We all love statistics; but let’s face it: quantifying a player’s impact at Florida State can sometimes result in missing the forest for the trees. Case in point: Seminole legend Fred Biletnikoff. Biletnikoff’s name appears rather sparsely in the FSU record book, but that’s largely a product of the fact that he played receiver in the 1960s, when football was much more dominated by the running game. Also, he joined the ’Noles while the garnet and gold were on a run of missing out on bowl games.
Florida State hadn’t seen the postseason since 1958 and hadn’t found success there since what was then the program’s only bowl victory, a Cigar Bowl triumph over Wofford in 1949, FSU’s third football season.