{"id":67746,"date":"2025-12-02T09:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T09:01:37","slug":"when-did-florida-florida-state-last-miss-bowl-game-in-same-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/67746\/","title":{"rendered":"When did Florida, Florida State last miss bowl game in same season?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida State football<\/a> traveled down to Gainesville looking to avoid what would be a historic loss in the annals of its rivalry with Florida.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Seminoles, however, failed in their task.<\/p>\n

Behind a three-touchdown day from quarterback DJ Lagway, the Gators defeated the Seminoles 40-21<\/a> at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, ensuring that neither program will finish the regular season eligible for a bowl game. It is the first time that has happened in the same season since 1978, a year in which Florida<\/a> went 4-7 and Florida State<\/a>, despite going 8-3, did not receive a bowl invite.<\/p>\n

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The Gators will finish the regular season with a 4-8 overall record and a 1-4 record under interim head coach Billy Gonzales. Florida fired Billy Napier on Sunday, Oct. 22 after the Gators started the season with a 3-4 record, which included a top-10 ranked win over Texas.<\/p>\n

As for the Seminoles, they will finish the season with a 5-7 record. It’s the Seminoles’ second consecutive season with at least six losses under Mike Norvell, and the fourth during his tenure. Despite the program’s struggles, FSU announced on Sunday, Nov. 23,<\/a> that it will bring Norvell back for his seventh season in Tallahassee.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Florida, Florida State to both miss bowl for first time since 1978<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida State football traveled down to Gainesville looking to avoid what would be a historic loss in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[39506,7385,28,3691,3111,4976,6376,232,234,233,5537],"class_list":["post-67746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-consecutive-season","tag-dj-lagway","tag-florida","tag-florida-state-football","tag-gators","tag-mike-norvell","tag-seminoles","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}