COLLEGE FOOT BACK IN THE DAY

Noles not the dominant team they once were, but defense has chance to be truly great. #  1  > Remember when ACC football was routinely dismissed by many as "Florida State and the Eight Dwarfs?" Alas, for the Seminoles and coach Bobby Bowden, those days are gone, never to return. That's what happens when you add Miami, Virginia Tech and now Boston College to a conference previously notable for its lack of football heavyweights. Even before the ACC expanded, however, Florida State's decline had begun. From 1992, its first season in the ACC, through 2000, FSU didn't lose more than two games in any season. In 2001, they lost four games and, for the first time, failed to capture at least a share of the ACC crown. # 2 > They regained the title in 2002 but lost__gasp!__five games. The Seminoles repeated as ACC champion in 03 but dropped three games and again didn't contend for the national title. In 04, the Noles ( 9-3,  6-2 ) could not even console thems