2015 Florida State Seminoles football team
American college football team season
The 2015 Florida State Seminoles football team, variously Florida State or FSU, represented Florida State University in the sport of American football during the 2015 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. Florida State competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Seminoles were led by sixth-year head coach Jimbo Fisher and played their home games at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. They were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, playing in the Atlantic Division. It was the Seminoles' 24th season as a member of the ACC and its 11th in the ACC Atlantic Division.
Florida State came into the season after a two-year run (2013 and 2014) in which the Seminoles won 27 games with a pair of ACC Championships, a BCS National Title, an appearance in the College Football Playoff, a Heisman Trophy winner, and eighteen NFL draft selections.
They finished the season 10–3, 6–2 in ACC play, to finish in second place in the Atlantic Division. They were invited to the Peach Bowl where they lost to Houston.
Florida State seniors – Giorgio Newberry, Derrick Mitchell, Nile Lawrence-Stample, Reggie Northrup, Terrance Smith, Tyler Hunter, Javien Elliott, Keelin Smith, Lamarcus Brutus and Cason Beatty – ended their college careers with 49 wins over the course of four seasons, becoming the winningest class in school history.
Before the season
Returning
Offense
The Seminoles returned three starters on offense:
Sean Maguire
Dalvin Cook
Mario Pender
Travis Rudolph
Ermon Lane
Roderick Johnson
Ryan Hoefield
Freddie Stevenson
Kermit Whitfield
Jesus Wilson
Defense
The Seminoles returned seven starters on defense:
Nile Lawrence-Stample
Jalen Ramsey
Lorenzo Featherston
DeMarcus Walker
Matthew Thomas
Jacob Pugh
Nate Andrews
Trey Marshall
Derrick Mitchell
Reggie Northrup
Terrance Smith
Tyler Hunter
Chris Casher
Derrick Nnadi
Marquez White
Lamarcus Brutus
Special teams
The Seminoles returned two starters on special teams:
Roberto Aguayo
Cason Beatty
Departures
Offense
Jameis Winston
Rashad Greene
Nick O'Leary
Karlos Williams
Christian Green
Josue Matias
Cameron Erving
Tre' Jackson
Bobby Hart
Austin Barron
Defense
Desmond Hollin
P. J. Williams
Mario Edwards Jr.
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