The college football game between No. 19 SMU and Florida State kicked off after a delay of nearly two hours on Monday night due to a power outage at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. According to the Associated Press, the power went out just minutes before the scheduled kickoff, and the delay lasted about 1 hour and 45 minutes. The Seminoles and Mustangs finally took the field at 9 p.m. EDT, while Florida State students performed the tomahawk chop during the outage.
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