FSU vs. Georgia Tech: TV, Live Stream Info and Preview for ACC Championship 2014

Florida State continues to flirt with missing the College Football Playoff as it heads into the ACC title game against Georgia Tech on Saturday night. 

Jameis Winston and the Seminoles have won 28 games in a row, but the last three have been decided by no more than five points apiece, all against unranked opposition the team was projected to blow away with ease.

Meanwhile, a gaudy Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets rushing attack has birthed five consecutive wins, the last two coming against ranked opposition the team was not necessarily supposed to overcome.

The writing is on the wall. Should Florida State lose Saturday, everything goes up in flames. Should it not win in convincing fashion, it might produce the same result.

Everything rides on Saturday's outcome.

When: Saturday, December 6, 8 p.m. ET

Where: Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC

Television: ABC

Live Stream: WatchESPN

Preview

It did not have to come to this for the Seminoles.

Jimbo Fisher's team built this house of expectations on its own, though. Last season en route to the title, the team never trailed in the second half of a game before the ACC title game and won just one game by fewer than 27 points.

The Seminoles have won six games by single digits this year.

Much of the blame falls on the shoulders of Winston. He has 3,250 yards and 21 scores through the air, but 17 interceptions. Four of those came last week against the Florida Gators, an encounter the Seminoles almost lost, 24-19.

As ESPN Stats & Info points out, Winston's turnover numbers cast a serious cloud over just how far the Seminoles can go:

But that is getting ahead of things. These Yellow Jackets are not something to overlook.

In fact, Paul Johnson's rushing attack figures to feast on a Seminoles defense that cannot help but stay on the field and allow lengthy chain-moving drives.

Just a peek at Florida State's defensive numbers versus the nation's fourth-ranked rushing attack tells the whole story: 

Georgia Tech's talented stable of runners is no fluke, no product of a weak schedule. Just last week, the Yellow Jackets rushed for 399 yards and three scores against then-No. 9 Georgia, a team that still ranks 19th in the nation with an average of just 333.3 total yards allowed per game.

Keep in mind that the team's leading rusher happens to be sophomore quarterback Justin Thomas, who is also a threat as a passer. His 1,460 yards and 16 scores can attest to that, as can his trio of games this season with three or more scores through the air.

For Fisher, this is perhaps the toughest adjustment his team will make all season.

"It's a whole different perspective of how you have to defend their offensive attack," Fisher said, per the Associated Press, via ESPN.com. "It's going to have to be a complete game-plan overhaul as far as different things you do. Everybody had a certain way they play that."

To say Winston and Co. need to make the most of every drive is a dramatic understatement. 

Georgia Tech's best defense is its offense, which keeps opposing offenses off the field. Believe it or not, this is a major advantage for the Yellow Jackets on Saturday, as the team leads the ACC with a plus-11 turnover margin. The defense has forced a whopping 17 takeaways over the course of its past five outings.

In other words, Winston's propensity for sloppy turnovers this season is a bad sign against a defense that forces plenty and commits few while in control of the tempo and clock.

To make matters even worse, lead back Karlos Williams, who has 609 yards and 10 scores on the ground this season, will miss the contest.

The saving grace for Florida State is twofold. For one, Fisher's team is downright more talented top to bottom. That is not a slight toward Georgia Tech in any way, rather just the lay of the land.

Two, Winston and the Seminoles have a propensity for late-game efficiency that nets wins. A game such as this will never get out of hand for one side or the other thanks to Georgia Tech's clock-chewing attack, which means Winston will always be within reach of an epic comeback or extending the lead late.

In the biggest challenge of Florida State's season to date, expect the Seminoles to come up big late.

Again.

Prediction: Seminoles 20, Yellow Jackets 17

Statistics and info courtesy of ESPN.com unless otherwise specified.