Jameis Winston Says Florida State Will Go 'Dallas to Dallas' in Repeat of Football Title
ByFor Florida State to repeat their football National Championship, they would start and end their season in Arlington's AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys.
"Dallas to Dallas" is the Seminoles slogan for the 2014 football season. Heisman-winning QB Jameis Winston, who is currently playing baseball for the school, told the Associated Press the football team is already setting their sites on a title repeat in the first year of the College Football Playoff system.
Winston was in North Texas to accept the Davey O'Brien Award, an honor given to the top college QB. He had a chance to stop by AT&T Stadium, where his Seminoles open their regular season against Oklahoma State on Aug. 30.
In the new College Football Playoff system, a board of voters will select four teams to play for the National Championship. Two teams will play in Pasadena, Calif.'s Rose Bowl and the other two will play in New Orleans, La.'s Sugar Bowl. Both games will be held Jan. 1, 2015 and the Championship game will be held afterward in Arlington.
The new system also allows for cities to bid on hosting the title game, but cannot also host a semifinal game. Glendale, Ariz. won the bid for the 2016 game, to be held in the University of Phoenix Stadium, and Tampa won the 2017 bid for the Raymond James Stadium.
In the meantime, Winston has his sights set on winning a College World Series for the Seminoles baseball team. Florida State has been to 21 World Series tournaments, but have never taken home the title. In Friday's season opener, Winston retired all six batters he faced to record a save against Niagara.
"The fans that we have in baseball -- baseball being Florida State's sport per se -- to win a World Series, that would mean a lot," Winston told the AP.
He plans on playing both sports professionally, like Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. But whether he is a pitcher or hitter in the bigs, he knows he wants to play quarterback in the NFL. In a situation where he pitched in the MLB and played QB in the NFL, Winston would give sports fans something they have likely never seen before.
"Obviously, it would be a tremendous honor to follow in the footsteps of the Bo Jacksons and the Deion Sanders to play both sports professionally," he said. "That's just something that I have to worry about when it comes."