Florida State's Ryan Fitzgerald kicks the ball during the NCAA college football game between Georgia Tech and Florida State at the Aviva stadium in Dublin, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024.

MOULTRIE – It has been a frustrating season for the Florida State football team, but Ryan Fitzgerald continues to do quality work.

In the Seminoles 42-16 loss to SMU on Saturday, the former Packer kicker made both of his extra point attempts and is now 6-for-6 on extra points and 6-for-6 on field goal attempts.

He had a 59-yard field goal against Georgia Tech.

Also in the game against SMU, Landen Thomas had his first collegiate pass reception and it went for a 20-yard touchdown on a third quarter pass from quarterback DJ Uiagalelei.

The Seminoles, now 1-4, will be home on Saturday to play host to Clemson.

Of this and that:

• Thomas County Central held Lee County’s Ousmane Kromah to a season-low 30 yards, but could not stop Trojans quarterback Weston Bryan as the Trojans ended the defending state champion Yellow Jackets’ 20-game winning streak.

In a performance reminiscent of the one he turned in in Lee’s 47-35 victory over Colquitt County, Bryan ran for 156 yards and four touchdowns and completed 8-of-13 passes for 134 yards.

Kromah did have five pass receptions for 101 yards and Jacori White had three interceptions, returning one for a touchdown.

Lee County will be home on Friday to play 5-0 Coffee, another defending state champion.

The Jackets, who are now 32-2 since Justin Rogers took over the program in 2022, are 5-1 and 0-1 in Region 2-5A.

They will play host to 0-6 Veterans, who lost 56-0 to Houston County last Friday.

• In Carson-Newman’s 35-34 victory over Catawba last Saturday, guard Turk Daniels started his fourth-straight game for the 4-0 Eagles.

That was after he started 48 games in a row at Colquitt County.

Carson-Newman will be home to face Barton on Saturday.

• North Carolina State linebacker Kamal Bonner was credited with a solo tackle in the Wolfpack’s 24-17 win over Northern Illinois.

Now 3-2, N.C. State will be home on Saturday to play host to Wake Forest, whose head football equipment manager is former Packer offensive lineman Brian Daniels.

• Ky’Von Rivers had a solo and an assisted tackle in Reinhardt’s 34-31 loss to Georgetown (Ky.).

Now 2-3, Reinhardt will play at Pikeville (Ky.) on Saturday.

• When Duke defeated North Carolina to raise its record to 4-0, Tyshon Reed Jr. was credited with an assisted tackle.

The Blue Devils will play at Georgia Tech on Saturday.

• Defensive back Jaheim Ward had four solo tackles in Eastern Kentucky’s 31-7 victory over Robert Morris.

Now 3-2, the Colonels will travel to play next on Oct. 12, at Southern Utah.

• West High of Salt Lake City, Utah, which lost to Colquitt County in Moultrie in its season-opener, defeated Skyline High also of Salt Lake City, 56-7 last Friday to raise its record to 3-4.

• Monroe, another Colquitt County victim, defeated Dougherty 33-28 last Saturday to raise its record to 2-4 overall and 1-0 in Region 1-AAA.

The Tornadoes will play next on Oct. 11, at Cairo.

The Syrupmakers game with Bainbridge last Friday was suspended because of lightning in the third quarter with Cairo leading 27-7.

The game will be resumed on October 7.

• North Gwinnett, which defeated the Packers 14-3, is now 5-0 overall and 2-0 in Region 7-6A after defeating Parkview 52-13 on September 20.

The Bulldogs will play at home on Friday against 2-3 Peachtree Ridge.