Here is today's Florida State football fun facts, with unusual items and notes about players on the 2012 roster. On deck Friday: Florida State bowl history facts.
1. Running back Debrale Smiley of Thomasville, Ga., may have only carried the ball 11 times in the last two seasons for the Seminoles, but he's made his time in Tallahassee count in one important way: Smiley received his second degree in the spring, in communications.
2. More FSU players have birthdays in January, February and March (44) than any other three-month period. March 11 is a big day -- four FSU players have their birthdays that day, Dorian Earley, Sean Maguire, Dorsey Moore and Rodney Smith. So is December 30, when Chris Casher, Mario Pender and Maxx Moore celebrate their birthdays.
3. Seminoles players come from 16 states, with the most, naturally, coming from Florida with 87. Georgia is second with 14 and Alabama third with five. The Seminoles have four international players, Bjoern Werner (Germany), Melenik Watson (England), Alexey Goloubev (Russia) and Daniel Glauser (Switzerland).
4. Florida State players combine to take 26 major programs of study, ranging from social science and crimonology to economics, hospitality and tourism and nutrition. And if the NFL doesn't come calling, tight end Nick O'Leary appears ready to enter the family business. The grandson of World Golf Hall of Fame member and 18-time major champion Jack Nicklaus, O'Leary is majoring in professional golf management.
5. Long snapper Dax Dellenbach played football, lacrosse and track at North Broward Prep in Fort Lauderdale.
6. Offensive guard Jacob Fahrenkrug once weighed 400 pounds early in high school and used football and other sports to get down to his current weight of 324 pounds.
7. Bobby Hart, a returning starter at tackle, was good enough in basketball to make an AAU travel team, where he went against Jared Sullinger and Austin Rivers. Hart also made the Florida state wrestling tournament as a sophomore at St. Thomas Aquinas.
8. One of the favorite activities for sophomore defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan is to attend "mud bogs" at the ranch outside Lake City owned by former Florida State All-American Reinard Wilson. Jernigan sometimes drives trucks in the mud but mostly watches. "I'm a country boy," he said. "I love playing in the mud."
9. It's safe to say junior fullback Chad Abram has a nose for the ball. When he was a junior safety at Lakeland Kathleen, he blocked five punts and had five interceptions.
10. Senior tight end Jonathan Johnson plays three instruments, the trombone, tuba and trumpet.
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