Can FSU Football complete New Years Six bowl sweep in 2017?
By Jason Parker
FSU football has a chance to do something this year no other FBS program has been able to do – become the first to win all of the NY6 bowl games.
In 46 of the 70 seasons that FSU football has taken the field, the Seminoles have ended the season with a bowl game. 28 of those times, the Noles have come out on top – including this past season when Florida State played in a New Years Six bowl game for the third straight season, defeating Michigan in an epic Orange Bowl game.
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The victory over the Wolverines came in the 26th bowl game for the Seminoles in what is considered the New Years Six games under the new College Football Playoff system. The six iconic games – Orange, Fiesta, Sugar, Rose, Peach and Cotton – have been the destination of choice for some of the top college football postseason games of all time and the sites of half the bowl wins for FSU football.
The Noles have come out with victories in five of the games – Orange five times, Sugar four times, Fiesta and Peach twice and Cotton once – with just one game left. The Seminoles made an appearance in the Rose Bowl after the 2014 season in the inaugural CFB Playoff and…well, we all know what took place so we don’t have to bring it up.
Entering the 2017 season, Florida State is one of just 10 Power Five teams that have a win in five of the games – joining Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame, Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State, Tennessee and Texas.
Of the two playoff games this season, the Sugar and Rose Bowls, only a win in Pasadena would clinch the New Years sweep for two teams – the Seminoles and Tennessee – as all 10 teams have a victory in New Orleans.
Wins in the Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl will do nothing for any team as they all have victories in those games, while Fiesta Bowl wins would give the sweep to Alabama, Georgia or Miami while Peach Bowl victories would hand it over to Notre Dame, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Penn State or Texas.
With multiple outlets picking the Seminoles to make the playoff this season and almost all of them sending the Noles back to Pasadena to avenge what took place three seasons ago, FSU football could make history with a win in the iconic stadium. Almost all the teams are predicted to make a NY6 game (except maybe Miami and Texas and either Tennessee or Georgia), so the Seminoles might have some company in that category.
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Florida State has a 7-2 record in their past nine postseason games, so it wouldn’t be all that surprising to see the Seminoles make history if they get the chance come January 1st in Southern California.