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Florida State stifles Alabama, breaking the race for the season of the Crimson Tide season

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The new quarter-Arrière Tommy Castellanos led a precipitated attack for the Florida State with 78 yards and a touchdown while the Seminoles amazed the n ° 8 of Alabama 31-17 Saturday, ending the sequence of 23 consecutive victories of the Crimson Tide of 23 consecutive victories.

The Crimson Tide entered the match on Saturday with victories in each of its last 23 operators of the season. Florida State ended the 2024 season with only two victories and was not classified when her meeting with Alabama started. The defeat at the start of the season is already in doubt the Espoirs No. 8 of Alabama in university football.

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Students and fans have invaded the field at the Doak Campbell stadium in Tallahassee immediately after the end of the seminal upheaval. Florida State entered the game as a considerable assembly.

Florida football fans storm the field

Fans of Florida State Seminoles storm the field after a victory against Alabama at the Doak Campbell Stadium on Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida. (Images Butch in Dill / Getty)

Under the new offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, Florida State was physical from the start and finished the match with 230 yards on the ground. Malzahn was Auburn head coach from 2013 to 20 and recently was a UCF head-up coach.

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The defeat of 20-17 against the UCLA in the first match of the 2001 campaign marked the last time that Alabama abandoned an opening match of the season. Alabama coach Kalen Deboer made criticism during his first year after taking over from legendary coach Nick Saban.

However, the disappointing start of the second year of Deboer will increase the pressure.

Kalen Deboer takes a university football match

Alabama head coach Kalen Deboer looks at the first half of the match on Saturday against Florida State in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP photo / Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Deboer fell to 6-4 against teams not classified in Alabama. Saban went 124-4 in such games.

Castellanos, a transfer of the Boston College, had 16 races when no one else had more seven attempts to have a precipitation for the seminoles. He also completed 9 of the 14 passes for 152 yards while Florida State beat his first opponent classified since the withdrawal of N ° 19 Louisville during the Championship match of the Atlantic Coast Conference 2023.

Florida's state football player marks a hit

The Florida State quarterrier, Tommy Castellanos, marks a touch on the ground of 9 yards after the secondary of Alabama Deontae Lawson during the first half on Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida. (AP photo / Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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Alabama will seek to bounce back next Saturday when the TIDE welcomes Louisiana-Monroe. Florida State will stay at home next week to face East Texas A&M.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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