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The Florida State Seminoles are the athletic teams representing Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida. They compete as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level (Football Bowl Subdivision sub-level for football), primarily competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) for all sports since the 1991–92 season; within the Atlantic Division in any sports split into a divisional format since the 2005–06 season.
| Florida State Seminoles | |
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| University | Florida State University |
| Conference | ACC (primary) CCSA (beach volleyball) |
| NCAA | Division I (FBS) |
| Athletic director | Michael Alford |
| Location | Tallahassee, Florida |
| First season | 1901 |
| Varsity teams | 18 (8 men's, 10 women's) |
| Football stadium | Bobby Bowden Field at Doak S. Campbell Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Donald L. Tucker Center |
| Baseball stadium | Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium |
| Softball stadium | Seminole Softball Complex |
| Soccer stadium | Seminole Soccer Complex |
| Aquatics center | Morcom Aquatics Center |
| Tennis venue | Scott Speicher Memorial Tennis Center |
| Other venues | Apalachee Regional Park Don Veller Seminole Golf Course Mike Long Track Tully Gymnasium |
| Mascot | Osceola and Renegade, Cimarron |
| Nickname | Noles |
| Fight song | Florida State University Fight Song |
| Colors | Garnet and gold[1] |
| Website | seminoles |
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| Team NCAA championships | |
| 11 | |
| Individual and relay NCAA champions | |
| 40[2] | |
The Seminoles' athletic department fields 18 teams. They have collectively won 20 team national championships, and over 100 team conference championships, as well as numerous individual national and conference titles.
The athletic department is led by athletic director Michael Alford, who reports to FSU President Richard D. McCullough and the Board of Trustees.
Florida State Athletics began in 1902 when the then Florida State College football teams played three seasons.[3] The 1905 Buckman Act reorganized the existing seven Florida colleges into three institutions, segregated by race and gender. As a result of this reorganization, the coeducational Florida State College was renamed the Florida State College for Women.[4] The Florida State University again became a co-ed institution in 1947 with most of the newly enrolled male students back from service in World War II. Athletic programs resumed and Florida State fielded its first football team in 43 years with FSU facing Stetson on October 18, 1947.
Florida State was a founding member of the Dixie Conference, in 1948, when other southern institutions seeking to create a "purely amateur" athletic conference based on the principle of complete amateurism, with no athletic scholarships. Three years later, FSU left the conference to become an independent, having won ten conference titles including three in football and two in men's track and field.
In 1976, Florida State joined the Metro Conference in all sports except football, which remained independent. For fifteen years FSU competed and won sixty-eight conference titles as well as five national titles including two in softball, two in women's track and field, and one in women's golf.
Since 1991, Florida State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference. Since joining the conference, FSU has won ninety-six ACC titles and nine national titles including three in football, three in men's track and field, two in soccer, and one in softball. After the 2005 conference expansion was complete, FSU was placed in the newly formed Atlantic Division.
| Garnet | Gold | Black | White |
Florida State's school colors of garnet and gold are a merging of the university's past. In 1904 and 1905, the Florida State College won football championships wearing purple and gold uniforms. When FSC became Florida State College for Women in 1905, the FSCW student body selected crimson as the official school color. The administration in 1905 took crimson and combined it with the recognizable purple of the championship football teams to achieve the color garnet. The garnet and gold colors were first used on an FSU uniform in a 14–6 loss to Stetson on October 18, 1947.[5]
On April 11, 2014, as part of the university's rebranding of the program, white and black were added to the official school colors. The addition of the two colors is to better represent the colors present on the flag of the Seminole Tribe of Florida.[6] Florida State also uses turquoise accents on special occasions in various sports to honor the Seminole Tribe as the color represents “harmony, friendship, and fellowship” within Native American culture.[7]
The "Seminoles" name, chosen by students in a 1947 vote, alludes to Florida's Seminole people who in the early nineteenth century resisted efforts of the United States government to remove them from Florida.[8] Since 1978 the teams have been represented by the symbols Osceola and Renegade. The symbol represents an actual historical figure, Seminole war leader Osceola, whose clothing represents appropriate period dress. The athletic logo, in use since the early 1970s, shows a profile of a shouting Seminole warrior in circle. The model for the logo was Florida State music faculty member Thomas Wright, composer of the Florida State University Fight Song and Victory Song.
The university maintains that they do not officially have a mascot, but use the Seminole name in "admiration" of the unconquered tribe.[9] However, the figures of Osceola and Renegade, as well as the athletic logo, are used in a way that is indistinguishable from other mascots; they are used to rally the crowd at sporting events, and emblazoned on T-shirts and other merchandise.[10][11]
The use of names and images associated with Seminole history is officially sanctioned by the Seminole Tribal Council of Florida.[12] In 2005, the Tribal Council produced a written resolution affirming their support for the use of their symbolism, and FSU states that they take pride in their "continued collaboration with the tribe".[9]
In 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association adopted a policy intended to prevent their schools and athletic programs from using mascots and imagery that are "hostile or abusive" to racial and ethnic minorities.[13] This included Native American mascots, and FSU was specifically flagged as a university with potentially offensive imagery.[13] However, Florida State challenged the policy and was granted a waiver based on their "unique relationship" with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.[14] The NCAA allows the use even though the NCAA "continues to believe the stereotyping of Native Americans is wrong."[15]
Though the Florida Seminole Tribal Council made this agreement, they only represent Florida's portion of the Seminole people.[16] In 2013, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, which has about four times as many registered members as Florida's Seminole tribe, passed a resolution condemning the use of such imagery on sports teams, making no exception for the kind of agreement FSU made with the Seminole Tribe of Florida.[16] Their statement reads, "the use of American Indian mascots, images, and religious symbols is harmful to all children, and is discriminatory to Native cultures, Native imagery, and violates religious icons".[17] The American Psychological Association has made similar statements about the negative effects of Indigenous mascots, arguing that they promote stereotypes, establish a hostile environment, and undermine the Nations' ability to accurately represent their culture.[18] Students and other members of the Florida State community have also argued against the use of Native imagery, posting about it on school blogs and starting a Change.org petition in August 2021 to "ban racist traditions at FSU".[19]
Florida State maintains two traditional rivalries in all sports with the Florida Gators and the Miami Hurricanes. Florida State is the only school in the State of Florida to play both Florida and Miami each year in all sports. Most notable is the football rivalry with the Gators, who hold a 37–28–2 all-time lead against the Seminoles. The series began with Florida dominating the first two decades, but it has since become more balanced. The football rivalry with Miami dates back 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, 36-33; Florida State holds a 13–7 advantage since the Hurricanes joined the ACC and became a conference foe in 2004.
Florida State developed a rivalry with Clemson in the decades after first playing in 1970. Tommy Bowden was named the head coach at Clemson prior to the 1999 season, and with his father Bobby Bowden the head coach at Florida State the game was nicknamed the Bowden Bowl. The two programs were then placed in the same division of the ACC after the 2004 season. This rivalry was particularly important from 2009 to 2020, as the winner of the game went to the ACC Championship each year (Clemson in 2009, 2011, and 2015–2020, and Florida State in 2010 and 2012–2014). Florida State leads the all-time series 20–15.
Florida State University was founded with money donated by Francis Eppes VII, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and founder of the University of Virginia. As a result, both teams play for the Jefferson-Eppes Trophy in football. With the realignment of the ACC, the Seminoles and Cavaliers found themselves different divisions and no longer play annually.
Florida State has baseball rivalries with its traditional opponents, as well as with Jacksonville.
Florida State has had 17 athletic directors in its history.[20]
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| Men's sports | Women's sports |
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| Baseball | Basketball |
| Basketball | Beach volleyball |
| Cross country | Cross country |
| Football | Golf |
| Golf | Soccer |
| Swimming and diving | Softball |
| Tennis | Swimming and diving |
| Track and field† | Tennis |
| Track and field† | |
| Volleyball | |
| Lacrosse[21] (beginning in 2025–2026 season) | |
| † – Track and field includes both indoor and outdoor | |
Florida State University sponsors teams in eight men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports, generally as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.[22] Florida State competes as a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association in beach volleyball.
| Head coach | |
| Link Jarrett | 3rd Season |
| Dick Howser Trophy winners | |
| Player | Year |
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| J. D. Drew | 1997 |
| Buster Posey | 2008 |
Florida State's baseball program is one of the most successful in collegiate sports, having been to twenty-four College World Series (CWS) in sixty Tournament appearances, and having appeared in the national championship final on three occasions, (falling to the USC Trojans in 1970, the Arizona Wildcats in 1986, and the Miami Hurricanes in 1999).
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Under the command of Head Coach No. 11 Mike Martin for forty years, Florida State is the second-winningest program in the history of college baseball. Since 1990, the Seminoles have had more 50 win seasons, been to more NCAA Tournaments and finished in the top 10 more than any other team in the country. Since 2000, FSU is the winningest program in college baseball with more victories and a higher winning percentage in the regular season than any other school. Despite their success, Florida State is still chasing their first CWS Championship, and has the most appearances in the CWS of any program yet to win a national title.[23]
| NCAA CWS appearances | 1957, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1970. 1975, 1980, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2019, 2024 |
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| ACC tournament champions | 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018 |
| ACC regular-season champions | 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
| ACC Atlantic Division Champions | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 |
| Head coach | ||
| Leonard Hamilton | 23rd Season | |
| Seminoles Men's Retired Numbers | ||
| No. | Player | Year |
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| 13 | Dave Cowens | 1968–70 |
| Seminoles Men's Honored Numbers | ||
| No. | Player | Year |
| 3 | Bob Sura | 1992–95 |
| 10 | Sam Cassell | 1991–93 |
| 25 | Hugh Durham | 1957–59 |
| 43 | Dave Fedor | 1960–62 |
| 33 | Ron King | 1971–73 |
Florida State's basketball program has enjoyed modest success since their first appearance in the NCAA tournament in 1968. Since then, the Seminoles have made eighteen tournament appearances, played for the national title in the NCAA championship game in 1972, advanced to the Sweet Sixteen round in 1992, 2011, 2019 and 2021, the Elite Eight round in 1993 and 2018, and won the ACC title in 2012.
A total of 44 Seminoles have been selected in the NBA draft with nine first-round picks. Among those first round selections are Dave Cowens, and George McCloud, the first lottery selection in school history.[24]
| NCAA tournament appearances | 1968, 1972, 1978, 1980, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1998, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 |
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| NIT appearances | 1984, 1987, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 |
| ACC regular-season champions | 2020 |
| ACC tournament champions | 2012 |
| Head coach | ||
| Brooke Wyckoff | 4th Season | |
| Seminoles Women's Retired Numbers | ||
| No. | Player | Year |
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| 43 | Sue Galkantas | 1982–83 |
| 22 | Wanda Burns | 1987–91 |
| 30 | Tia Paschal | 1989–93 |
| 21 | Brooke Wyckoff | 1997–2001 |
The women's basketball program has made twenty-two tournament appearances. In the 2006–07 season, Florida State advanced to its first NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen in school history. The Seminoles won the ACC regular season titles in 2009 and 2010. In 2010, the Seminoles made it to the Elite Eight round, the deepest advance in the tournament in program history, matching that run in 2015 and again in 2017.[25]
| NCAA tournament appearances | 1983, 1990, 1991, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
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| WNIT appearances | 1982, 2003, 2004 |
| ACC regular-season champions | 2009, 2010 |
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| Head coach | |
| Brooke Niles | 10th season |
Florida State added women's beach volleyball as a sport during the 2012 season, competing as part of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association, and have been coached by Brooke Niles, who has been recognized as the AVCA National Coach of the Year[26], since 2016. They have appeared in four AVCA tournaments and eight NCAA tournaments since the program's inception. The team has won seven conference titles and reached the national championship on four occasions. The Seminoles will join the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation beginning with the 2026 season.[27]
| NCAA tournament appearances | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
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| AVCA tournament appearances | 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 |
| CCSA regular-season champions | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024 |
| CCSA tournament champions | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 |
| Head coach | |
| Mike Norvell | 5th season |
| Heisman Trophy winners | |
| Player | Year |
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| Charlie Ward | 1993 |
| Chris Weinke | 2000 |
| Jameis Winston | 2013 |
In 1902, the Florida State College in Tallahassee fielded its first varsity football team. The FSC program posted a record of 7–6–1 over the next three seasons, including a record of 3–1 against their rivals from the old University of Florida (formerly known as Florida Agricultural College) in Lake City. In 1904, the Florida State College football team became the first-ever state champions of Florida after beating both the University of Florida and Stetson University. In 1905, however, the Florida Legislature reorganized the state's higher education system by abolishing the existing state-supported colleges, and creating the new University of the State of Florida in Gainesville, and the new Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee. Many former Florida State College male students transferred to the new University of the State of Florida (renamed the University of Florida in 1909).
Following World War II, Florida State College for Women became coeducational and was renamed Florida State University in 1947, and the school once again started a football team. After its first season, FSU joined the Dixie Conference, which it won in each of the three years it was a member. It withdrew from the conference in 1951 and competed as an independent team for the next forty years.[28]
Under head coach Bobby Bowden, the football team became one of the nation's most competitive football teams, greatly expanding the tradition of football at Florida State.[29] The Seminoles played in five national championship games between 1993 and 2001, and have claimed the championship three times, in 1993, 1999, and 2013. The FSU football team was the most successful team in college football during the 1990s, boasting an 89% winning percentage.[30] FSU also set an NCAA record for most consecutive Top 5 finishes in the AP football poll – receiving placement fourteen years in a row, from 1987 to 2000. The Seminoles were the first college football team in history to go wire-to-wire (ranked first place from preseason to postseason) since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1936. FSU also owns the record for most consecutive bowl game victories with 11 between 1985 and 1996 and made a post-season appearance for thirty-six straight seasons from 1982 to 2017.[29] The Seminole football team has also won nineteen conference championships in the Dixie and Atlantic Coast.
Florida State's football program has produced many players who went on to NFL careers, including Fred Biletnikoff, Deion Sanders, Terrell Buckley, Derrick Brooks, Sebastian Janikowski, Walter Jones, Corey Simon, Anquan Boldin, Javon Walker, Warrick Dunn, Peter Boulware, Laveranues Coles, Brad Johnson, Samari Rolle, Peter Warrick, Jalen Ramsey, Dalvin Cook, Jameis Winston, Darnell Dockett, Dustin Hopkins, Graham Gano, Rodney Hudson, and many others; other notable players include Burt Reynolds and Lee Corso.
| National champions | 1993, 1999, 2013 |
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| Playoff appearances | 2014 |
| ACC Champions | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2023 |
| ACC Atlantic Division Champions | 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 |
| Bowl victories | 1950 Cigar Bowl, 1965 Gator Bowl, 1977 Tangerine Bowl, 1982 Gator Bowl, 1983 Peach Bowl, 1985 Gator Bowl, 1986 All-American Bowl, 1988 Fiesta Bowl, 1989 Sugar Bowl, 1990 Fiesta Bowl, 1990 Blockbuster Bowl, 1992 Cotton Bowl, 1993 Orange Bowl, 1994 Orange Bowl, 1995 Sugar Bowl, 1996 Orange Bowl, 1998 Sugar Bowl, 2000 Sugar Bowl, 2002 Gator Bowl, 2005 Gator Bowl, 2006 Emerald Bowl, 2008 Champs Sports Bowl, 2010 Gator Bowl, 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl, 2011 Champs Sports Bowl, 2013 Orange Bowl, 2014 BCS National Championship, 2016 Orange Bowl, 2017 Independence Bowl, 2022 Cheez-It Bowl |
The Seminoles have made thirty-eight NCAA tournament appearances including twenty-six national championship appearances, finishing as runner-up in 2024, and nineteen regionals. Florida State has won thirteen conference championships. The Seminoles have appeared in fifteen straight NCAA tournaments and were the top seed in the 2015 tournament, a year in which they won a school record four straight in-season tournaments. In the 2021 season, John Pak won the Haskins Award, Hogan Award, and Nicklaus Award.
The Seminoles have made eight AIWA tournament appearances, twenty-eight NCAA tournament appearances including twelve national championship appearances and twenty-five regionals. Florida State has won three conference championships.
| Head coach | |
| Brian Pensky | 3rd season |
| Hermann Trophy winner | |
| Player | Year |
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| Mami Yamaguchi | 2007 |
| Jaelin Howell | 2020, 2021 |
| Onyi Echegini | 2023 |
Since adding soccer as a sport, Florida State has made twenty-five appearances in the NCAA tournament and fourteen appearances in the College Cup. The Seminoles won national championships in 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2023, with additional national title appearances in 2007, 2013, and 2020.[31]
| NCAA Champions | 2014, 2018, 2021, 2023 |
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| NCAA College Cup appearances | 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
| NCAA tournament appearances | 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| ACC tournament champions | 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 |
| ACC regular-season champions | 2009, 2012, 2014, 2020, 2022, 2023 |
The softball team plays at the Seminole Softball Complex; the field is named for JoAnne Graf, the winningest coach in softball history.[32] An 8–1 victory over Jacksonville on February 22, 2006, made her only the second coach in NCAA history to record 1,100 NCAA fast-pitch wins. In 1999, Florida State received a softball complex, which also houses the soccer stadium.
| Head coach | |
| Lonni Alameda | 17th season |
| National Player of the Year winner | |
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| Player | Year |
| Jessica van der Linden | 2004 |
| Lacey Waldrop | 2014 |
| National Freshman of the Year winner | |
| Player | Year |
| Jaysoni Beachum | 2024 |
Florida State's accomplishments include two AIAW national championships, one NCAA national championship, twelve trips to the Women's College World Series, thirty-six NCAA tournaments, thirty-nine All-Americans, and nineteen conference titles, as well as forty forty win seasons.
For over two decades, FSU has been one of the most dominant softball programs in the history of collegiate softball. Only five teams in the history of the NCAA have been to more WCWS than Florida State and no school east of Arizona has been to more NCAA tournaments than the Seminoles. Florida State has made a regional appearance every year since 2000.
In 2015, Lacey Waldrop and Maddie O'Brien became the first players from the school to be drafted into the National Pro Fastpitch league and Jessica Burroughs became the school's first number one overall pick in 2017.[33]
| NCAA Champions | 2018 |
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| AIAW Champions | 1981, 1982 |
| NCAA WCWS appearances | 1987, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2021, 2023 |
| ACC tournament champions | 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 |
| ACC regular-season champions | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023 |
| ACC Atlantic Division Champions | 2018, 2019 |
| Head coach | |
| Matt Kane | 1st season |
| Bowerman Award winner | |
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| Player | Year |
| Trey Cunningham | 2022 |
The men's track and field team has won multiple NCAA national championships and ACC championships. In 2006, the team had individual champions in the 200 m (Walter Dix), the triple jump (Rafeeq Curry), and the shot put (Garrett Johnson). In 2007, Dix became the first person to hold the individual title in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4×100 m Relay at the same time.[34]
The Florida State cheerleaders cheer at all football games as well as home basketball and volleyball games. The all-girl squad won the National Cheerleaders Association championship in 1997 and the co-ed squad won the Universal Cheerleaders Association championship in 2023.[35] The dance team that performs at football and basketball games is known as the Golden Girls.
The Florida State Rugby Football Club was founded in 1970, and plays Division 1 college rugby in the South Independent Rugby Conference, which is not affiliated with the NCAA.[36] The Seminoles won the conference championship in 2012, defeating the University of Central Florida.[37] FSU is led by head coach Michael Gomez.
Directors' Cup
Florida State Athletics has made great strides in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) standings in the last twenty years. Since joining the Atlantic Coast Conference, FSU has been ranked among the top fifty NCAA Division I athletic programs in the country. From the 2006–2007 through 2014–2015 academic years, Florida State cracked the top 15 every year, including two top 5 finishes in 2009–2010 and 2011–2012, and four top 10 finishes in 2010–2011, 2014–2015, 2017–2018, and 2018–2019.[38]
NACDA All-Sports Rankings[39]
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Florida State has won twenty national team championships (including eleven sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), three by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), two by the Bowl Championship Series, and one by the Bowl Coalition), and its individual athletes have numerous individual NCAA national championships.[40]
Florida State University has won 11 NCAA team national championships:[40]
Florida State has been national runners-up 23 times in 12 NCAA sports: baseball (3), men's basketball (1), men's cross country (1), women's cross country (2), men's golf (1), women's golf (1), softball (2), women's soccer (3), men's indoor track and field (2), men's outdoor track and field (2), women's outdoor track and field (2), and beach volleyball (4).
Below are the nine national team titles that were bestowed by other college athletics entities:
Florida State has been national runner-up two times in one NCAA sport (football) for which the NCAA itself does not bestow a championship.
Women's (1):
Co-Ed (2):
Florida State has also been national runner-up once in one non-varsity club sport (cheerleading).
| Sport | Conference | Championship years | Number of championships |
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| Baseball tournament | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1995, 1997, 2002, 2004, 2010, 2015, 2017, 2018 | 8 |
| Metro Conference | 1977, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 | 12 | |
| Florida Intercollegiate | 1956, 1957 | 2 | |
| Dixie Conference | 1950 | 1 | |
| Baseball regular season | Metro Conference | 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991 | 4 |
| Atlantic Coast Conference | 1996, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2012 | 8 | |
| Men's basketball tournament | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2012 | 1 |
| Metro Conference | 1991 | 1 | |
| Florida Intercollegiate | 1955 | 1 | |
| Men's basketball regular season | Dixie Conference | 1951 | 1 |
| Florida Intercollegiate | 1955 | 1 | |
| Metro Conference | 1978, 1989 | 2 | |
| Atlantic Coast Conference | 2020 | 1 | |
| Women's basketball tournament | Metro Conference | 1991 | 1 |
| Women's basketball regular season | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2009, 2010 | 2 |
| Metro Conference | 1991 | 1 | |
| Beach volleyball tournament | Coastal Collegiate Sports Association | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2024 | 7 |
| Beach volleyball regular season | Coastal Collegiate Sports Association | 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024 | 6 |
| Men's cross country | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2010 | 1 |
| Metro Conference | 1978, 1979, 1982 | 3 | |
| Women's cross country | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 | 7 |
| Football | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2023 | 16 |
| Dixie Conference | 1948, 1949, 1950 | 3 | |
| Men's golf | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2008 | 1 |
| Metro Conference | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1990 | 13 | |
| Dixie Conference | 1950 | 1 | |
| Women's golf | Metro Conference | 1988, 1989, 1991 | 3 |
| Men's tennis | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2024 | 1 |
| Men's indoor track and field | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1994, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008. 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020 | 14 |
| Women's indoor track and field | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2009, 2014, 2018, 2021 | 4 |
| Men's outdoor track and field | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2021, 2022 | 15 |
| Metro Conference | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 | 15 | |
| Southeastern Independent | 1972, 1973, 1974 | 3 | |
| Dixie Conference | 1950, 1951 | 2 | |
| Women's outdoor track and field | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2000, 2009, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021 | 6 |
| Metro Conference | 1989, 1990, 1991 | 3 | |
| Women's soccer tournament | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 | 11 |
| Women's soccer regular season | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2009, 2012, 2014, 2020, 2022, 2023 | 6 |
| Softball tournament | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023 | 19 |
| Softball regular season | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2023 | 18 |
| Men's swimming and diving | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2007 | 1 |
| Women's swimming and diving | Atlantic Coast Conference | 2006 | 1 |
| Metro Conference | 1991 | 1 | |
| Men's tennis | Metro Conference | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1988 | 5 |
| Dixie Conference | 1949, 1950, 1951 | 3 | |
| Women's tennis | Metro Conference | 1981, 1983, 1984, 1989, 1991 | 5 |
| Volleyball | Atlantic Coast Conference | 1998, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2023 | 5 |
| Metro Conference | 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 | 6 | |
| Total Championships: | 251 |
| Sport | Division | Championship years | Number of championships |
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| Baseball | ACC Atlantic | 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 | 8 |
| Football | ACC Atlantic | 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 | 6 |
| Softball | ACC Atlantic | 2018, 2019 | 2 |
| Total Championships: | 16 |
Florida State University has invested and continues to invest largely in the athletic centers and facilities around campus. The most visible stadium is Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium which is surrounded by the University Center, which houses the university administration, several colleges and departments.
Coyle E. Moore Athletics Center
Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility
Bill Harkins Field at the Manley R. Whitcomb Band Complex
Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium
Seminole Basketball Training Center
Don Veller Seminole Golf Course
JoAnne Graf Field at the Seminole Softball Complex
Lucy McDaniel Volleyball Court at Tully Gymnasium
Florida State University Beach Volleyball Courts
Mcintosh Track and Field Building at Mike Long Track
Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium
Morcom Aquatics Center
Scott Speicher Tennis Center at the Donald Loucks Courts
Indoor tennis facility
Apalachee Regional Park
A number of FSU alumni have found success in professional sports, with 123 active alumni competing in sports including basketball, football, baseball and golf.[44]
The first hall of fame class was inducted in 1977.[45]
FSU alums have competed at the Olympic Games, winning seventeen medals: six golds, four silvers, and seven bronzes. Florida State has sent athletes to every edition of the summer games since the 1972 Summer Olympics, sending a school-record 26 Olympians in 2024.[48]
The athletic department emerged in January 2010 from NCAA sanctions resulting from the discovery of academic cheating by athletes in 2006–2007. This discovery involved athletes in ten sports programs who were taking an online course in music history. An NCAA investigation resulted in scholarship limits and negation of wins involving compromised athletes.[49] Florida State appealed parts of the decision.[50][51][52] The penalties removed fourteen football wins from the career total of Seminoles football coach Bobby Bowden, yet the coach temporarily claimed the all-time record for Division 1 football wins in 2012 when a far larger number of victories was deducted from the career total of Pennsylvania State University football coach Joe Paterno. Paterno's wins were later reinstated, however, following an appeal from the Penn State Board of Trustees in January 2015.,[53] leaving Coach Bowden with the 2nd all-time winningest record in Division 1 football.
Additionally, FSU vacated 22 wins in men's basketball, an NCAA post season baseball victory, one national championship in men's track and field, an NCAA tournament victory in women's basketball, as well as other wins in these and several other men's and women's sports.[54]
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