New quarterback Tommy Castellanos led a punishing rushing attack for Florida State with 78 yards and a touchdown as the Seminoles stunned No. 8 Alabama 31-17 on Saturday, ending the Crimson Tide’s streak of 23 straight wins in season-openers.

The Crimson Tide entered Saturday’s game with wins in each of its past 23 season openers. Florida State finished the 2024 season with just two wins and was unranked when its meeting with Alabama kicked off. The early-season loss already puts No. 8 Alabama’s College Football Playoff hopes in doubt.

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Students and fans swarmed the field at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee immediately after the Seminoles' upset went final. Florida State came into the game as considerable underdogs.

Under new offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn, Florida State was physical from the start and finished the game with 230 rushing yards. Malzahn was Auburn's head coach from 2013 to 20, and most recently served as the head coach at UCF.

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The 20-17 loss to UCLA in the first game of the 2001 campaign marked the last time Alabama dropped a season opener. Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer faced criticism in his first year after taking over for legendary coach Nick Saban. 

However, the disappointing start to DeBoer's second year will ramp up the pressure.

DeBoer fell to 6-4 against unranked teams at Alabama. Saban went 124-4 in such games.

Castellanos, a Boston College transfer, had 16 carries while no one else had more than seven rushing attempts for the Seminoles. He also completed 9 of 14 passes for 152 yards as Florida State defeated its first ranked opponent since knocking off No. 19 Louisville in the 2023 Atlantic Coast Conference championship game.

Alabama will look to rebound next Saturday when the Tide hosts Louisiana-Monroe. Florida State will remain home next week to face East Texas A&M.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A former U.S. postal investigator who oversaw the fraud department has been charged with stealing more than $330,000 from packages mailed by victims and using the money for home renovations, vacations, and escorts, according to the Justice Department.

Scott Kelley, 51, of Massachusetts, was charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury in Boston on Friday with wire fraud, mail fraud, mail theft by a postal officer, theft of government money, money laundering, structuring to evade reporting requirements and filing false tax returns.

After allegedly stealing cash from packages, Kelley laundered it and used $15,400 to pay for sexual services from two escorts – sometimes on workdays, $30,188 for a new swimming pool patio and lighting, a granite countertop for his outdoor bar, and $4,300 on a Caribbean cruise. 

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is the law enforcement arm of the postal service, and from 2015 until June 2022, Kelley worked as the team leader for its Mail Fraud Unit, which investigated scams on the very people he allegedly targeted. 

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He also worked as team leader of the Mail Theft Unit from June 2022 until August 2023. 

Kelley allegedly sent deceitful emails to unwitting postal employees between 2019 and 2023, telling them to intercept packages that were deemed to have been sent by victims of a Jamaican scam that targeted Americans. The scammers claimed the victims needed to send money to get lottery or sweepstakes winnings. Kelley told the postal workers to send the packages to him. 

Postal workers were authorized to intercept packages flagged as likely to have been sent by victims of a scam, but weren’t allowed to open them without the sender’s consent. 

If it was opened, the postal worker was required to count the cash with another worker present and mail the sender a check for that amount. 

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Kelley is believed to have requested 1,950 packages be sent to him, stealing the cash inside, the DOJ said. 

Seven victims are identified in the indictment, with their average age being 75. The oldest victim was 82. 

The victims mailed in between $1,400 and $19,100 each to the scammers. 

Kelley allegedly met with one of the victims, falsely telling them that their package wasn’t found, and "that their loss was their own fault because they had mailed cash. None of the victims recovered their packages or their cash," the DOJ said. 

He is also accused of using the key of another postal inspector, who was a direct report to him, stealing $7,000 from an evidence locker, and blaming the employee for the theft. 

Kelley laundered the nearly $340,000 in cash by buying postal money orders and hiding the fact that he was the purchaser and payee, and spreading out more than 60 bank deposits through four bank accounts at two banks, the DOJ said. 

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He faces up to 20 years in prison for each wire fraud, money laundering and mail fraud charge, five years for each mail theft and structuring to evade reporting requirements charge, 10 years for theft of government money, and three years for each filing false tax returns charge if found guilty.