Florida Condition rallied from the 14-point second-half deficit and used a set of touchdown passes by E.J. Manuel and 2 area goals from Dustin Hopkins to slide past Notre Dame 18-14 within the Champs Sports Bowl on Thursday evening.
The victory was FSU's 4th straight bowl win. FSU receiver Rashad Greene, who caught among Manuel's touchdown passes, was named the game's MVP.
No. 25 Seminoles began four newcomer on the offensive line and threw in the towel five sacks, but FSU's defense selected off Notre Dame quarterbacks Tommy Rees and Andrew Hendrix three occasions as well as stacked up four sacks of their own.
Notre Dame shuffled between Rees and Hendrix throughout the overall game, but both battled to find the Irish points within the red-colored zone.
After a little stagnant offense on sides within the first half, FSU trailed 14- at the start of the 3rd quarter before finding some momentum with the air.
The Seminoles closed the space to 14-9 by having an 18-yard touchdown pass from Manuel to Bert Reed to spread out the 4th quarter, but unsuccessful on the 2-point conversion attempt.
They required charge just 1:32 later after Nigel Bradham intercepted a Hendrix pass within the Notre Dame 20 to setup an 18-yard touchdown catch by Greene to really make it 15-14 with more than 13 minutes to experience following another unsuccessful 2-point try.
The Seminoles added their second area goal of the overall game a set later.
Notre Dame punted on its next touch, but pinned FSU inside its very own 5 and forced a fast three-and-out.
An undesirable punt through the Seminoles along with a nose and mouth mask penalty around the return gave the Irish the ball around the FSU 28 with 3:56 to experience, but Rees was selected off ultimately zone with 2:48 left and FSU could basically go out the rest of the clock.
Notre Dame required a 14- add its opening drive from the other half by capping a 9-play, 62-yard drive having a 5-yard touchdown pass from Rees to Michael Floyd. Floyd fought against Seminoles cornerback Greg Reid for that ball onto play, juggling it multiple occasions before finally getting his hands around it.
Reid remained lower around the turf following the play and left the overall game with concussion signs and symptoms.
FSU returned back having a 77-yard kickoff return by Lamarcus Joyner, but Notre Dame's fifth sack from the evening on Manuel assisted pressure the Seminoles to be satisfied with a 42-yard area goal by Hopkins.
Notre Dame's defense was accountable for the lone score from the first half.
The Irish forced a fast punt on FSU's opening having the overall game, and used a 41-yard return by Floyd and a number of runs by Cierre Wood to setup an initial-and-goal within the 5-yard line.
However the threat ended only a play later when Rees was selected off by Joyner ultimately zone.
The Seminoles' ensuing drive survived just one play itself, with Devonta Freeman fumbling a pass from Manuel in to the hands of Notre Dame safety Zeke Motta, who then came back it 29 yards for that touchdown.
Both offenses battled to locate any traction within the opening half an hour.
Together with each team's turnovers, Florida State's offense acquired only 104 total yards to Notre Dame's 91.
The Seminoles also unsuccessful to covert on some of their seven third-lower attempts, while permitting four sacks. Notre Dame safety Jamoris Slaughter was accountable for a couple of them, tying a bowl record.
FSU's special teams did not fair an excessive amount of better, approaching a yard short on the fake punt run half way through second quarter.
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