Florida State Seminoles football

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Florida State Seminoles football
Head Coach Bobby Bowden
31st Year, 293-81-4
Home Stadium Doak Campbell Stadium
Capacity 82,300 - Grass
Conference ACC - Atlantic
First Year 1947
Athletic Director Dave Hart
Website Seminoles.com
Team Records
All-time Record 443-211-17 (.673)
Postseason
Bowl Record		 20-13-2
Awards
Wire National Titles 2
Conference Titles 15
Heisman Winners 2
Pageantry
Colors Garnet and Gold            
Fight song FSU Fight Song
Mascot Chief Osceola
Marching Band Marching Chiefs
Rivals Florida Gators
Miami Hurricanes


The Florida State Seminoles football team is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the most successful programs in all of college football. Florida State has won two national championships (1993 and 1999), and finished in the top five of the AP Poll for 14 straight years from 1987 through 2000.

Florida State has produced two Heisman Trophy winners: quarterback Charlie Ward in 1993 and quarterback Chris Weinke in 1999.

The current head coach of the team is Bobby Bowden, who has won more games than any other NCAA Division I-A coach in history. The team's defensive coordinator is Mickey Andrews, and its offensive coordinator is Jimbo Fisher.

The team plays its home games at Doak Campbell Stadium, located on-campus at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

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[edit] Florida State head football coaches

Tenure Coach Years Record Pct.
1947 Ed Williamson 1 0-5 .000
1948-52 Don Veller 5 31-12-1 .716
1953-58 Tom Nugent 6 34-28-1 .548
1959 Perry Moss 1 4-6 .400
1960-70 Bill Peterson 11 62-42-11 .587
1971-73 Larry Jones 3 15-19 .441
1974-75 Darrell Mudra 2 4-18 .182
1976- Bobby Bowden 31 293-81-4 .780
1947-2006 8 coaches 60 443-211-17 .673

[edit] Championships

[edit] National Championships

Year Coach Selector Record Bowl
1993 Bobby Bowden AP, Coaches 12-1 Won Orange
1999 Bobby Bowden AP, Coaches 12-0 Won Sugar
Total national championships 2

[edit] Conference Championships

Conference Affiliations

  • 1947: Independent
  • 1948-1950: Dixie Conference
  • 1951-1991: Independent
  • 1992-present: ACC
Year Conference Overall Record Conference Record
1948 Dixie 7-1 4-0
1949 Dixie 9-1 4-0
1950 Dixie 8-0 2-0
1992 ACC 11-1 8-0
1993 ACC 12-1 8-0
1994 ACC 10-1-1 8-0
1995† ACC 10-2 7-1
1996 ACC 11-1 8-0
1997 ACC 11-1 8-0
1998† ACC 11-2 7-1
1999 ACC 12-0 8-0
2000 ACC 11-2 8-0
2002 ACC 9-5 7-1
2003 ACC 10-3 7-1
2005 ACC 8-5 5-3
Total conference championships 15
† Denotes co-champions

[edit] Divisional Championships

Florida State has appeared in the ACC Championship Game as the winner of the Atlantic Division once, defeating Virginia Tech of the Coastal Division in 2005.

Year Division Championship ACC CG Result Opponent PF PA
2005 ACC Atlantic W Virginia Tech 27 22
Totals 1 1-0 - 27 22

[edit] History

[edit] Early years

[edit] Bobby Bowden Era (1976- )

[edit] Records

[edit] All-time bowl record

Florida State has played in 35 bowl games in its history and owns a 20-13-2 record in those games. Florida States two most common opponents in bowl play have been Oklahoma and Nebraska. The Seminoles are 1-3 against Oklahoma in bowl games and 4-0 against Nebraska. Florida State's most common bowl destination has been the Orange Bowl (8 trips). Its second most common bowl destination has been the Sugar Bowl (6 trips).

Date Bowl W/L Opponent PF PA
January 1, 1955 Sun Bowl L Texas-El Paso 20 47
December 13, 1958 Bluegrass Bowl L Oklahoma State 6 15
January 2, 1965 Gator Bowl W Oklahoma 36 19
December 24, 1966 Sun Bowl L Wyoming 20 28
December 30, 1967 Gator Bowl T Penn State 17 17
December 30, 1968 Peach Bowl L LSU 27 31
December 27, 1971 Fiesta Bowl L Arizona State 38 45
December 23, 1977 Tangerine Bowl W Texas Tech 40 17
January 1, 1980 Orange Bowl L Oklahoma 7 24
January 1, 1981 Orange Bowl L Oklahoma 17 18
December 30, 1982 Gator Bowl W West Virginia 31 12
December 30, 1983 Peach Bowl W North Carolina 28 3
December 22, 1984 Citrus Bowl T Georgia 17 17
December 30, 1985 Gator Bowl W Oklahoma State 34 23
December 31, 1986 All-American Bowl W Indiana 27 13
January 1, 1988 Fiesta Bowl W Nebraska 31 28
January 2, 1989 Sugar Bowl W Auburn 13 7
January 1, 1990 Fiesta Bowl W Nebraska 41 17
December 28, 1990 Blockbuster Bowl W Penn State 24 17
January 1, 1992 Cotton Bowl W Texas A&M 10 2
January 1, 1993 Orange Bowl W Nebraska 27 14
January 1, 1994 Orange Bowl W Nebraska 18 16
January 2, 1995 Sugar Bowl W Florida 23 17
January 1, 1996 National Champioship Game
Sugar Bowl		 L Florida 52 20
January 2, 1997 Sugar Bowl L Florida 20 52
January 1, 1998 Sugar Bowl W Ohio State 31 14
January 4, 1999 Fiesta Bowl
BCS National Championship Game		 L Tennessee 16 23
January 4, 2000 Sugar Bowl
BCS National Championship Game		 W Virginia Tech 46 29
January 3, 2001 Orange Bowl
BCS National Championship Game		 L Oklahoma 2 13
January 1, 2002 Gator Bowl W Virginia Tech 30 17
January 1, 2003 Sugar Bowl L Georgia 13 26
January 1, 2004 Orange Bowl L Miami 14 16
January 1, 2005 Gator Bowl W West Virginia 30 18
January 3, 2006 Orange Bowl L
(3 OT)		 Penn State 23 26
December 27, 2006 Emerald Bowl W UCLA 44 27
Total 35 bowl games 20-13-2 852 734

[edit] Rivalries

Florida State's traditional rivals have been the University of Florida Gators and the University of Miami Hurricanes.

Since 2002, the Florida Cup has been awarded to the team that finishes the best head-to-head record in years where Florida State, Florida, and Miami all play each other. Three Florida Cups have been awarded, and Miami has won all three.

[edit] Florida

Florida State and Florida have played each other 51 times. The Gators hold a 30-19-2 all-time lead against the Seminoles. Florida won the most recent meeting between the schools, 21-14, on November 25, 2006.

[edit] Miami

The Miami-Florida State rivalry dates to 1951, when the Hurricanes defeated the Seminoles 35-13 in their inaugural meeting. The schools have played uninterrupted since 1966, with Miami holding the all-time advantage, 29-21.

During the 1980s and 90s, the series emerged as perhaps the premier rivalry in college football. Between 1983 and 2002, the Hurricanes and Seminoles combined to win 7 national championships (5 for Miami, 2 for Florida State) and play in a whopping 14 national championship games (83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 96, 98, 99, 00, 01, and 02). The rivalry has been popular not only because of its profound national championship implications and the competitiveness of the games, but also because of the immense NFL-caliber talent typically present on the field when the two teams meet. The famous 1987 matchup featured over 50 future NFL players on both rosters combined.

The games have been characterized by remarkable team speed, big plays, hard hitting, and missed field goals (see: Wide Right). In 2004, the intensity of the rivalry was dialed up another notch when Miami joined the Atlantic Coast Conference and the teams became intra-conference rivals.

The rivalry is a television ratings bonanza, accounting for the two highest rated college football telecasts in ESPN history. The 2006 game between Miami and FSU was the most-viewed college football game, regular season or bowl, in the history of ESPN, averaging 6,330,000 million households in viewership (6.9 rating). It was also the second-highest rated game in ESPN history, behind only the 1994 game between Miami and FSU, which notched a 7.7 rating.[1]

[edit] Individual Award Winners

[edit] Players

Charlie Ward - 1993
Chris Weinke -2000
Charlie Ward - 1993
Charlie Ward - 1993
Charlie Ward - 1993
Chris Weinke - 2000
Paul McGowan - 1987
Marvin Jones - 1992
Casey Weldon - 1991
Charlie Ward - 1993
Chris Weinke - 2000
Deion Sanders - 1988
Terrell Buckley - 1991
Marvin Jones - 1992
Jamal Reynolds - 2000
Sebastian Janikowski - 1998, 1999

[edit] Coaches

Bobby Bowden - 1994
Mickey Andrews - 1996

[edit] Retired Numbers

[edit] Current NFL Players

[edit] Other Famous Players

[edit] Selected games

FSU Burger King
FSU Burger King

FSU's 2005 football game against Maryland was quite entertaining when an FSU student dressed as the Burger King mascot made his debut on Bobby Bowden field. "The King" ran over 90 yards across the field then ran back into the stands to evade police. He was arrested once in the stands and was charged with trespassing.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Associated Press (2006-9-6). FSU-Miami Game Grabs ESPN's Largest Audience. TheACC.com.

[edit] See also
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