Florida State and Miami have 71 meetings on file, the first in 1951; Miami leads the series 38–33 in the games on file. Over the last 10 meetings it’s Miami 7–3, and Miami has won the last 3. Share
Head-coach pairings with three or more meetings on file, the series read from Florida State’s side (Nugent 1–4 against Gustafson). A season split between coaches goes to the one credited with the game.
Both programs through the years
Florida State MiamiTicks under the axis: each meeting, in the winner’s color
Our Elo rating at the end of each season, a measure of how strong a team was, not a forecast; 1500 is an average FBS team.
Biggest days: the week’s best individual games by our big-days rule, from box scores (2004 on). Most valuable: as the games’ Wikipedia articles name them (CC BY-SA).
From the newspapers
1957 · Evening star, Washington, D.C., Nov 9, 1957
Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The earliest meetings with a story on file; each game’s page has the full text.