Date: October 4, 1980
Location: Memorial Stadium; Lincoln, Nebraska
We’ve arrived. The countdown that started three months ago has reached the top 10 plays in Florida State football history. When we began this countdown, we outlined four factors that would guide our ranking of each play. The first factor listed is as follows: How significant was the play to the program— did it change the direction of FSU football? No play on this list answers that question more emphatically than this one.
The 1980 season was, by any definition, a banner year for FSU.