After being called a "key persona" by Keith Jackson for hitting his third field goal of the game, Florida State kicker Gerry Thomas missed a field goal to the right with less than a minute remaining, and the top-ranked Seminoles lost in Doak Campbell Stadium to the second-ranked Hurricanes, 17-16.
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Miami took a 27-24 lead after a Ken Dorsey touchdown pass to Jeremy Shockey, but Seminole quarterback and 2000 Heisman Trophy winner Chris Weinke moved the Seminoles into field goal range during a last minute drive in Miami's Orange Bowl stadium.
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The Seminoles drove down the field to give kicker Xavier Beitia a chance to win the game with a last second field goal.
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The Hurricanes closed the 1991 season with a 22-0 shutout over #11 Nebraska in the Orange Bowl, but their season was defined by a dramatic November victory over then-#1 ranked and perennial rival Florida State.
The Orange Bowl game was noteworthy in that Miami and Florida State previously had scheduled to play each other on Labor Day in 2004.
However, their ACC winning streak was snapped by Florida State when Michael Snaer hit a buzzer beating three pointer to stun the Duke home crowd.
Habern was heavily recruited starting early in his junior year across the country receiving scholarships from Oklahoma, Arizona, Florida State, Miami (FL), Nebraska, Notre Dame, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, and Texas Tech).
The Florida State-Georgia Tech football rivalry is an American college football rivalry between the Florida State Seminoles football team of Florida State University and Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team of Georgia Tech.
Much of the main story line revolved around Hurricanes quarterback Brock Berlin.
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Florida quarterback John Reaves entered the game looking to break Jim Plunkett's NCAA record for all-time passing yardage in his last regular season game.
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Trailing 20-19 after a Florida score with 41 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, Bernie Kosar led the Hurricanes downfield to a touchdown with six seconds left in the game.
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Current University of Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley has reiterated financial concerns as well as SEC expansion as reason for not renewing the series.
Fisher's son Ethan has Fanconi anemia, this was discussed on the ESPN Monday Night College Football game on September 2, 2013 (Labor Day) between Florida State and the University of Pittsburgh as part of an effort by both schools to raise awareness of the disease.
In 2012, he led the Huskies with 104 tackles, including a career game high 14 against Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
Her mother is a former national level swimmer who competed for Florida State.
One of the highlights of his college career came when he broke up Charlie Ward's final pass, resulting in Notre Dame's (ranked #2 at the time) defeat of the Florida State (ranked #1 at the time) in a nationally televised game in 1993 which was coined at that time the "Game of the Century".
Beitia's miss at the Miami Orange Bowl was dubbed "Wide Left I," and it affected him openly and deeply.