While some FSU football fans are still in shock over the team suffering their first losing season in over four decades and the first non-bowl season since 1981, those who have been with the garnet and gold for long before that time remember a period when bowl games and winning seasons were few and far between.
That last losing season, under then first year head coach Bobby Bowden in 1976, came in the 30th season of the program in which only eight of those years had ended with the Seminoles going to a bowl game.
As the 1977 season went on, Bowden showed things had turned around with wins over ranked Oklahoma State, SEC power Auburn and the rival Florida Gators for the first time in 10 years – all giving FSU football a chance to have a 10 win season for the first time ever.