The Michigan game fell fourth on FSU’s 1991 schedule, and after easy wins over Brigham Young, Tulane and Western Michigan to start the season, the Seminoles had a well-timed bye week to prepare for the Wolverines. “We kicked in the door and said, ‘Florida State is here. “For us to go up there and do what we did in their house, in front of all those fans, that definitely let everybody know,” said William Floyd, a redshirt freshman fullback in 1991. By winning at Michigan, the Seminoles showed that they were here to stay. A national declaration that Bowden’s bunch weren’t just flash-in-the-pan upstarts who had pulled off a few upsets in the 1980s. The Seminoles would start their run of dominance in the Atlantic Coast Conference a year later and, in 1993, they won the first of three national championships and saw their first of three Heisman Trophy winners.īut at the time, it ranked among the landmark wins in school history. 28, 1991 – a resounding, 51-31 victory for the Seminoles – has since been overshadowed somewhat by FSU’s later accomplishments. 3 and brought with it a century of winning tradition, as well as the biggest stadium in college football and one of the nation’s elite players in the form of receiver and returner Desmond Howard. 1 national ranking, but, for many fans and pundits, a visit to Ann Arbor was something of a “prove it” game: Michigan was ranked No. It was 1991, a little more than 25 years ago, when Bobby Bowden took the Seminoles to Michigan Stadium. It’s also a much different landscape than the last time the Seminoles played the Wolverines.

The game should be a jewel of this year’s bowl season and perhaps the most compelling contest outside of the College Football Playoff. Michigan has more wins than any school in college football history, while Florida State, despite only fielding football teams since 1947, boasts an all-time winning percentage that ranks 13 th all-time and the best among schools with more than 600 but fewer than 1,000 games played.

– Friday’s Capital One Orange Bowl between Florida State and Michigan pits two of the premier programs in college football.

Michigan basketball roster 1991