2005 Gator Bowl
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The 2005 Gator Bowl was a post-season college football
bowl game
between the Florida State Seminoles
and the West Virginia Mountaineers
on January 1, 2005, at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida
. It was the final game of the 2004 NCAA Division I FBS football season for each team and resulted in a 30-18 Florida State Victory. West Virginia represented the Big East Conference
while Florida State represented the Atlantic Coast Conference
(ACC).
College football
College football refers to American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, colleges, and military academies, or Canadian football played by teams of student athletes fielded by Canadian universities...
bowl game
Bowl game
In North America, a bowl game is commonly considered to refer to one of a number of post-season college football games. Prior to 2002, bowl game statistics were not included in players' career totals and the games were mostly considered to be exhibition games involving a payout to participating...
between the Florida State Seminoles
2004 Florida State Seminoles football team
-Schedule:-Miami, FL:Originally scheduled for September 6, 2004, the game between Miami and Florida State was postponed due to Hurricane Francis. On September 10, both teams met at the Orange Bowl in Miami, FL. The Seminoles took the upper hand in the first half with a 45 yard field goal by Xavier...
and the West Virginia Mountaineers
2004 West Virginia Mountaineers football team
The 2004 West Virginia Mountaineers football team completed the regular season with a 8–4 and traveled to the , where they lost to the Florida State Seminoles 30–18...
on January 1, 2005, at Alltel Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida in terms of both population and land area, and the largest city by area in the contiguous United States. It is the county seat of Duval County, with which the city government consolidated in 1968...
. It was the final game of the 2004 NCAA Division I FBS football season for each team and resulted in a 30-18 Florida State Victory. West Virginia represented the Big East Conference
Big East Conference
The Big East Conference is a collegiate athletics conference consisting of sixteen universities in the eastern half of the United States. The conference's 17 members participate in 24 NCAA sports...
while Florida State represented the Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953 in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC sanctions competition in twenty-five sports in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association for its twelve member universities...
(ACC).