The 2016 season's largest margin: Florida State 52, Charleston Southern 8. A 44-point win — the year's high-water mark.
2016 — The Top-10 Year
Florida State finished 2016 inside the final AP top-10. The top-10 is the tier the program calibrates annual expectation against.
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
Who carried it
- Deondre FrancoisQB3,350 passing yards
- Dalvin CookRB1,765 rushing yards
- Jacques PatrickRB350 rushing yards
- Travis RudolphWR840 receiving yards
- Nyqwan MurrayWR441 receiving yards
- Auden TateWR409 receiving yards
- Matthew ThomasLB77 tackles
- DeMarcus WalkerDE67 tackles
- Trey MarshallDB58 tackles
- Brian BurnsDE8.5 sacks
- Josh SweatDE7 sacks
- Derrick NnadiDT6 sacks
Season leaders, 2016.
The season's deepest loss: Florida State 20, Louisville 63. A 43-point margin the season is remembered by.
The season's last act: Florida State beat Michigan 33-32 in the postseason.
"Unconquered"
2016 is a middle chapter for Florida State — neither a crown year nor a crisis. It is the kind of season that fills the ledger between the named ones and gives the arc its shape.