29 Facts About Florida State Seminoles

Florida State Seminoles are the athletic teams representing Florida State University located in Tallahassee, Florida.

Florida State was a founding member of the Dixie Conference, in 1948, when other southern institutions seeking to create a "purely amateur" athletic conference based on the principle of complete amateurism, with no athletic scholarships.

In 1976, Florida State joined the Metro Conference in all sports except football, which remained independent.

Since 1991, Florida State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

However, Florida State challenged the policy and was granted a waiver based on their “unique relationship” with the Seminole Tribe.

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The series began with Florida State Seminoles dominating for the first few years, but it has since become more balanced.

Florida State developed a rivalry with Clemson after being placed in the same division of the conference after the 2004 season.

Florida State University was founded with money donated by Francis Eppes VII, a grandson of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and founder of the University of Virginia.

Florida State competes as a member of the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association in beach volleyball.

Total of 44 Florida State Seminoles have been selected in the NBA Draft with nine first round picks.

The Florida State Seminoles won the ACC regular season titles in 2009 and 2010.

In 2010, the Florida State Seminoles made it to the Elite Eight round, the deepest advance in the tournament in program history, matching that run in 2015 and again in 2017.

In 1905 the Florida Legislature reorganized the state's higher education system by abolishing the existing state-supported colleges, and creating the new University of the State of Florida in Gainesville, and the new Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee.

The Florida State Seminoles were the first college football team in history to go wire-to-wire since the AP began releasing preseason rankings in 1936.

Florida State Seminoles have made thirty-seven NCAA tournament appearances including twenty-five national championship appearances and eighteen regionals.

The Florida State Seminoles have appeared in fourteen straight NCAA tournaments and were the top seed in the 2015 tournament, a year in which they won a school record four straight in-season tournaments.

Florida State Seminoles have made eight AIWA tournament appearances, twenty-seven NCAA tournament appearances including twelve national championship appearances and twenty-four regionals.

Since adding soccer as a sport, Florida State has made twenty-two appearances in the NCAA tournament and twelve appearances in the College Cup.

In 1999, Florida State received a softball complex, which houses the soccer stadium.

Florida State has made a regional appearance every year since 2000.

The Florida State Seminoles won the National Cheerleaders Association championship in 1997 and finished in third place at the Universal Cheerleaders Association finals in 2019.

The Seminoles won the conference championship in 2012, defeating the University of Central Florida.

Florida State Athletics has made great strides in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics standings in the last twenty years.

Florida State has won nineteen national team championships, and its individual athletes have numerous individual NCAA national championships.

Florida State University has won 10 NCAA team national championships:.

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Florida State has been national runners-up 20 times in 11 NCAA sports: baseball, men's basketball, men's cross country, women's cross country, women's golf, softball, women's soccer, men's indoor track and field, men's outdoor track and field, women's outdoor track and field, and beach volleyball .

Florida State has been national runner-up two times in one NCAA sport for which the NCAA itself does not bestow a championship.

Florida State University has invested and continues to invest largely in the athletic centers and facilities around campus.

Florida State has competed at consecutive Olympics since the 1972 Summer Olympics, sending a school-record 21 Olympians in 2016.