1993 Florida State Seminoles football team
| 1993 Florida State Seminoles football | |
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Consensus national champion ACC champion Orange Bowl champion | |
| Conference | Atlantic Coast Conference |
| Ranking | |
| Coaches | No. 1 |
| AP | No. 1 |
| Record | 12–1 (8–0 ACC) |
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| Offensive coordinator | Brad Scott (4th season) |
| Offensive scheme | No-huddle spread |
| Defensive coordinator | Mickey Andrews (10th season) |
| Base defense | 4–3 |
| Home stadium | Doak Campbell Stadium |
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| Team | W | L | W | L | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 1 Florida State $ | 8 | – | 0 | 12 | – | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 North Carolina | 6 | – | 2 | 10 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 23 Clemson | 5 | – | 3 | 9 | – | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Virginia | 5 | – | 3 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| NC State | 4 | – | 4 | 7 | – | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Georgia Tech | 3 | – | 5 | 5 | – | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Duke | 2 | – | 6 | 3 | – | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maryland | 2 | – | 6 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wake Forest | 1 | – | 7 | 2 | – | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 1993 Florida State Seminoles football team represented Florida State University as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) during the 1993 NCAA Division I-A football season. Led by 18th-year head coach Bobby Bowden, the Seminoles compiled an overall record of 12–1 with a mark of 8–0 in conference play, winning the ACC title for the second consecutive season. Florida State was invited to the Orange Bowl, the Bowl Coalition's national championship game, where the Seminoles defeated Nebraska to capture the programs first consensus College football national championships in NCAA Division I FBS. The team played home games at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida
Quarterback Charlie Ward became the first Florida State player to win the Heisman Trophy, as college football's most outstanding player. Ward, who threw for 3,032 yards and completed 70 percent of his passes, became the first player to win the Heisman Trophy and the national championship in the same season since Pittsburgh's Tony Dorsett in 1976. The Seminoles topped college football in both scoring defense and scoring offense, with its offense scoring an average of 43.2 points a game and the defense giving up an average of 9.4 points per game.