Seminole Central: 2019 Florida State-Boise State game to be officially announced

Football

Florida State's 2019 season opener against Boise State in Jacksonville, which has been on the schedule for a few years, is set to be officially announced today.

Analysis: This will serve as FSU's third neutral-site opener in the last four years when it occurs next year. The FSU administration stated that it had a desire to play more games around the state after holding the spring game in Orlando in 2016 and has backed it up by scheduling out-of-conference neutral-site clashes in Orlando, Atlanta and Jacksonville over the last/next few years.

As of now, there is still a tentative return trip on the schedule to Boise in 2020. It will be worth watching to see if that remains on the schedule going forward.

At this week's ACC spring meetings in Amelia Island, Florida, Willie Taggart was asked and gave his opinion on the prospect of paying college athletes.

Alumni

A pair of former FSU players were included on the NFL's ongoing countdown of the top 100 players in the league going into 2018.

Both Devonta Freeman and Telvin Smith have emerged as some of the best at their positions. Freeman rushed for over 1,000 yards in 2015 and 2016, with over 1,500 all-purpose yards in both years. He missed some time due to injury last year and still finished with 928 rushing yards.

Smith is the anchor of Jacksonville's linebacker corps that -- along with Jalen Ramsey in the secondary -- is among the youngest and best defenses in the league, leading the Jaguars to last season's AFC Championship.

Recruiting

After graduating this week, FSU defensive end signee Xavier Peters is looking ahead to his next step in Tallahassee.

Baseball

Rhett Aplin has grown leaps and bounds in his approach against left-handed pitchers and it has rounded him into the every-day player FSU needs him to be at first base.

More: Hard work turns FSU's Rhett Aplin into complete baseball player

In its latest NCAA Tournament projection, D1Baseball has FSU still as the No. 10 seed matched up with No. 7 Georgia in a potential Super Regional.

More: D1Baseball NCAA Tournament Projection

If FSU is indeed this close to the brink of being a national seed, this weekend's home series against NC State and next week's ACC Tournament will mark the difference between Top 8 seed or just a regional host.

Golf

After a rough start in the first round, FSU rallied on day two on the Norman Regional behind a strong performance from freshman John Pak to put itself in position to contend for an NCAA Championship Final spot in Wednesday's final round.