FSU not releasing depth chart ahead of season-opening game vs. New Mexico State

FSU not releasing depth chart ahead of season-opening game vs. New Mexico State

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FSU not releasing depth chart ahead of season-opening game vs. New Mexico State
TALLAHASSEE, FL – AUGUST 13: Head Coach Mike Norvell of the Florida State Seminoles during Fall Football Practice at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University on August 13, 2026 in Tallahassee, Florida. (Photo by Don Juan Moore/Getty Images) | Getty Images

Florida State will not be releasing a depth chart ahead of its season-opening game vs. New Mexico State.

The news was first reported by Kolby Crawford of Noles247.

Last Thursday, head coach Mike Norvell expressed his distaste for depth charts, saying that the variety in which the Seminoles use their players renders the meaning of them chart relatively useless.

“As we look at different dynamics of how guys might be utilized in certain packages….if you have four different personnel packages and a guy’s starting in a handful of them and not starting in any others, well is he a starter? Is he not? It’s still kind of up in the air, ” he said.

“Depth charts to me are, whatever they are. And I don’t see really ultimately great value in putting one out and all of it.

FSU takes on New Mexico State this Saturday at 7 p.m., with the game set to be broadcast on The CW.

FSU vs. New Mexico State Aggies: Game notes

via FSU Sports Info

  • Florida State will open its 80th football season against New Mexico State on Saturday night. The teams have faced off just once before in football, with the Seminoles blanking the Aggies 36-0 in 1964. The win was the third of three consecutive shutouts to begin the season for the 1964 team.
  • FSU is 56-23 (.709) all-time in season openers and 60-19 (.759) all-time in home openers.
  • Florida State is led by preseason All-American wide receiver Duce Robinson. The FSU legacy led the ACC last regular season with 1,081 receiving yards, the most for a Seminole since 2019. A first-team All-ACC selection and third-team All-American in 2025, Robinson ranked 11th nationally in receiving yards, led all P4 receivers with five 120-yard receiving games and was 2nd in the ACC with 21.15 yards per reception, behind only teammate Micahi Danzy.
  • Robinson enters the year on the Maxwell Award, Biletnikoff Award, Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and Wuerffel Trophy watch lists, is FSU’s nominee for the Good Works Team and is a preseason first team All-American by multiple outlets. In 2025, Robinson was a first-team Academic All-American, the first at Florida State since 2012. The social studies major graduated in summer 2026.
  • In his first season as a wide receiver, Danzy led the country with six 50-yard plays in 2025. He joined 2026 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Peter Warrick as the only FSU wide receivers with at least three rushing and three receiving touchdowns in a season.
  • A member of Florida State’s track and field team, Danzy helped lead the Florida State Men’s Indoor Track & Field team to the 2026 ACC Championship in February, the Noles’ first indoor track and field title since 2019.
  • Defensive lineman Mandrell Desir returns after an All-American season as a true freshman. The Miami native earned True Freshman All-American honors by On3 after recording 30 tackles, 7.5 tackles for loss with 6.5 sacks, one forced fumble and one pass breakup. His sacks total was the 3rd-most in FSU history for a true freshman.
  • Florida State’s 109-player roster includes 62 newcomers – 35 freshmen, 23 four-year transfers and 4 JuCo transfers.
  • FSU’s NCAA transfer class has played 592 career games with 283 starts, completed 62.1 percent of its passes for 12,553 yards and 78 touchdowns, rushed 1,055 times for 3,927 yards and 32 rushing touchdowns, caught 157 passes for 1,203 yards and six touchdowns and started 117 games on the offensive line. Defensively, 15 players have combined for 536 tackles, 44.0 tackles for loss, 14.5 sacks, 27 pass breakups with nine interceptions, seven forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries. Specialists account for 45 punts for 1,994 yards, with 15 punts inside the 20-yard line; 22 made field goals on 25 attempts; and 135 kickoffs with 56 touchbacks.
  • All five of Florida State’s offensive line transfers have started at least 10 games in their careers, led by Bowling Green transfer Nate Pabst (38) and Auburn’s Xavier Chaplin (37). Bradyn Joiner (17), Chimdia Nwaiwu (13) and Paul Bowling (12) round out the offensive line transfers.

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