1995 Florida State Seminoles football team

1995 Florida State Seminoles football
ACC co-champion Orange Bowl champion
Orange Bowl, W 31–26 vs. Notre Dame
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 5
AP	No. 4
1995 record	10–2 (7–1 ACC)
Head coach	Bobby Bowden (20th season)
Offensive coordinator	Mark Richt (2nd season)
Defensive coordinator	Mickey Andrews (12th season)
Home stadium	Doak Campbell Stadium (Capacity: 77,500)
Seasons ← 1994 1996 →

1995 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
v t	Conf							Overall
Team		W		L					W		L
No. 4 Florida State +		7	–	1					10	–	2
No. 16 Virginia +		7	–	1					9	–	4
Clemson		6	–	2					8	–	4
Georgia Tech		5	–	3					6	–	5
North Carolina		4	–	4					7	–	5
Maryland		4	–	4					6	–	5
NC State		2	–	6					3	–	8
Duke		1	–	7					3	–	8
Wake Forest		0	–	8					1	–	10
+ – Conference co-champions Rankings from AP Poll

The 1995 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University in the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team was coached by Bobby Bowden and played their home games at Doak Campbell Stadium.^[1]

Running back Warrick Dunn finished ninth place in the Heisman Trophy voting. Florida State scored 563 points, setting a single-season record.

Schedule[]

Date	Time	Opponent	Rank	Site	TV	Result	Attendance
September 2	3:30 p.m.	vs. Duke	No. 1	Florida Citrus Bowl Orlando, FL	ABC	W 70–26	51,200
September 9	12:00 p.m.	at Clemson	No. 1	Memorial Stadium Clemson, SC (rivalry)	ABC	W 45–26	78,133
September 16	12:00 p.m.	NC State	No. 1	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	JPS	W 77–17	72,800
September 23	7:00 p.m.	UCF*	No. 1	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	PPV	W 46–14	76,600
October 7	7:30 p.m.	Miami (FL)*	No. 1	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL (rivalry) (College GameDay)	ESPN	W 41–17	80,350
October 14	2:00 p.m.	Wake Forest	No. 1	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	PPV	W 72–13	73,400
October 21	3:30 p.m.	Georgia Tech	No. 1	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	ABC	W 42–10	76,400
November 2	8:00 p.m.	at No. 24 Virginia	No. 2	Scott Stadium Charlottesville, VA (Jefferson-Eppes Trophy)	ESPN	L 28–33	44,300
November 11	12:00 p.m.	at North Carolina	No. 6	Kenan Memorial Stadium Chapel Hill, NC	JPS	W 28–12	36,000
November 18	12:00 p.m.	Maryland	No. 6	Doak Campbell Stadium Tallahassee, FL	JPS	W 59–17	68,400
November 25	12:00 p.m.	at No. 3 Florida*	No. 6	Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Gainesville, FL (rivalry) (College GameDay)	ABC	L 24–35	85,711
January 1	8:00 p.m.	vs. No. 6 Notre Dame*	No. 8	Miami Orange Bowl Miami, FL (Orange Bowl)	CBS	W 31–26	72,198
*Non-conference game Rankings from AP Poll released prior to the game All times are in Eastern time

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Roster[]

1995 Florida State Seminoles football team roster
Players			Coaches
Offense Pos. # Name Class QB 12 Thad Busby So WR 1 Andre Cooper Jr RB 28 Warrick Dunn Jr WR 19 E. G. Green So QB 13 Danny Kanell Sr WR 88 Randy Moss Fr WR 15 Phillip Riley Sr WR 9 Peter Warrick Fr	Defense Pos. # Name Class DE 58 Peter Boulware So LB 56 Sam Cowart Jr LB 45 Henri Crockett Jr LB 40 Lamont Green Fr CB 11 Dexter Jackson Fr CB 2 Samari Rolle So DL 98 Orpheus Roye Sr DL 85 Andre Wadsworth So DE 55 Reinard Wilson Jr	Special teams Pos. # Name Class K 3 Scott Bentley Jr P Sean Liss	Head coach Bobby Bowden Coordinators/assistant coaches Chuck Amato Mickey Andrews Mark Richt Legend (C) Team captain (S) Suspended (I) Ineligible Injured Redshirt

Rankings[]

Ranking movements
Legend: ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. т = Tied with team above or below. ( ) = First place votes.

	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
AP	1 (31)	1 (31)	1 (38)	1 (33)	1 (36)	1 (42)	1 (37)	1 (40)	1 (38)	1 (34)	2 (31)	6	6	6	8	8	4
Coaches Poll	1 (28)		1 (36)	1 (31)	1 (33)	1 (35)	1 (34)	1 (33)	1 (34)	1 (34)	2 (24)	6	6	6	8	8	5

Game summaries[]

at Virginia[]

Florida State at Virginia

1 2 3 4 Total No. 2 Seminoles 14 7 0 7 28 • No. 24 Cavaliers 7 20 3 3 33 Date: November 2 Location: Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Virginia Game attendance: 44,300 TV announcers (ESPN): Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried

Scoring summary 1 8:05 FSU Phillip Riley 35-yard touchdown pass from Danny Kanell (Scott Bentley kick) FSU 7-0 1 6:09 UVA Tiki Barber 64-yard run (Raphael Garcia kick) Tied 7-7 1 1:14 FSU Warrick Dunn 14-yard pass from Danny Kanell (Scott Bentley kick) FSU 14-7 2 13:26 UVA Tiki Barber 1-yard pass from Mike Groh (Raphael Garcia kick) Tied 14-14 2 11:16 UVA Raphael Garcia 35-yard field goal UVA 17-14 2 3:05 UVA Demetrius Allen 72-yard pass from Mike Groh (Raphael Garcia kick) UVA 24-14 2 2:13 FSU E. G. Green 38-yard pass from Danny Kanell (Scott Bentley kick) UVA 24-21 2 1:14 UVA Raphael Garcia 48-yard field goal UVA 27-21 3 10:38 UVA Raphael Garcia 41-yard field goal UVA 30-21 4 6:57 UVA Raphael Garcia 35-yard field goal UVA 33-21 4 6:13 FSU Warrick Dunn 7-yard run (Scott Bentley kick) UVA 33-28

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at Florida[]

Florida State at Florida

1 2 3 4 Total No. 6 Seminoles 6 0 18 0 24 • No. 3 Gators 7 21 7 0 35 Date: November 25 Location: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Gainesville, Florida Game attendance: 85,711 Game weather: Cloudy TV announcers (ABC): Keith Jackson

Scoring summary 1 12:51 FSU Scott Bentley 40 yard field goal FSU 3-0 1 5:04 FLA Jacquez Green 22 yard pass from Danny Wuerffel (Bart Edmiston kick) FLA 7-3 1 0:27 FSU Scott Bentley 38 yard field goal FLA 7-6 2 11:52 FLA Terry Jackson 1 yard run (Bart Edmiston kick) FLA 14-6 2 3:54 FLA Ike Hilliard 42 yard pass from Danny Wuerffel (Bart Edmiston kick) FLA 21-6 2 0:47 FLA Chris Doering 20 yard pass from Danny Wuerffel (Bart Edmiston kick) FLA 28-6 3 4:30 FSU Warrick Dunn 3 yard run (Danny Kanell to E.G. Green pass) FLA 28-14 3 4:10 FLA Ike Hilliard 74 yard pass from Danny Wuerffel (Bart Edmiston kick) FLA 35-14 3 2:20 FSU Scott Bentley 27 yard field goal FLA 35-17 3 0:53 FSU Andre Cooper 8 yard pass from Danny Kanell (Scott Bentley kick) FLA 35-24

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vs. Notre Dame (Orange Bowl)[]

Florida State vs. Notre Dame

1 2 3 4 Total • No. 8 Seminoles 7 7 0 17 31 No. 6 Fighting Irish 10 0 7 9 26 Date: January 1, 1996 Location: Miami Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida Game attendance: 72,198 Referee: Jimmy Harper (SEC) TV announcers (CBS): Sean McDonough and Pat Haden

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