Florida State Seminoles Football - Historical Ranking

Historical Ranking

See also: List of winningest college football teams

In terms of winning percentage, Florida State ranks as the 3rd most successful team in the past 25 years (as of the 2010 season) with a 77% win rate (231-69-2) and 12th over the last half century (1955–2010) with 67%.

The College Football Research Center lists Florida State as the 10th best college football program in history (ahead of rivals Miami and Florida, at #15 and #18 respectively). Seven Florida State squads were listed in Billingsley’s Top 200 Teams of All Time (1869–2010), and after the 2008 season, ESPN ranked Florida State the 9th most prestigious program in history.

The Associated Press poll statistics show Florida State with the 7th most appearances in the final AP Top 5 (with 15). Since the Coaches Poll first released a final poll in 1950, Florida State has 32 seasons where the team finished ranked in the top 25 in the Coaches Polls. Since 1991, no other team has held the number one position more than Florida State.

Florida State holds many current records and holds the distinction as one of the winningest programs of all time. Some current records held by the Seminoles are: the tenth longest home winning streak with a total of 37 home wins from the 1992 through the 2001 seasons, the longest active bowl streak and the second longest of all-time, the current longest bowl winning streak as well as the longest overall bowl win streak, the longest active streak without a losing season, and the longest top five finish streak. Former head coach Bobby Bowden is the winningest Division I coach of all time with most of those wins coming from his time with the Seminoles. Florida State was the first team to go 'wire-to-wire' by keeping a number one ranking for an entire season.