Kress had an impressive College Career. He threw for over 4,000 yards every season at Florida State. He threw for a total of 17,994 yards 77 touchdowns to only 15 interceptions. The NFL scouts were impressed by Kress's work ethic and a lot of teams in the NFL wanted him. Kress led the Florida State Seminoles to 4 bowl games were he won all 4 of them. But his most impressive game was his final one against Ohio State in the National Title game.
The game started like any other for Michael Kress. He was ready and he was prepared to play these guys who were ranked # 1 in the country. Kress wanted to show them who was boss and wanted to make this the biggest ass kicking fiesta in the history of football. Florida State had a tough defense as well as a high powered offense. He wanted to make his way in to the college football record books by winning the game and having a record of 56 wins and 2 losses with Florida state which was a very impressive number. Then came the opening kickoff. Kress and the Seminoles would get the ball first.
Kress completed his first pass for 10 yards. Then he completed another for 15 yards. Then he completed another for 25 yards. Then he threw a 21 yard touchdown pass to cap off the drive. It was 7 – 0 Florida State early in the game. Ohio state threw an interception and Kress responded with a 22 yard touchdown pass and now the score was 14 – 0. Kress would go on to throw 2 more touchdown passes in the first half and gave his team a 31 – 0 half time lead.
Kress came out in the second half and started completing passes like it was nothing. He threw for 3 more scores of 10, 13 and 33 yards in the second half. Florida State went on to win the game 52 – 0. It was a blow out and Kress won MVP of the game. Then he got on one knee on national television and asked his girlfriend Ashley to marry him. She said yes to him and then he took his MVP award and went to the locker room and Kress knew his dreams in the NFL were about to come true after all.