During the dynasty era of the FSU football program, fans of the Seminoles got used to playing on New Years Day or a couple after in either one of the big name bowls or playing for a national title. What some in garnet and gold don’t remember is that there was a time when the Noles were among the first teams to play their bowl game each year.
In the first 14 bowl games the Seminoles were in, FSU football played eight of them before New Years Day and four of those were even played before Christmas Day.