Mike Norvell's buyout looms large after Florida State's ugly loss to SMU

Mike Norvell's buyout is back in focus after Florida State's brutal home loss to SMU — and the numbers only get worse from here.

FSU-SMU game turns into old-school football after stadium power outage wipes out in-game communication

A power outage plunged Doak Campbell Stadium into darkness minutes before kickoff, forcing SMU and Florida State to play without communications.

No. 19 SMU outlasts FSU 27-24 after nearly 2-hour delay due to power outage

In a game that started nearly 2 hours late because of a power outage at Doak Campbell Stadium, FSU hung with No. 19 SMU before falling 27-24 on a Mustangs field goal with 21 seconds to play.

How ESPN, SMU radio scrambled to broadcast in a dark FSU stadium: ‘Going completely blind’

With Doak’s game clock defunct, ESPN peeled off one of its scorebug operators to shadow the officials, starting and stopping the on-screen time by hand, second by second. Commercial breaks became recalibration windows to check the official time and nudge the homemade version back into sync.

Mike Norvell On FSU Football's Frustrating Loss To SMU: 'You're Sick To See It'

This article was originally published on www.si.com/college/fsu as Mike Norvell On FSU Football's Frustrating Loss To SMU: 'You're Sick To See It'.

FSU power outage highlights dim, frustrating, but funny night at Doak

A transformer short caused a two-hour delay at the Florida State Seminoles football and SMU game, forcing teams to play without key technology.

The Florida State-SMU blackout game had no modern technology, wild conspiracy theories, and Seminole humiliation

What a weird, embarassing night in Tallahassee.