{"id":74954,"date":"2025-12-07T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74954\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:59:26","slug":"which-colleges-have-the-longest-bowl-game-streaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74954\/","title":{"rendered":"Which colleges have the longest bowl game streaks?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobby Bowden<\/a> retired from college football following the 2009 season. The late longtime Florida State<\/a> coach won 357 games over his Division I career at West Virginia<\/a> and with the Seminoles.<\/p>\n

Bowden won two national championships (1993 and 1999) in his 34 seasons (1976-2009) at Florida State. Among his top achievements was a string of 28 straight seasons (1982-2009) with a bowl game appearance. That included 14 straight seasons (1987-2000) in which the Seminoles won at least 10 games and finished ranked in the top five of the AP poll. Florida State went 152-19-1 (.864 win percentage) during that span.<\/p>\n

With Jimbo Fisher<\/a> taking over after Bowden at Florida State, the Seminoles reached a bowl game in 36 straight seasons (1982-2017). That feat remains the longest streak in college football history.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a look at the programs with the most consecutive seasons with a bowl game appearance:<\/p>\n

Florida State: 36 seasons (1982-2017)<\/p>\n

Nebraska<\/a>: 35 seasons (1969-2003)<\/p>\n

Michigan<\/a>: 33 seasons (1975-2007)<\/p>\n

Georgia<\/a>: 29 seasons (1997-2025)*<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech<\/a>: 27 seasons (1993-2019)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma<\/a>: 27 seasons (1999-2025)*<\/p>\n

Alabama<\/a>: 25 seasons (1959-1983)<\/p>\n

Florida<\/a>: 22 seasons (1991-2012)<\/p>\n

Wisconsin<\/a>: 22 seasons (2002-2023)<\/p>\n

Alabama: 22 seasons (2004-2025)*<\/p>\n

Clemson<\/a>: 21 seasons (2005-2025)*<\/p>\n

LSU<\/a>: 20 seasons (2000-2019)<\/p>\n

Boise State<\/a>: 18 seasons (2002-2019)<\/p>\n

Georgia Tech<\/a>: 18 seasons (1997-2014)<\/p>\n

Oklahoma State<\/a>: 18 seasons (2006-2023)<\/p>\n

*Active<\/p>\n

Check out the ESPN college football hub page<\/a> for rankings<\/a>, scores<\/a>, standings<\/a>, schedules<\/a>, stats<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bobby Bowden retired from college football following the 2009 season. The late longtime Florida State coach won 357…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-74954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74954","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=74954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}