FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – In the early years of the BCS, Florida State was the premier program in college football.

The Seminoles played for the national title after the 1998, 1999 and 2000 seasons – the first three years of the current system. Florida State beat Virginia Tech in the 2000 Sugar Bowl to win the school’s second national title.

Over the first eight years of the BCS, the Seminoles competed in a BCS bowl game six times, although the program’s lone victory came when it won the national championship in New Orleans.