyone to instigate. |
| 0:55.6 | I would never do so yeah we we're well aware so florida state |
| 1:01.3 | one boys a little 34 to 14 win over vt for that as uh solid work all around a pretty complete game |
| 1:09.6 | kind of reminded me of the wake forest game from a few |
| 1:12.0 | weeks before where it was a little little dicey earlier in the game but you pulled away and |
| 1:17.5 | the other the other team just made more mistakes in you you played a clean game and you win so |
| 1:22.5 | fs you moves to five and five on the season. Bowl eligibility coming, boys? |
| 1:33.7 | What bowl will they make and how excited will Chris be to cover it? |
| 1:35.1 | Chris, are you doing like a bowl tracker? |
| 1:36.6 | No, I'm not. |
| 1:37.0 | Hell no. |
| 1:40.8 | I am holding out hope for a Wasabi Fenway ball. |
| 1:43.6 | I'm not actually sure that's definitely still an ACC bowl. |
| 1:45.7 | I haven't taken the time to check. |
| 1:48.6 | But if it is, let's go to Boston boys. |
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