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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION S. RES. 265

Commending the Florida State University football team for winning the

1999 Division 1–A collegiate football national championship.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 2, 2000

Mr. MACK (for himself and Mr. GRAHAM) submitted the following resolution;

which was considered and agreed to

RESOLUTION

Commending the Florida State University football team for

winning the 1999 Division 1–A collegiate football national championship.

Whereas Florida State University is a proud member of the

Atlantic Coast Conference;

Whereas Florida State University has previously won the Division 1–A collegiate football national championship in

1993;

Whereas the students, alumni, and supporters of Florida

State University are to be commended for the dedication,

enthusiasm, and admiration they share for their favorite

football team;
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Whereas Florida State University has one of the most exciting, prolific, and successful college football programs in

the country;

Whereas Florida State University’s football team won the

1999 Atlantic Coast Conference championship in football

and finished the season undefeated and untied with a

record of 12–0;

Whereas Florida State University is to be commended for

being the first Division 1–A collegiate football team to be

ranked number one the entire season by the Associated

Press since the preseason rankings began in 1950;

Whereas Florida State University has won 108 football

games between 1990 and 1999, more than any other Division 1–A college football team in the Nation during this

period;

Whereas Florida State University should be commended for

extending their NCAA record streak of top-four finishes

in the final Associated Press poll to 13 years in a row,

the only Division 1–A college football team to have accomplished this feat;

Whereas Bobby Bowden, Florida State University’s legendary

head football coach, is to be commended for surpassing

the 300-victory plateau this year and for obtaining his

first perfect season in 40 years as a head coach;

Whereas Florida State University is to be commended for

having 20 of its football players selected to the 1999 All

Atlantic Coast Conference football team;

Whereas Florida State University is to be commended for

having 4 of its football players honored as 1999 Consensus All-Americans;
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Whereas the 1999 Florida State University football team

played and beat Louisiana Tech University, 41 to 7;

Georgia Tech University, 41 to 35; North Carolina State

University, 42 to 11; University of North Carolina, 42 to

10; Duke University, 51 to 23; University of Miami, 31

to 21; Wake Forest University, 33 to 10; Clemson University, 17 to 14; University of Virginia, 35 to 10; University of Maryland, 49 to 10; and University of Florida,

30 to 23;

Whereas Florida State University played Virginia Tech University in the Bowl Championship Series’ Nokia Sugar

Bowl on January 4, 2000, for the 1999 Division 1–A collegiate football national championship;

Whereas the Virginia Tech University football team and

Head Coach Frank Beamer and his staff are to be commended for an outstanding football season, winning the

1999 Big East Conference football championship and for

playing in the 1999 Division 1–A collegiate football national championship game;

Whereas Florida State University beat Virginia Tech by the

score of 46 to 29 before a sold-out and electrified crowd

of 79,280 in the Louisiana Superdome to win the 1999

Division 1–A college football championship; and

Whereas Florida State University now joins an elite group of

only 14 Division 1–A collegiate football teams out of 114

Division 1–A universities which have won at least 2 or

more Division 1–A collegiate football national championships: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That the Senate—
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1 (1) commends Florida State University for win2 ning the 1999 Division 1–A collegiate football na3 tional championship;

4 (2) recognizes the achievements of all the play5 ers, coaches, and support staff who were instru6 mental in helping Florida State University win the

7 1999 Division 1–A collegiate football national cham8 pionship and invites them to the United States Cap9 itol Building to be honored;

10 (3) requests that the President recognize the

11 accomplishments and achievements of the 1999

12 Florida State University football team and invite

13 them to Washington, D.C. for the traditional White

14 House ceremony held for national championship

15 teams; and

16 (4) directs the Secretary of the Senate to make

17 available enrolled copies of this resolution to Florida

18 State University for appropriate display and to

19 transmit an enrolled copy of the resolution to each

20 coach and member of the 1999 Division 1–A colle21 giate national championship football team.

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