The most unbreakable records in FSU football history

Over the last four decades no program has won more football games than Florida State. It could be argued that nobody has had more great teams or great players during that span either.

With that mind, we thought it would be fun to take a deep dive into the FSU record books and look for the marks that we think are the most unbreakable, and in some cases, the most unbelievable.

First and foremost there is Bobby Bowden's win total of 304 while at Florida State. Obviously that will never be approached. Jimbo Fisher has had a terrific run of success in Tallahassee as he prepares to enter his eighth season at the helm. He's 78-17 overall. Which means he only has to average 10 wins a season for the next 23 years to break Bowden's record.

So, yeah, that' ain't happening.

But aside from Bowden's staggering win total, here are three other FSU football records that yours truly thinks will never be topped.

1. Ron Simmons, 13 caused fumbles in 1977

This really does defy belief. The NCAA record for caused fumbles in a single season is nine. For those that aren't quick at math, that's four less than what Simmons had as a freshman according to the Florida State record books. The problem, though, is that the NCAA didn't start keeping official defensive stats until around 2000. So Simmons will never make the national record books.

But he's in the Florida State one. Simmons also holds the career mark with forced fumbles at 17, but to think he caused 13 in one season? That's almost impossible to believe. But yet it's there in the FSU media guide. And there is absolutely no chance someone is going to cause more fumbles in a single season, right? Heck, the official NCAA record for forced fumbles in a career is 16 by Khalil Mack. Simmons almost had that much as a freshman in 1977.

I told Jimbo Fisher about this record earlier this week. His reaction was the same as mine when I first heard about it.

"Wow," he said. "I didn't know that. Listen, I always say every record can be broken. But that one is right up there now as extremely tough to break. That's a heck of a record. Wow."

It goes to show just how dominant Ron Simmons was. He was arguably the most important recruit of the Bowden Era, because he was the first prep superstar to commit to the Seminoles. And the fact that he was an absolute force at noseguard right away didn't hurt either.

In 1977 he finished with 128 tackles and 12 sacks.

And an improbable 13 forced fumbles (the defense forced 33 total).

"He might be the most dominant player ever here," Fisher said. "He was incredible. ... They couldn't block him."

2. Aguayo's 94 extra points in 2013

It's a number that looks like a misprint when you first see it.

I covered the 2013 team. I was there for every game. It was actually my all-time favorite season as a beat writer because that team was so dominant, so ridiculously talented that every game was over by halftime. Thus, there was no deadline pressure. No rewrites. I was done writing the game stories by the end of the third quarter and all I had to do was plug in the final score and see if it started with a 5 or a 6 or an 8.

But even though I lived through it, even though I knew by the middle of that season I was watching one of the all-time great teams in history, the number 94 is still outrageous.

That's how many touchdowns Florida State scored that year. Ninety four.

And Roberto Aguayo hit all 94 extra points - a record that, again, seems like an impossibility to break. Is there really a team that's going ever score more than 94 TDs in a season?

That's an average of almost 7 TDs per game.

"And we were pulling starters out (in the third quarter)," Fisher said. "But that would be extremely hard to break. If we do I'll be an extremely happy man."

3. Florida State's six blocked-punt TDs in 1984

Again. You read something like that and just want to say, what? How?

But that's exactly what happened. In 1984, Bowden's team blocked a school record eight punts - and six (six!) were returned for touchdowns, including three by Joe Wessel, a former walk-on who just had a remarkable knack for creating havoc on special teams.

Literally in every other game Florida State played that season it returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.

It's not easy to block a punt. Not even back then. Yet FSU was so good at it that it became a surprise when the Seminoles didn't get to one during the course of a game.

Wessel actually had a fourth punt return TD that year as well in the Seminoles' Citrus Bowl tie against Georgia (but back then bowl games didn't count toward official season stats).

"He wasn't even a fast guy, but he had a knack for coming off that edge," Fisher said of Wessel. "You know what ruined that for Florida State, though? Deion. They got great returners."

Sanders became FSU's punt returner in 1985 and while the Seminoles still went after blocks, they also recognized how dynamic the dude wearing No. 2 was as well. So they called for a few more returns over the next four years.

Florida State rarely blocks kicks anymore. Part of that is because Fisher doesn't want to risk a roughing-the-punter penalty, but most of it is because it's just really hard to do with all the different looks punting teams have now.

"They spread you out with all these different formations," Fisher said. "And you're so busy trying to see who's eligible (as a receiver) that it's hard to go after because they can catch you in a fake. Everybody's not just wadding up like they used to in a tight punt (formation).

"It's made it tougher."

So after I got a comment from the head coach on each of the three records, I asked him which one he thought was the most unbreakable?

"Wow, I'm going to tell you what: I'm going to say 33.3, 33.3, 33.3 (percent)," Fisher said with a laugh. "That's three amazing records. The forced fumbles is crazy. But I tell you what, you go back to eight blocked punts now. I even think the 94 is possible. I really do, because the way the rules are and the way the game is played today.

"But the other two? Man. Those are amazing."

Other candidates for most unbreakable records

Greg Allen, 322 rushing yards vs. Western Carolina in 1981

The 1964 FSU defense allowing just 181 yards and 7.7 points per game, including four shutouts

Ron Sellers 5 receiving touchdowns vs Wake Forest in 1968 (had 14 catches for 260 yards overall)

Willie Reid 180 punt return yards on Jan. 3, 2006 vs. Penn State

Dale McCullers with 29 tackles vs. Texas A&M in 1968 (also had 26 vs. UF earlier that year)

Terrell Buckley 12 interceptions in 1991 (also had 238 return yards that season)

Joe Downey 81 punts in 1973 (he averaged 7.4 punts per game for the winless Seminoles)

Deion Sanders 1,429 punt return yards in his career (including three touchdown returns)

The 1992 FSU offense piled up 858 yards of total offense and 40 first downs against Maryland