Florida State football’s game Monday night against Boston College featured no shortage of storylines.

The Seminoles, the reigning ACC champions and a preseason top-10 team, were looking to rebound from a surprising Week 0 loss to Georgia Tech in Ireland. That effort would come against a Boston College team making its debut under head coach Bill O’Brien and featuring one of the ACC’s most exciting quarterbacks in Thomas Castellanos. The Seminoles and Eagles were meeting with plenty of eyeballs on them, as their matchup was the only game on Monday night after a loaded Week 1 of the 2024 college football season.

The game was missing just one thing — a clock.

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In the first quarter of the Florida State-Boston College game at Doak S. Campbell Stadium, there was no clock on ESPN’s broadcast of the contest, creating confusion for the hundreds of thousands of viewers tuning into the action.

Here’s what you need to know about the clock issues for Florida State’s game against Boston College:

Why was game clock not working at FSU football game?

Florida State’s game Monday night against Boston College featured no game clock for the first 15 minutes of game time. That notable absence for viewers nationally was the result of "technical difficulties" inside Doak Campbell Stadium.

Any football broadcast — be it at the professional, college or even high school level — features several necessary pieces of information somewhere on the screen.

Most importantly, there’s the score. There’s the down and distance. There’s the quarter. And, of course, there’s a running clock showing how much time remains in a given period.

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“They’re having clock issues here at Doak Campbell Stadium, so they’re keeping time on the field,” ESPN play-by-play broadcaster Bob Wischusen said on the telecast. “That’s why you won’t see it on our screen until they get things figured out.”

With the tens of thousands of fans inside the stadium, along with the larger television audience, unable to know how many minutes and seconds were remaining in the quarter, time was kept by officials on the field, who turned to their own system.

"There is one official who is keeping track of the clock. After each drive, they will go in and tell each team what the time is,” ESPN sideline reporter Kris Budden said. “For the play clock, the back judge will put his hands, both hands in the air. When there's 15 seconds left, he will drop one hand. When there's 10 seconds, and then count down from there.”

Those issues were eventually resolved, with a clock appearing on the ESPN score bug to start the second quarter.

The technical error came while the Seminoles’ stadium is undergoing a significant renovation.

The west side of Doak Campbell Stadium is under construction as part of a larger project that is expected to conclude in the summer of 2025. To account for that work, Florida State installed 7,400 temporary chair-back seats, portable bathrooms and concessions.

This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: FSU football game clock: 'Technical issues' plague ESPN game