Florida State vs Pittsburgh LIVE, Seminoles and Panthers Score Updates in College Football

ESPN has the national broadcast. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m. ET, 6:00 p.m. CT and 4:00 p.m. PT. In Madrid it is 01:00.

Stay with VAVEL from the opening kick for the live score, touchdowns, turnovers and the key numbers from Heintschel and Daniels. We will keep the box score fresh all night.

The game is played at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, the Panthers' home field. The surface is natural grass. Pitt has played two of its last five at home, the 21-17 loss to North Carolina and the 34-11 win over Georgia Tech.

DraftKings has Pittsburgh at minus 3.5 with a total of 52.5. ESPN's matchup model gives Pitt a 62 percent win probability and Florida State 38.

For context, Pitt scores 31.9 points per game and Florida State 30.7. Put those two averages together and you get 62.6, above the 52.5 total. The season numbers say these are two offenses that find the end zone.

Pitt has 25 sacks and nine interceptions on defense this season. Jaeden Moore leads the Panthers with 4.5 sacks, and Cruce Brookins is the top tackler with 61.

Florida State has 24 sacks as a team. Rylan Kennedy owns six of them, the best individual number on either roster. Chris Jones leads the Seminoles with 64 tackles. They have six interceptions on defense, three fewer than Pitt.

Third downs are a dead heat, 40.5 percent for Pitt (49 of 121) and 40.9 for Florida State. So are turnovers: Pitt has 10 takeaways and 11 giveaways, Florida State 14 and 15. Both sit at minus one.

The pass rush connects to Daniels' interception count. The Seminoles quarterback has been picked off 12 times, and Pitt has more defensive interceptions than Florida State. On the other side, Florida State has allowed 22 sacks on offense while Pitt has given up only 10.

ESPN's ACC standings put Miami and Wake Forest at the top with 8-1 overall records. SMU and Duke follow at 7-2. Louisville, Clemson, Pittsburgh and Virginia Tech all sit at 6-3.

North Carolina is 5-4. Florida State is 4-5, level with Stanford, Virginia, NC State, Boston College and Syracuse. Georgia Tech is last at 2-7.

Pitt is in the big group of 6-3 teams. Florida State is in the big group at 4-5. Every ACC team in the middle of the table is bunched together, which is why one result moves a team up a few spots.

The schedule gives us a clean way to compare these teams. Both played Boston College and both played Miami this season.

Florida State won at Boston College 31-24. Pitt lost there 27-21. Against Miami both teams lost on the road, but not by the same distance. Florida State went down 43-35 in two overtimes, while Pitt lost 52-23.

Score comparisons only go so far, and those games were played weeks apart. Still, the two data points lean toward Florida State, which scored 35 or more at Miami and beat a team that beat Pitt. The Panthers' best recent answer is the 34-11 win over Georgia Tech.

The Seminoles are also 2-3 in their last five, and the games were all over the place.

They beat Virginia 38-7, lost 44-20 at Louisville and then lost 43-35 in two overtimes at Miami. Clemson came next and won 36-24 in a game ESPN lists as a home date for Florida State. The most recent result is the best one, a 31-24 win at Boston College.

So the Seminoles walk into Pittsburgh with a road win fresh in their minds. Their ACC mark is 2-4, and the league table leaves very little room for another slip.

The Panthers had a rough stretch, and their latest result is the good one.

Pitt won 35-33 at Virginia Tech, then dropped three in a row: 21-17 to North Carolina, 27-21 at Boston College and 52-23 at Miami. The loss to the Hurricanes was by 29 points. The last game was a 34-11 win over Georgia Tech at home.

That is two wins and three losses. Two of the defeats came by six points or fewer, so Pitt has been close to a better record. In those five games the Panthers scored 35, 17, 21, 23 and 34 points, and they held the Yellow Jackets to 11 in the latest one.

Florida State is close to Pitt on offense. It scores 30.7 points and gains 410.6 yards per game, and it leans on the run more, with 22 rushing touchdowns against 14 through the air.

Ashton Daniels has 2,146 passing yards and 14 touchdowns on 142 of 240. He has also thrown 12 interceptions, which is the biggest mark against the Seminoles this year. Ousmane Kromah leads the ground game with 114 carries, 609 yards and five touchdowns. Micahi Danzy is the top receiver at 30 catches, 487 yards and three scores.

As a team Florida State has 15 giveaways. Pittsburgh has 11.

The gap between 14 touchdowns and 12 interceptions is the number to keep in mind on every Seminoles drive. Heintschel's ratio at the other end is 14 touchdowns to one interception, and that contrast is hard to ignore.

Pittsburgh scores 31.9 points per game and gains 446.1 yards. Most of that comes through the air, 278.4 yards a game against 167.7 on the ground.

Quarterback Mason Heintschel explains why. He has completed 98 of 148 passes, a 66.2 percent clip, for 1,304 yards and 14 touchdowns. He has thrown one interception all season. Wide receiver Cataurus Hicks is his main target with 34 catches for 698 yards and six touchdowns, which is more than 20 yards every time he gets his hands on the ball.

Damon Ferguson Jr. leads the running backs. He has 123 carries for 662 yards and six touchdowns, an average of 5.4 yards per attempt.

Welcome to VAVEL's live coverage of Florida State at Pittsburgh from Acrisure Stadium. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, which is 01:00 in Madrid.

Neither team arrives with a clean record to protect. The Pittsburgh Panthers are 6-3 overall and 3-3 in the ACC. The Florida State Seminoles are 4-5 and 2-4 in league play, so a loss would hurt them more.

DraftKings, as listed by ESPN, has Pitt as a 3.5-point favorite with a total of 52.5 points. We will follow every drive, every score and every turnover from the opening kick, and the box score will update as the game goes on.