2013 Florida State Seminoles football team

2013 Florida State Seminoles football
Consensus national champion
ACC champion
ACC Atlantic Division champion
Florida Cup champion
ConferenceAtlantic Coast Conference
DivisionAtlantic Division
Ranking
CoachesNo. 1
APNo. 1
Record14–0 (8–0 ACC)
Head coach
Offensive schemePro-style
Defensive coordinatorJeremy Pruitt (1st season)
Base defenseMultiple 4–3
MVPJameis Winston
P. J. Williams
Captain
11
  • Lamarcus Joyner
  • Bryan Stork
  • Telvin Smith
  • Christian Jones
  • Kenny Shaw
  • Terrence Brooks
  • Gerald Demps
  • Chad Abram
  • Dan Hicks
  • Phillip Doumar
  • Demonte McAllister
Home stadiumDoak Campbell Stadium
Seasons
← 2012
2014 →
2013 Atlantic Coast Conference football standings
Conf Overall
Team   W   L     W   L  
Atlantic Division
No. 1 Florida State x$#   8 0     14 0  
No. 8 Clemson  %   7 1     11 2  
Boston College   4 4     7 6  
Syracuse   4 4     7 6  
Maryland   3 5     7 6  
Wake Forest   2 6     4 8  
NC State   0 8     3 9  
Coastal Division
No. 23 Duke x   6 2     10 4  
Miami (FL)   5 3     9 4  
Virginia Tech   5 3     8 5  
Georgia Tech   5 3     7 6  
North Carolina   4 4     7 6  
Pittsburgh   3 5     7 6  
Virginia   0 8     2 10  
Championship: Florida State 45, Duke 7
  • # – BCS National Champion
  • $ – BCS representative as conference champion
  • % – BCS at-large representative
  • x – Division champion/co-champions
Rankings from AP Poll

The 2013 Florida State Seminoles football team, variously Florida State or FSU, represented Florida State University in the sport of American football during the 2013 NCAA Division I FBS college football season. Florida State competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Seminoles were led by fourth-year head coach Jimbo Fisher and played their home games at Bobby Bowden Field at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida. They were members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, and played in the Atlantic Division. It was the Seminoles' 22nd season as a member of the ACC and its ninth in the ACC Atlantic Division.

Led by eventual Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston, Florida State finished the season with a school-record fourteen wins and completed the school's third undefeated season. The Seminoles captured their seventeenth conference title and third national championship, earning the Grantland Rice Award, the MacArthur Trophy, the Associated Press Trophy and the AFCA National Championship Trophy.

In addition to the Heisman, Jameis Winston won the Walter Camp Award, the Davey O'Brien Award, and the Manning Award as well as being a finalist for the Maxwell Award and honored as the AP Player of the Year. Roberto Aguayo won the Lou Groza Award as the nation's best placekicker, Bryan Stork won the Rimington Trophy awarded to the nation's top center. Ten players were named All-Americans, with three earning consensus honors. For their accomplishments, Lamarcus Joyner was a finalist for both the Jim Thorpe Award and the Nagurski Trophy, and Coach Fisher was named the AFCA Coach of the Year and was a semifinalist for Maxwell Coach of the Year.

Twenty-six Seminoles from the national title team have gone on to play professional football with twenty-five players going on to play in the NFL, including four first round picks, and one player in the CFL. Nine players have been named consensus All-Americans. Since the National Championship, numerous players have gone on to win a Super Bowl, including Bryan Stork, Tre' Jackson, Ronald Darby, Timmy Jernigan and Cameron Erving.


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