Antone Smith - College Football

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Running Back

Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 190 pounds
Class Year: Sr
Experience: 3V
Hometown: Pahokee, FL
High School: Pahokee

As a Recruit (profile)

Class: 2005 (High School)
Rating/Rankings: | 6.1

Rivals.com The Rivals100 2005 (25)
Rivals.com All-purpose backs 2005 (1)

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ANTONE SMITH STATS	Receiving				Rushing
Statistics	No	Yds	Avg	TD	Att	Yds	Avg	TD
2008	10	101	10.1	1	177	792	4.5	15
2007	22	203	9.2	0	192	819	4.3	3
2006	21	174	8.3	0	88	456	5.2	5
2005	5	25	5.0	0	36	188	5.2	3
Career	58	503	8.7	1	493	2,255	4.6	26

GAME BY GAME STATISTICS: 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | Hide Stats

BIO NOTES

2008 (Senior): At Florida State: Florida State's featured tailback for the second consecutive season...a pre-season All-ACC second team selection by Phil Steele...the fourth leading returning rusher in the ACC with 1,463 career yards and tied for fourth among all returning players in the ACC with 11 career rushing touchdowns...begins the 2008 season ranked 19th in school history in rushing...needs only 37 yards to become the 18th player in school history to rush for 1,500 or more career yards...needs only 537 yards to become just the 12th player in school history with 2,000 or more career rushing yards...is ranked 19th in school history with 316 career rushing attempts entering his senior season...needs only 84 rushing attempts to move into Florida State's all-time top-10 for career rushing attempts...has earned 100 yards of offense or more in seven career games...his career-high of 167 yards came against Kentucky in the 2007 Music City Bowl (156 yards rushing and 11 yards receiving)...won the starting job during his sophomore season as he beat out current Philadelphia Eagle Lorenzo Booker in the 11th game of the year...earned the first start of his career against Western Michigan and dislocated his elbow on his first rushing attempt of the game...has led the Seminoles in rushing in 17 different games during his career entering his senior season...named the Offensive Seminole Warrior at the Seminoles' honor banquet in 2006...named the team's best conditioned athlete at the 2007 football awards dinner...has played in 32 games during the first three years of his career and has earned 12 starting assignments...has played in two bowls games - the Orange against Penn State in 2005 and the Music City against Kentucky in 2007.

Junior Year (2007): Played in 12 games while starting 11 as the Seminoles' first string tailback...enjoyed the best season of his career as a rusher and a receiver as the Seminoles' featured offensive back...responsible for 43 percent of the team's rushes during the season...accumulated 192 rushes and 22 pass receptions to total more than 30 percent of the Seminoles rush and reception totals for the season....became the first Seminole to earn 30 percent or more of the team's offensive plays since Mark Lyles in 1989...set new career highs for starts (11), rushing attempts (192), rushing yards (819), receiving yards (203) and had the longest catch of his career (28 yards against Clemson)...established single game career-highs for rushing attempts (23) against Duke and rushing yards (156) against Kentucky...carried the ball 14 times or more in eight different games...his 192 rushing attempts during the season tied for the fifth-highest single season total in school history...back-to-back 100 yard games versus Duke (114) and Miami (146) to become the first Seminole back to accomplish that feat since current New York Jet Leon Washington did it in 2004...rushed for at least 60 yards in six games and caught two or more passes in seven games...totaled 100 or more offensive yards against five different teams: Kentucky (167 total, 156 rushing, 11 receiving), Duke (154 total, 146 rushing, 8 receiving), Clemson (147 total, 90 rushing, 57 receiving), Boston College (146 total, 83 rushing, 53 receiving) and Miami (114 total, 114 rushing, 0 receiving)...led Florida State in rushing nine times in the 12 games in which he played...only game he missed came versus Maryland and was due to injury.

Sophomore Year (2006): Played in 11 games with one start at tailback...team leader with a 5.2 yards per carry average...second on the team with 456 rushing yards and 41.5 yards per game...five rushing touchdowns was second on the ground and third overall...after carrying the ball just 26 times in the first three games of the season, Smith eclipsed the 100-yard mark for the first time in his career with 137 yards on 12 carries in the Seminoles' victory over Rice, the highest single game rushing total by a Seminole in 2006...had a 60-yard rush versus the Owls that was the ninth-best in the ACC for the season...pair of rushing touchdowns versus Rice was the third most overall rushing TDs in a single game in the ACC in 2006 ...recorded a career-long 80-yard TD run at Duke that was the second-longest rush in the conference and tied for 10th longest in school history...averaged 20.2 yards per rush against the Blue Devils, which was the fourth-best average in the ACC in 2006...caught a career-high six passes for 62 yards versus Boston College...in one game versus the Eagles, Smith eclipsed his entire total from the 2005 season for catches and yards receiving...notched a season-best 14 carries for 83 yards at Maryland and scored his fourth TD of the year...scored touchdowns in back-to-back games for the first time in his career when he got into the endzone in a win over Virginia...after carrying the ball six times against Wake Forest, Smith made the first start of his career versus Western Michigan but was injured and lost for the rest of the season after just one carry...dislocated his right elbow during his lone start against Western Michigan...led Florida State in rushing six times...two games of at least 100 yards of offense...over the 100 yard mark against Rice (137 total, 137 rushing, 0 receiving) and Duke (101 total, 81 rushing, 20 receiving).

Freshman Year (2005): Played in nine games as the back-up to Lorenzo Booker and Leon Washington...carried the ball 36 times for 188 yards and three touchdowns...was third behind Booker and Washington in carries, rushing yards and yards per game...ranked first among running backs with more than 10 carries in yards per rush (5.2) and was tied for second on the team in rushing TDs...rushed seven times for a season-high 76 yards and two touchdowns in Florida State's 55-24 win over Duke...recorded his season-long 45-yard run, escaping the grasp of several Duke defenders, for his second score of the game...one of the team's fastest players, he spent a part of the spring with Florida State's track program...led the Seminoles in rushing twice as a freshman - for the first time in his career against Duke and against Clemson.

High School: Graduated from Pahokee High School in 2005...the top running back recruit in the country...a five-star prospect by Rivals.com...rated the No. 1 running back in the country and No. 25 overall player in the nation by Rivals.com as well as the No. 3 overall player in the state of Florida...rated the No. 12 player overall by Tom Lemming of ESPN.com...rated the No. 1 overall running back by Superprep Magazine...rated the No. 2 overall player in Florida by Superprep... led his Pahokee team to the state title and ran for 276 yards and three touchdowns in the championship game...finished the season rushing for 2,814 yards and 44 TDs...rushed for over 6,000 yards in his prep career...selected Florida State over Miami and Auburn.

Personal: Born September 17, 1985...a sport management major...still goes by the nickname "Deuce" after wearing No. 2 in high school... named to the 2006 All-ACC Academic Football Team...first name is pronounced an-TAWN.