1993 Florida State Seminoles football team

The 1993 Florida State Seminoles football team was the national champion of the 1993 college football season. The team finished with a 12–1 record.

Regular season
FSU beat its first five opponents by an average score of 46–3, during which linebacker Derrick Brooks outscored all five opponents combined. The Seminoles' first real contest didn't come until October 9, when the third ranked Miami Hurricanes came to Tallahassee with a 31 game regular season win streak. That game was sealed when FSU safety Devin Bush picked off a Frank Costa pass and ran it back 40 yards for a Florida State touchdown, making the score 28–10 with 4:59 to play.

On November 13, 1993, Florida State played Notre Dame in a matchup of unbeaten teams. FSU was ranked #1 and Notre Dame was ranked #2. With the Bowl Coalition in place the winner of this game, at Notre Dame Stadium in Notre Dame, Indiana, seemed certain to play #3 Nebraska (which would then move up to #2) in the 1994 Orange Bowl for the National Championship.

In a matchup hailed as the "Game of the Century", the Seminoles bid for a perfect season fell short as Notre Dame prevailed, 31–24. As luck would have it, #1 Notre Dame lost the following week to #17 Boston College 41–39 on a last second field goal, putting the Seminoles back in the Orange Bowl

1993 Team Players in the NFL
The following were selected in the 1994 NFL Draft.

The following would play in the NFL in later years.
 * Derrick Brooks
 * Sam Cowart
 * Kez McCorvey
 * Warrick Dunn
 * Derrick Alexander
 * Tamarick Vanover

Awards and honors

 * Charlie Ward, Heisman Trophy
 * Charlie Ward, Johnny Unitas Award
 * Charlie Ward, James E. Sullivan Award
 * Charlie Ward, Walter Camp Award
 * Charlie Ward, Maxwell Award
 * Charlie Ward, Davey O'Brien Award