FSU Football has had plenty of success in all garnet uniforms

FSU football will be rocking the all garnet look for this week’s game against Florida, and it’s a look that has been quite successful since debuting.

On a colder Saturday in the middle of November during the 1992 season, the FSU football team came out on the field against the Tulane Green Wave wearing something the program had never worn before: the Seminoles were rocking both garnet jerseys and garnet pants thanks to a donation from former football player turned legendary actor Burt Reynolds.

The all garnet look was very successful in its debut – with the Seminoles edging the Green Wave by a sarcastically close score of 70-7 that day – and in the following game when FSU football dominated the rival Florida Gators 45-24 to end the regular season with a bang.

For the second time in the series, the Gators will get to see the all garnet look first hand when they come to Doak Campbell Stadium and try to break the Seminoles’ consecutive winning season and bowl streaks that have been decades in the making – and are just 60 game minutes from either continuing or ending.

Since that day when a new uniform was added to the options, the Seminoles have had quite the success in the look. All totaled up, the Noles have a 11-2 record when rocking that selection – and yes, I’m including those God awful uniforms that the Seminoles wore when they played Maryland in the 2009 season in what turned out to be the final home game in Bobby Bowden’s career.

After the first two games FSU football wore all garnet in the 1992 season, the look didn’t make a comeback until the 1999 season – which started five straight seasons where the Seminoles wore all garnet in at least one game, including all five games against Georgia Tech over that span and, on a personal note, the first home game for me as a student against Virginia in the 2002 season.

The Seminoles won their first nine games in the look before dropping one when they were beaten by Kentucky in the Music City Bowl in the 2007 season. After a win in that aforementioned Maryland game, FSU football would against suffer defeat when they wore them against Houston in the 2015 Peach Bowl.

Last season, the Seminoles again went back to the alternate look that is popular with many fans when they wore them to beat Southern Miss in the Independence Bowl – breaking them out as a sort of last goodbye to the former coach who bailed for some school in Texas and didn’t believe in anything fun.

Am I saying that FSU football will automatically beat the Gators because they are going all garnet? Of course not – but at this point, anything that can help the players and coaches think that way is fine by me.