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(10) Florida State vs. Georgia Tech, Saturday at Noon on ESPN - Aer Lingus College Football Classic

The Seminoles are favored by 10.5 points.

The Aer Lingus College Football Classic will be held at the magnificent Aviva Stadium, built on the site of the former Lansdowne Road stadium, which was demolished in 2007. It is home to the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Football Association of Ireland.

College football in Ireland began initially in 1988 as part of a promotional campaign to mark the Dublin millennium celebrations. Dubbed the Emerald Isle Classic, it was the first NCAA-sanctioned American college football game played in Europe. The game was played at Lansdowne Road in Dublin in 1988 with a crowd of 42,524 in attendance. It featured a 2–7 Boston College team who defeated the 8–1 Army Black Knights 38–24.

The game was intended as an annual event to attract some of the 40 million Americans of Irish descent back to Ireland. College teams with particularly Irish or Catholic background were chosen in an effort to attract Irish nationals to the games.