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After these setbacks, Florida State won three straight victories over Top 4 Florida teams, winning the 1998 and 2000 games in Tallahassee and the 1999 contest in Gainesville on their way to a second national championship. Florida State and Florida combined for fourteen conference championships and three national championships during the 1990s.
The game was a bowl rematch of a regular season game, as Florida State had defeated Florida, 24–21, in a game played in Tallahassee on November 30.. Third-ranked Florida was invited to the designated national championship game because the Pac-10 champion was contractually obligated to play in the Rose Bowl Game, and unavailable to participate in the Bowl Alliance national championship game. [3]
Florida: W 23–17 26. January 1, 1996: Orange Bowl (Bowl Alliance) Notre Dame: W 31–26 27. January 2, 1997: Sugar Bowl (Bowl Alliance National Championship) Florida: L 20–52 28. January 1, 1998: Sugar Bowl (Bowl Alliance) Ohio State: W 31–14 29. January 4, 1999: Fiesta Bowl (BCS National Championship) Tennessee: L 16–23 30. January 4, 2000
Florida State (1-6, 1-5) had its misery extended despite outgaining Duke by 111 yards. “The game went about the way we expected,” Diaz said. “The game was won by our defense. …
Fletcher rushed for 71 yards and a score in Miami's 36-14 win over Florida State on Saturday night — playing despite the fact that his father, Mark Fletcher Sr., died earlier in the week.
This is a partial list of the ten most recent bowl games Florida State has competed in. FSU in the 1967 Gator Bowl vs. Penn State. Florida State has played in 50 bowl games in its history and has a 29–18–3 record, with one win vacated, in those games. The Seminoles are the ninth most successful bowl team in history and played in a record 36 ...
Florida vs. Florida State was one of the premier matchups for the entire decade of the 90s. Regardless of record, this game always has meaning.
After the bowl games, 12–1 Florida State was voted #1 and 11–1 Notre Dame #2 in both polls. During the 1993 season, the Seminoles faced four teams in the top seven of the AP rankings when FSU played them -- #3 Miami in week 6, #2 Notre Dame in week 11, #7 Florida in week 13, and #2 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl -- and they went 3-1 against ...