Florida hasn’t had a lot to celebrate about after the Florida State game over the last five years.

After thoroughly dominating the Seminoles (5-7, 3-5 ACC) 41-14 Saturday afternoon the Gators (9-3, 5-3) were determined to make the most of it.

UF cornerback Chauncey Gardner-Johnson grabbed a cheerleader’s Gator flag and ran toward midfield along with two other UF players that grabbed the orange and white flags.

Gardner-Johnson ran toward the postgame scrum with the flag and attempted to plant the flag on the Seminoles head at the 50-yard line.

"I think when players get involved in that that's when you have the riots and all that, because they don't necessarily handle it the right way," FSU coach Willie Taggart said.

Taggart wasn’t going to let the UF players disrespect his field, but he also wasn’t going to let his players stop them.

"I just tell the guys we're not going to do that today here," Taggart said.

"Especially right there in the middle of our field on our logo. You go to sideline and plant it, but don't do it right there, that's disrespectful, especially right while we were standing right there."

It's not the first time an opposing player has disrespected the Seminole logo at midfield.

Just last season, former North Carolina State defensive end Bradley Chubb spit on FSU’s logo and none of the FSU players did anything about it.

There were a number of FSU players standing around the Seminole head as it was going down, but none of them attempted to stop it.

"I went out there because I wanted to make sure none of the young guys did anything stupid," FSU center Alec Eberle said.

"I was telling them, 'Look guys, there’s a lot of ball left. You don’t want to do anything dumb right now that’s going to hold you back for next season. There ain’t no point.'

"Of course, it hurts when they’re out there disrespecting your field like that, but at the end of the day, they had too much ball, had too much to lose to go out there and do something stupid. My career might be over, but their careers are just beginning, and I didn’t want them to forget that."

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FSU's record bowl streak snapped

After flirting with disaster last season, couldn't avoid it this season.

The Seminoles were unable to pull the rabbit out of their hat this time as Saturday's loss to UF snapped the program's 36-season streak of consecutive bowl appearances.

It marks the first time since 1981 -- Bobby Bowden's sixth season at FSU -- that the Seminoles' season ends in November.

"Right now, it hurts. It cuts deep right now," an emotional Deondre Francois said after the loss.

"To end the bowl streak and me be the starting quarterback, it just hurts. It's not a good feeling for me, my family, my teammates, the fans. It's just not a good feeling right now."

The Seminoles began the season as the No. 19 team in Willie Taggart's first season as head coach after they had to win their final three regular-season games last season to maintain their streak.

"Nobody in that locker room wanted to be a part of that team that breaks the bowl streak," Taggart said.

"It was really tough and a lot of tears and guys were hurting. We wanted to get it done and we didn't. So it's frustrating, disappointing, and, again, guys are hurting."

The loss also leaves FSU without the 15 extra practices it would have earned if it could have won a sixth game and qualified for a bowl game.

Instead, FSU will be left at home reflecting on how it can improve on the future instead of working it out on the practice field.

"We got to go to work. There's nothing we can do about anything that happened now, other than work and see to it that we don't feel that way again," Taggart said.

"We can't keep doing the same thing and think we're going to get different results behind it."

Junior linebacker Dontavious Jackson was already looking to that when he took to Twitter shortly after the loss to say, "To Nole Nation, we apologize. We’ll be back."

Tyler's strong game sets undesirable record

With his final punt in last week's win over Boston College, FSU punter Logan Tyler set a record that no one wants.

He had amassed 3,094 yards on punts this season, breaking the previous record of 3,092 punting yards set by Joe Downey in 1973.

Although he surely didn't set out to do it, Tyler padded that record with an impressive performance against the Gators.

He finished the loss with nine punts that traveled 451 yards. That average of 50.1 yards was his best of the season and third-best of his career.

It was the third time this season that Tyler had punted for more than 400 yards in a game. Before this season, an FSU punter hadn't punted for 400 yards since 2009.

With the loss and lack of a bowl game, Tyler finishes the season with 3,545 yards on punts, 453 yards clear of the previous record.