ESPN College GameDay Headed to Tallahassee for Notre Dame vs. Florida State

ESPN's College GameDay will be in Tallahassee next week to watch the reigning national champion, Florida State, host the 2012 national runner-up, Notre Dame.

The Seminoles and the Fighting Irish are both undefeated on the season, making this the third consecutive GameDay game between undefeated teams. Before this, it was Ole Miss vs. Alabama in Week 6 and Mississippi State vs. Auburn in Week 7.

The show's official Twitter account announced the news Sunday:

Notre Dame is playing Florida State as part of its partial-ACC membership. It beat Syracuse is Week 5 and North Carolina in Week 7, starting its pseudo-ACC season with a 2-0 record, but it didn't look especially impressive in either of those wins.

Florida State, meanwhile, hasn't looked especially impressive in any of its games this season. After a year in which it dominated most opponents, it has struggled to beat Oklahoma State on a neutral field—another game GameDay was in attendance for—Clemson in Tallahassee and North Carolina State in Raleigh.

The Clemson game went to overtime and is best known as the game Jameis Winston missed during his one-game suspension for screaming obscenities on campus. The sophomore quarterback and reigning Heisman Trophy winner has since been reinstated to the team but is now dealing with a school-imposed disciplinary hearing that concerns the sexual assault investigation that took place last season.

In light of this most recent development, sports law expert Michael McCann wrote a fascinating piece for SI.com, suggesting that Winston's best recourse might be dropping out of school. But Winston does not want to talk about anything other than the season at hand.

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"It's not about distractions," he told reporters after Saturday's 38-20 win at Syracuse, per Mike Huguenin of NFL.com. "It's about Florida State football."

Notre Dame counters Winston with its own Heisman-contending quarterback, Everett Golson. And like Winston, Golson is no stranger to off-field imbroglios. After leading Notre Dame to the national title game as a redshirt freshman in 2012, he missed all of last season with a university-imposed suspension for academic impropriety.

Golson has struggled with turnovers the past few games, but he has made the necessary plays to keep Notre Dame undefeated, most notably a game-winning fourth-down touchdown pass to tight end Ben Koyack in the final minute against Stanford two weeks ago.

Neither Golson nor Winston has ever lost a regular-season game as a college quarterback.

That is guaranteed to change in Week 8.